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BumRushDaShow

(160,608 posts)
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 05:23 AM Sunday

Democrats slam giant $50k banners of Trump's face on DC buildings as 'propaganda'

Source: msn

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Massive banners of President Donald Trump's face adorning the exteriors of federal buildings in the nation's capital have led some Democratic lawmakers to draw comparisons to the kind of overt displays of authoritarian propaganda under leaders such as Kim Jong Un, Benito Mussolini and Saddam Hussein.

The banners were installed on the buildings of the Departments of Agriculture, Labor, and Health and Human Services in Washington D.C. They have cost taxpayers at least $50,000, according to a new oversight report released by Democratic Senator Adam Schiff's office this week.

"Dictators throughout history have used oversized portraits to convey their power and intimidate their subjects," the report said. "In addition to the waste of taxpayer funds, the Trump Administration’s propaganda banners prompt troubling questions about whether the Trump Administration is deliberately modeling itself after authoritarian regimes."

Over four months, the three federal departments contracted enormous political banners to be hung outside their headquarters. Two were for large banners of Trump's portrait, and one was for an 88-foot sign promoting Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's "Make America Healthy Again" slogan, the report stated.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/democrats-slam-giant-50k-banners-of-trump-s-face-on-dc-buildings-as-propaganda/ar-AA1MZ1DK



Link to Senator Schiff REPORT (PDF) - https://www.schiff.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Propaganda-How-the-Trump-Administration-Is-Breaking-the-Law-and-Wasting-Taxpayer-Dollars-With-Giant-Banners-of-Donald-Trump.pdf
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Democrats slam giant $50k banners of Trump's face on DC buildings as 'propaganda' (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Sunday OP
Those fascist banners are fraud, waste and abuse! SunSeeker Sunday #1
No money for science, vaccines, school lunches, education, etc. Irish_Dem Sunday #3
50K, Hmm... Woodycall Sunday #2
Quite the coincidence! SunSeeker Sunday #4
ah, Tommy prob spent the money on steakshe looks well fed IMHO riversedge Sunday #13
I've been referring to them as "Mao portraits". I'd use "CPSU banners" if more people knew what it meant. eppur_se_muova Sunday #5
When will our Democratic leaders - werdna Sunday #6
They "speak" like this criminal syndicate is a "normal" presidency... Justice matters. Sunday #14
Get the paint balls ready nwduke Sunday #7
I suspect most people would need a dictionary to learn the meaning of the word. riversedge Sunday #11
Wow he just gets more Hitler-y everyday FakeNoose Sunday #8
Dear Leader Trump Botany Sunday #9
and Trump Repugs say we do not have the funds to feed or provide medication kids or not well off!! riversedge Sunday #10
Let them eat cake! Bayard Sunday #17
Are they, well, fireproof? twodogsbarking Sunday #12
Someone should figure that out. Queso Delicioso Sunday #19
Just IMAGINE if Biden had done this. MSM would be yelling "Tyrant!" nt Exp Sunday #15
I'm wishing for a flaming arrow to be shot at them tonekat Sunday #16
Good targets for paint balls Figarosmom Sunday #18
Alternate banners: (not real) IcyPeas Sunday #20
Chairman Zero Kid Berwyn Monday #21

Irish_Dem

(75,246 posts)
3. No money for science, vaccines, school lunches, education, etc.
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 07:02 AM
Sunday

But plenty of money for huge banners all over DC.

Woodycall

(566 posts)
2. 50K, Hmm...
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 05:56 AM
Sunday

Interesting sum. Do you think that's what Homen used his bribe money for? Inquiring mind want to know!

eppur_se_muova

(40,084 posts)
5. I've been referring to them as "Mao portraits". I'd use "CPSU banners" if more people knew what it meant.
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 08:06 AM
Sunday


Communist Party of the Soviet Union:

werdna

(1,115 posts)
6. When will our Democratic leaders -
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 09:17 AM
Sunday

- start calling a fascist a fascist? Words matter. Framing matters.

Justice matters.

(8,907 posts)
14. They "speak" like this criminal syndicate is a "normal" presidency...
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 11:38 AM
Sunday

"prompt troubling questions" wtf?

Bribes-o-galore?
Breaking all the laws in the books?
Stealing taxpayers' money?
Military in the streets?
Masked thugs kidnapping and disappearing people in concentration camps?
Covering up for billionaire pedophiles?
Cutting healthcare and essential nutrition programs for their tax breaks?
Murdering fishermen on their way to Trinidad or just fishing off-shore?
Threatening to annex foreign nations (formerly "allied" with the US)?
Indimidating and insulting by social-media posts?

I mean, the "questions" have long been answered!

Where have they been?

riversedge

(77,922 posts)
10. and Trump Repugs say we do not have the funds to feed or provide medication kids or not well off!!
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 11:05 AM
Sunday

Figarosmom

(8,688 posts)
18. Good targets for paint balls
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 01:28 PM
Sunday

Or cans of wasp spray. Anything that would soil them and can read them.


Don't know why he chose this One Step Beyond photo for his official portrait.

IcyPeas

(24,273 posts)
20. Alternate banners: (not real)
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 08:20 PM
Sunday

I just 💙 this. If we have to look at a giant Tr💩mp banner, let him be seen with his bestie at his side.

h/t to "Paulley Ticks"

Blake Lawrence (@blakelawrence.com) 2025-05-21T21:28:57.867Z


It only took one day of looking at this banner of Trump hanging side by side with Lincoln on the USDA building for someone to come up with this meme.

Patty Kennedy (@pattykennedyart.bsky.social) 2025-05-16T18:00:39.016Z


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