About That Giant Trump Banner

Lately I have to keep reminding myself that humans are just like ants and that I'm a blade of grass and that everyone alive today will likely be dead 100 years from now, including the newborn who just arrived this morning, so let's all just calm down and try to have a nice day, if possible. To that end, I refuse to be troubled by certain things going on in the world that are, well, troubling. One thing in particular that falls into this category is the huge photo of POTUS on a banner recently hung on the facade of the Department of Agriculture in Washington, DC. (See photo.)

As a Republican who voted for Trump in the last election, and who has until now felt relief that our country is no longer being run by hidden figures lurking behind a demented elderly man who was clearly unfit for the job, I have to say that the enormous photo is blatantly reminiscent of Big Brother in George Orwell's novel 1984 and gives me the willies.

To be fair, there is another portrait of equal size right next to it of Abraham Lincoln, now long dead. It's all got to do with celebrating agriculture and Lincoln's founding of the Department of Agriculture and blah, blah, blah. Still, it's creepy and completely bizarre.

There, I've said it. See, not all Trump supporters are blind to his faults. But a blade of grass doesn't care -- all it needs is water, fresh air and sunshine, and I happen to have all of those at this moment so I'll let it go.