Donald Trump hasn't censored himself on his quest to "Make America Great Again," calling voters stupid, Mexican immigrants rapists, and his rival Hillary Clinton a "nasty, mean enabler."
The Republican presidential candidate's blunt comments have made him the target of a street artist or art collective sticking pictures of Trump's head on the stick figures of the MTA's "Courtesy Counts" campaign ads, which draw attention to violations of subway etiquette.
Ads tweaked over the last four weeks, by one or more artists going by the handle Major Bigtime, now show Trump man-spreading, showtime dancing, pick-pocketing a straphanger, hogging a pole, brushing his orange mane and carrying a hoverboard.
"We did it because Trump is a big NYC dildo," Major Bigtime said in an email. "His hometown should claim him and point out that he sucks."
As for targeting the MTA's ads, the anonymous artist(s) said, "The red people on those posters are supposed to represent inconsiderate a--holes. Trump's the biggest a--hole of all, it just works."
The stickers aren't the first public art installation in New York City to critique the Donald. A fake gravestone bearing Trump's name made a brief appearance in Central Park in March, planted there by Brian Andrew Whiteley. And a mural by Hanksy on Orchard Street in Manhattan — part of the artist's national "Dump Trump" campaign — shows the candidate as a fly-ridden turd.
Trump became the presumptive Republican presidential nominee earlier this month, after his decisive victory in the Indiana primary prompted Ted Cruz and John Kasich to drop out of the race. His private encounters with women monopolized the public's attention this weekend, following the publication of a six-week-long investigation by the New York Times.
