Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt is being mocked around Washington by posters and fliers using his scandal to do everything from drumming up business at cafes to supporting a campaign to unseat him.
Natural Resources Defense Council strategic director David Doniger, who often debated Pruitt before he was EPA chief on the merits of climate regulations, observed in a tweet that one cafe on 19th and K streets in downtown Washington was offering a Scott Pruitt $50-per-night “shack” breakfast “special,” poking fun at the embattled administrator’s condominium scandal.
Doniger’s group and several others are invested in a campaign called #BootPruitt. At the same time, conservative group FreedomWorks launched its own social media campaign called #StandWithScottPruitt.
New York Times reporter Eric Lipton posted a picture of a flier on a Washington light pole Friday that said “live luxurious and cheap just like Scott!” The fliers had “little pieces of paper you can tear off that have the EPA Office of Public Affairs office telephone number. As if they have not gotten enough calls this week,” Lipton tweeted.
Other environmental groups such as Friends of the Earth were playing up the posters, which appeared to have been hung up on Capitol Hill late Thursday night in the vicinity of the condo.
“We hear DC has some great deals on apartments … if you are an ethically challenged Cabinet secretary. #PollutingPruitt #FirePruitt,” Friends of the Earth tweeted.
The group Sierra Club was the most creative, spinning the Pruitt scandals into a fake movie poster called “Under Siege,” the “true story of one man under siege by his own corruption.”
The poster mirrors the 1992 action thriller “Under Siege” with Steven Seagal. In the movie, Seagal plays an ex-Navy SEAL who for some reason is functioning as a cook on the USS Missouri when mercenaries take it over. He then single-handedly takes back the ship.
