Okay, my 101-year-old grandfather is really enjoying the responses he’s gotten here, so I’ve finally convinced him to let me share something he’s been working on for years; a series of sculptures he calls “Trumpinnochios.” Here’s one of his best. I’ll share a few more in this thread.
Here’s the first Trumpinocchio he ever did, carved during Trump’s first term. It’s about 5” - 6” high. He’s been a wood carver for years. It’s one of his biggest hobbies, along with cameras and photography.
This one is my favorite. 🐈
Trump with Boris Johnson’s hair.
That's awesome! He could make some cash selling these one of a kind sculptures! I love them! Would love to see his photography as well! Please granddad!
They belong in the Smithsonian! You know, in the After Times, aka The Great Restoration aka the Stripped-off-Gold-Spray-Paint Years. 😍
Right?!
He should carve a Trump caganer
I guess the #KKK decided to rebrand themselves as #TheHeritageFoundation.
this is brilliant.
His Trumpinocchios are way too flattering. Fantastic nonetheless
I think he captures the essence. Still not nearly as creepy as the real thing. Good on him to resist putting it on a lathe, and turning it out of spite. I hope i am half that active when I am 30 years younger.
They’re eating the cats…
Grab them by the🐈
SoB, how’d I miss that
That's awesome. Love his skill and creativity. And, he's marking history with his Trumpinocchios. 👏
These are absolutely fantastic!!
These are wonderful! 😊 Thank you for sharing.
It’s not just Trump. Here’s a Rudy Giuliani Trumpinocchio. Zoom in on the side of his head for an at-one-time topical reference.
Amazing! An original Trumpinocchio. Tell him he can name his price and take my money!!!
These are wonderful.
Definite future Folk Art Museum material!
My thought too.
You're right, they're fabulous
They really are.
The dripping hair dye is 🤌.
Loving the hair dye detail.
Your grandfather’s art is fabulous! He’s very creative and talented. I look forward to showing these to my dad, who is 93. He’ll get such a kick out of them. Please thank him for his willingness to share😊 (If you post one, I doubt tonight’s lullaby can be better than your grandfather’s art😊)
I love it!!!
That is great.
Rudy is my favorite 🏆
This is incredible
Great, new sleep paralysis demon just dropped.
🤣
Lol the leaking hair dye
These are amazing!
Still holds up.
These are brilliant! I gotta believe a contemporary art gallery would love these for an exhibit!
Thanks for putting a smile into my Friday night . Please thank your grandfather too.
This one may be my favorite.
My Dad is 102 and went blind a little less that 10 years ago, so I can’t show him your grandfather’s artistry. But I will explain the woodcarvings to him and he will get a kick out of them.
Genius
😂 So good!
So brilliant! I could see this character in an aardman movie. Wallace and Gromit meet the 4 Seasons Lawn monster.
These are just wonderful! And the hair dye drip is top notch
These are just wonderful!!
I love them!
please tell him he’s an icon
❤️
When we remake The Smithsonian…
I love your grandfather's style.
These are fabulous. Truly. ♥️!
Fantastic!! (And terrifying! I can almost hear its ranting!) Your artist grandad really captured Giuliani’s entire schtick!!
Love his talents and his political insight
The hair dye!!
😆SO good!
Fantastic!
This one is one of his most dramatic Trumpinocchios; Mike Pence on the gallows on January 6th.
“Donald Why hast thou forsaken me” this is art. It brings to mind how Pence and so many others made Trump in to a false god. A chilling reminder.
He deserves a solo show in a gallery!
Yikes.
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Oh, this is a GOOD one.
Cracker Barrel gift shop, you said?
That's funny
This is excellent
Your grandfather is amazing!
These are all great. I gasped at the Pence sculpture. Holy shit that goes hard.
I love them. To be preserved for future generation as they capture the spirit of times. The Pence one is chilling.
What a great sense of humor!
I’ll share this thread with him and let you all know what he thinks. He’s been nervous about sharing because he’s worried he might get blowback but I think this crowd will love it and I’m not worried; this isn’t X!
Your grandfather is an artist—I hope he’ll keep sharing his work and his voice!
They're hilarious!
These are great! Your grandfather is very talented.
I wish I had a parent/grandparent like him!
Tell him he’s a freakin genius
Love these!! He did a great job!!
He’s so talented!
Please tell him we love his courage to create what we are ALL thinking but aren’t nearly as creative or gifted.
He’s so talented, fun, and smart. Thank him for sharing his thoughts and art with us, we are all the better for it
Your grandfather rocks!
He's so talented! Give him a hug for me.
These are amazing! Thanks for sharing them, tell him thank you!
Okay, one more, but warning that it’s the most… jarring. I think this one speaks for itself.
