Jim Carrey can't stop painting semi-nudes of Donald Trump
It was barely two weeks ago that Jim Carrey raised the hackles of conservatives everyone by painting an extremely rude picture of Sarah Huckabee Sanders. So popular was the portrait that the White House press secretary’s dad, Mike Huckabee, got involved, calling Carrey a “pathetic bully, sexist, hater, bigot & ‘Christaphobe.’”
And yet Jim Carrey was not cowed by this. In point of fact, the actor and, um, “Christaphobe” was emboldened by it, because what he does now is pretty much paint mean pictures of Trump administration figures. Why, only a few hours after receiving the repudiation of America’s least funny uncle he was back at it again, stoking the fires of our country’s reactionary right:
He was right: This thing was even more of a hit on Twitter.com, the free website where you are able to see famous actors make political cartoons, among other things. It’s not Sanders who animates Carrey but Trump, and in the time since then, he has been returning repeatedly to his greatest source of inspiration, always with the sense of out-sized, elastic depravity our political moment deserves.