Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy❤
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So, Trump showed off the DOI to Laura - what the eff is wrong with her big hair - Ingraham yesterday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9lSxNBgwiUIt's protected from light by sliding cloth drapes. Trump seems to think it's an original. But it looks far too clean and bright to be an original. So, what the hell is it?
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Here's the original at the National Archives
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declarationIt's clearly the $20 copy you can by at the Archives gift shop.
What a stupid moron - and his stoopid moronic MAGAites probably think he's got the original.
It's all an idiotic show by a con man, and Laura (along with her hair) are in on the gag and going along for the advertising revenue.
How low we have fallen as a country.
--Peter
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It's protected from light by sliding cloth drapes. Trump seems to think it's an original. But it looks far too clean and bright to be an original. So, what the hell is it?
I think we can rule out that it was an original, otherwise Trump would have stolen it and stored in an unlocked room next to the pool at his Mar-a-Lago gilded palace.
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It's clearly the $20 copy you can by at the Archives gift shop.
From your founding docs link, it sure looks like the "Stone Engraving" version:
Stone Engraving of the Declaration of Independence
In 1820, the Declaration of Independence was already showing signs of age. Secretary of State John Quincy Adams commissioned printer William J. Stone to make a full-size copperplate engraving. This plate was used to print copies of the Declaration. The 1823 Stone engraving is the most frequently reproduced version of the Declaration.
But what of the protective drapes? If it really was just some cheap copy why would the drapes be needed? Is someone merely humoring Trump's ego?
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It's clearly the $20 copy you can by at the Archives gift shop.
Sure hope so.
Regardless, it does seem sadly ironic that the man who wants to be a king is hot on possessing the document that enshrines our rebellion against a despotic king.
Or perhaps it’s simply yet another manifestation of his “All your bases are belong to us”.
There’s been alot of that lately.
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But what of the protective drapes? If it really was just some cheap copy why would the drapes be needed? Is someone merely humoring Trump's ego?I suppose it might be one of the original Stone Engraving printings - the first run consisted of only two hundred copies, and can be quite valuable and important documents (and probably would need to be protected from the light):
https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/Lots/auction-.......but the one in the Oval
so legible and bright (and the background is so unstained and white) that it really does look like a much more modern reproduction, and the drapes would just be for effect.
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They proved on Fox that he wrote it.
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You got it! Trumps copy is one of the 25 still existing copies of the original 200 Dunlap printed copies.But that article doesn't really say what copy Trump has. It still looks too new.
Indeed, it appears Trump has commandeered one of several historic copies of the Declaration in the government’s possession. Trump tweeted photos of his new office decor on March 17 (the post was later deleted with no explanation). The White House didn’t say which copy Trump is using.However, this does look a lot like the copy Trump has:
https://news.yale.edu/2018/06/21/first-printing-de...
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