Who Pulls the Donald's Strings?

The Donald is often portrayed as a marionette, manipulated by Vladimir Putin.  But there's more to the story.

 

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"Beach Car," acrylic on canvas, 2025 by Otto Von Miller. 
Discover more wicked cool paintings below.

Here is the DC Shooter Manifesto

Elias Rodriguez, the DC shooter, shouting, "Free, free Palestine," while being led away by cops to whatever fate awaits him.

 

"We Are Burning." Palestinian artists killed by the Israelis in Gaza

"We Are Burning," the last work by digital artist Mahasen al-Kateeb.  The image depicts the death of 19-year-old Sha'ban al-Dalou, who made headlines when he was burned alive on October 14, 2024 by an Israeli airstrike on a makeshift hospital in Gaza.  Al-Kateeb herself was killed by an Israeli airstrike four days later.  

The Ghost

The Houthis are better than us

Houthi fighters brandish their weapons (machine guns and rifles, yes, but also knives, saws and hatchets) on March 28, 2025, in Sanaa, Yemen.  Dig the gun-toting 10-year-old boy on dad's shoulders, top center-right. 

Man on Fire

"Man on Fire," acrylic on canvas, 2025. 
This is a painting by the artiste Otto Von Miller, who is also Thee Optimist. 

I Like These Tariffs

Donald Trump re-imagined as the Hindenburg Disaster.

Death By Ungawa

Twenty-three year old Michael Rockefeller, wealthy descendant of John D. Rockefeller, fusses with a camera while Papua New Guinean stone age tribesmen look on.  Rockefeller disappeared on November 19, 1961, after a canoe he was in tipped over.  All indications are he swam to shore, then was captured, killed and eaten by the local cannibals.     

That time Robert Kennedy, Jr., hit on my future ex-wife

The current US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., having a bit of fun with a dead bear cub.  Kennedy accidentally ran over the cub on a highway in upstate New York in 2014.  He kept the corpse and intended to freeze it and eat it.  But he found himself late for a flight, so he dumped the carcass in Central Park instead, hoping people would think it got run over there.  He told reporters he has "been picking up roadkill my entire life.  I have a freezer full of it."

 

Yes, USAID is a CIA front. Yes, they will probably kill Trump if he doesn't back off.

Donald Trump with a sniper's target on his head.  This image originally appeared on the cover of the February 2017 issue of the Irish magazine "Village."  It's easy to forget how much people already didn't like him back then.

Protect and Serve

"Protect and Serve," acrylic paint and pencil on canvas, 2025 Otto Von Miller.