A Donald Trump impersonator appeared
Tuesday outside New York’s Trump Tower accompanied by two bikini-clad
models, causing a stir in a staged promo event for a British artist.
British photographer Alison Jackson
became famous for using body doubles of famous people and setting them
up in photographs of imagined and unusual situations.
Jackson’s best-known pictures include
Marilyn Monroe undressing in front of President John F. Kennedy, Queen
Elizabeth washing dishes, and President Barack Obama on a cigarette
break.
For a big-bang opening for her new photo
exhibit, titled “Private,” Jackson hired the same Trump impersonator
she used her photo shoots.
A crowd quickly gathered as a dozen
bikini-clad women in high heels, as part of the stunt, surrounded the
impersonator waving signs with slogans like “I am not a slut,” and “Grab
America by the pussy” — a reference to Trump’s brags in a 2005 video
that fame lets him grope women without their consent.
“Respect us!,” “Don’t touch our bodies!”
then women chanted around the fake Trump, a reference to the women who
came forward claiming that the real estate billionaire groped them.
After several minutes the fake Trump
took off, briefly walking down Fifth Avenue amid a forest of pedestrians
taking pictures with their smartphones and cameras, then climbing
aboard a taxi.
Organisers told AFP that the
impersonator then travelled to Times Square, and then went to the HG
Contemporary Gallery for the Jackson exhibit. Check pics below:
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