{"id":8740,"date":"2025-11-03T20:06:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T20:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8740"},"modified":"2025-11-05T00:07:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:07:26","slug":"were-norman-rockwells-family-trumps-dhs-has-shamefully-misused-his-work-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8740","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re Norman Rockwell&#8217;s family. Trump&#8217;s DHS has shamefully misused his work. | Opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/voices\/2025\/11\/02\/norman-rockwell-trump-dhs-anti-immigrant-social-media\/86949410007\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2025\/10\/31\/USAT\/86999692007-the-problem-we-all-live-with-s-400-2-copy.jpg?crop=5508,3098,x0,y0&amp;width=3200&amp;height=1800&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Problem We All Live With, Norman Rockwell, 1964<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Norman Rockwell&#8217;s family, we know he&#8217;d be devastated to see the Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s unauthorized misuse of his work.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Members of my family noticed over the last weeks that the DHS is using Norman Rockwell&#8217;s works without permission. We got together to write this opinion peice, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/voices\/2025\/11\/02\/norman-rockwell-trump-dhs-anti-immigrant-social-media\/86949410007\/\">We&#8217;re Norman Rockwell&#8217;s family. Trump&#8217;s DHS has shamefully misused his work. | Opinion<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If Norman Rockwell were alive today, he would be devastated to see that his own work has been marshalled for the cause of persecution toward immigrant communities and people of color.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ArtNet now has <a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/norman-rockwell-family-dhs-art-posts-2708029\">a story about our Opinion<\/a> as does <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/11\/04\/arts\/design\/norman-rockwell-homeland-security-immigration.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/11\/04\/arts\/design\/norman-rockwell-homeland-security-immigration.html\">the New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of my family noticed over the last weeks that the DHS is using Norman Rockwell&#8217;s works without permission. We got together to write this opinion peice, We&#8217;re Norman Rockwell&#8217;s family. Trump&#8217;s DHS has shamefully misused his work. | Opinion.&nbsp; If Norman Rockwell were alive today, he would be devastated to see that his own &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8740\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We&#8217;re Norman Rockwell&#8217;s family. Trump&#8217;s DHS has shamefully misused his work. | Opinion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-media-and-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8740"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8746,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8740\/revisions\/8746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}