'I want this as a baroque painting': Photo of Mitch McConnell social distancing goes viral
A photograph of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell conducting an interview in the Capitol while complying with coronavirus social distancing rules has gone viral.
Senator McConnell is pictured standing outside of the Senate Chamber on Thursday surrounded by reporters and photographers.
Everyone is managing to keep six feet away from each other, while also attempting to carry out their jobs.
The dramatic architecture and mosaic floor of the Capitol Building only adds to the surreal composition of the picture.
I'd like to commission this as a baroque painting. pic.twitter.com/GyAoWaT0Bb
— Rachel Dzanashvili (@rachel_dz)
One Twitter user commented: “I'd like to commission this as a baroque painting.”
Other tweets joked that it resembled an episode of Ghosthunters, something from the world of Harry Potter, a scene from Ghostbusters, or perhaps a pagan or satanic ceremony.
why does it look like seven Ministry of Magic wizards are trying to cast Stunning spells to take down Mitch at the same time pic.twitter.com/7EFKpmqZlM
— The Library Owl 🧙♀️🦉📚 (@SketchesbyBoze)
"Peter, at 1:40 PM at the main branch of the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue, ten people witnessed a free floating, full torso, vaporous apparition. It blew books off shelves from twenty feet away and scared the socks off some poor librarian!"
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub)
Spector of Mitch McConnell finally caught on camera, ghost hunting task force reports https://t.co/tvlvFnFQbn
— Doris Morgan Rueda ⚡️ (@dee_linquent)
Beelzebub I summon thee.
— Louis R. Bridgeman (@LouisRBridgema3)
As one tweet succinctly put it: “An image for our time.”
