Pro-Trump Art, or, How White Nationalism Got its Groove Back

Masterpiece, John McNaughton. 2020, Oil on Canvas

How do conservatives insert themselves into a primarily left-wing art world? How has Trump’s façade of gold plated America First rhetoric been absorbed into what we understand about racism, white-nationalism, and neo-fascism as it lives today? Conservative artists utilize the internet and coded ideologies, or dog-whistles, along with the devaluing of language to subtly insert themselves into the canon… come along for a trip down the rabbit hole of Trump Art.