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Mythologies of the decade: "Trump's hat"

2020-07-31T05:19:21.907Z


SUMMER SERIES (3/7) - In the 1950s, as France rushed into mass culture, Roland Barthes described a tangle of objects, works and symbols. Other "mythologies" have since shaken the past decade. In 2016, bright red, stamped with its slogan "Make America Great Again", Donald Trump's cap became the symbol of his incredible victory.


We knew the whip of Indiana Jones, the pipe of Commissioner Maigret, the pink car of Homer Simpson… There is now Donald Trump's cap. Bright red, stamped with its slogan “Make America Great Again”, the billionaire wore it throughout his extraordinary 2016 campaign until his incredible victory. To the point that the headgear has finally become inseparable from the figure of the American president. His supporters wear it at every meeting, his opponents love to make fun of it and parody it, some hipsters have made it a fashion accessory to wear in the second degree ... Until rapper Kanye West showing up in the Oval Office of the White House wearing the favorite object: "There is something when I put this cap on, it makes me feel like Superman", he told the president.

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Trump's hat is also the source of all controversy. It is an Ontario judge who is suspended without pay for thirty days for having brought it in

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Source: lefigaro

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