Trump's Napoleon Complex Print

The smallness and insecurity of the man in power is a theme of much political art, whether the tyrant being mocked was Napoleon (by Gilray and Cruikshank) or Nixon and Reagan by Sorel and Blechman and Trudeau). With Trump's sexual proclivities it seemed apt to insert the Napoleonic hand into his trousers rather than his coat. The tiny cannon suggests the sexual bravado might stem from inadequacy. Trump is much larger than Napoleon, physically, but much smaller as a historical figure, a nothing, an imposter dressing up. When we see the bust of Churchill behind the president in photos we have to wonder what words that great wordsmith would have used to puncture Trump's gasbag.