TY - JOUR AU - Taylor, Steven PY - 2018/01/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Grotesque Leadership: The Aesthetics of the "Mangled Apricot Hellbeast" JF - Organizational Aesthetics JA - oa VL - 7 IS - 1 SE - Editorial DO - UR - https://oa.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/oa/article/view/88 SP - 11-17 AB - The grotesque is an aesthetic category, which is to say that it is a name we give to our immediate felt experience of something. In the same way that we might experience a sunset as beautiful or traffic as ugly, I experience Trump's leadership as grotesque. Looking more broadly, Trump's leadership is part of a larger trend in leadership that includes leaders such as Boris Johnson in the UK, Silvio Berlusconi in the Italy, and Vladimir Putin in Russia, and which I identify as grotesque leadership. ER -