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Amid deep cuts, USDA spent thousands on 31-foot Trump banners (www.yahoo.com)
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At a time when the U.S. Department of Agriculture was slashing aid to schools and food banks in the name of fiscal responsibility, newly confirmed Secretary Brooke Rollins elected to spend thousands of dollars to purchase massive banners of President Donald Trump, one of which now hangs outside her department’s headquarters in Washington, DC, according to documents obtained by Salon.

In May, visitors to the nation’s capital noticed two, 31-foot additions to the USDA’s building on Independence Avenue, ostensibly intended to mark its 163rd anniversary: a banner featuring President Abraham Lincoln, who signed the bill creating the department, and another featuring Trump, both featuring the tagline: “Growing America Since 1862.”

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[–] crt0o@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 14 hours ago

[–] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 16 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

This is some North Korean dear leader bullshit.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

try a little more east of the meridian and about 80-ish years ago.

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

It's like they're TRYING to look like a dictatorship now

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 7 points 19 hours ago

They are.

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 14 points 21 hours ago

[–] baggins@beehaw.org 1 points 14 hours ago

Big Brother loves you.

[–] marsza@lemmy.cafe 2 points 16 hours ago

Burn it

[–] lectricleopard@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

Im not a narcissist. You're a narcissist!

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

That banner is far too publicly exposed to not have been vandalized. It would look good on fire.

[–] marsza@lemmy.cafe 1 points 16 hours ago

Too bad DC is a police state now.