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While Donald Trump was addressing a mob right in Washington on Tuesday, the audience rumbled for support – but it was a falsified screen display that ended up occupying a central place.
At a student summit organized by the conservative group Turning Point USA, the president held himself before what appears to be, for the casual observer, quite the American presidential seal. A thorough review by the Washington Post, however, reveals some strange changes to the picture.
First, the eagle has not one but two heads, which gives it the appearance of the coat of arms of Russia. And instead of holding arrows, like the bird in the seal of the United States, he holds golf clubs.
In other words, a proud presidential symbol would have apparently been reworked to shame Trump in front of two of the biggest targets of anti-Trump criticism – Russia's participation in the 2016 election and golf excessive – and it was posted behind the president in plain view.
How it happened is still a mystery. The Post spoke to a White House official who said the officials had not seen the picture in advance. A spokesman for Turning Point USA, meanwhile, told the newspaper that he was puzzled about the origins of the picture, calling it a "last-minute mistake." "I do not know yet who did it," said the spokesman, adding that he did not know where the picture was coming from.
Richard Painter, White House Chief Ethics Attorney to George W. Bush, said Trump's badociates should have kept a close eye on things. "Someone's going to get in trouble," he told the post, "but they got a hell of a laugh."
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