{"id":30218,"date":"2025-07-19T00:23:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T00:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=30218"},"modified":"2025-07-19T01:10:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T01:10:43","slug":"topsy-turvy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=30218","title":{"rendered":"topsy- turvy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">President Donald Trump sued the Wall Street Journal and its\u00a0owners, including\u00a0Rupert Murdoch, making good on a promise he made after the newspaper reported that Trump in 2003 sent Jeffrey\u00a0Epstein\u00a0a &#8216;bawdy&#8217; birthday greeting that included a sexually suggestive drawing and a reference to secrets they shared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-aaa9e83a422e1c5fe3b385d82f35ecf0 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#985109\">Court Painter, ever the opportunist, reached into his storage to pull from the racks the dusty still unpaid topsy-turvy portrait commissions of Rupert Murdoch and Donald J Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-fba6ef023a435a4d066e659b4f51a081 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#985109\">He was tempted to create his own version of the &#8216;Bawdy Birthday &#8216; message but had difficulty producing a believable rendition of DJT&#8217;s signature -and the required felt -pen female curves didn&#8217;t meet Court Painter&#8217;s studio standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-8f641857ece033b0262b7de618d2dcdf wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#980928\">So this is what you get. Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-cb30009a74c8c0d6483c22669c371ecd wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#b81034\">Court Painter &amp; <em>Rupert Murdoch Topsy Turvy Series<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"735\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Court-Painter-Murdoch-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Court-Painter-Murdoch-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Court-Painter-Murdoch-2-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Court-Painter-Murdoch-2-768x564.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Court-Painter-Murdoch-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Court-Painter-Murdoch-3.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Court-Painter-Murdoch-3-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Court-Painter-Murdoch-3-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"797\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Court-Painter-Murdoch.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Court-Painter-Murdoch.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Court-Painter-Murdoch-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Court-Painter-Murdoch-768x612.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-aad906b53d6775922b75a34cc3ee079f wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#b60329\">Court Painter &amp; <em>Donald Trump Topsy Turvy Series<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"737\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Court-Painter-D-face-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Court-Painter-D-face-3.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Court-Painter-D-face-3-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Court-Painter-D-face-3-768x566.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Court-Painter-D-face-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Court-Painter-D-face-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Court-Painter-D-face-1-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Court-Painter-D-face-1-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"797\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Court-Painter-D-face-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Court-Painter-D-face-4.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Court-Painter-D-face-4-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Court-Painter-D-face-4-768x612.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump sued the Wall Street Journal and its\u00a0owners, including\u00a0Rupert Murdoch, making good on a promise he made after the newspaper reported that Trump in 2003 sent Jeffrey\u00a0Epstein\u00a0a &#8216;bawdy&#8217; birthday greeting that included a sexually suggestive drawing and a reference to secrets they shared. Court Painter, ever the opportunist, reached into his storage to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=30218\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;topsy- turvy&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30218"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30233,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30218\/revisions\/30233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}