Sabotaging America
Every painting in Chronicle of an Unquiet Age documents the defining events, people, and issues that shaped its moment in history. Created in real time as events unfolded, each work serves as both an original oil painting and a historical record, reflecting the belief that the news of today is the history of tomorrow.
TRTA-2025-123 | October 2025 | Oil on Canvas | 34" x 26"
October 2025 opened as the World remembers the Anniversary of the October 7th massacre in Isreal by Hamas Terrorists. the month begins under a cloud of suspicion, backlash, and unresolved tension after the shocks of the previous month. Debate intensified over whether America’s problems were being caused by outside pressures or by failures and deliberate actions from within. Sabotaging America captures a climate in which many citizens believed national decline was being accelerated internally. The Government is Shut Down! Headlines "Schumer Shutdown Sabotage" are everywhere claiming Democrats are putting illegals over American citizens. Calls to "Stop the Sabotage" and uncover the enemy within is front and center as 700,000 Federal employees are furloughed. The Democrats have prioritized taxpayer funded benefits for illegal aliens over Americans and keeping the Government open. Trump is clear "We will fight and we will stop the sabotage and violence against Americans." FBI Director Kash Patel drops a bomb and reveals Jack Smith spied on 8 GOP Senators also reveals under Christopher Wray 275 FBI agents were undercover on January 6th at the Capitol breach. James Comey pleads NOT GUILTY to 2 counts in court on October 8th. Nancy Pelosi is in the hot seat as Docs reveal Pelosi's role in the "Fedsurrection" with Wray's FBI to defame Trump. Phone data also reveals her calls to Ray Epps leading up to January 6th. Trump calls for George and Alex Soros to be charged for funding and supporting violent riots against America. Trump speaks at the UN General Assembly and his teleprompter and escalator are "sabotaged" as Secret Service investigates. Obama explains how to use "Alinsky's Rules for Radicals" as a playbook to weaponize government.
Anti-American and Anti-ICE singer Bad Bunny is scheduled to perform at the Super Bowl 2026 halftime show. And Sean Diddy Combs is sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in prison. Sabotaging America is accusatory by design. The painting preserves a period when public frustration increasingly centered on the belief that the country’s greatest damage was self-inflicted.
