The now infamous photo of President Trump "dropping toxicity" is certainly held in stark comparison from the destruction of the photo on the left. The photo of the crushed car feels quite settled, concrete, immovable, while the photo of Trump implies movement. What does the juxtaposition of fixed and moving objects tell us about how toxicity functions?
How does toxic masculinity figure into this image, if at all?
Juxtaposing the two images of Puerto Rico and Donald Trump seems like a great strategy. As a person who is unfamiliar with the stories regarding the environmental disaster in Puerto Rico, I felt like the images would gain traction if the irony between them can be more intuitively grapsed. The images convey a sense of humour, which I thought was great, but I think it can benefit from more storytelling. Perhaps this can be elaborated in the commentary: Was the Trump picture ever a meme?, etc.
At first viewing, I was not certain the composition worked at conveying the disrupture happening. However, after looking again, and considering the placing of the text in its homage to horror-camp, it undergirds the jarringly absurd behavior of the president against the reality of suffering experienced by Puerto Ricans everywhere. In many ways, this situation is an example of the loss of words in the face of administrative and popular depravity.