My precious!
My favorite!
I love this one! He is so talented (besides all the immunology & neurology expertise!)
These sculptures are fantastic! Thank you so much for sharing! So satisfying to see them and to know it was your grandfather who made them. Good for him! What a great guy!
The Dems could ask your grandfather to hold an art exhibit and make it a fundraiser man.
These need a gallery showing. Maybe a Tour.
Narcissus!
Fantastic artistry!
The emperor ... has no clothes!!
Art therapy. A healthy response.
omg! these sculptures are great 🙂
These images are amazing.
Ow.. the hand of Satan pulling him in… sorry getting away w/myself with a mucky fantasy
These are so fantastic!
Truly inspired!
These are fantastic!
Thank you for sharing your granddad with the world and letting his legacy live on in a lot of memories. My grandpa was just a shade younger than yours and I think they’d’ve gotten along quite well hahaha
Narcissus. Well done!
Cc @outregallery.bsky.social
Obvi, he needs an art exhibit.
Yes. Get him into a gallery.
YES! What a fun time that would be in a gallery!
Absolutely
Awesome.
These are all fantastic.
His work is great. But I'm surprised Bluesky didn't put a warning on this one. I mean--the CONTENT. 😊
too funny!
Narcissus! It's perfect!
so talented! love the humor and that he is such an interesting person💜
This is just incredible! I love his perspective. Made my night!
You the apple Him the tree Sweet, crisp, with just enough tart bite, and a satisfying finish in healthy digestion
These are brilliant! We somehow have to connect him up with @jamiesbowen.bsky.social -- they'd enjoy each other's creations.
Oh! Those are Wonderful! 😍🤣😂 Here's a few of my past creations.. I really should do a whole thread 🤷🏼
These are wonderful
Love these!
This is incredible! What talent!!
These are fabulous sculptures!
Your grandfather is an artist. Thank you for sharing.
I'm in love.
Please tell your granddaddy that his work is amazing and that I appreciate him sharing his humor with us! Spot on! Keep it coming!
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LOVE THIS WORK!! Props to your grandfather!! 👏👏
The sheep!!
Just shared with my 89-year-old MIL, lol! Impressive!
These are awesome. Well-done by your grandpa!!
OMG, these are wonderful! (Especially "It's me, JD.") Fabulous!
I love them. He’s really talented and well informed. Maybe someday they’ll make it to the Smithsonian😃.
These are brilliant!
These are so great! Love each and every one! ❤️
Wow, much love and adoration for your grandfather. Quite the talented gentleman. Thank you for sharing his art with all of us. Send my love and please tell him to keep up the good work.❤️❤️
Your grandfather does great work & has great creativity. Thank you from an American who's living through this daily nightmare of Trump.
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Love your grandfather’s art! Thank you for sharing! Tell him it made my day, no, week, no. It made my month to see these!!
Wonderful!
Incredible!!
Loving God, We pray for the people of Ukraine, for all those suffering or afraid, that you will be close to them and protect them🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Oh my goodness. They're soooo cool.
Impressive!
Your grandfather is the coolest. Y’all must have some amazingly deep and thoughtful conversations.
I agree with your grandfather about Coughlin=Carlson. Love your granddad's artwork.
Thank you, Aaron, for sharing this with us!!!!
They are really great. Love that spirit of creative defiance! May your Dad keep living and creating for as long as he pleases.
Your grandfather is incredibly talented (you're lucky to have him)!
Somehow I I think you already know he is an amazing treasure! Please let him know that I am in awe of his talent and wit. His work makes my smile.
Makes me smile! Forget the my!
These are so wonderful. Your grandfather is a gem. I wonder if he would want to make a book of photo’s of his sculptures? I’m sure he’d get a lot of buyers and he could donate proceeds to a worthy cause. He’s really quite a genius.
What a great guy!
These Trumpinnochios are marvelous!
Love your grandfather's carvings. So on point!
Love the Trump sculptures!❤️
Fabulous! Dang he sounds like a good grandpa
These are genius! Vey very clever. So glad your grandfather agreed to share his talent with us. JD Sheep gave me a much-needed laugh 😂
I'm going to show my 84-year-old artist grandpa Joe this! Here's a pastel he did of Trump during his first term well before the whole Hannibal thing.
okay so your grandfather is a national treasure
👏👏👏👏👏👏🩷💙
God Bless your grandfather Aaron- 101! you must be so proud of him! His artwork is great too.
Oh these are amazing tell your grandpa thank you for sharing!
Grandpa: If you'd have me, I'd be an amazing granddaughter. I would bring you all the wood and knives you need to art all day. Please adopt me.
