Norman Rockwell's Granddaughter Blasts Trump Administration For Using Artist's Paintings

The iconic American artist's family said he'd be "devastated" to see how the administration is co-opting his work to push its agenda.

The granddaughter of Norman Rockwell slammed Donald Trump’s administration for “promoting this segregationist view of America” through its use of her grandfather’s iconic work.

“Norman Rockwell was antifa,” Daisy Rockwell explained to The Bulwark, referring to the umbrella term that’s become a right-wing bogeyman of sorts to refer to left-wing activism.

(Antifa is a decentralized, progressive movement that opposes fascism and racism. Trump designated it as a “domestic terrorist organization” back in September following the assassination of Charlie Kirk.)

Her comments follow several instances where the Department of Homeland Security used paintings by her grandfather — who famously depicted the “Four Freedoms” and tackled racism, violence and segregation in his work — to call on people to “defend” and “protect our American way of life” amid its mass deportation agenda.

One of Norman Rockwell’s most iconic paintings depicts Ruby Bridges, the first Black student to attend a whites-only school in Louisiana, being escorted by U.S. marshals as they walk past a racist slur written on a wall.