Chicago Artist's Randomized Trump Loop Is Pure Nightmare Fuel

By Stephen Gossett in Arts & Entertainment on Feb 13, 2017 5:00PM

What with all the immigrant raiding and Muslim targeting and, shall we say, elastic relationship with facts, it might seem like any attempt to accentuate or aestheticize for effect the terrors of “President Agent Orange” might be considered the horror-show version of gilding the lily. But there’s a steely sense of determination that can only be gleaned from an unwavering stare into the abyss; so with that, we present to you doonaldjtrump.com.

The site, created by Chicago-based visual artist Zach Scott, features some 40 video clips “relating to the ascent of Trump and his supporters” randomly played and looped ad infinitum—or until the viewer is reduced to a state of pre-verbal terror—backed with an absolutely nerve-wracking musical motif.

“It is a endless, randomized time capsule of the unnerving present… A lot of people have found the end result to be emotionally moving, or just disturbing,” Scott told Chicagoist via email. Indeed.

Scott, you might recall, is the same person responsible for the white-collar alienation project ConferenceCall.biz (aka "like David Lynch directed a remake of Office Space") a couple of years back. Safe to say his dystopia radar has remained fully functional since then.