A vandal named Plastic Jesus, who bills himself as a street artist, placed a set of metal bars over President Trump’s Hollywood Walk of Fame star just a little over a month after it was replaced following another vandal obliterating it with a pickax.
“Today I put @realDonaldTrump behind bars,” announced Plastic Jesus on Twitter.
In an email to HuffPo, Plastic Jesus claimed the bars represent the jail cell Trump’s critics have been calling for since the day of his election.
“There have been calls to jail Trump since the day he was elected, and today he was certainly put behind bars,” Plastic Jesus wrote in an email to HuffPo.
“Although it was very quickly damaged by a Trump supporter trying to remove it the bars did appear to be stuck fast and were there several hours later ― to the amusement of thousands of passing tourists,” he added.
The bars were made with instant-drying “industrial strength double-sided sticky tape” so that they could be hinged to the ground long enough without him being fined thousands of dollars to repair the star. This “protest art was intended to be humorous,” he claims.
This does not mark the first time that Plastic Jesus has vandalized Trump’s star with his own “street art.” During the height of the 2016 election, he lampooned Trump’s border wall with Mexico policy by erecting his own border wall around Trump’s star: