Mainstream media and their shareholders fear Donald Trump and will put lipstick on anything, selling their soles in the process. Cartoon by Ben Garrison, support Ben Garrison.
To put “lipstick on a pig” is a rhetorical expression, used to convey the message that making superficial or cosmetic changes is a futile attempt to disguise the true nature of a product. Pigs have long featured in proverbial expressions: a “pig’s ear,” a “pig in a poke,” as well as the Biblical expressions “pearls before swine” and “ring of gold in a swine’s snout.”
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