Ex-prosecutor runs anti-Trump campaign to Make America Smart Again
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Tootsie Warhol, a former Brooklyn assistant district attorney, is a performance artist running an anti-Trump presidential campaign. Image via Zoom
By David Brand
An ex-Brooklyn prosecutor-turned-performance artist is coming for Donald Trump — and not just by releasing tapes of the president’s bizarre Civil Rights musings.
Tootsie Warhol is running.
“I’m running president of the United States and I am the anti-Trump,” Warhol said. “I met with him the week of his inauguration and I can tell you from firsthand experience what a tremendous loser he is.”
The artist, formerly known as Theodore Mukamal, worked in the domestic violence bureau of the Brooklyn District Attorney Office before joining attorney and advocate William Wachtel. It was in this role that he sat with Trump as an envoy for civil liberties and voting rights. Martin Luther King III and other Black leaders also attended the meeting.
Warhol shared recordings from that summit with the Independent earlier this month. During the conversation, Trump claimed hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants had voted in Florida and California, bashed late Rep. John Lewis and claimed to “listen better to the African-American people than anybody else.”
The encounter exposed Trump’s buffoonery, narcissism and racism, Warhol said. It also galvanized his own artistic career.
“I had tried to tune Trump out and I never thought he’d win. I thought it was a joke and that it would end. But it didn’t end,” Warhol said. “I had to do more.”
“That’s how this Trump alter ego came about.”
Warhol unveiled his anti-Trump character at the 2019 Whitney Biennial, slathering his face with orange goo, slapping on a wig and presenting a caricature of a man who is already a something of caricature.
Police killings of Black people have further intensified Warhol’s efforts to knock Trump “off his throne.”
“Black people are getting killed. It’s very sad. And we need to drain the swamp. He made it an orange swamp. I’m going to make it a clean swamp,” Warhol said.
He already has some potential cabinet members picked out.
His vice president?
Stormy Daniels. Or maybe Rosie O’Donnell.
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency? Activist Greta Thurnberg
The chief of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms? Parkland survivor and gun reform advocate David Hogg.
He would also establish a few new positions, including a Secretary of Black Lives Matter, a secretary of the MeToo movement and a domestic violence task force.
“I have become truly what is the anti-Trump. It is an anti-Trump propaganda campaign,” Warhol said. “Make sure to vote Tootsie and Make America Smart Again.”
