Trump murals appear on West Bank barrier
Two murals showing an oversized President Donald Trump have appeared on Israel’s West Bank separation barrier, just yards from where the elusive artist Banksy decorated a hotel earlier this year.
The new drawings popped up on the edge of Bethlehem, the Palestinian city where the barrier largely consists of a wall of towering slabs of concrete.
In one scene, Trump is shown hugging and kissing a real Israeli army watchtower built into the wall, as his left arm reaches around the tower. Little pink hearts flutter from Trump’s mouth.
In another drawing, Trump is depicted wearing a Jewish skullcap and placing a handon a wall — a scene taken from the U.S. president’s May visit to Jerusalem’s Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray.
A cartoon thought bubble next to him says, “I’m going to build you a brother,” a reference to Trump’s plans to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico.
The murals were signed “lushsux” — a signature that according to a 2016 report by the Australian newspaper The Age has been used in the past by a Melbourne street artist.
A Twitter account in the name lushsux published the mural of Trump with his hand on a wall on Monday. The second mural was seen for the first time on Friday. The new graffiti is just a few meters from The Walled Off Hotel, a guest house that sarcastically bills itself as having the “worst view in the world.”