The crazy backstory of the Trump mural on the wall of a children's detention center

This one piece of art almost perfectly sums up America today.
JASON LINKINS
JUN 14, 2018, 3:18 PM



MURALS OF PRESIDENTS ADORN THE WALLS OF A BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS SHELTER WHERE APPROXIMATELY 1,500 MIGRANT CHILDREN ARE CURRENTLY DETAINED. (PHOTO: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES)

On Wednesday, MSNBC reporter Jacob Soboroff joined a group of reporters on a guided tour of a government facility in Brownsville, TX, where nearly 1,500 boys between the ages of 10 and 17 are currently being detained, having been separated from their parents as they await adjudication for entering the United States illegally.

Among the many details Soboroff provided in MSNBC’s report on the facility — the boys sleep five-to-a-room in an ersatz dormitory environment; they receive two hours of time outside each day — was the picture of a mural, painted on the wall near the facility’s cafeteria, bearing President Donald Trump’s visage and a quote attributed to him.

The odd quote, affixed to the mural in English and Spanish, reads: “Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.”

It is, perhaps, an unsettling sentiment to see on the walls of a detention center for children. It’s worth noting, however, that similar murals of other presidents adorn the facility’s walls. As Soboroff reported, a mural of President Barack Obama can be found elsewhere, with a quote reading, “We are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.”

More:
https://thinkprogress.org/donald-trump-mural-backstory-a74ffd2e12d2/