While voting statistics seem to indicate that apathy reigns in modern American politics, the same cannot be said of American politics in the past, at least where the faces of famous presidents are concerned. For a special President's Day edition of Monday Insta Illustrator, we present the people who have chosen to make their bodies the canvases for the lofty ideals and legendary personalities of our nation's leaders.A photo posted by ONUR KOLAY (@onurkolayy) on Mar 24, 2015 at 4:12am PDT
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I want a Ronald Reagan tattoo pic.twitter.com/0NA2YtTagX
— Highly Honorable (@Spike_Dudley187) May 21, 2015
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…And then, there's this guy.@HillaryClinton .. Thank you for this week. I feel like we took things to another level. This tattoo is to honor you pic.twitter.com/R9bByIekgX
— AJ Senerchia (@HavexHeart_AJ) May 7, 2014
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