The prank appears to be the work of anti-Trump street artists known as VJayBombs, which posted an online montage of projections on other Washington landmarks and locations
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President Donald Trump got a lesson in the law of unintended consequences when pranksters used the tarp that’shiding the removal of his namefrom the Kennedy Center to frame vintage video clips of himgallivanting with Jeffrey Epstein.
“Yesterday night a protester projected what we all wanted on the tarp of the Kennedy Center,” X user @sarrah_bellus wrote Sunday morning on X, along with arecording of the videoas it was projected onto the center’s doors.
The stunt appeared to be the work of a group of anti-Trump street artists known as VJayBombs, which posted a montage of video clips on Instagram that show the Kennedy Center was among several targets during a spree of similar projections onto Washington, D.C., landmarks and locations.
They include the Lincoln Memorial,where Trump’s deputy White House chief of staff Stephen Miller appeared as a bat-like creature hanging from the ceiling; the Reflecting Pool, where Secretary of State Marco Rubio surfaced as a fish; and the Department of Justice, where the diaper-clad bottom of a man appeared under a banner showing Trump’s head and torso.
In addition to the clips of Trump and Epstein, the roughly two-minute video projected onto the Kennedy Center featured a mug shot of the notorious late sex offender and the words “No one bends the knee like the GOP.”
That message was followed by images of Trump allies including embattled FBI DirectorKash Patel, House SpeakerMike Johnson, and former Attorney GeneralPam Bondi, who were labeled “Guardians of Pedophiles.”
The projections included an illustration of someone climbing a ladder towards the letters on the Kennedy Center’s facade, followed by a cascade of letters spelling out “Donald” and letters from his full name rearranged to look like the word “pedo.”
Neither the White House nor the Kennedy Center immediately returned inquiries fromThe Independent.
Trump’s name appears thousands of times in documents released by the Justice Department in response to legislation the president signed into law last year.
Trump hasn’t been accused of any criminal wrongdoing and has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing in connection with Epstein, with whom he’s insisted he cut all ties before Epstein was investigated and convicted on sex charges in Florida.
