A Brooklyn art installation, ‘The Wall of Liars and Deniers‘, shows every lie told by Donald Trump and his supporters about a ‘stolen election’. Artist Phil Buehler, who recently installed a 50ft long banner called the Wall of Liars and Deniers, centered around Donald Trump’s “big lie” that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
‘The Wall of Liars and Deniers’ is a successor to another wall of Trump lies that Buehler created and installed in summer 2020. Buehler’s earlier project was called the ‘Wall of Lies’. It documented some 30,000 lies Trump told while in office. It was an offshoot of a plan to spend a week reading out all of Trump’s lies on Radio Free Brooklyn that had been shelved due to the Covid pandemic.
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Everything About The Brooklyn Art Installation Compiling Donald Trump’s Every Lie
Artist Phil Buehler, recently installed a 50ft long banner called the ‘Wall of Liars and Deniers’. It was centered around Donald Trump’s “big lie” that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. The project’s aim is to break through the desensitization that has inevitably set in after years of wall-to-wall coverage of Trump’s political career.
“It’s really corrosive on our democratic system, that people stop believing in free and fair elections,” said Buehler. “It’s truly a danger to our democracy.” It was important to Buehler that this new wall feature not just lies made by Trump himself but also those made by others in support of his big lie. “I really wanted to highlight the hundreds of deniers who are running for election,” Buehler said.
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Why It Is Necessary For Buehler To Do This Art Installation?
Buehler sees Trump’s lies as emerging from the thousands of individual lies that former president was permitted to make while in office. He argues that Trump’s big lie has endangered American democracy because it has become “a litmus test for any Republican running for office”. For him, these lies are radiating throughout our political system, corroding everything around it.
“These people have internalized that they can just keep saying these things. It’s turning the Republican party into a bunch of opportunists. That’s who Trump is attracting, the biggest opportunists out there, this whole generation of opportunists.” He hopes that in seeing the lies laid out there, voters will be able to overcome their sense of desensitization and reclaim a sense of shock and outrage.
“In some ways, seeing it is believing,” he said. “30,000 is just a number. Like Stalin said, one death is a tragedy, 10m is a statistic. Remember when just one lie from a politician would make the news? It’s kind of meaningless now. People can’t catch Trump on things because people don’t care any more. But when you see the wall, it’s a dramatic display of the enormity of it.”
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