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day, another unprecedented moment in Donald Trump’s presidency. A giant
inflatable chicken with Trump-like hair appeared near the White House
on Wednesday. The chicken …
Monumental ‘Trump Chicken’ Roosts Near The White House
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Another day, another unprecedented moment in Donald Trump’s presidency.
A giant inflatable chicken with Trump-like hair appeared near the White House on Wednesday.
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Aerial
photos of the display show the fowl, known as “Trump Chicken” or
“Chicken Don,” standing on the plot of land south of the White House
called the Ellipse.
The
area is situated between the president’s residence and the Washington
Monument. It’s also in perfect view of the news cameras that are placed
in front of the White House.
The
balloon was set up by documentary filmmaker Taran Singh Brar to protest
the president “being a weak and ineffective leader.”
In an interview with HuffPost’s Philip Lewis, Singh Brar said of Trump, “He’s too afraid to release his tax returns, too afraid to stand up to Vladimir Putin.”
He added that the president was “playing chicken with North Korea.”
The filmmaker also confirmed that he obtained the necessary permits to display the 30-foot balloon.
“The tallest thing they usually allow on the Ellipse is the national Christmas tree,” he told USA Today. “They gave me a waiver for the 30-foot Chicken Don.”
ABC News reported it took Brar five months to secure the permit and gain permission to stage the protest, which happened to fall during Trump’s 17-day vacation at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
When
images of the chicken first surfaced Wednesday afternoon, news anchors
were understandably perplexed. Fox News host Shepard Smith could not
hide his surprise.
“What, what is that?” he asked his colleague Josh Lederman.
“Shep, it appears to be a very large chicken display,” Lederman said.
“A what?” Smith asked. “Seriously?”
The chicken was set up in the morning and it wasn’t long before spectators flocked to the display, both on foot and via Segway.
The inflatable Trump Chicken made its first appearance in
the U.S. in April at Tax March demonstrations held in cities across the
country to protest Trump’s failure to release his tax returns.
According to The New York Times,
a Seattle-based artist originally designed the chicken months earlier
for a company that wanted a statue to commemorate the Year of the
Rooster in China. Then an activist in San Francisco had the idea to
re-create the statue as an inflatable balloon to use for the Tax March.
Chances
are photos of the inflatable chicken did not make their way into the
folder of complimentary news about the president that Trump reportedly receives twice a day.
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