They don’t like the trash talk.
Washington DC’s District Department of Transportation denounced a transit ad that was spotted near the Capitol that likened MAGA hat wearers to garbage.
“Keep DC trash free,” reads the incendiary ad spotted by Capitol Hill Baptist Church pastor Caleb Morell.
The ad featured a red circle with a line through it over an image of a MAGA hat wearer holding a book labeled “Project 2025.”
The bottom of the ad includes the logo for the District of Columbia Department of Public Works and the Mayor’s Office of the Clean City program.
DDOT DC quickly denied any role in the creation of the politically charged ad.
“This image was not created, funded, or authorized by the DC government, and our teams are currently working to remove them,” DDOT DC wrote on X in response to Morell’s post.
“If you see additional images like this, we encourage you to report them to 311.”
When asked for comment, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser’s office referred The Post to DDOT DC’s response.
It is unclear who was behind the advert, but it wasn’t the first time a US city was plagued by dubious political ads
In the fall, for example, the artist known as @winstontseng on Instagram fessed up to being behind art falsely showing the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris.
He claimed that he wasn’t aware how the fugazi ads depicting Harris in team attire got displayed near bus stops in the City of Brotherly Love.
During the 2024 election homestretch, President Biden stoked major backlash for appearing to call supporters of President-elect Donald Trump garbage.
”The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable and it’s un-American,” Biden said during a webcast with advocacy group Voto Latino in October.
Biden’s remarks came in response to comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s quip that US territory was a “floating island of garbage” during his opener at Trump’s blockbuster Madison Square Garden rally.
The White House quickly scrambled to clean up Biden’s remarks and dubiously tried to argue that Biden said “supporter’s” with an apostrophe, despite video showing Biden punctuating his remark.
That attempted cleanup gambit drew grief from the White House stenographer, which oversees transcripts.
Biden’s team contended that the president intended to reference the “hateful” rhetoric from Hinchcliffe rather than Trump supporters writ large.
Trump later did a photo op of himself clad in an orange vest getting into a garbage truck as a jab at Biden.
