Trump, a Girl and a Big Purple Hat: Our Twitter/Instagram Favs

In our social media round up this week, our eyes were mostly on the presidential race. Throughout the campaign, AP photographer Evan Vucci has been keen and fearless in his Trump coverage on Instagram. If this girl has no clue about Trump’s eternal profit motive, Vucci sure does. And the purple hat is fantastic. If there is nothing purple (read: bipartisan) about this dreadful exercise, might the phrase “all hat” apply?  We also found several heartfelt images this week, including the picture of the Pope in quake-torn Amatrice and John Moore’s image of the human cost of our broken immigration system. With all the animosity in the world right now, we also fell for Todd Heisler’s pigeons.

Insightful photo by @evanvucci. Seems this kid really gets it. She’s reading Trump’s “How to Get Rich.” #brandbuilding #Roanoke pic.twitter.com/ccbnrBogIt

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) October 1, 2016

#Amatrice today, #Aleppo, the seismic human disaster, next?@Pontifex via @AP_Images pic.twitter.com/gEruqxgUed

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) October 4, 2016

#Trump #security wearing cammo now? Booting protester in AZ. #UnitedColorsOfAuthoritarianism 📷@gettyimages pic.twitter.com/gmCM5e8rq1

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) October 6, 2016

Is it us? lighting? or is #Tiananmen “replacement” #Mao look little less sphinx-like? Via @Reuters Editor’s Choice https://t.co/0XDHTiSTNz pic.twitter.com/sfN7Fv7elB

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) September 29, 2016

If you need a visual…. Imagining #Trump in the Oval at Gerry Ford museum #OgleOffice @GettyImages pic.twitter.com/5MOOo4vw5d

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) September 30, 2016

We could all use some extra caffeine to weather the rest of the campaign storm. — (by @Katieirwin__) #Repost @bsmialowski ・・・ Hillary #Clinton walks from her plane #coffee #campaign #planes #weather #sky #clouds #bw #politics ##foreboding

A photo posted by Reading The Pictures (@readingthepictures) on Oct 4, 2016 at 5:11pm PDT

In sight, out of mind? (Talking about ours, not his.) Telling, also, how it “frames” just one face — that of marketing culture. #Repost @ruddynegus ・・・ October 6, 2016 The Frame On my way to the Jamaican Consulate and stopped to talk to Sean who is 36 years old and panhandling on the street. I stopped because his signage was kinda elaborate. Side note though, a woman walked up to me to ask if I had noticed that people were coming up to him to collect the money he collected. Apparently she suspects that guys like Sean are being used all over the New York street corners to collect money. I didn’t see anyone. #streetportrait #streetphotography #street_bw #makeportraits #makeportrait #monochrom #leicam246 #poverty #homelessness #socialjustice #streetphotography #vets #homelessvets #marketing #advertising #retail #marketingculture #eyeglasses #lenses #vision #sight #twoamericas #panhandling

A photo posted by Reading The Pictures (@readingthepictures) on Oct 6, 2016 at 10:53am PDT

It’s a surprising message on an unknown immigrant’s grave on the U.S. side of the Mexican border. With all the obstacles and prejudice impeding an American agreement on immigration, the expression of love is both touching and strange. #Repost @jbmoorephoto ・・・ A cross marks an immigrant’s “John Doe” grave in a pauper’s cemetery near the US-Mexico border. Hundreds of immigrants die crossing the desert into the US every year. #immigration #gettyimages #gettyimagesnews @gettyimages #border #grave #gravemarker #death #politics #cemetary #anonymous #tragedy #photojournalism

A photo posted by Reading The Pictures (@readingthepictures) on Sep 30, 2016 at 2:40pm PDT

Like an Escher, love two ways. Thanks, Todd. #Repost @heislerphoto ・・・ Palomas del Amor. #kensington #brooklyn #love #pigeon #birds #metaphor #pattern #inspire #peace #romantic #bw

A photo posted by Reading The Pictures (@readingthepictures) on Oct 6, 2016 at 8:47am PDT

Photo: Evan Vucci Caption: Seven year-old Hollie Hughes, of Riner, Va. looks at a book before a campaign rally with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Roanoke, Va., September 29, 2016.