Artist Goes Rogue at Trump’s DC Hotel With ‘Pay Trump Bribes Here’ Projections (Video)

Robin Bell’s visual protest lasted just minutes before a guard blocked the feed

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An artist staged a colorful protest outside the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., Monday night, projecting a series of slides that included the emoluments clause to the U.S. Constitution and phrases like “Pay Trump bribes here.”

D.C.-based multimedia artist Robin Bell began projecting messages around 9:15 p.m. from a van parked across Pennsylvania Avenue from the hotel’s entrance, just blocks from the White House, the New York Daily News reported.

The slides included “Emoluments Welcome – Open 24 Hours” — a reference to the Constitutional prohibition on federal officials accepting payments from foreign states — as well as the decidedly less subtle: “Experts Agree: Trump Is a Pig.”

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