Posted on 12/30/2024 2:57:38 PM PST by bitt
They don’t like the trash talk.
Washington DC’s District Department of Transportation denounced a transit ad that was spotted near the Capitol that likened MAGA hat wearers to garbage.
“Keep DC trash free,” reads the incendiary ad spotted by Capitol Hill Baptist Church pastor Caleb Morell.
The ad featured a red circle with a line through it over an image of a MAGA hat wearer holding a book labeled “Project 2025.”
The bottom of the ad includes the logo for the District of Columbia Department of Public Works and the Mayor’s Office of the Clean City program.
DDOT DC quickly denied any role in the creation of the politically charged ad.
“This image was not created, funded, or authorized by the DC government, and our teams are currently working to remove them,” DDOT DC wrote on X in response to Morell’s post.
“If you see additional images like this, we encourage you to report them to 311.”
When asked for comment, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser’s office referred The Post to DDOT DC’s response.
It is unclear who was behind the advert, but it wasn’t the first time a US city was plagued by dubious political ads
In the fall, for example, the artist known as @winstontseng on Instagram fessed up to being behind art falsely showing the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris.
He claimed that he wasn’t aware how the fugazi ads depicting Harris in team attire got displayed near bus stops in the City of Brotherly Love.
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Appears to be unauthorized.
They are just now doing this, almost 2 months after the election? That Mayor tends to lie anyway, especially if the lie supports radical blacks or progressives.
During Trump’s first term, Gov. Bowser authorized a huge BLM mural on a public road, without full authorization.
“Appears to be unauthorized.”
You must mean deniable ..
They will continue the lie that Project 2025 is a Trump agenda item. It’s their own creation and does anyone else think that looks like the big guy?!
I’m sure the other side never makes evenhanded gestures like our FR colleague saying it is probably unauthorized.
Nice guys finish last, though.
I looked up what the bottom line says:
“The bottom of the ad includes the logo for the District of Columbia Department of Public Works and the Mayor’s Office of the Clean City program.”
But you are probably right that someone used the appearance of official permission but lacked permission.
But if a garage door had a looped bottom handle for the rope to pull it down it would be blasted by thousands of newspeople and minority marchers as a racist noose.
Let that s hole burn.
Property of a government run agency should not allow any political ads. Government and its agencies are everyone’s government and should be politically neutral.
Suuuure it is......
Looks very much like “the big guy” to me. Wonder if it’s a Freudian slip kind of message . . . ?
We do the Deplorable Garbage Dance!
...last I checked, Washington DC is a Federal District.
I think that the joke will be on them.
It probably IS unauthorized.
If I were a liberal in 2025, I’d be laughing and shitting on all you people too. :)
Actually looks like Joe Biden in a MAGA hat.
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