Assault with a deli weapon
“The attention economy favors the bold,” Axios notes this morning. California Gov. Gavin Newsom gets it, mocking Donald Trump on social media multiple times a day.
Creative artists in the District are doing their part to make a mockery of Donald Trump’s seizure of Washington, D.C. and the footlong “clubbing” of a police officer (Huffington Post):
Everyone’s talking about the “assault with a deli weapon,” the “hurl of sandwich” — the felony with a footlong that occurred on Aug. 10 after federal law enforcement officers descended on the city.
As if by mutual agreement between the White House and its haters, the sandwich attack has become a symbol of President Donald Trump’s militarized takeover of D.C.’s police.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, the nation’s highest law enforcement official, personally denounced Sean Dunn, the 37-year-old man in a pink polo shirt who allegedly threw a Subway sandwich at a Customs and Border Patrol officer. The White House even made a hype video apparently showing his second arrest by heavily armed federal agents.
Over the weekend, posters memorializing the sandwich assault went up all over the city. The image, a riff off a mural by the street artist Banksy, depicts a masked figure with his arm cocked back as if to throw a rock or a molotov cocktail, but he’s holding a colorful hoagie instead. (In the Banksy original, it’s a bouquet of flowers.)
I’m waiting to see a bulked-up Gavin Newsom in a muscle shirt launching that sandwich.
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