Saint Hoax Reflection

ELP

Saint Hoax critically portrays Trump as an alarming figure, the harbinger of obsolete patriarchal ideals of America. In one of his artworks, Saint Hoax quotes “For a man to be successful he needs support at home, not someone who is always griping and bitching.” This controversial quote by Trump reduces the independent opinion and thinking of women to simply “griping and bitching,” perhaps reflective of the degrading attitudes towards women in mid-20th century America. The quote is also representative of toxic masculinity, the need to keep the opposite gender simply as servants with no independent thought. In the same artwork, a woman who seems fulfilled by serving his husband is depicted, illustrative of Trump’s ideals of a male-centric society. Therefore, by superimposing and recontextualizing Trump’s quotes in vintage adverts, Saint Hoax deems Trump as a leader fitting for the backward past, not the present where we should be advocating for a more equal, respectable social landscape.

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