Iran to Hold 2nd Round of ‘Trumpism’ Cartoon Contest

The press conference of the second round of the international Trumpism cartoon contest was held in Tehran on Tuesday in the presence of the contest’s president Ali Asqar Jafari and its secretary-general Seyed Masoud Shojayee Tabatabayee.

Addressing the press conference, Shojayee Tabatabayee said that artists from around the world will be called this week to participate in the cartoon contest.

He underlined mass-participation of artists from 74 countries in the first round of the contest.

During the press conference, the poster of the second edition of the cartoon contest was also unveiled.

The first round of the Trumpism cartoon contest was held in Tehran in July 2017.

In the first round, the T in the ‘Trumpism’ contest’s logo was styled like a swastika, with one entry seeing Trump painting a Hitler-esque moustache on the Statue of Liberty.

“The ism in Trumpism is a reference to racism and Nazism,” Shojayee Tabatabayee said at the time.

“Many believe his remarks are similar to Hitler. He has had a bad attitude toward media, refugees,” he added.

Iranian Hadi Asadi won first prize and a $1,500 award for his artwork, which saw Trump wearing a jacket made of dollar bills and drooling.

“I wanted to show Trump while trampling symbols of culture,” Asadi said, adding that he sought to highlight the president’s “money-mindedness and war monger nature”.

Violence against women and wall building were also depicted in the contest, which followed last year’s Holocaust-themed one, designed to draw attention to Western double standards on free speech and unquestionability of the Nazi genocide.

The exhibition included works of some 1,614 Iranian and foreign participants from 74 countries, including four works from American cartoonists, two of which were awarded.