Trump trolled with Putin projection and 'Russian soldiers' at his SoHo building

"Happy to help, bro."
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Trump trolled with Putin projection and 'Russian soldiers' at his SoHo building
The Trump SoHo hotel condominium building served as the perfect backdrop for an activist light display featuring Putin. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

The Trump SoHo building in New York City saw quite the light display Monday night.

The Russian flag colors were blazing and Russian president Vladimir Putin even made an appearance with the caption, "Happy to help, bro."

President Trump's connections to Russia were the theme of the activist light show, which included Russian words projected onto the building, a Russian flag, and Russian "soldiers" standing at attention out front.

The light display fell on National Dollar Day and video journalist Robin Bell took credit for the work. The projections urged, "Follow the money."

Bell is the same light artist responsible for the Jeff Sessions KKK image projected onto the FBI's D.C. headquarters and the Department of Justice back in May.

Light projections to troll Trump on his buildings aren't new, but this might be the first with a thumbs-up Putin.

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Sasha is a news writer at Mashable's San Francisco office. She's an SF native who went to UC Davis and later received her master's from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She's been reporting out of her hometown over the years at Bay City News (news wire), SFGate (the San Francisco Chronicle website), and even made it out of California to write for the Chicago Tribune. She's been described as a bookworm and a gym rat.

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