{"id":4329,"date":"2026-10-05T21:26:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T01:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=4329"},"modified":"2026-10-05T21:26:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T01:26:46","slug":"white-house-halloween-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=4329","title":{"rendered":"White House Halloween Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">9.5 x 17 inch high-res <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/happyhalloween\/happyhalloween300dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>color .jpg image, 575kb<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/happyhalloween\/happyhalloween300dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/happyhalloween\/happyhalloween650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>I was working in the lab late one night,<\/strong> telling myself to not waste time doing cartoons about bullshit issues like the White House ballroom, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/nojackkennedy\/wapoA1Sep1726kencenrippeddown150dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">renaming the Kennedy Center<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/seaofamerica\/wapoA1Aug2826-01_lake_ontario.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lake Ontario.<\/a> The problem is that they keep presenting themselves as metaphors for far more important issues than a building \u2013 in this case, the way <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/happyhalloween\/happyhalloween300dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this kind of asshattery<\/a> always struck me as symbolic of the boorishness, the tackiness, the selfishness, the conceit and butt-naked narcissism of America.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d think that by this point a doorknob like Trump would have outgrown this type of Halloween zaniness, but apparently not.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Monster Mash , Bobby &quot;Boris&quot; Pickett , 1962 Vinyl\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9Ohd5p5-Uno?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>9.5 x 17 inch high-res <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/happyhalloween\/happyhalloween300dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">color .jpg image, 575kb<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9.5 x 17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 575kb I was working in the lab late one night, telling myself to not waste time doing cartoons about bullshit issues like the White House ballroom, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, or renaming the Kennedy Center and Lake Ontario. The problem is that they keep presenting themselves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1521,10,8,762],"tags":[1571,1538,1558,330],"class_list":["post-4329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2028-election","category-media","category-right-wingnuts","category-trumpism","tag-lake-ontario","tag-kennedy-center","tag-lincoln-memorial","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4329"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4331,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4329\/revisions\/4331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}