In the compulsive analysis of the former president’s image, we risk overlooking the mundanity of gun violence and its less mediagenic casualties. If we were to ask the pictures of Trump with a bloodied ear at the rally what they want, the answer would be obvious: to be the center of attention, to be printed and reprinted, to signal the moment of Trump’s inevitable martyrdom. We still have time to stop them in their tracks, and to shift our gaze to what isn’t being represented.
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