# Trump and the spoofed presidential seal **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 26, 2019, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-the-spoofed-presidential-seal/837663 "2019-07-26T11:11:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-the-spoofed-presidential-seal/837663/1 "2019-07-26T11:11:17Z")
Laughed at this yesterday: > **[Trump appears in front of doctored seal with Russian and golf imagery, TPUSA...](https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/25/politics/trump-russia-presidential-seal-tpusa-trnd/index.html)** > > An audiovisual aide for conservative student group Turning Point USA was fired this week after President Donald Trump appeared on a stage in front of a parody image of the presidential seal at its Teen Student Action Summit. Short version: Trump gave a speech at a conservative student event. Behind him, the event folks were showing an image of the Presidential seal. but, in their all-too-quick Google-Image search, they had accidentally (so they claim) picked a parody version of the seal: the arrows in one of the eagle’s talons were actually golf clubs, the olive branch being offered by the other talon was a wad of cash, and the eagle had two heads, duplicating the Russian state seal. Clear image of the seal they used can be found [here.](https://i.imgur.com/2dPP025.jpg) Best was the text on the ribbon, “45 es un titere”: “45 is a puppet.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-the-spoofed-presidential-seal/837663/2 "2019-07-26T12:41:06Z")
We know. [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=879308](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=879308) ---
**Author:** ![Helmut\_Doork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e8c25b/32.png) [@Helmut\_Doork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helmut_Doork)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-the-spoofed-presidential-seal/837663/3 "2019-07-26T14:38:15Z")
For some reason the other thread starter put it in the pit, for those who really want to tell that seal how they feel I guess? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-the-spoofed-presidential-seal/837663/4 "2019-07-26T14:42:16Z")
Even hours after the story broke, people were saying that you couldn’t find that version of the seal in the first few pages of a google search even with specific terminology. Which lends a lot of credence to the theory that it was a deliberate act and not some a simple mistake. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-the-spoofed-presidential-seal/837663/5 "2019-07-26T14:57:44Z")
**Moderator Note** > [@DCnDC](#): > > We know. > > [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=879308](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=879308) Since the other thread is in the Pit, I’ll leave this one here instead of trying to merge the threads. Note that the rules for breaking news threads in MPSIMS are slightly more strict, especially with regard to political potshots and the like. If you don’t like the restrictions, use the Pit thread instead. Keep this thread MPSIMS and Breaking News appropriate, please. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-the-spoofed-presidential-seal/837663/6 "2019-07-26T14:58:05Z")
On Reddit there is an Ask Me Anything with the guy responsible for the altered seal. ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-the-spoofed-presidential-seal/837663/7 "2019-07-26T15:50:05Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > On Reddit there is an Ask Me Anything with the guy responsible for the altered seal. Linkypoo? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-the-spoofed-presidential-seal/837663/8 "2019-07-26T16:24:09Z")
> [@FloatyGimpy](#): > > Linkypoo? [Here it is!](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/chw6cf/i_am_the_guy_who_created_the_altered_presidential/)