I'm so mad I didn't notice the JD sheep until someone pointed it out in the comments🫡
Legend.
omg..the sheep on his leg 😆😂☠️ Thanks for sharing these. Inspired, and wow, the talent.
Your grandfather is a wild ride and I’m here for it 👏👏👏
The JD sheep 🤣
I snickered
This made my day, at the end of a hard week and the beginning of a hard semester at a public university hollowed out by the elimination of federal grants. Please thank your grandfather for all of us.
Your grandfather is awesome! Love his art.
Please tell your dear grandfather that I love his art and his sense of humor.
OMG--"It's me, JD."
It looks like JD mistook his leg for a couch 😂 I think I just fell in love with a 101 year old man!
Hoot !
Des moutons avec des chapeaux MAGA LOL. Je pensais que c'était des doigts avec des ongles vernis rouge.
Your grandfather is very talented!
Lolll
Your grandfather’s work is incredible. Thank you for sharing his sculptural creations. I especially like the Empire State Building Kong-inspired piece.
Brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is the best thing on the Internet right now. I love your grandfather.
👍👍💙
Nice.
Genius! 👏👏👏 Tell him thank you for making it and thanks for letting you share it!
Love the sheep clawing their way to be near him and share in the power. My interpretation anyway.
I like the sheep in red hats.
Brilliant.
What a talent. Tell him we thank him for sharing his art with us.
Many thanks to your beloved grandfather for allowing his beautiful works of art to be shared with the world.
The sheep in red hats tho esp the top one baaahahaha 😆
We can learn a lot from someone as wise as your grandfather. I’ve never tried woodworking, but I can see how it would help him cope through the 180 our country has done. Blessings 💙
I love this so much!! Brilliant. Your grandfather is incredibly talented. A rare gem! With elders who demonstrate such wisdom, humor, creativity, skill, and vision, it’s no wonder you turned into the awesome person you did. 🙂
Your grandfather is amazing, I love this art work! It’s perfect! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Love the sculptures. It's about time someone pointed out Trump's lies this way.
Imagine if Trumps nose really grew every time he lies. He couldn't turn his head without knocking all of the people in America into the ocean.
This is legitimately amazing
Your grandfather is a national freakin’ treasure! Thanks for sharing the art, it’s amazing, let us know if he opens an Etsy shop 😄
Great sculpturing. I unfortunately didn't get to hear what Tucker Carlson said though
Fantastic! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Love these! He must be a very cool guy. 💓💖💗
I love it!!!
♥️♥️♥️
These are wonderful
Fantastic!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️❤️❤️❤️
A particularly love the JD sheep humping his leg lol
You GF is the GOAT‼️🏆🎖️👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
First of all... 101 years! Fantastic! Second, he has definitely captured the essence of the Felon. With just the right amount of humor to serve up the humiliation traitor tRump deserves. Bravo!
I LOVE this. We need to do a better job of listening to the wisdom of our elders.
Please give your grandfather a hug & all our love. He is an absolute mensch. 💙💙💙
Love it!
I LOVE these!
These are fantastic!!! Is he single? 😉
I love them! He's my kinda guy!
he's even got the ill-fitting pants right.
😂
Your Grandads sculptures are wonderful! But the nose should be a REDWOOD.👍❤️🤣
He’s a man for our times! Keep them coming! I’m a fan💙💙
I love it!
Your grandfather is very talented. These are amazing and delightful! I love, love, love them.
Omg the sheep
More, more! Tell him thank you!!
These are brilliant
Excellent works of art imitating life. For "future history," you should exhibit them in the Smithsonian... 😬
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Bravo. That’s some art therapy, now outsider art perfection. Kisses to the artist!
These are fantastic! Your grandfather is incredibly talented. The sheep depicted as Vance on Trumps leg is perfection. He should really show his artwork. Last night discussed with a friend how much knowledge our elders have and always a treat to spend time together.
Wow.
Love two things: it all!
I never met either grandfather. May I please adopt yours? ❤️ from Australia.
Your grandfather's work is wonderful; it's like a political cartoon come to life. I am also impressed that he listened to Father Coughlin and can see the parallels to today.
These are fantastic!
Boss art!
Amazing art! Thanks for sharing (and thank your grandfather for the wonderful creations!)
The sheep with the red hats . . . these are genius! Please pass my admiration and thanks along to him.
I love your grandfather! HE is a true patriot.
Amazing!
This work needs to be in MoMA
I like his sense of humor lol. Grandpa's are the best
Oh my goodness! Brilliant! Call the Smithsonian…
They are looking to feature more old white men.
I was just thinking that collection belongs in a museum! 😆
Tell your g-pa he’s a treasure!
Your grandfather is clearly a genius.
Those are amazing Thank you for sharing.
