McTrump Longsleeve

Vintage thermal longsleeve featuring a freehand painted cartoon hybrid of Donald Trump and the McDonald’s Hamburglar.

Category: Remade

File under: #PoliticalParody, #Americana, #CorporateIconography, #ProtestGraphics

Description

Vintage cotton/poly thermal longsleeve altered by hand. The front features a freehand acrylic painting combining Donald Trump and the McDonald’s Hamburglar into a single cartoon figure. The image is direct, exaggerated, and immediately legible.

The graphic reflects a period when political dissent often circulated through simplified visual language—cartoons, signs, memes, and improvised protest imagery. Rather than argument or analysis, the image relies on recognition and compression, collapsing corporate branding and political identity into one figure.

The garment’s uneven surface tone results from a series of experimental wash treatments, beginning with an unsealed dye cycle and followed by spot applications of shoe polish and repeated rinsing. Residual dirt-like coloration remains visible and uncorrected.

A Chains label is applied at the rear collar. The painted surface has been heat-set to stabilize the image.