The pin, worn by the chairman of the F.C.C., raises some questions. The author has covered political image-making and its ...

In April 2025, claims (archived) circulated online that U.S. President Donald Trump's Cabinet members and Republican legislators had been ordered by the president to wear golden lapel pins ...

A Substack post by a Canadian sports writer claimed Republican officials were "quietly told" to ditch alternative pins in favor of a golden Trump pin.

Not every day a lapel pin makes headlines, but this one turned heads for all the wrong reasons. Brendan Carr, a top official in the Federal Communications Commission under President Donald Trump ...

As images from the funeral of Pope Francis on April 26, 2025, spread around the world, social media claims (archived) followed that U.S. President Donald Trump broke official Vatican dress code by ...