Billboard Depicting Trump as a NAZI Funded with Taxpayer Dollars By Debra Heine
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An outlandish billboard depicting President Donald Trump surrounded by a nuclear blast and money signs resembling swastikas was funded with taxpayer dollars, Judicial Watch alleged Thursday.
The billboard, erected in downtown Phoenix on March 17, also features a pin of a Russian flag on the president’s lapel. And if you look closely, the mushroom clouds look like clown faces. The work was commissioned by “arts advocate” Beatrice Moore, a longtime patron of the arts, and created by Los Angeles-based artist Karen Fiorito.
Fiorito told azfamily.com back in March that she chose the offensive symbolism to reflect “power, money, and dictatorship.”
When neighbor Jeff Whiteman first saw the Nazi Trump image staring “right back at him through his kitchen window,” he was appalled. “It’s pretty drastic. I thought swastikas were very crude and violent,” he said.
But Fiorito was unapologetic. “There are people who say, ‘Well, it’s offensive,’ but the current administration, its policies, the people that are put in power are offensive to me,” she said.
“I worked with Karen Fiorito over 10 years ago, and she created the anti-Bush W billboard for this site then,” Moore posted on her Facebook page on March 17. “Deciding we needed an anti-Trump billboard, I contacted Karen and hired her to design the current signage for the billboard, which we had printed and installed.”
Moore is managing director of both the Grand Avenue Festival and Grand Avenue Arts & Preservation, and has vowed to leave the billboard up for the entire length of Trump’s presidency.
The billboard created quite a stir when it was fist put up:
Judicial Watch filed a public records request with the city of Phoenix shortly after the billboard was erected to obtain details related to public monies connected to organizations and organizers behind the sign. The watchdog group discovered that Moore receives thousands of taxpayer dollars to fund her art projects.
This week Judicial Watch received the documents that show the city of Phoenix has awarded Moore, the Trump Nazi billboard owner and a prominent figure in the local art community, thousands of dollars in grants for a program she runs called Grand Avenue Arts & Preservation (GAP), which encompasses the Art Detour event where the Nazi billboard made its debut.
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