Some very odd things have been going on at Turning Point USA, the right-wing youth conference being held in Washington this week. It sounds like it's a bit like a Skins party, but everyone secretly wants to deport Anwar and nobody talks to Maxxie. It's Anti-Socialist Memes For Anti-Social Teens.

There was the young man who regretted that he wouldn't be able to have Trump as his president forever, and the accusations that Trump threw up a 4chan-approved white power symbol when he referred to Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.

Nothing, though, was quite as unexpected as Donald Trump addressing attendees stood in front of a presidential seal which had been doctored to include references to Russia and Trump's voracious appetite for golf.

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The eagle at the centre of the seal was edited to have two heads, much like the coat of arms Russia has used since 1993 and the prime symbol of the Russian empire going back beyond Peter the Great, and the arrows usually held in the eagle's claw had been swapped for golf clubs. Nobody seemed to notice this, least of all Trump.

More mystifyingly still, nobody knows how it got there. A spokesman for the summit told the Washington Post it was "a last-minute A/V mistake". Must be very frustrating to get so close to not implying your hero president has been in cahoots with a foreign power and fall at the final hurdle. Maybe next year.

"I can't figure out where the breakdown was," the spokesman went on, "but it was a last minute throw-up, and that's all it was. I can’t figure out who did it yet."

Turning Point USA said that the audio-visual team responsible for what went on the screens was made up of people from the organisation.

As George W Bush's chief White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter told the Post: "Someone is going to be getting in trouble, but they got one heck of a good laugh out of it."

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