Death by 1000 Tweets

In November, 2016, the United States drove its car over the cliff, voting Donald J Trump into office. In November, 2020, they voted him out—a reality he continues to deny as of this writing. In between he left a huge swath of destruction, and with such masterful deceit and cunning so as to become one of history’s Greatest Con Artists. Death by 1000 Tweets is derived from Death by a thousand cuts, or “lingchi“, is a metaphor for his relentless attacks on everything from women to science to truth, tweet by tweet (more than 25,000) and as a pathological liar (more than 30,000 instances documented).

Utterly incapable of emotional self-control, empathy or selflessness, he is depicted as a bloated, angry infant, swimming in his own verbal utterances, tweets and quotes.

The dog represents his inability to control his ceaseless spray of verbal defecation.

The Death by 1000 Tweets video better captures the feel of the piece: surrounded by a gold frame holding a piece of convex glass which, in turn, is filled with liquid plastic, representing the filth he swims in: originally I’d considered the use of plastic debris, garbage, condoms, etc, but decided on something much more to-the-point: the stream of hateful invective, via his tweets and lies. The exercise of ferreting out the 28 verbal barbs against others (left, yellow), 25 self-glorifying ones (right, white) and one which applies equally well to both categories (bottom) left me depressed for days, a reminder of 4 years of hell from this abomination who refuses to shut up and go away. He features also as a potential target in Angel Assassins.