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cliffside

(1,681 posts)
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 11:09 PM 11 hrs ago

How many buildings in DC display pictures of trump, DOJ, labor, others ...

not to mention the Kennedy center name change etc.

Just pictures of the current WH inhabitant that one cannot miss when visiting DC.


"On a new banner, Trump evokes the shadow world of authoritarian icons

The Justice Department signals, with a public display, that it is now wholly loyal to the current president."

https://wapo.st/4dcBpEk

"And the Justice Department building, named for the slain senator, former attorney general and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, is a four-sided polygon with corners beveled flat. It is on one of these short, angled planes of the building’s Pennsylvania Avenue facade, that the Justice Department has hung a long, blue-gray banner featuring a gigantic portrait of President Donald Trump. The department, which by long-standing precedent has functioned independently of direct political or presidential control, now joins the Agriculture Department and the Labor Department buildings as a venue for grandly scaled images of the 47th president.

The banner, installed Thursday, hangs between two Ionic columns that define a large porch-like space over a ceremonial entrance to the building. The angle of the building makes this narrow facade unusually visible along Pennsylvania Avenue, the most important symbolic axis in the nation’s capital, connecting the U.S. Capitol to the White House. This is the route followed by inaugural parades and major marches, protests and displays of state power, including the 1865 Grand Review of the Armies after victory in the Civil War.

A movie director looking to shoot a dystopian vision of American authoritarian fascism could hardly find a better spot to stage a speech or rally led by the great leader. This looks like Evita’s balcony, an elevated porch beneath an enclosed space with long, vertical lines that create a tight focus on the banner and the president’s face. The proportions of the building, the color of the stone and the stripped-down classicism of the architecture would make a good substitute for the setting of a famous 1989 speech given by Romanian autocrat Nicolae Ceausescu, who lied shamelessly to his people one last time before being booed offstage, overthrown and summarily executed a few days later by an ad hoc tribunal."

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cliffside

(1,681 posts)
3. What a menacing/ugly picture, my thought would be to run. Hard to believe that we see trump's photos on buildings ....
Tue Mar 10, 2026, 12:24 AM
10 hrs ago

when we visit DC.

cliffside

(1,681 posts)
4. Thanks, never watched and honestly did not grasp the meaning when it was required reading many decades ago!
Tue Mar 10, 2026, 12:32 AM
10 hrs ago

but here we are. Ali Velshi did a segment on the book several weeks ago, he always has a good show.

Thanks again

pat_k

(13,204 posts)
5. That DOJ banner mirrors the big brother image from the film.
Tue Mar 10, 2026, 01:14 AM
9 hrs ago

I doubt anyone in the regime was on the ball enough to do it intentionally, but the dystopian image of the eyes looking down from above... horrifying to see in the United States of America.

It is hard to imagine how they could have made that banner more creepy.





Boomerproud

(9,261 posts)
6. I do think it's intentional. Who has the time to think these things up?
Tue Mar 10, 2026, 07:23 AM
3 hrs ago

Obviously these roadies aren't doing their job correctly.

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