Straight Arrows and Moving Targets: A Minus Plato Trump Timeline

April 19: As Trump orders tightening of visas for highly skilled foreign workers, Minus Plato are in New York City learning about the connection between Persian couriers and US mail-workers.

April 20: As Minus Plato travel the subway in search of the Minotaur of the subway, we learn that a Russian Putin-linked think tank developed a ‘road map’ for tipping U.S. vote.

April 21: When Trump pushes a revised health-care bill, Minus Plato are listening to eternal murmurs in Penn Station.

April 22: While Minus Plato searches for a Greek nymph on an Upper East Side rooftop, Trump says Dreamers can ‘rest easy’.

April 23: Trump tweets about how economic growth enhances environmental protection as Minus Plato are crossing Brooklyn Bridge.

April 24: On our last day in New York, Minus Plato think about Troy. Meanwhile, Trump presses for border wall funds amid a looming shutdown.

April 25: Minus Plato wonder what Tacitus would have made about Nero’s plan to slash corporate tax rate?

April 26: As House Oversight leaders say Michael Flynn might have broken law, Minus Plato is dreaming of the ruins of Athens.

April 27: While Trump says he will renegotiate NAFTA, not scrap it, Minus Plato thinks pigs can fly (with Harun Farocki).

April 28: As a Pentagon watchdog launches an investigation into Michael Flynn’s foreign payments, Minus Plato asks you to watch Chris Marker’s Pictures at an Exhibition.

April 29: As Trump speaks at the NRA convention, Minus Plato celebrates Badlands Unlimited’s New Proverbs campaign.

April 30: On the day Trump celebrates his 100th day in office with a rally crowd in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Minus Plato escape through Deana Lawson’s “Portal” at the Whitney Biennial.

May 1: As crowds mark May Day with protests against Trump immigration policies, Minus Plato head past the mission to smell the roses.

May 2: While we muse about Cicero and Caesar, Trump says he will meet Kim Jong Un, under the right conditions.

(Images from Badlands Unlimited’s New Proverbs signs, mixing those released in April 2017 and March 2018)

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