U.S. Steel in the 1960s displayed a “Portfolio of Possibilities” by Syd Mead. Notable among the possibilities was a walking garbage truck that didn’t mind the snow.
Of course everyone knows what happened next. The movie industry pivoted this optimistic artistic vision into the Evil Empire, a robot of destruction and death. The terrible garbage “walker” was depicted storming a snowy remote rebel stronghold in the 1980 movie called the Empire Strike Back.
Fast forward to today, and Trump has performed live shows as if trying to appear as Emperor of a garbage walker Empire, in heated campaigns where he regularly boasts he will strike back.