This is fantastic! Love to see such amusing art come out of the bad things.
I kind of love your grandpa.
Your grandfather is a rock star!
Wow! Your grandfather is extremely talented.
Your grandfather is awesome!
*LOVE* these!! Thank you to you and your Grandfather for sharing.
Your grandfather is the best!
Your grandfather totally fuckin rules.
Your grandfather is a national treasure.
Your grandfather made my day!
Brilliantly captured. Knowing that your 101 yo father listened to a similar idiot as we have now, floods me with hope that we’ll recover after this, on the other hand their demagoguery schooling got better and stronger. Rollercoaster of emotions.
Go Grandpa! Keep up the good work and keep posting! Offer for sale? I would buy the one with the sheep
I love these so much! Thanks for sharing
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I would pay big money for this collection if I didn't believe it should be on display in an art museum for the public to enjoy for generations.
This is amazing folk art!! 10/10
He’s great! Thank you for sharing
Your grandfather is an icon
He is a genius. Thank you so much for sharing his incredible art and please send him our collective love! 💕
Seriously, when’s the exhibit? Where? The search for votes Pinocchino is the best.
Would he like to adopt me? He’s amazing.
These are wonderful! TY to your grandfather for sharing them.
This is just fabulous. Thanks for sharing this.
Love his work!
I needed this laugh. Thank you kindly. (3D mass print those gems)
We are all Fay Wray.
Bravo! Excellent sculptures!
Masterpieces other than that the hands are still too big. And can he do Epstein?
Absolutely wonderful!
How lucky you are to have a smart and talented Grandfather.
Art.
This is exceptional. Your grandfather nails the lying, the conniving, the narcissism, the mobsterism, the brutality, the groveling, and the coarseness of these brutes - and with a wicked humor. Best ‘outsider’ art about this little shit I have ever seen. A very big thank you to your grandpa.
@marisakabas.bsky.social artist spotlight 😭😂
These are amazing.
Your grand dad is more informed than millions of voters. Well done!
I'd like to bake your grandpa a pie. Or three. He's amazing.
Those are amazing
wow, that's fantastic!
These are gems!! Hugs to your grandfather from Oregon!
@okovody.bsky.social @indigopatricia.bsky.social Wow at 101!!!
He is a rare talent!! They are wonderful.
The fact that trump was holding a cat threw me for a second 😆 he is not a man liked by animals! Then the dime dropped 💡 Tell your grandpa I love his work ♥️ Thank him - and you - for sharing it
The kitty totally went over my head - glad Aaron explained it! These are wonderful!
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He's carving those from wood?? That is talent! My poor carving skills tip my hat to him!
You go grandpa. Love your art.
I can't wait to show these to my 96-yr-old dad-- he will LOVE them! He has done some wood carving himself & will much appreciate the subject matter!💙
Nice but that nose is waaaaaay too short at this point
Grandad is a BOSS.
omg
Much love to your grandfather!!!
This guy needs a gallery showing
Your grandpa has exceptional talent, and I hope this ends up in a public museum collection and not a private one so many people can appreciate it for a very long time. Magnificent folk art.
Please tell your grandfather, "Thank you!" 💙💙💙
Those are freaking awesome.
OMG tell gramps I love the sheep either kissing or groveling at the foot of the monument. It's a shame he had to see history repeated.
So glad your grandfather has found a creative way to cope with the fascist attack on our democracy. Never give up, Aaron's grandfather! Our nation, conceived in liberty, will have a new birth of freedom. Government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from this earth. 💙
These are wonderful! Thank you for sharing his work.
Great job, Aaron’s grandfather!
Amazing!
Love them all! Your grandpa is so clever and talented!
Your grandpa is AWESOME.💙My dad fought in and survived WW2.He was already in his 30s at the time.My folks had me a bit later in life so he would have turned 114 actually last week.I’m grateful to the greatest generation for fighting for what was right and possibly far saving humanity.
I love all of them 💕
Rad as hell
Oh my goodness, your grandfather is brilliant! How lucky/blessed you are to have him ✨
Amazing
Bravo to your grandfather and to you for encouraging him to share with us.
Fantastic! Specially the sheep crawling up his leg, LOL! Your grandad is 1 kewl dude!
Give my best to your grandfather. He is right about Trump. I wish everyone had his clarity of thinking.❤️
Your grandfather is a wonderful, creative, and very funny person. Wish him well, and tell him he is not allowed to stop making such amusing works of art till he's at least 110 years old.
🤩🤩🤩🤩 marvelous, very Calder meets Red Grooms (complimentary)
Brilliant!!
This stuff is fabulous, bravo!!
Wow! These are so amazing!
These are amazing!
Those are AWESOME!! 👋🇨🇦
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