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BumRushDaShow

(153,145 posts)
Thu May 15, 2025, 04:10 PM May 15

Trump banner on gov building sparks backlash: 'Welcome to North America's North Korea'

Source: Raw Story

May 15, 2025 2:33PM ET


A massive banner of President Donald Trump is now hanging from the outside of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s building in Washington, D.C., opposite a banner of President Abraham Lincoln. Several critics are suggesting the hanging is fascist or authoritarian, with some saying it is giving off North Korea vibes.

“Looming down from the pillared front of the neo-classical facade is an enormous, brooding picture of President Donald Trump, adapted from his official presidential portrait,” The Independent reported. “The picture of Trump is reminiscent of portraits of leaders hanging from public buildings, often seen in dictatorships, monarchies, and in descriptions in George Orwell’s 1984 of ‘Big Brother.'”

Progressive nonprofit People For the American Way posted a photo of the USDA building with the Trump banner, also saying it is “echoing authoritarian dictatorships.” “This is deeply fascist,” observed Democracy advocate, Army combat vet, and podcaster Fred Wellman. “Trump is spending $92 million on a birthday military parade and plastering his face on the sides of government buildings. Washington, DC is becoming Pyongyang, North Korea,” podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen noted.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins posted photos of the banners being installed, while suggesting that President Trump’s policies have been good for farmers — a controversial opinion given his tariff and trade wars, and program cuts. The Bulwark’s Tim Miller wrote: “Its interesting that these freedom loving MAGA alpha males want to institute this deeply creepy 3rd world culture where we have a national daddy that must be obeyed.” Political analyst Rachel Bitecofer warned Trump is “going to go full Putin.”

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-banner/




Large banners installed on the facade of the U.S. Department of Agriculture show President Donald Trump and President Abraham Lincoln
Eric Garcia/The Independent
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Trump banner on gov building sparks backlash: 'Welcome to North America's North Korea' (Original Post) BumRushDaShow May 15 OP
I'm going to burst a blood vessel. choie May 15 #1
Will eLoon teach us all how to do a nice crisp Nazi salute,... magicarpet May 15 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author bluboid May 16 #31
Has he been talking to Kim Jong Un again? Bayard May 15 #2
Lincoln's picture is not a prison booking photo. Trump's is Walleye May 15 #3
Came with the same thought! BadgerMom May 16 #30
How is that being accepted Down in Dixie? Norrrm May 15 #4
So, ol' Nicked Ear is up there with Abraham Lincoln? yorkster May 15 #5
How much did this latest piece of Trump tat cost the American people? jls4561 May 15 #7
Hair Fhrer! ZDU May 15 #8
The department was created when Lincoln was president. There's no reason for Trump's mug to be there. highplainsdem May 15 #9
Other than to make everyone vomit mdbl May 15 #13
No reason is right. However. Those who hung it "reason" that the felon's mug shot is a badge of honor. ancianita May 15 #14
The Crime Minister NEVER looked that good. lastlib May 15 #10
Ya, that's some fascist dictator bullshit right there JoseBalow May 15 #11
It's the fascist reality we fight against. ancianita May 15 #16
king CONvict said hitler "did some good things" ... Justice matters. May 15 #22
I wouldn't stand behind that picture of the orange one. That could be target practice. twodogsbarking May 15 #12
I read this story an hour ago, and I'm still fantasizing about how to set it on fire William Seger May 16 #39
Jewish Space Laser? twodogsbarking May 16 #40
I hope it gets destroyed. tonekat May 15 #15
100% Mussolini shit Nigrum Cattus May 15 #17
Clickbait headline - this is incorrect FakeNoose May 15 #18
The Independent had the original article BumRushDaShow May 15 #19
Thanks for everything you do, BRDS. ... littlemissmartypants May 15 #27
I will pay kacekwl May 15 #20
Snort littlemissmartypants May 15 #28
When do they just jump right to liberalgunwilltravel May 15 #21
I'm sputtering and can't even find the words. yellow dahlia May 15 #23
I always assumed Big Brother would have better hair. LudwigPastorius May 15 #24
I haven't smiled since November BidenRocks May 15 #25
I got my first VCR around 1986 BumRushDaShow May 16 #38
Perfect, the president that started land grant colleges and the one that killed them. dem4decades May 15 #26
He's really full of himself, isn't he? littlemissmartypants May 15 #29
Yep. All fascists are, but in terms of sheer ego, he gives most of them a run for their money. Karasu May 16 #32
Could you imagine what Republicans would do if we had unfurled a banner of Biden like that? nt SunSeeker May 16 #33
Biden would never, so maybe we should start framing it that way Hekate May 16 #36
Of course he wouldn't. Dems don't don't want to be like Putin or Kim Jong-un. nt SunSeeker May 16 #37
im about to do my captaim magma trip AllaN01Bear May 16 #34
Just about exactly what I thought when I posted Big Brother is Watching You ... Hekate May 16 #35
Don't know if I'll ever set foot in Washington DC again kimbutgar May 16 #41
i prefer this version moonshinegnomie May 16 #42
Didn't take long, did it? BumRushDaShow May 16 #43

magicarpet

(18,304 posts)
6. Will eLoon teach us all how to do a nice crisp Nazi salute,...
Thu May 15, 2025, 04:28 PM
May 15

..... so we can hail Fuhrer trDUMP during his birthday military parade ?

