Saturn Devouring His Son is a painting created by Spanish painter Francisco Goya between 1819 and 1823. He painted it directly onto a wall of his dining room.
"Everyone ready for dinner? Let's dig in!"
I see it as an analogy to Trump because of the myth behind Saturn as depicted in the painting. Saturn was a Titan. He had overthrown his father and ruled the world. But a prophecy foretold the day when one of his children would overthrow him.
So, he ate them.
One by one, as they were born. His wife became concerned about this behavior, so she wrapped a large stone in swaddling, and Saturn pitched it down the hatch. She hid the child, Jupiter (called Zeus by the Greeks), on an island until one day he overthrew Saturn as the prophecy foretold.
Trump was worried about naming his son "Junior" because he might turn into, as Trump termed it, "a loser." Trump remembered his older brother, Fred, Jr., who was also called a weak loser. Don, Jr. spent a year after his parents' divorce not speaking to his father, on a metaphorical island. He later became inextricably intertwined in the Trump criminal empire (Trump eating him and using him as a shield to protect himself). But, as the prophecy foretold, Junior would be a loser and would one day help to overthrow his father.
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