Overview

• The New Republic reports that a banner bearing President Trump’s second inaugural portrait was hung across three stories of the Department of Labor building in Washington, D.C.
• The report cites photos posted online that show the banner alongside an American flag and a portrait of Theodore Roosevelt carrying the same text.
• The outlet notes the display coincided with the day Trump said many Americans “yearn for a dictatorship.”
• The article situates the imagery in a pattern, recalling a similar banner on the Department of Agriculture in the spring that drew comparisons to authoritarian iconography.
• The New Republic also characterizes the Labor Department under Trump as having undergone cuts and pursuing policies critics describe as hostile to unions.