This is the "east facing" of four renderings of Trump as cardinal points. There are several things going on in this painting that are highly suggestive. When this show was taken down only one day after it was hung, this painting was sited to me by the Coffee Shop/venue owner as one of two works that bothered her the most. The Confederate flag being the primary problem in her mind. I'd like to think that this painting has more open ended possibilities than what might be perceived as straightforward Trump bashing. Besides Trump, four other "things" are rendered here, the flag, Santa Claus, drone striking and a car. For me this grouping is intuitive rather than calculated, but if I try I can make some tenuous alignments: Santa and the flag share red and white, the car and the flag suggest Smokey and the Bandit, the car and a drone strike suggest a military presence in the Middle East to control resources, Trump's Twitter blue Santa suit trimmed with white fur suggesting an ever so subtle but sinister cultural alignments...