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Trump Appears in Front of Altered Presidential Seal Meant to Mock Him

HeadlineJul 26, 2019

And a 46-year-old graphic designer and registered Republican has been identified as the creator of an altered presidential seal mocking Donald Trump that briefly appeared behind the president at an event in Washington, D.C., this week. Charles Leazott told The Washington Post he doesn’t know how his creation ended up being projected on a screen behind Trump as the president addressed the Teen Student Action Summit on Tuesday, but he suspects a rogue staffer may have intentionally swapped out the image. The seal shows the traditional U.S. bald eagle with two heads—evoking the double-headed eagle in Russia’s coat of arms. Instead of arrows and an olive branch, the eagle is clutching golf clubs and cash in its talons. And the banner with the Latin phrase “E pluribus unum” has been changed to a Spanish phrase that translates as “45 is a puppet.”

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