Omnipresent President

Trump found in mediæval minster and on the Red Planet

A GROTESQUE PRES?

A 14th century gargoyle (pictured at right) that’s a dead ringer for Donald Trump has been spotted at Southwell Minster in Nottinghamshire. Strictly speaking it’s a grotesque, not a gargoyle. A grotesque describes this type of carving in general, whereas a gargoyle specifically means something with a waterspout designed to take rainwater away from a roof. The grotesque was spotted and tweeted by the writer and broadcaster Samira Ahmed, before the Donald was elected. It is one of 280 at the Minster, and is located at the pulpitum, a screen that separates the nave from the choir. Nottingham Post, D.Mail, 3 Feb 2017.

TRUMP ON MARS!

A less convincing simulacrum appeared in a photograph of Mars taken by NASA’s Opportunity rover in 2010, but was not identified with Donald Trump until August 2016. As the Daily Mail report said, “Some may just see a jagged rock cloaked in a black shadow”, while “some believe [Trump] could be linked to or is a creature not of this world”. Scott C Waring, described as a “well-known Martian researcher”, wrote on his UFO Sightings Daily blog: “The face, nose and hair looked so much like Trump’s that I had to share it with you.”

Perhaps the President plans to check it out for himself. There has been speculation that he is entertaining the idea of a mission to the Red Planet; in a recent meeting with Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and product architect for Tesla Inc., he reportedly discussed Mars exploration as well as public-private partnerships. D.Mail, 1 Aug 2016; Daily Caller, 9 Feb 2017.