Fox News pundit Sean Hannity on Monday night mused on Twitter whether art-loving "leftists" would properly appreciate a YouTube video featuring a painting of President Donald Trump clutching a torn broken flag on a football field — and immediately got an art history lesson he didn't ask for.
"The 'left' loves art, and especially taxpayer funded art that is 'provocative,'" Hannity tweeted. "Let’s get their reaction to this."
Though it remains unclear whether artist John McNaughton was paid by the government to paint his "Respect the flag" ode to the president, Twitter nevertheless took the opportunity to school him both on art history and on public arts funding.
"I just want to say that Guernica has been surpassed," journalist Sam Thielman joked, referencing Pablo Picasso's 11-foot-long magnum opus.