There are millions of images of Donald Trump, but if the NYPD takes his photo for his file this Tuesday, the portrait will go down in history as one of the most famous.
The former president of the United States would join a select group of politicians, celebrities and athletes whose mugshots define at least part of their legacy.
You can’t review the careers of OJ Simpson, Jane Fonda or former United States presidential candidate John Edwards without mentioning the photos that the authorities took of them when they were arrested.
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The same would happen with Trump, who should be officially charged Tuesday with buying the silence of porn actress Stormy Daniels during his presidential campaign in 2016.
It is not clear what will happen when the 76-year-old politician is brought to justice, but Generally, the police procedure includes taking the suspect’s fingerprints and two photographs, one in front and one in profile.
US authorities frequently release these mugshots to the media, and the images are burned into the collective memory.
One of the most famous mugshots in Los Angeles Police Department history is that of former football player OJ Simpson, taken when he was arrested on suspicion of killing his ex-wife and a female friend in the 1990s.
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A week later, the photo illustrated the cover of Time magazine and since then it appears on all kinds of objects for sale, such as t-shirts.
Actress and activist Jane Fonda used her mugshot from 1970, when she was arrested for assaulting an officer (a charge that was later dismissed), to pose defiantly with a raised fist, much as she had protested against the Vietnam War. .
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On his website, Fonda sells sweaters, T-shirts and coffee mugs printed with the famous portrait. “I’m sure I profited from that arrest,” the actress told the Los Angeles Times in 2018.
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Sometimes the photo on the mugshot perpetuates the disastrous circumstances that led to the arrest.
The arrest of Tiger Woods in 2017 for drinking alcohol in California was followed by the portrait in which his face looked swollen and with huge bags under his eyes, the result of a strong prescription for painkillers, according to the athlete’s version.
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Just a few years earlier, Woods had dominated the golf scene, becoming one of the greatest players in the history of the sport. The mugshot of actor Nick Nolte, with disheveled and greasy hairmade him look like he stepped out of a bush when he was arrested in 2002 for reckless and drugged driving.
A decade earlier, Nolte had been billed as the “Sexiest Man Alive.” Or the embarrassed expression of the British Hugh Grant in the mugshot of him taken in Los Angeles when was arrested after officers found him in a car with a sex worker on Sunset Blvd. At the time, the actor was in a long relationship with fellow star Liz Hurley.
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Trump would become the first former president whose photo enters the police files, but he would not be the first politician to win this space. Some even smiled when they were booked, like John Edwards, who unsuccessfully tried for the Democratic Party’s nomination for the 2008 presidential campaign.
The politician was arrested in 2011 accused of embezzlement campaign to hide the existence of a lover and a son. A jury later found the charges unconvincing.
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In 2014, then Texas Governor Rick Perry He also smiled in his mugshot when he was arrested for alleged abuse of power. The charges were later dismissed.
Whether he chooses to show off his perfect teeth with a smile or a scowl — a gesture the former president is said to like because it supposedly projects strength — Trump’s eventual mugshot will be a classic of the genre.
And like OJ Simpson’s, it will become front page material. And like Jane Fonda’s, it will most likely be sold immediately on T-shirts. Maybe even on your own website.
AFP
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