Stop Donald Trump’s destruction of the ‘Sistine Chapel of American Art’
Donald Trump’s proposed destruction of the Wilbur J. Cohen Building, called the ‘Sistine Chapel of American Art,’ is part of an Orwellian plot to erase Social Security’s history en route to dismantling the program.
The building was designed to incorporate publicly owned art that inspired civic pride and common purpose in the public servants who reported for duty in the building. Trump’s proposed demolition is about more than a building―it erases the true history of our Social Security system.
Social Security was built by generations of Americans over nearly a century. Each of us makes it stronger with every paycheck, and it has been a wild success. Before Social Security was enacted, half of seniors lived in poverty. Today, fewer than 10% do.
That is the truth that Donald Trump wants to bulldoze―literally―by selling the Wilbur J. Cohen Building, and all of the New Deal art on its walls, to a developer who will raze it like it’s the East Wing of the White House.
But this fight isn’t over.
Social Security Works went to the Cohen building and were denied entry. So we made a video outside―and it’s getting attention. Watch the video, then chip in to stop the demolition of Social Security’s history!
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SOCIAL SECURITY WORKS
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