Hysterics continue.

Via Weekly Standard:

Newspapers aren’t just throwing Trumpoplectic fits, they’re monetizing them. The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times have all rolled out clothing lines tweaking the new president. The most comic is found at the Post website, which features a T-shirt in rock-concert black emblazoned with the paper’s infamously maudlin and self-aggrandizing new slogan: “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” What makes it comedy gold is the disconnect between the dismal message of doom and the decidedly non-gloomy—chipper, even—presentation.

To sell the shirt, the Post has employed a hunky and handsomely hirsute young model. Mr. Beefcake hooks a thumb in the pocket of his jeans before posing, facing first one way then another; ultimately he turns back to look the camera straight in the eye and flashes a Clooney-white smile—because nothing says “Democracy Dies in Darkness” like a bright toothpaste grin.

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