'If anyone is going to be threatened by a small penis, it's Trump'

[kpete]

Illma Gore: 'If anyone is going to be threatened by a small penis, it's Trump'
Artist whose painting of nude Trump went viral gives her account of being the target of his campaign’s hate machine and being physically attacked in LA
Artist threatened with lawsuits if she sells nude Donald Trump painting

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Over the past few months, I have become accustomed to being recognized, and Trump supporters and protesters alike have approached me in public spaces. I had always been able to distinguish between friendly and unfriendly conversations, and this was hostile.

It happened so quickly the man had already fled laughing with his friends as I hit the ground.
I messaged my partner to tell her it what was happening, continued to ignore them and kept my head down, looking at my phone, taking deep breaths. As I approached the stopped car without looking away from my phone, I heard the passenger side door open. I looked up, and a slender man got out of the car and punched me in the face as the group began to laugh and cheer the action on.

“TRUMP 2016!” he yelled.

I didn’t fall from the impact of the hit, but I stepped back to catch myself and in doing so, tripped over onto the grass and watched my phone skid across the pavement. It happened so quickly the man had already fled laughing with his friends as I hit the ground.

I held myself from shouting back: “is that all you got?” My mouth has gotten me into trouble in the past and I did not want them to circle back, so I kept quiet. I felt my eye begin to swell and the immediate frustration and lack of control left me incredibly sad. I called friends and I went straight to the police and filed a report with the LAPD on Wilshire. I’ve now learned that, in a conversation with the Guardian, the LAPD confirmed my account but said that without a license plate, photograph or any video, it’ll be hard to track down whoever did it.

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I published my portrait of Trump on Facebook on 9 February, and could have never anticipated what the next few weeks were going to hold. Within 24 hours, my work was on the front page of Reddit and banned from Facebook. In three days, it had been viewed over 50m times. A few days after that, I was slapped with a Digital Millennium Copyright Act take-down notice – a legal complaint filed by a third party through Facebook, arguing their copyright was being violated by me.

When I started painting in January, I felt that if anyone would be threatened by a fictional small penis it’s Trump. But I didn’t anticipate that he would turn his dislike into such a personal affront, even going so far as to defend his penis size during the Republican debate on 4 March.

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MUCH MORE:
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/07/donald-trump-penis-painting-ilma-gore

[gopiscrap]

1. LMAO

[Surya Gayatri]

2. K & R. Thanks for posting.

[Skittles]

3. she made his fingers WAY too long

[Jeffersons Ghost]

4. K&R, look what a gang of Trump supporters did to the artist...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027812538