This is the most terrifying image you'll see today, guaranteed:
A photo posted by @keuleruke on May 12, 2016 at 5:17am PDT
"The idea was to show two conservative leaders with huge egos finding comfort in each other," restaurant co-owner Dominykas Čečkauskas told BuzzFeed News.
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The image, designed by Mindaugas Bonanu, was inspired by the iconic 1979 kiss between Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and East German President Erich Honecker. Here's that moment memorialized on the Berlin Wall. Julie Kliegman
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