{"id":32590,"date":"2026-02-25T17:50:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=32590"},"modified":"2026-02-25T18:16:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T18:16:58","slug":"too-mad-to-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=32590","title":{"rendered":"Too Mad to Fail…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In a series of the most starkly gripping images of political madness in decades, Too Mad to Fail<\/em> delivers disciplined visual renderings of the epochal political figure who reliably brings the world to the brink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through unprecedented access to the subject, Court Painter<\/strong> re-creates the full drama and turmoil of President 47\u2019s State of the Union speechifying, turbulent emotions, revealing eye catching graphic statements of the two mad-lite accomplices flanking him on both sides and how\u2014motivated as often by ego and greed as by fear, self-preservation, and long-windedness\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the most powerful man in politics commandeered two hours of the airwaves to highlight ‘ violent pornographic riffing and luxuriating in gory details of brutal events’ while demonstrating his iron fisted grasp of madness, the teleprompter, and the podium. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Court Painter with ‘Too Mad to Fail”<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In a series of the most starkly gripping images of political madness in decades, Too Mad to Fail delivers disciplined visual renderings of the epochal political figure who reliably brings the world to the brink. Through unprecedented access to the subject, Court Painter re-creates the full drama and turmoil of President 47\u2019s State of the Union speechifying, … Continue reading “Too Mad to Fail…”<\/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-32590","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\/32590","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=32590"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32627,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32590\/revisions\/32627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}