Know your deplorables

Published in 2017 by “A Patriotic LLC”, this pack is reminiscent of those published in the early years of the 21st century criticising President George W. Bush and the invasion of Iraq in 2003. But the targets here are the political and media figures associated with the Presidency of Donald Trump (2017-2021). Each card presents a photograph of a prominent Trump supporter (including Trump himself, his daughter Ivanka, his two sons, Eric and Donald Jnr., and son-in-law, Jared Kushner), one of their quotes, and details of “the deplorable things they have said and done”.

There is an accompanying leaflet which lists the sources of the quotations used and image attribution information. Some of the photographs are crossed through indicating that the person concerned was one of the many individuals who resigned or was fired during the Trump Presidency. Both the box and the card backs bear the same version of the US flag, but the cards have the phrase “cards against democracy” while the box shows “Know your deplorables”. A portion of all proceeds from the sale of the pack went to ProPublica and the Center for Investigative Reporting. See the box►

Above: ‘Know your deplorables’ playing cards published by A Patriotic LLC, 2017.

Note: I assume that the reference to “deplorables” in the title of this pack refers to the phrase “basket of deplorables” used by Hillary Clinton in 2016 during her Presidential election campaign to describe "half" of the supporters of her opponent.