{"id":179460,"date":"2025-09-28T04:30:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T04:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=179460"},"modified":"2025-09-28T04:30:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T04:30:51","slug":"trump-wants-to-be-a-cultural-tastemaker-the-cia-did-it-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=179460","title":{"rendered":"Trump wants to be a cultural tastemaker. The CIA did it first."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The modern Republican Party has fully embraced Andrew Breitbart\u2019s maxim that \u201cpolitics runs downstream of culture.\u201d That seems to be part of why President Donald Trump has spent so much time in his second term trying to take control of American arts: because that\u2019s the water that streams down into politics&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/culture\/461239\/trump-smithsonian-art-kennedy-center-cia-cold-war\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The modern Republican Party has fully embraced Andrew Breitbart\u2019s maxim that \u201cpolitics runs downstream of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":179461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179460-trump-wants-to-be-a-cultural-tastemaker-the-cia-did-it-first.jpg",1200,624,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179460-trump-wants-to-be-a-cultural-tastemaker-the-cia-did-it-first-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179460-trump-wants-to-be-a-cultural-tastemaker-the-cia-did-it-first-300x156.jpg",300,156,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179460-trump-wants-to-be-a-cultural-tastemaker-the-cia-did-it-first-768x399.jpg",640,333,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179460-trump-wants-to-be-a-cultural-tastemaker-the-cia-did-it-first-1024x532.jpg",640,333,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179460-trump-wants-to-be-a-cultural-tastemaker-the-cia-did-it-first.jpg",1200,624,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179460-trump-wants-to-be-a-cultural-tastemaker-the-cia-did-it-first.jpg",1200,624,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179460-trump-wants-to-be-a-cultural-tastemaker-the-cia-did-it-first-1024x532.jpg",1024,532,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179460-trump-wants-to-be-a-cultural-tastemaker-the-cia-did-it-first-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179460-trump-wants-to-be-a-cultural-tastemaker-the-cia-did-it-first-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/179461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}