Even from one of the highest levels of heaven attainable, Rep. John Lewis is still making “good trouble” with a man already living in a hell of his own making. Of course, on this one, Lewis gets an assist from the people at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington. President Biden should give the curator who set the scene the Medal of Freedom, or at least an invitation to the White House for some surf and turf.

According to the Guardian:

Canny curators have placed the 45th president face-to-face with a painting of John Lewis, the late congressman and civil rights hero whose habit of making what he called “good trouble” included boycotting Trump’s inauguration.

“Keeping him honest!” remarked Eric Bargeron, 40, a book editor from Columbia, South Carolina, as he observed Lewis in an exhibition called The Struggle for Justice, staring across the room at Trump in the popular America’s Presidents show.

Yes, Rep. John Lewis surely had seen many of Trump’s type during his long life and knew what was coming long before the inauguration, and thus chose not to attend, prescient. How fitting that the gallery chose Lewis to “keep an eye on him.” Actually, how fitting that the curators knew enough to remind people about the “bad trouble” that Donald Trump brought upon a nation for which Lewis willingly risked his life.

Given it is a museum, the Gallery had to use dry and neutral language in describing Trump:

The picture is accompanied by a caption in neutral museum language, noting that Trump was elected “after tapping into populist American sentiment” and that he “put forth an ‘America First’ agenda”. It records his two impeachments and says the coronavirus pandemic “became a key issue during his re-election campaign”.

Ha, no wonder they had to put an even bolder statement across the room.

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Jason
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