Good morning.
Friday in Whitewater will see a morning shower with a daytime high of eighty-three. Sunrise is 5:40 AM and sunset 8:21 PM, for 14h 41m 02s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 35.6% of its visible disk illuminated.Today is the nine hundred ninetieth day.
On this day in 1775, the Second Continental Congress appoints Benjamin Franklin postmaster general.
Recommended for reading in full:
How Trump ended up in front of a presidential seal doctored to include a Russian symbol:
The image almost resembles the official seal of the president, but a closer examination reveals alterations that seem to poke fun at the president’s golfing penchant and accusations that he has ties to Russia. Neither the White House nor Turning Point knew who created it. On Thursday morning, however, the conservative group announced it had fired the member of its video team who it says was responsible for displaying the fake seal.
“We did let the individual go,” a Turning Point spokesman told The Washington Post. “I don’t think it was malicious intent, but nevertheless.”
The spokesman called the mistake “unacceptable” and said it was the result of a rushed online search to find a second image of the presidential seal to display behind Trump.
[Meet the man who created the fake presidential seal — a former Republican fed up with Trump]
The eagle has two heads instead of one — a symbol historically tied to empire and dominance. It closely resembles the bird on the Russian coat of arms and also appears on the flags of Serbia, Albania and Montenegro. Its left talons, rather than clasping 13 arrows, appear to clutch a set of golf clubs.
One Post reader noted a website that sells merchandise featuring what appears to be the same fake seal. In those images, the words on the parody eagle’s banner say “45 es un títere,” which in Spanish translates to “45 is a puppet.” On the official presidential seal, the eagle’s mouth holds a banner with the U.S. motto, “E pluribus unum” — out of many, one. The fake seal on the shop’s merchandise shows the eagle clutching cash in its right talons.