To Trump, With Love: Artists fill downtown Jacksonville with tongue-in-cheek compliments to Trump

[TexasTowelie]

Posters with tongue-in-cheek compliments alongside the pictures of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, white supremacist David Duke and Russian President Vladimir Putin showed up all over downtown late Tuesday night.

Posters and stickers showing actual compliments to Trump alongside pictures of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, white supremacist David Duke and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The tongue-in-cheek praises — direct quotes from a North Korean newspaper, Duke and Putin — appeared downtown and especially near the Veterans Memorial Arena where Donald Trump is scheduled to speak Wednesday at 7 p.m. Some also covered newspaper boxes in San Marco and Riverside's Five Points.

The posters don't indicate who made them. Somebody putting them up Tuesday night provided photos of the artwork and spoke on the condition of anonymity citing a fear of legal issues. He said the 18 posters and 120 stickers were put together by a collective of artists calling themselves the New Federalists who oppose Trump's visit to Jacksonville.

■ "Donald Trump is a really brilliant and talented person - Vladimir Putin," reads one poster with Putin's face. Last December, according to a translation, the Russian leader told reporters, "He’s a really brilliant and talented person, without any doubt. It’s not our job to judge his qualities, that’s a job for American voters, but he’s the absolute leader in the presidential race.”

■ "Donald Trump is a wise politician - North Korean editorial," another poster reads. The editorial in DPRK Today did call Trump a "wise politician" and a "far-sighted" candidate, according to a translation.

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