Artists Buy Trump Campaign Bus on Craigslist, Turn It Into Anti-Trump Art Project
A former Greyhound bus with “TRUMP” emblazoned along its side slowly made its way down the Pacific Coast Highway, trailed by the occasional honk, a burst of expletives or a show of thumbs — some up, some down.
When it pulled into the parking lot of a Wal-Mart in Torrance on Thursday, electrician Louis Canal, 48, of Diamond Bar, walked up to it and posed for photos.
The Trump supporter didn't see what was off about the bus, which is not associated with Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and is a piece of traveling protest art.
For starters, there was the sign on the back reading, "Save water, only waterboard on Mon/Wed/Fri." Then there was "Manhood measuring station" painted on the driver's side — a riff on Republican Sen. Marco Rubio’s comments earlier in the campaign about the size of Trump’s hands.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-donald-trump-bus-iowa-california-20160702-snap-story.html
Late last year, David Gleeson and Mary Mihelic, cofounders of politically minded art collective T. Rutt, learned via Rachel Maddow that a Donald Trump campaign bus was up for sale on Craigslist in Des Moines, Iowa. Trump’s team had used the bus — a former bachelor party bus, complete with a stripper pole — to campaign at the Iowa State Fair. Gleeson, who’d been working on a series of political artworks protesting Trump, seized the opportunity: The next day, he flew to Des Moines and purchased this “nice piece of raw material,” as he calls the vehicle.
Now, Gleeson and Mihelic have transformed Trump’s bus into a rolling art project protesting the Republican presidential nomination frontrunner’s divisive rhetoric. In this “kind of seedy” bus, which the artists say has a million miles on it, they’ve been traveling to Trump rallies across the country, as well as to Miami Beach during Art Basel for the Conception Art Fair. With red paint, they’ve amended the slogan on one side of the bus to read “T.RUMP: Make Fruit Punch Great Again”; on the other side, it now reads “T.RUTT: #WomenTrumpTrump,” protesting Trump’s negative comments toward women. In the evening at every rally they attend, Gleeson stands on top of the bus in a neon jacket and drives a golf club into a ball with Trump’s face on it. “We’re driving Trump into the sunset,” Gleeson tells Hyperallergic.
Trump’s slogan, “Make America Great Again,” printed on the T.RUMP bus in Arabic
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