Krewe Of ’tit Rex Trumps Hate But Hates Trump In Mardi Gras Parade

Posted on February 18, 2017 by davidleesimmons – popsmartnola Well, he had it coming. And with at least one float, you could make the argument he came close. The tiny Krewe of ’tit Rex was big on satirizing our golden new president, Donald J. Trump — the “J” apparently stands for “Jesus Effing Christ a Lot of People Don’t Like Me Down There” — in a parade held Saturday (Feb. 18) and starting on St.

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’tit Rex parades in Marigny

Posted By Will Coviello for the Gambit  Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 10:46 AM New Orleans' smallest parade may not have had many tiny hands clapping. The krewe of ”tit Rex chose a theme about taking a nap, but many floats depicted nightmares, many of them featuring President Donald Trump. In one dark vision, Lady Liberty slept with her head in an oven. In another, titled "Tyrant-asaurus Wrex," an orange dinosaur stood atop the White

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What’s the big deal about the miniature ‘tit Rex Mardi Gras parade?

    By Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune  on February 16, 2017 at 1:15 PM, updated February 17, 2017 at 11:28 AM 'tit Rex, New Orleans' tiniest Mardi Gras parade, which rolls on Saturday (Feb. 18) at 5 in the Marigny, is trouble. For openers, how are you supposed to start a sentence, or a whole story for that matter, with an apostrophe? That's just the beginning. 'tit Rex floats are modeled on the shoe box floats

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In its own small way, tiny parade tit Rex changes Mardi Gras

Steve Walkup fixes the lights inside a 'tit Rex float at Bywater Bakery. The parade rolls through the Bywater and Marigny neighborhoods Saturday By Chris Bynum | Special to The Advocate FEB 15, 2017 – 2:00 PM In the Carnival season of supersized floats, a trio of revelers gathers inside a Bywater corner store, closed for the evening, to build a float using tiny parts and big imaginations. When their mission is complete, they will

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