Does Donald Trump’s new mug shot deserve its own Wikipedia page? That’s the debate happening right now, after the former president was arrested in Georgia on Thursday.
Does Donald Trump’s new mug shot deserve its own Wikipedia page? That’s the debate happening right now, after the former president was arrested in Georgia on Thursday and released on $200,000 bond. And the discussion has gotten incredibly heated, as users make their case at the community encyclopedia about this historic photo.
In one corner, you have the people who believe Trump’s mug shot deserves its own Wikipedia page because it’s both historic and iconic, perhaps capturing something in our present moment that’s even bigger than Trump as a man.
“Widely described as a historic photograph, the most iconic photograph of a US president ever taken. Highly anticipated and subject of extensive media commentary even for months before it was taken. Clearly notable as a photograph,” one Wikipedia user who favored keeping the mug shot’s page wrote on Friday.
Other users in favor of giving the mug shot its own page noted “even Nixon never had a mug shot” while many people commented on Trump’s defiant expression. The entry itself calls the mug shot an “archetypal masterpiece of Trumpism.”
In the other corner, you have people who believe Trump’s mug shot doesn’t deserve its own page, suggesting instead that it should become a sub-section in a larger article about Trump’s many other legal cases. The top contender at the moment is an article titled “Georgia election racketeering prosecution” about Trump’s efforts to overturn the election in that state.
