Person who made the fake Presidential Seal fired

[Takket]

(CNN) — 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.
Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images
Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images
As the President took the stage Tuesday morning before a sea of 1,500 teenage cell phones, a screen behind him showed a fake presidential seal featuring a two-headed eagle -- which bore similarity to the State seal of the Russian Federation -- clutching a set of golf clubs in its talons. The seal was visible for a short time behind Trump, who stood behind a podium affixed with the official (and un-doctored) presidential seal for the duration of his speech.
TPUSA apologized for the incident, telling CNN there was "zero malicious intent" behind the imagery.
"We're sorry for the mix-up and meant no disrespect to the White House or the President or the advance team," the TPUSA source said.

https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/07/25/politics/trump-russia-presidential-seal-tpusa-trnd/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F

This country is amazing. If you are a traitor who conspired with a foreign power you get to be president for four years and I guess these is just NOTHING that can be done about it. But if you mess around with a logo you get fired. Our priorities are so backwards...

[MrsCoffee]

1. A/V aide was scapegoated and he didn't make it.

He found it online.

Someone should have proofed it before it went up no matter how last minute.

[FakeNoose]

25. Well, yes, that would have been his job to do that

There are no proofreaders any more, the job has been abolished.

I say that sarcastically because at one time I was a professional proofreader and typesetter. There's no such thing any more. Everyone must proof their own copy, even though 99% of us have no skills for it. The result is mistakes everywhere.

[MrsCoffee]

26. There may not be proofreaders but you would think someone would have to approve images

used in presentations where POTUS is gonna appear. Or at least provide it themselves.

[Renew Deal]

2. I don't believe that they are claiming this person "made" it.

Just that they displayed it by accident.



I don’t think it was an accident. The only thing better would have been playing the Russian national anthem during his appearance.

[Vinca]

3. If this was a prank, I'd be proud to be fired over it. If the employee went searching for a picture

of the presidential seal on the Internet and came up with this, I'd say this outfit has some of the dumbest employees on the planet.

[Renew Deal]

5. The side story is that the WH advance team is to blame for not providing it themselves.

[Vinca]

8. True, but they've got so much else to do: pack the diapers, check the drugs, cement the hair . . .

[Sancho]

22. ...and Hope is not there to steam MF45's pants any more!

[MrsCoffee]

9. Exactly.

[JHB]

13. And, of course, Trump can (but won't) take the blame for inadequate staffing

A normal advance team would have its hands full. Thanks to Trump's typical understaffing, everyone on the team has to juggle several "hands full" loads at once.

Thus the constant string of things getting dropped. But hey, those leaks, amirite?

[forgotmylogin]

29. So the firing is pretty justified either way.

It was done with intention, or it was done out of complete ignorance.

[watoos]

4. I don't believe it was the person who made the seal

who was fired. The person who mistakenly picked out this seal was fired, or am I wrong?

[Tipperary]

6. No, you are right.

The op title is misleading.

[Liberal In Texas]

12. Correct, very misleading title. n/t

[IronLionZion]

16. Correct, some aide who made an honest mistake was fired

because of a hasty google image search

[GusBob]

27. This is getting to be a trend around here

The OP is misleading and factually wrong

People fall for it because, ya' know, reading comprehension is really hard

The error is pointed out in the thread, but few people notice because, ya' know, reading comprehension must be impossible

The OP never gets corrected for some unknown reason

There is another thread today with nearly 100 likes, same thing

[Hortensis]

7. Doesn't sound like YOUR priorities are backwards.

If YOU are not THEM, could WE also be not THEM?

No to toxic equivalencies. Republicans do not define us.

[Callalily]

10. Well, it was funny, you must admit.

TPUSA scrambled to find a graphic at the last minute via the internet, no one at TPUSA created the seal. But...upon finding the seal, wouldn't it be obvious that it's not really a presidential seal? Hmmmmm.....


"Ultimately, both TPUSA and White House advance are at fault. TPUSA and their production crew were responsible for putting the wrong graphic up. But the advance office should have provided the official seal and/or approved everything that was put out," the source said.

[brewens]

11. Bullshit! It was a masterstroke prank and the person responsible should be taking bows! n/t

[gratuitous]

18. It wasn't funny

It was fuckin' hilarious, and I'd proudly devote a line on my resume to it had it been me.

[mainer]

14. A graphic artist designed the seal

he's a former Republican who hates Trump. He posted it online. The image was innocently (or so it's claimed) pulled from the internet because they needed a high-res seal as background, and the aide didn't take a close look at it. The graphic artist is making a killing now from tee shirts.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/26/fake-presidential-seal-trump-turning-point-event-charles-leazott/1835339001/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=usatodaycomwashington-topstories

[3Hotdogs]

15. Interesting to speculate--- early 20's college kid. Republican, so not much brain power to start.

Like any of us, "Get me a presidential seal." So you go to the internet tubes and the google flips up a few photos to download. (This doesn't work now. Alls you get is the prank.)

Would you examine it closely? Just download the fukin' thing and get on to the other shit that needs to be done. After all, I'm going to be right in the same room with my hero.

Or maybe he was a plant. But if you were the AV aid, would you know about the plant? I didn't. Why would you even look for a prank seal? The creator hadn't thought about it for a couple of years.

I'd say, fuck-up, not intended prank.

[brush]

17. If you just download an image from online it'll be low-rez and unusable unless you go to a site...

that offers a hi-rez image which you must pay for.

[blugbox]

23. When you do an image search

There is literally a button so you can choose the image size you are looking for. You can select general sizes like small, medium, or large, you can select by minimum megapixel size, or you can input the exact dimensions you want

[brush]

28. And you generally have to pay for hi-rez images with no watermark.

[DeminPennswoods]

19. It looks enough like the real presidential seal

on first glance that someone in a hurry might grab it thinking it was the real thing. The guy who made it runs a website called one term Donnie or something like that. Maddow had it on her show last night.

[forgotmylogin]

30. Also, image search shows a bunch of pics in a gallery.

USUALLY it's good to look at the listing of what site it's coming from and it may have been grabbed in haste.

I can actually believe this - I have been working on a site where you can get art printed on items, and it ideally requires large images at high-resolution, as opposed to most normal online images which can be pretty small and low-rez.

[DinahMoeHum]

20. Odds are the designer won't be out of a job long. . .

. . .just sayin'.

[tblue37]

24. The seal designer didn't lose his job. He is a never-Trumper not associated with the

Turning Point group. The person who lost his job was an A/V aide who grabbed the pic off the net and put it up behind Trump--almost certainly not realizing it was an insulting parody seal.

The OP's title is misleading.

[dweller]

21. as this was reported on CBS news this morning

they reported it wasn't discovered to be fake seal until AFTER the rally was over
so the image was up the whole time

😆


✌🏼️

[forgotmylogin]

31. And what's hilarious is EVERY SINGLE PERSON at that event was recording it on their phones.

I think it was WaPo that noticed it first?

[DeminPennswoods]

33. The whole thing is hilarious

not to mention incompetent.

[MineralMan]

32. I doubt that was a paid job, so what loss is it to be fired from it?

It was a terrific prank, and a story that audiovisual aide can tell his or her grandchildren some day. Well worth getting fired over.