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Response to choie (Reply #1)

Norrrm

(1,659 posts)
4. How is that being accepted Down in Dixie?
Thu May 15, 2025, 04:24 PM
May 15

Today's official republican position - Lincoln was our nation's greatest leader

From the 2004 GOP Platform - (I have not seen them change it.)

"One hundred and fifty years ago, Americans who had gathered to
protest the expansion of slavery gave birth to a political Party that
would save the Union - the Republican Party.

In 1860, Abraham Lincoln of Illinois carried the Republican banner
in the Presidential election and was elected the Party's first
President. He became our nation's greatest leader … and one of our
Party's greatest heroes.

yorkster

(3,097 posts)
5. So, ol' Nicked Ear is up there with Abraham Lincoln?
Thu May 15, 2025, 04:26 PM
May 15

Where's a flaming arrow when you need it..
What a damn joke.

jls4561

(2,357 posts)
7. How much did this latest piece of Trump tat cost the American people?
Thu May 15, 2025, 04:31 PM
May 15

This taxpayer wants to know.

highplainsdem

(56,144 posts)
9. The department was created when Lincoln was president. There's no reason for Trump's mug to be there.
Thu May 15, 2025, 04:49 PM
May 15

ancianita

(40,475 posts)
14. No reason is right. However. Those who hung it "reason" that the felon's mug shot is a badge of honor.
Thu May 15, 2025, 05:22 PM
May 15

ancianita

(40,475 posts)
16. It's the fascist reality we fight against.
Thu May 15, 2025, 05:29 PM
May 15

He's never been pretending. He said it. He's doing it. He's the US dictator.
We live under this dark death dealing tyranny every damn day.

Justice matters.

(8,383 posts)
22. king CONvict said hitler "did some good things" ...
Thu May 15, 2025, 07:22 PM
May 15

I guess he wants to copy his "some good things" while causing millions of children starve to death.

tonekat

(2,221 posts)
15. I hope it gets destroyed.
Thu May 15, 2025, 05:24 PM
May 15

Maybe that artist who projected images on the Old Post Office can do something with this?

FakeNoose

(37,452 posts)
18. Clickbait headline - this is incorrect
Thu May 15, 2025, 05:44 PM
May 15

The banners on the USDA building do not say that. Some political pundits were quoted making sarcastic comments, including the one about North Korea.

From the OP story:

The Bulwark’s Tim Miller wrote: “Its interesting that these freedom loving MAGA alpha males want to institute this deeply creepy 3rd world culture where we have a national daddy that must be obeyed.”

Political analyst Rachel Bitecofer warned Trump is “going to go full Putin.”

“Welcome to North America’s North Korea!” exclaimed Russell Drew, a self-described amateur historian and political junkie.
- more at link -

BumRushDaShow

(153,145 posts)
19. The Independent had the original article
Thu May 15, 2025, 06:15 PM
May 15
‘Deeply creepy’: Enormous brooding banner of Trump now hangs next to Lincoln outside Department of Agriculture

which was purportedly posted by them around 8 pm ET last night. But since I keep over 3 dozen news sites in tabs including them, and check the sites continually while I'm online, I never saw it "featured" or linked to on The Independent's subject category pages, nor on their main page. By the time I found it, it was obviously beyond the 12-hour LBN threshehold. Raw Story did have it, summarized it, and linked to it (and included social media stuff).

You can "pick your poison" when it comes to "headlines".

littlemissmartypants

(27,756 posts)
27. Thanks for everything you do, BRDS. ...
Thu May 15, 2025, 11:00 PM
May 15

LBN would probably collapse in on itself without you.



❤️

BidenRocks

(1,515 posts)
25. I haven't smiled since November
Thu May 15, 2025, 09:28 PM
May 15

Now I am constantly angry. I am shouting at the radio and TV.
There is no escape from that ugly ass face and irritating voice.
This is truly some scary shit!

It's time to re-watch the original "V" miniseries.
The banners were up in no time.

Ukraine, if your listening. Could we borrow a small fire breathing drone?

BumRushDaShow

(153,145 posts)
38. I got my first VCR around 1986
Fri May 16, 2025, 05:11 AM
May 16

and when NBC rebroadcast "V" (and its sequel), I recorded them and I still have them on VHS (in a cabinet in the basement).

SunSeeker

(55,858 posts)
33. Could you imagine what Republicans would do if we had unfurled a banner of Biden like that? nt
Fri May 16, 2025, 02:31 AM
May 16

Hekate

(97,786 posts)
35. Just about exactly what I thought when I posted Big Brother is Watching You ...
Fri May 16, 2025, 04:10 AM
May 16

…when we first saw the photo.

It takes a pretty sick mind to think this and the Dear Leader Parade are acceptable.

kimbutgar

(25,149 posts)
41. Don't know if I'll ever set foot in Washington DC again
Fri May 16, 2025, 11:38 AM
May 16

Don’t want to see that ugly, hideous, and evil face defecating on our nations capitol!

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