The winning entry in Irans Trump cartoon contest shows a drooling president wearing a jacket...
The winning entry in Iran’s Trump cartoon contest shows a drooling president wearing a jacket made of U.S. dollars
By Adam Taylor July 4 at 2:00 AM
Iranian artist Hadi Asadi has beaten hundreds of other contestants to win first place in a “Trumpism” cartoon contest held in Tehran — his winning caricature depicting President Trump as a flame-haired man wearing a suit made of dollar bills, drooling onto a pile of books.
The competition, called the International Trumpism Cartoon and Caricature Contest, was announced last month. It was organized by a group that has also organized cartoon contests on themes such as the Islamic State and the Holocaust (the group says the latter was designed to highlight double standards on free speech).
“Trump’s behavior clearly sets out Iran’s reasons to distrust the U.S.; consequently, we decided to use art’s capacity for displaying the behavior,” organizer Ali-Asghar Jafari told reporters at the weekend. “Aside from his personal characteristics, Trump has also posed different challenges to the world and treats Iran and the Islamic world unconventionally in particular.”
Asadi received $1,500 in prize money on Monday. He told the Associated Press that he wanted to show the “money-mindedness and warmonger nature” of the U.S. president. Asadi’s Facebook page suggests that he created the artwork last year — and that he has produced numerous other similar caricatures over recent years, often of celebrities.
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