Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 07:12 pm
From the party of “traditional” marriage comes this hilarious new logo, about which wits and pundits have been quick to share some Twitter titter. Slate calls it a “a penetrating new logo” and with very good reason.
Here is the logo, shown above. Yes. Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear. Somebody did not put a lot of thought into it. At lest, not as much as viewers.
Former Michigan Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) was quick to notice:
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What is the T doing to that P? https://t.co/tDvYm2QJYi
— John Dingell (@JohnDingell) July 15, 2016
I would suggest it is doing pretty much what Trump did to Pence nationally, when he introduced him. But Dingell wasn’t alone in drawing attention to Trump’s new object of derision, a Dingell’s observation induced this response:
@Acosta I'm Cornholio. I need TP for my bunghole… Seriously, please tell me someone in the GOP realized this. SMH pic.twitter.com/zTeuMT4Tef
— Yancy Evans (@gallandro1) July 15, 2016
No. No. The GOP did not realize this.
Alan Grayson more closely followed Dingell in his tweeted response:
This logo accurately represents what Trump Pence will do to America. pic.twitter.com/HQisP8QVzb
— Rep. Alan Grayson (@AlanGrayson) July 15, 2016
And Bloomberg’s Matt Negrin tried to give the logo a less NSF appearance:
in case any news outlets want to use the Trump-Pence logo, i made it safe for TV pic.twitter.com/mxozHMzam6
— Matt Negrin (@MattNegrin) July 15, 2016
One response to Negrin’s tweet was not to be put off: “Trump Pence. Put another way TP, WHICH WE KNOW IS TOILET PAPER. In other words, a couple of a** wipes. Fitting.”
So yeah, Trump stepped in “it” again. Obama’s logo it is not, and Trump even managed to out-do Jeb Bush, taking the opposite tack of Jeb’s attempt to draw attention away from what he is. Rather, Trump seems to be embracing it.
It is hardly a surprise that after being unveiled Friday, the new logo was replaced Saturday minus the violation of Pence’s “P.”
Trump has never seemed to take his campaign seriously, and the unintentional comedy of his logo rollout certainly hasn’t helped change that perception. In that spirit, we will let Full Frontal’s Samantha Bee have the last word, and laugh:
Breaking the mattress of America. pic.twitter.com/M4Cq62YS2c
— Full Frontal (@FullFrontalSamB) July 15, 2016
Hrafnkell Haraldsson, a social liberal with leanings toward centrist politics has degrees in history and philosophy. His interests include, besides history and philosophy, human rights issues, freedom of choice, religion, and the precarious dichotomy of freedom of speech and intolerance. He brings a slightly different perspective to his writing, being that he is neither a follower of an Abrahamic faith nor an atheist but a polytheist, a modern-day Heathen who follows the customs and traditions of his Norse ancestors. He maintains his own blog, A Heathen’s Day, which deals with Heathen and Pagan matters, and Mos Maiorum Foundation www.mosmaiorum.org, dedicated to ethnic religion. He has also contributed to NewsJunkiePost, GodsOwnParty and Pagan+Politics.
