US street artist Jacob Thomas launches satirical election poster campaign

American street artist Jacob Thomas has launched a satirical poster campaign targeting the 2024 US presidential election, following Obey's recent pro-Harris poster. Thomas's posters, plastered across US cities, feature explicit imagery including a Warholian Trump-Mao portrait labeled 'Dictator,' referencing Trump's 2023 Fox News interview with Sean Hannity where he said he would not be a dictator 'except on day one.' Other posters depict Trump as Donald Duck and JD Vance as a cartoon labeled 'weird.' Thomas told Huffington Post his goal is to 'motivate Democrats to vote' in the November election, warning that a Trump victory would mean living in a 'country led by a dictator.' He expressed particular concern about Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation's radical policy blueprint for a potential second Trump term, which he claims would turn the US into a 'Hitler-like regime.' The campaign coincides with the Democratic National Convention, which featured support from Barack and Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey. Thomas draws comparisons to Stalin and Mussolini, accusing Trump of lying to America and revealing his 'true nature as a complete tyrant.'