Damning Anti-Donald Trump Street Art Shines A Light On His Chilling Vow

GOP nominee Donald Trump’s fantasizing to Fox News’ Sean Hannity last year about acting like a “dictator” only on “day one” of a potential second administration provided the inspiration for street artist and illustrator Jacob Thomas’ new protest art project.

Thomas earlier this month wheat-pasted prints of his image of Trump as former Chinese Communist Chair Mao Zedong — underneath the word “Dictator” — in Brooklyn, New York City, in the first activist art protest he’s conducting against Trump before the 2024 presidential election in November.

“The message is simple: we cannot live in a country led by a dictator,” Thomas told HuffPost via email, explaining his mission as not to “change the minds of hardcore Trump supporters” but to “motivate Democrats to vote because if we don’t, we risk losing this critical election.”

“When a sexist, racist, xenophobic, bully represents our country, I not only lose that pride [for America] but also fear for our future,” Thomas explained. “I believe people when they show me who they are, and Trump has made it clear: he’ll be a dictator from day one. He will stop at nothing to win.”

Thomas expressed particular concern over Project 2025. The right-wing Heritage Foundation think tank’s lengthy playbook is widely expected to form the basis of policy in a possible second Trump White House.

Increased scrutiny of the document has, however, prompted the former president to try to distance himself from it and its more extremist, potentially vote-losing strategies. Trump’s dismissal, though, has been slammed by MSNBC’s Ali Velshi and others as “complete and utter B.S.”

Project 2025 will turn America “into a Hitler-like regime where our freedoms are stripped away,” feared Thomas. Trump “has lied to