Traditional art lovers started hearing the name Jon McNaughton a lot more often in 2019, after his cheeky painting of President Trump “Crossing the Swamp” went viral on Twitter. It portrays Trump in a boat, navigating an allegorical swamp (Washington D.C.) in a tongue-in-cheek homage to the painting of “George Washington Crossing the Delaware,” which hangs in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. “That one really hit a nerve,” McNaughton jokingly told The Epoch Times in a Zoom call, adding that those kinds of paintings get him noticed the most. Since Trump’s inauguration in 2017, McNaughton has given voice to a pro-American movement—although he’s been painting professionally since high school, and making political art for nearly a decade. Now, bidding farewell to a turbulent 2020, the artist is set to face 2021 with optimism, hoping his work will “shine a light” on uncertain times ahead. With Trump gone from the White …