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  • Someone Doctored The Presidential Seal Behind Trump And He Didn’t Notice

    25 Jul 2019 by Jasmine Stone in America, Donald Trump, Politics
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    Donald Trump spent most of yesterday watching Robert Mueller testify in Congress, firing off an absurd amount of tweets talking about presidential harassment and a witch hunt.

    You know, his standard Wednesday fare.

    Earlier in the week, on Tuesday night, he appeared at a student summit hosted by the conservative group Turning Point USA, with the audience of young MAGA-lovers roaring their approval.

    Whoever was responsible for the presidential seal that was displayed on the screen behind him, however, was not a fan.

    Below from the Guardian:

    …the president stood before what looks, to the casual observer, very much like the US presidential seal. A thorough examination by the Washington Post, however, reveals some odd tweaks to the image.

    First, the eagle has not one but two heads – making it look a lot like Russia’s coat of arms. And instead of holding arrows, as the bird does in the US seal, it’s holding golf clubs.

    In other words, a proud presidential symbol was apparently reworked to shame Trump over two of the biggest targets of anti-Trump criticism – Russian involvement in the 2016 election and excessive golfing – and it was displayed behind the president for all to see.

    A tiny act of dissidence, right in the belly of the beast.

    If we do a side-by-side comparison, with the Russian coat of arms on the left, it becomes clearer:

    The golf clubs were a nice touch, and it looks to me like the other talon is clutching money.

    When pressed on the matter, organisers were unsure how this one slipped through:

    …A spokesperson for Turning Point USA, meanwhile, told the paper he was stumped as to the origins of the image, characterizing it as “a last-minute A/V mistake”. “I can’t figure out who did it yet,” the spokesman said, adding that he didn’t know where the image had come from.

    Richard Painter, the chief White House ethics lawyer under George W Bush, said Trump aides should have kept a closer eye on things. “Someone is going to be getting in trouble,” he told the Post, “but they got one heck of a good laugh out of it.”

    There’s also a chance, and given the general ineptitude of anything and anyone linked with the Trump campaign, it wouldn’t surprise me, that the image was the result of a simple mistake by somebody who grabbed the wrong image off Google.

    Let’s hope it was an act of mutiny from within, for a laugh, and get on with the day.

    [source:guardian]

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