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Now, a US billboard shows Trump with swastika-like symbols
Rediff.com ^ | Wednesday, March 22, 2017 | Agencies

Posted on 03/21/2017 9:26:46 PM PDT by Jyotishi

Now, a US billboard shows Trump with swastika-like symbols

March 22, 2017 09:37 IST

A new billboard in Phoenix that depicts United States President Donald Trump as Hitler surrounded by dollar sign swastikas is raising some eyebrows.

Artist Karen Fiorito reportedly designed the billboard on Grand Avenue which shows Trump and red nuclear explosions surrounded by the hate symbols.

IMAGE: The billboard on Grand Avenue shows Trump with the swastikas. Photograph: Christian Petersen/Getty Images

Unsurprisingly, the post has attracted mixed reactions.

Some people thought this was a fair use of artistic expression and an important warning whereas others thought it was completely out of line and disrespectful to the 45th president. 

“I think this is the greatest thing that I’ve seen in a long time,” Mike Bolenbach told Fox 29.

“I think everything Donald Trump is doing is destroying America from the inside.”

Nearby resident Jeff Whiteman had a completely different point of view.

“Take it to your house,” he told the broadcaster.

“I live right here, I have to wake up to this every day. Disrespectful.”

IMAGE: The artist behind the billboard said that the piece was an attempt to give people a voice. Photograph: Christian Petersen/Getty Images

The artist Karen Fiorito was quoted by Fox 29 saying there was “a lot of tension right now in the air and I’m trying to express that for a lot of people who feel they don’t have a voice right now”.

This isn’t the first billboard she’s done that’s garnered some attention.

In 2004, she partnered with the owners of the billboard another time to create a billboard depicting then-President George W Bush and some of his top officials. It said “Dear America, We lied to you for your own good. Now trust us.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: billboard; hate; nazi; swastika; trump
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1 posted on 03/21/2017 9:26:46 PM PDT by Jyotishi
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To: Jyotishi

Communists never rest.


2 posted on 03/21/2017 9:33:21 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Jyotishi

Where are the hammer and sickle, H->! and ShallSee in Viet Cong coolie hats billboards?

Billboards showing H->! giving glowing U to the Rooskies for bags of Silver in return?


3 posted on 03/21/2017 9:34:19 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: Jyotishi

Somebody needs to commission an equally replusive poster about Hillary and/or Obama. Then hang it right outside the ‘artists’ front window. “For those who don’t have a voice.”


4 posted on 03/21/2017 9:35:47 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Jyotishi

George W. Bush and Donald J. Trump. No billboard “art” for the black guy. I’m starting to see an anti-American, commie lib pattern here from this ditzy bimbo.


5 posted on 03/21/2017 9:35:49 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it. - Clint Eastwood)
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To: Jyotishi

silly waste of money.


6 posted on 03/21/2017 9:36:45 PM PDT by b4me (If Jesus came to set us free, why are so many professed Believers still in chains?)
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To: Jyotishi

Yawn, libs call everyone a Nazi who disagree with.


7 posted on 03/21/2017 9:38:08 PM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: Jyotishi

doesn’t look like swastikas


8 posted on 03/21/2017 9:40:54 PM PDT by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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To: Jyotishi

Gosh, that’s original...


9 posted on 03/21/2017 9:41:41 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Jyotishi

Some of that looks suspiciously computer-generated, to my eye anyways.


10 posted on 03/21/2017 9:41:42 PM PDT by W. (Out with scum in government just there to steal our treasure!)
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To: Salamander
And, so it continues.....


11 posted on 03/21/2017 9:42:21 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: stylin19a

My first comment too.


12 posted on 03/21/2017 9:43:50 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Jyotishi

All of a sudden it’s 1981 again. At least it feels like it when I see this s**t.

CC


13 posted on 03/21/2017 9:44:02 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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14 posted on 03/21/2017 9:47:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Jane Long

/facepalm


15 posted on 03/21/2017 9:49:49 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, his reason tends to fly away...)
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To: Jyotishi

Somebody should put Obama’s face over Trump’s, change the signs into real swastika signs, and in the background have that obnoxious and meaningless Obama logo that shows a path going nowhere.


16 posted on 03/21/2017 9:51:40 PM PDT by Jim W N
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To: Jyotishi

Trump should find out the “artist’s” favorite govt agencies and shut them down.


17 posted on 03/21/2017 10:03:00 PM PDT by matt1234 (Jan. 20, 2017: the national nightmare ended.)
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To: Jyotishi

Legally it’s no problem.

Socially it’s political garbage and the LameStreamMedia is responsible for creating the lying environment that spawned it.


18 posted on 03/21/2017 10:06:06 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: Jyotishi

She’s not an artist.

Three of the elements in her so called “art” are fairly common on the Internet.

At best, she creaated a billboard size meme.


19 posted on 03/21/2017 10:11:11 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Jyotishi

The clown clouds are from playstation


20 posted on 03/21/2017 10:13:23 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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