Aide Fired For Projecting Disrespectfully Doctored Presidential Seal Behind Trump
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July 26, 2019Well, this kind of sucks.
An aide has been fired or displaying a mock Presidential Seal behind President Trump as he spoke to a Turning Point USA group.
The seal read “45 es un titere,” which means “45 is a puppet” instead of the usual “e Pluribus Unum” and displayed Russian symbolism.
It was up for 80 seconds before someone noticed and took it down.
According to Fox News:
White House spokesman Judd Deere told the Associated Press officials “never saw the seal” before it was projected on a screen behind Trump as he was introduced Tuesday at Turning Point USA’s teen summit. The altered seal appeared on the projector screen for at least 80 seconds behind Trump before it was taken down, the Washington Times reported.
Turning Point USA, a conservative group that has been aligned with Trump, announced Thursday that the aide responsible for the supposedly accidental mix-up has since been fired.
The doctored image featured a two-headed eagle, a direct nod to the Russia Federation’s coat of arms. The bird’s left claw held golf clubs instead of the original’s 13 arrows, which symbolize the 13 colonies. The right claw grasped cash, instead of the original’s olive branch.
UUUH. How did they not notice that?
Are we SURE this was a mistake? I mean, holy mother of MESS.
The altered presidential seal read “45 es un titere,” which translated from Spanish means “45 is a puppet.” The authentic seal sports the Latin phrase “e pluribus unum,” the U.S. motto meaning “out of many, one.”
Turning Point USA claimed that, in haste, a member of the video team searched for a high-resolution file of the presidential seal and did not realize that the image was doctored before placing it on the screen behind Trump.
YIKES.
“We’re sorry for the mix-up and meant no disrespect to the White House or the President or the advance team,” the nonprofit told CNN. Turning Point USA insisted they had “zero malicious intent” in the switch.
I doubt they did. But COME ON, folks. This was bad.
Regardless of whether this was a mistake or not, TPUSA did the right thing in firing this person.
