Regular readers of this blog (thank you all!) know I often like to feature an illustration that I put together myself.

Even before I think of a topic to write about I sometimes amuse myself making an illustration to put in a comment to an article on RawStory.

Here’s are some of my recent blog illustrations:

The RawStory article Unholy night: A Trump White House Christmas coup caper seemed to beg me to change the background to make it seem truly unholy.

Several commenters posted images of Melania and the red Christmas trees. Here are two of them:

The article decribes the machinations that went on at a White House Christmas party in heated discussions involving members of Trump’s inner circle about how no matter what the results of the election had been he wasn’t going to reliquish the presidency.

Here’s an excerpt:

It was a Christmas party at the Trump White House, and despite the festive decorations, the trees and the wreaths and the red-and-green bunting, the mood must have been grim.

A few days earlier, the U.S. Supreme Court had firmly rejected a lawsuit filed by the state of Texas seeking the overthrow of election results in Georgia and several other states. That seemed to have been Donald Trump’s last, best hope of staying in office, and with that decision reality was setting in.

Over drinks, Trump campaign attorney Jenna Ellis apologized for the failure to Dan Scavino, Donald Trump’s social-media alter ego. But as Ellis later recounted the conversation to Fulton County prosecutors, an excited Scavino told her not to fret:

SCAVINO: “Well, we don’t care, and we’re not going to leave.”
ELLIS: “What do you mean?”
SCAVINO: “The boss is not going to leave under any circumstances. We are just going to stay in power.”
ELLIS: “It doesn’t quite work that way, you realize?”
SCAVINO: “We don’t care.”

Think about that: “The boss is not going to leave under any circumstances. We are just going to stay in power.”

There are numerous images of hellscapes (see a Google Images search here) but a well known one is in the public domain. It is featured on “hellscape” in Wikipedia (here). It is a detail of Crucifixion of Jesus  Day of Judgment from the Jan van Eyck Diptych .

It would be easy to paste Trump’s head onto this painting but I thought just putting orange hair on the skull got the message across:

I envision the people dangling from devil Trump’s skeletal legs to be the minions in his inner circle.

I don’t know who the two people who have the dubious honor of dangling here would be, Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson perhaps…

Beneath them is everyone reading this, that is, you and me.

I feel like I’m one of these two people:

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