{"id":4771,"date":"2018-01-31T11:15:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T19:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/?p=4771"},"modified":"2018-03-31T22:09:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T05:09:23","slug":"america-brace-global-thrashing-carnival-speaks-truth-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/america-brace-global-thrashing-carnival-speaks-truth-power\/","title":{"rendered":"America, Brace for a Global Thrashing as Carnival Speaks Truth to Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hoo-boy! It\u2019s that time again. Carnivals around the world are gearing up to pay tribute to Fearless Leader. He\u2019s back, and it\u2019s as if he never went away.<\/p>\n<p>These are not the parades Trump had in mind.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4773\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4773\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4773\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Trump-Kim-Jong-Un-Chariot.jpg\" alt=\"carnival chariot with figures of U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a parade in Torres Vedras, Portugal\" width=\"850\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Trump-Kim-Jong-Un-Chariot.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Trump-Kim-Jong-Un-Chariot-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Trump-Kim-Jong-Un-Chariot-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Trump-Kim-Jong-Un-Chariot-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4773\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">An early return from Torres Vedras, Portugal, one of my favorite carnivals.<\/span> Photo courtesy: REUTERS\/Pedro Nunes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I\u2019ve experienced plenty of Carnivals throughout a good chunk of the world. Sense of duty. Their varied traditions, some back to the ancients, provide fascinating insights into their cultures. The spirituality from cascading influences is inspiring. Satire poking fun at authority and at society\u2019s excesses is Carnival bedrock.<\/p>\n<p>Mom, 100, lives with us. Like the rest of the household she&#8217;s under the weather with a local plague. So no venturing out to a Carnival for Skip this year. But I\u2019ll be taking Internet surf breaks to see how America is being viewed abroad. Carnival is a terrific barometer of world opinion. Do your own explorations, starting with Germany\u2019s festivities, including the Rose Monday parades of Cologne, Mainz and Dusseldorf, to see where Donald lurks. Fat Tuesday will see a load of Carnivals, not just in New Orleans. Basel, Switzerland launches on Feb. 18th. Various Italian offerings are getting underway, as in Viareggio.<\/p>\n<p>Nice kicks theirs off on Feb. 17th. The artists go wild. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/video\/2018\/01\/26\/trump-caricatured-as-a-gorilla-for-upcom?videoId=388900362\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here\u2019s a Reuters video<\/a>\u00a0of the creation of a float take-off on Planet of the Apes, featuring Trump as a gorilla, joined by Erdogan, Putin and May. Pity the astronaut who lands to\u00a0discover primitives behaving badly.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4775\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4775\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4775\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Trump-Float-Nice.jpg\" alt=\"creation of a float featuring Donald Trump at a carnival in Nice, France\" width=\"850\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Trump-Float-Nice.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Trump-Float-Nice-600x404.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Trump-Float-Nice-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Trump-Float-Nice-768x517.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4775\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy: REUTERS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To give the artful flavor of Nice, <a href=\"http:\/\/travelingboy.com\/archive-travel-skip-nice.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u2019s a slideshow<\/a> with a Carnival from the way back.<\/p>\n<p>In years past, Berlusconi was a favorite carnival target in Basel and elsewhere. Then he went away, again and again, the last time the presumed finale. Perhaps inspired by his American counterpart in the Trump era, Silvio has managed to pull out the stake and is making a comeback. <a href=\"http:\/\/travelingboy.com\/archive-travel-skip-basel.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here\u2019s a slideshow<\/a>, including glimpses of how the Swiss dealt with him, and with George W. Bush, a contender at the time.\u00a0 Thankfully W. won\u2019t be making a comeback. What?<\/p>\n<p>Last year I did a whimsy on Washington\u2019s carnival potential. It includes some images of Trump portrayals in 2017. <a href=\"http:\/\/travelingboy.com\/archive-travel-skip-carnival_washington.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Catch it HERE<\/a>, with some worthy sub-links. I borrowed a common theme for Carnival, redemption and renewal. What city is more in need of a do-over than Washington?<\/p>\n<p>Traveling Boy readers<b>,<\/b>\u00a0do you want to help hold a mirror up for a buck-naked emperor? If you\u2019re on safari somewhere in the Carnival world and photograph a loosely-defined presidential portrait, or if you find one tucked in foreign media, click on: <a href=\"mailto:ad***@**********oy.com\" data-original-string=\"POaR0uPVzF\/Cvn9THGDFWA==8d4mJXMVmOeFKaOPtmbZ6Uyjp8FgT9emZ9hSjiJW+ycpS8=\" title=\"This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Click to decode. To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.\">send it in to Traveling Boy<\/a><b>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t forget Las Fallas Festival in Valencia, (March15-19). Here\u2019s what happened last year when Trump was building the wall:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uqUX-LHbfm4&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/effigies-donald-trump-burned-ground-spains-las-fallas-2017-festival-valencia-1612665\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.\u00a0As the season ebbs, we\u2019ll put up a representative <i>sampler<\/i> that Americans might ponder.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4774\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4774\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4774\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Trump-Float-Dusseldorf-Parade.jpg\" alt=\"Trump float at Mainz, February 2016\" width=\"850\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Trump-Float-Dusseldorf-Parade.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Trump-Float-Dusseldorf-Parade-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Trump-Float-Dusseldorf-Parade-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Trump-Float-Dusseldorf-Parade-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4774\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Here\u2019s a Reuters snap from Mainz in Feb. of 2016, after a Trump derailment during the primaries, a more optimistic moment before reality crashed the party.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The following is not on Carnival, but I like the sentiment, also in short supply in Washington:<\/p>\n<p><em>Damn everything but the circus!<br \/>\n\u2026damn everything that is grim, dull,<br \/>\nmotionless, unrisking, inward turning,<br \/>\ndamn everything that won&#8217;t get into the<br \/>\ncircle, that won&#8217;t enjoy, that won&#8217;t throw<br \/>\nits heart into the tension, surprise, fear<br \/>\nand delight of the circus, the round<br \/>\nworld, the full existence\u2026<br \/>\n&#8211; E.E. Cummings<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hoo-boy! It\u2019s that time again. Carnivals around the world are gearing up to pay tribute to Fearless Leader. He\u2019s back, and it\u2019s as if he never went away. These are not the parades Trump had in mind. I\u2019ve experienced plenty of Carnivals throughout a good chunk of the world. Sense of duty. 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