Wall Of Lies was first erected on 3 October 2020 in Grattan Street, Brooklyn. The art installation, by Tom Tenney and Phil Buehler, is a wall covered with 20,000 of the lies uttered by US President Donald Trump from the time he took office, up to January 2020. Not life imitating art, but lies made into art.
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Wall was meant to stay up until the US election on 3 November, but was vandalised overnight on 7-8 October. It was defaced using spraypaint, with phrases like “Vote Trump or die” and “Stand back and Stand by”. This last phrase refers to Trump saying: “Proud Boys stand back and stand by”, when asked, during the first presidential debate on 29 September, if he would condemn white supremacist groups.