100 nude women pose in Cleveland, reflecting on Trump
CLEVELAND,Ohio, U.S.A. - American photographer Spencer Tunick merged nudity and politics in a dramatic way Sunday in his latest work, posing 100 unclothed women for a shoot in sight of the Republican National Convention. 
Tunick’s large-scale arty installation, “Everything She Says Means Everything,” featured women of all shapes, colors and sizes, holding up mirrors toward the arena where Republicans this week are set to formally name billionaire 
Donald Trump as their presidential nominee. 
The women stripped down to their bare and often tattooed skin early Sunday and were seen snapping selfies with each other.
Tunick’s website said that the mirrors reflected “the knowledge and wisdom of progressive women and the concept of ‘Mother Nature’… onto the convention center, cityscape and horizon of Cleveland.
- ” But the artist has signaled that this shoot, near the arena where Trump is to be named the Republican nominee on Thursday, was political.
- “There shouldn’t be a rhetoric of hate in a presidential election,” Tunick, 49, told AFP last month, speaking of the billionaire tycoon’s virulent diatribes against Mexicans, Arabs and women journalists, among others.
- “I can’t just vote. I have to do something,” he said.
- “I think every artist in the United States should make an artwork before the election and get it out there.
- ” Size-wise, the artwork was a far cry from Tunick’s most recent effort, in Colombia in June.
For his largest installation in six years, he convinced more than 6,000 women to bare all in Bogota’s main square as the war-torn country neared a peace deal with the leftist rebels of FARC, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. Source:AFP
Donald Trump Appears To Shift On Muslim Ban
The Muslim ban has been a central pillar of Trump’s campaign for
president. Given his penchant for saying virtually anything with little
regard for the facts or previous statements, it’s unclear 
whether he
will stick by what he said on Saturday.
However, Donald Trump appeared to shift his position on a blanket ban on all Muslims entering the United States, saying on Saturday he wouldn’t be 
bothered if a Muslim from Scotland or Great Britain entered, according to reporters from CBS and CNN.
bothered if a Muslim from Scotland or Great Britain entered, according to reporters from CBS and CNN.
Trump first called for a “total and complete shutdown” on Muslim immigration in December.After
a gunman killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, Trump
called for a complete immigration ban from countries with a history of
terrorism against the United States.
- But on Saturday, Trump shifted, telling CNN’s Jeremy Diamond he only wanted to focus on “people coming from the terror states.
- ” Hope Hicks, a spokeswoman for the Trump campaign, also told Diamond that Trump no longer supports a blanket ban and only wants to ban Muslims from terror states.
- It’s unclear which countries, exactly, this applies to. The three countries on the State Department’s official list of state sponsors of terrorism are Syria, Iran and Sudan, but terrorist groups are complex organizations that can have members in several countries, including U.S. allies.
Several of the suspected terrorists involved in the Paris attacks, for example, were French nationals. Two of the brothers involved in the March Brussels attack were Belgian-born.
Hicks did not respond to an additional request for comment from The Huffington Post.
Source: The Huffington Post.
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