.meganamram is OUR President.
When Trump was elected, pundits and plebs alike echoed the meager silver lining that “really good art was going to come from the Trump era.” While there have been plenty of examples of excellent, timely art, for me, one piece rises above the rest: comedian and writer Megan Amram’s Trump tweets. An unconventional contender, the tweets have been posted daily since May 2017, each repeating the sentence “Today was the day Donald Trump finally became president” verbatim.
Amram’s tweets pose the same task to the viewer. But while Holzer uses mediums like solid-colored paper and a projector to create her pieces, Amram goes to Twitter, the ground zero of media messaging. Amram is able to make her statement through Twitter by swimming against its cultural current. Twitter practically runs on hot takes, especially with regards to Trump, but returning regardless to the same message jarringly halts this continual flow of opinion.
But like Holzer’s work, Amram’s tweets offer a subjective and fluid experience to their readers. The emotional impact of the sentence “Today is the day Donald Trump finally became president” hits completely different depending on the news of the day. In the midst of the family separation crisis, for instance, the statement acts as a grim reminder of the malevolence of the people in power. After the news of the Ukraine call, on the other hand, it brims with delightful irony.
Amram’s chosen phrase similarly toys with the audience’s emotions, embodying the sentiment of the statement while also mocking it. The notion that Donald Trump could be presidential would mean that this modern craziness has miraculously come full circle, with the scales finally tipping in favor of sanity. Amram’s inclusion of “finally” only emphasizes this teased catharsis.
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