Portraits of a President Tired of Winning: Jon McNaughton’s Trumpian Cult of Personality Propaganda for Public Instruction and Consumption

• In Event: American Politics in the Age of Trump

Brief Overview

This presentation will demonstrate that this Trumpian purveyor of hyper-patriotism exposes a post-truth Norman Rockwellesque hack cashing in on what Hannah Arendt described as “propaganda thrives on this escape from reality into fiction.”

Author

• Nat Hardy, University of North Georgia