Photo: Tribute Artist Damian Blake, as Charlie Chaplin, faces the camera holding his iconic bamboo cane and a homemade sign in the shape of a cartoon quote circle, with the international red-with-diagonal-crossbar indicating "prohibited" in its center. The prohibited circle is filled with a drawing of an unhappy DJT wearing a 7-pointed jeweled crown, scowling eyebrows and a hitleresque moustache. Behind him a dozen or so of the event's thousands of other participants and the corner of a bright blue event shelter are visible, most of them well beyond the photograph's depth of field. Chaplin and his sign dominate the foreground. Chaplin, in character, seems to be repressing a smile. Chaplin is fully desaturated. His sign is not at all, but it's been painted in a thin wash and it has a faded look in the bright sunlight. Mill Creek Park Kansas City. #Missouri 28 March 2026 Sidenote: Damian Blake appears regularly in variety shows (featuring burlesque, drag, jugglers, and vaudeville) at Kansas City's Missy B's nightclub.
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Damian Blake as Charlie Chaplin at the No Kings III event.
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28 March 2026
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