Donald Trump’s Orange Face May Be Funny — But This Tanning Historian Say It Masks Something Deeper @alternet

Donald Trump’s Orange Face May Be Funny — But This Tanning Historian Say It Masks Something Deeper @alternet: Angry Creamsicle, Comrade Cheetolino, Mango Mussolini, Agent Orange – these are just a few of the nicknames that Donald Trump has picked up along his presidential road. Trump may ethnically identify as “white”, but his skin is categorically and scathingly portrayed as orange. When Trump was elected in 2016, succeeding former president Barack Obama, I remember references such as “orange is the new black”. At once an allusion to the popular Netflix series and a bold comment on race, colour here functions as an important form of satire. And this satiric use of colour has persisted throughout Trump’s presidency.