Malta. November 2, 2020. The fishing village of Marsalforn on the island of Gozo, off Malta.
"I am on an island in the Mediterranean called Gozo, off Molta. But I was out shooting this morning thinking about Trump and the US election. A cab picked me up at 6.30 this morning. I asked if anyone on the island might not have heard of Donald Trump. The driver, after doubting that, said, “You know, Trumpa, that’s a word in Maltese. It means getting things upside down.” I asked for an example. He said it refers to a person who continually makes mistakes: “if I’d gone to pick up someone else this morning and not you, I’d be a ‘trumpa’.” It must be a local idiom because I cannot find it in Google. Anyway I headed to Marsalforn, a sleepy fishing village and tourist trap in the season. I saw some scratched paint on a wall that reminded me of an electoral map. I saw a sewer drain coming out of that same wall that reminded me of Trump. Then I found a wall on the sea and that reminded me all Trump’s total achievement as president: divide and rule. He has increased division in US, created dangerous divides between people, become the king of the Philistines, racists, tax dodgers and far right extremists set against those who wish for a fairer society, less division between rich and poor, and between peoples. So the wall is a symbol for me of Trump’s tenure as president."