HuffPo - This Photo Of A Trump Billboard In Mumbai Is Real, And So Is The Dark Irony

[TomCADem]

Trump is not going to "Make America Great Again." He is not going to even try. Instead, Republicans are going to cut benefits to the working class, and use any savings to give even bigger tax cuts to folks like himself.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-tower-billboard-mumbai-homeless_us_586813c3e4b0d9a5945bb091

It’s a photo so poignant and so symbolic you’d be forgiven for assuming it’s faked.

And you wouldn’t be alone in that conclusion: Both Reddit and Snopes dismissed it as fake when it went viral earlier this year. And yet this is a real photo of a real billboard, featuring President-elect Donald Trump promoting Trump Tower in Mumbai while homeless children camp in the street below.

“There is only one way to live,” the billboard reads, next to a larger-than-life photo of Trump smiling down on a scene of poverty from his gilded room. “The Trump way.

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“I was inspired to take the photo because of the jarring juxtaposition of the Trump billboard and the poverty and homelessness down below,” he said. “The text on the billboard struck me as particularly naive and offensive.”

[MADem]

1. Snopes initially waffled over the veracity of it until the PHOTOGRAPHER contacted them

and said WTF? I took that picture! - he even gave them a larger, uncropped image that shows the scene on either side of the photo.


It's real, all right--all too real.

[Else You Are Mad]

2. Snopes...

I have learned is not the end all and be all of reliability these days. They are much less reliable than they used to be.

[MADem]

4. Yeah, I think the quality of their material depends on who writes it....

Back in the day, the husband/wife team running the joint used to really fact check, and not slant to suit a bias.

[Else You Are Mad]

5. Exactly.

I read that they are going through a nasty divorce, which may explain why the quality has diminished.

[MADem]

9. Ahhhh! THAT explains it!!!!

They should go see Dr. Pheeee-yull and git some counselin'--they're not spring chickens. Learn to find something to like after all these years.

After the first few decades, it's a damn endurance contest, anyway! LOL!

[Else You Are Mad]

10. I Googled it.

And, it all came up right wing websites. I think I was fooled.

[MADem]

15. Daily Mail is a UK based tabloid that often leans right, but they don't generally make shit up.

I think they are reliable as to the facts of this case. No WONDER the quality has gone to hell--the wrong Mikkelson is running the enterprise.

See: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4042194/Facebook-fact-checker-arbitrate-fake-news-accused-defrauding-website-pay-prostitutes-staff-includes-escort-porn-star-Vice-Vixen-domme.html

[JI7]

7. it's also common in india to have these signs advertising wealth

while surrounded by poverty.

[MADem]

8. Yes, but Trump is especially egregious-he ties "his" (they aren't really his, he leases his name)

towers to his persona.

It's a poor move for someone in public life.

It's like his lawyers are morons.


Oh, wait....they ARE morons!

[JI7]

11. i agreen it's much different when talking about pres of US

i just meant that the fact such things are common means it's not so hard to believe it's real.

Still its in extremely bad taste and offensive.

[MADem]

12. You see the same all over the world--a lot of poverty housing

is thrown up (without permits, usually) near highways and main roads in oddball locations (like ditches and sketchy hillsides). The access to main roads gives the neighborhoods access to "liberated" electricity and water pipes and the main thoroughfares are ripe spots for advertising to commuters/passers-by.

It's just that Trump has no fucking class. He never will. He's clueless as to any sensibilities save his own (and they are few).


We really are living in interesting times. This assclown makes Bush II look almost .... sedate.

[Achilleaze]

3. This authentic picture needs to be seen by every American

This is what the Republicans are shoving up America's kiester.

[JI7]

6. the whole thing with trump and his business deals remind me of how things are in India

The corruption of politicians amd business and his they use bigotry to keep supporrters.

[LittleBlue]

13. Did they photoshop him to be thin?

Or is this just an optical illusion? Camera slimmed him 40 lbs here.

[Initech]

14. God that is a very scary image.

[Wounded Bear]

16. Trump and the Repubs are working hard...

to make that image a reality here.

[LandrosT]

17. This will be our future

We will all soon be living in squalor, while the 1% get even richer than ever.