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# The Onion Skewers George W. Bush, the Painter
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/the-onion-skewers-george-w-bush-the-painter/
- Published: 2014-04-17T02:04:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:44:26.000Z
- Description: Yes, the world's favorite satirical site went there, and their latest video takes aim at former US President George W. Bush's latest hobby, painting.
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: News, George W. Bush, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:03 (2014, 2015, part 1)

![A screenshot of one of The Onion's "Dead Iraqi Child" paintings by George W. Bush. (screenshots by the author)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/04/bush-deadiraqi-640.jpg)

A screenshot of one of The Onion’s “Dead Iraqi Child” paintings by George W. Bush. (screenshots by the author for Hyperallergic)

Yes, the world’s favorite satirical site went there, and their [latest video](http://www.theonion.com/video/george-w-bush-debuts-new-paintings-of-dogs-friends,35799?ref=hyperallergic.com) takes aim at former US President George W. Bush’s latest hobby, painting. You may know that Bush [has already painted](http://hyperallergic.com/67336/presenting-the-first-ever-george-w-bush-painting-retrospective/) dogs, cats, landscapes, and even images of himself in the shower, but, *The Onion* suggests he is also painting “the ghost of the Iraqi child that follows him everywhere.” *Ouch*.

![saltz-bushonion](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/04/saltz-bushonion.jpg)

A particularly good addition that gives their segment an art world touch is their inclusion of *New York Magazine* art critic Jerry Saltz in the caption to the video with a fabricated quote: “This is how Bush sees the world.”

Recently, Saltz has attracted attention for his articles that have both [praised](http://www.vulture.com/2013/02/jerry-saltz-george-w-bush-is-a-good-painter.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) and later [criticized](http://www.vulture.com/2014/04/saltz-on-the-unfulfilling-art-of-george-w-bush.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) the former US President for his artistic achievements. We are curious to know what he thinks of this latest series.

  
[George W. Bush Debuts New Paintings Of Dogs, Friends, Ghost Of Iraqi Child That Follows Him Everywhere](http://www.theonion.com/video/george-w-bush-debuts-new-paintings-of-dogs-friends,35799/?ref=hyperallergic.com)

We’ve also created screenshots of all nine of the “new” Bush paintings for your careful perusal below. We may have to add these discoveries to the [Bush retrospective](http://hyperallergic.com/67336/presenting-the-first-ever-george-w-bush-painting-retrospective/) — the world’s first! — that we gave the President back in March 2013.

![bushonion-04](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/04/bushonion-04.jpg)

![bushonion-01](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/04/bushonion-01.jpg)

![bushonion-03](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/04/bushonion-03.jpg)

![bushonion-02](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/04/bushonion-02.jpg)

![bushonion-05](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/04/bushonion-05.jpg)

![bushonion-06](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/04/bushonion-06.jpg)

![bushonion-08](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/04/bushonion-08.jpg)

![bushonion-09](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/04/bushonion-09.jpg)

![bushonion-07](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/04/bushonion-07.jpg)