Plastic Jesus is the name of a Los Angeles-based street artist. Amid the U.S Presidential campaign of 2016 where Donald Trump pledged to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico to halt illegal immigration, Plastic Jesus built his own version of a wall that surrounded Donald Trump’s star on Hollywood’s famous Walk of Fame. Whereas Trump boasted of building a “huge, huge wall,” Plastic Jesus built a tiny, tiny wall.
The miniature wall had tiny American flags in each corner of the square, tiny strands of concertina wire across the top, and signs in English and Spanish reading “Keep Out!”
Plastic Jesus said, “I wanted to create a piece that drew attention to [Trump’s] potential policies.” The artist is an immigrant himself, having come to the United States from the United Kingdom. He told BBC in an interview, “In the US you’ll interact with immigrants from all over the world and it’s one of the things that makes the US so great. Donald Trump’s policy proposals are a threat to all of the immigrants.”