Make Everything Great Again

Make Everything Great Again
Street art mural ″Make Everything Great Again″ depicting US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump giving a French kiss to Russian president Vladimir Putin
ArtistDominykas Čečkauskas, Mindaugas Bonanu
Year2016 (2016)
TypeStreet art
Dimensions250 cm × 450 cm (98 in × 177 in)
ConditionPainted over
LocationVilnius, Lithuania
WebsiteOfficial website

Make Everything Great Again was a street art mural by artists Dominykas Čečkauskas and Mindaugas Bonanu.[1][2][3] It was located on the wall of the barbecue restaurant Keulė Rūkė (Lithuanian for "Smoking Pig" (literal translation "The pig was smoking")) in the railway station area of old town of Vilnius in Lithuania.[2][3]

The mural depicting then U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump giving a fraternal kiss to the Russian president Vladimir Putin was unveiled in May 2016. The caption Make Everything Great Again plays on Trump's campaign slogan "Make America Great Again".[4]

The Keulė Rūkė restaurant closed its doors in October 2019.[5] Since July 2019, the mural was reported to have been painted over with a message "make empathy great again", although a small version of the original mural remained on a wall in the inner courtyard of the building.[6][7]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference politico was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b Taylor, Adam (16 May 2016), "This artist's interpretation of Putin and Trump kissing cannot be unseen", The Independent, archived from the original on 20 August 2016, retrieved 12 June 2017
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  5. ^ "Keulė Rūkė". Keulė Rūkė - Facebook. 31 January 2019. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  6. ^ "It's gone .... - Review of Putin/Trump Mural, Vilnius, Lithuania". Tripadvisor. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  7. ^ "Вместо граффити с Путиным и Трампом в Вильнюсе появился новый рисунок" [A new drawing has appeared in the place of the graffiti of Trump and Putin in Vilnius]. www.obzor.lt (in Russian). 22 July 2019. Retrieved 6 June 2020.