{"id":56853,"date":"2025-05-25T07:43:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T14:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=56853"},"modified":"2025-05-25T07:43:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T14:43:14","slug":"dear-leader-exalts-himself-with-huge-banner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/05\/25\/dear-leader-exalts-himself-with-huge-banner\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Leader Exalts Himself with HUGE Banner &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past week &#8220;Dear Leader&#8221; took the next step on the way to becoming a fascist dictator by unfurling a HUGE banner &#8211; of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>HIMSELF<\/strong> <\/span>&#8211; at the <del>Ministry of Truth<\/del> USDA.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>A colossal, brooding image of Donald Trump now looms over the U.S. Department of Agriculture headquarters in Washington, D.C. The banner is unmistakably authoritarian in both style and scale. It features a stone-faced Trump gazing down upon the capital like a watchful overlord.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/huge-banner-glaring-trump-front-120003544.html\">The huge banner of a glaring Trump in front of the USDA is a literal sign the U.S. has lost its democracy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56856\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Trump_Banner_1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"538\" height=\"353\" \/><\/p>\n<p>History has shown that such arrogant, pompous, narcissistic displays of self-exaltation do <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>NOT<\/strong><\/em><\/span> herald a healthy, thriving democracy.\u00a0 Quite the opposite.<\/p>\n<p>But folks took advantage of such pretentious chutzpah to have some fun &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Trump_Banner_Fun.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"538\" height=\"461\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If that wasn&#8217;t galling enough, salt was rubbed into the wound as it was displayed alongside a banner of Pres. Lincoln.\u00a0\u00a0It was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usda.gov\/about-usda\/general-information\/our-agency\">Lincoln who founded the USDA<\/a> in 1862 to<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>&#8221; &#8230; provide leadership on food, agriculture, natural resources, rural development, nutrition, and related issues based on public policy, the best available science, and effective management.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But one <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Paulley Ticks<\/strong><\/span> took a bit of <em>&#8220;artistic license&#8221;<\/em> and saved the day with his <em><strong>pi\u00e8ce de <\/strong><\/em><em><strong>r\u00e9sistance <\/strong><\/em>revision:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56854\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Trump_Banner_Lincoln_Finger_Delay.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"538\" height=\"448\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And he interestingly notes that the hand doing the flipping-off is his, because he could <em>NOT<\/em> find a pinky-sided image of a &#8220;giving-the-finger&#8221; photo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PaulleyTicks\/status\/1923130550459470260\">https:\/\/x.com\/PaulleyTicks\/status\/1923130550459470260<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week &#8220;Dear Leader&#8221; took the next step on the way to becoming a fascist dictator by unfurling a HUGE banner &#8211; of HIMSELF &#8211; at the Ministry of Truth USDA. A colossal, brooding image of Donald Trump now looms over the U.S. Department of Agriculture headquarters in Washington, D.C. The banner is unmistakably <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/05\/25\/dear-leader-exalts-himself-with-huge-banner\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6417,6418,6419,6420,5000,4864],"class_list":["post-56853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-banner","tag-dear-leader","tag-finger","tag-flip-opp","tag-lincoln","tag-trump","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}