NEW YORK – Following its success in Times Square, a “Super Trump” digital billboard was posted in downtown Orlando, and a “Super Trump II” will play next week on a 55-foot digital billboard in Times Square.
In the “Super Trump II” animated billboard, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump flies through the air to plant the American flag on the front lawn of the White House. The message is “Let’s Trump the Terrorists.”
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The newest “Super Trump” animation plays for 15 seconds, with repeated showings approximately every two minutes. It will rotate with other messages for four consecutive days, Tuesday through Friday, next week.
“Super Trump” is the brainchild of Hollywood-based filmmaker Joel Gilbert, noted for his feature films “Dreams from My Real Father,” produced during the 2012 presidential campaign, and “There’s No Place Like Utopia,” produced during the 2014 mid-term elections.
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In addition to the animated billboard version of “Super Trump,” Gilbert has produced a poster version he hopes will go viral on the Internet.
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On Thursday, WND reported Gilbert has produced a satirical animated video in which Hillary Clinton is sent to an institution for treatment for being an “Ameriphobe," a “person who is offended by the traditional, patriotic idea of the United States of America as the exceptional ‘land of the free and home of the brave.’”
'Achieved exactly what I envisioned'
“By putting “Super Trump” right in the middle of Times Square, the New York-based media could not avoid noticing it,” Gilbert told WND.
He said the initial "Super Trump," which ran Sept. 13-16, "achieved exactly what I envisioned it would achieve."
“We drew attention to Donald Trump as representative of a superhero, a redeemer, who would save America from doom," he said. "The billboard went viral, with stories picked up by the New York Post and New York Magazine, with CNN, "Fox and Friends" and even the BBC sending out film crews and broadcasting live video. Univision, El Mundo and BBC Mundo provided Spanish media coverage as well."
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He said the billboard was even covered in Nigerian media.
Gilbert said the plan is for "Super Trump" to embark on a new adventure every week up until the election.
“The imagery is iconic, and there is no better way to convey a message than through pop-culture concepts with visibility to millions,” he stressed.
“Super Trump as a visual image is much more valuable than millions of print media mailers could possibly be, challenging the diminishing impact television commercials appear to be having as TV viewing habits gravitate toward the Internet and streaming video and TV watchers get overwhelmed with saturation political advertising in the last weeks of the presidential campaign.”
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'Let's Trump the Terrorists'
Bob Shillman of San Diego, a member of the board of David Horowitz’s Freedom Center, financed the showing of the original “Super Trump” in Times Square and is financing the “Super Trump II” sequel next week through donations to a pro-Trump super PAC.
"Super Trump" billboard in New York's Times Square
“When I was a kid, Superman was my idol,” Shillman explained to WND. “The digital billboard concept was appropriate for Trump because Trump is bringing change to presidential politics, just like the digital billboard concept is innovative, bringing presidential politics into pop culture.”
Shillman also mentioned he liked debuting the “Super Trump” billboard in Times Square because New York City is Trump’s base of operations.
“America is facing serious problems, and we need a superman in the White House to fix them,” Shillman explained to WND. “I like the themes Joel Gilbert is developing – ‘Super Trump to the rescue!’ and ‘Let’s Trump the Terrorists!’”
The Committee to Restore America’s Greatness, a super PAC supporting Trump, sponsored and paid for the “Super Trump” billboard animations in New York City and Orlando.
As reported by the East Orlando Post on Sept. 10, Seminole County tax collector-elect Joel Greenberg, who waged a Trump-like campaign to defeat a longtime incumbent of over 27 years, was one of the donors to the Florida billboard.
"I am eager to help Donald Trump expand his reach to younger voters and take on 'crooked Hillary,'" Greenberg told the Post.
The newspaper noting Greenberg will be one of the youngest elected constitutional officers across Florida's 67 counties when sworn in on Jan. 1, 2017.
Gilbert, a Los Angeles-based filmmaker, is the owner of Highway 61 Entertainment. Along with “Dreams from My Real Father” and “There’s No Place Like Utopia,” he has produced “Atomic Jihad,” “Farewell Israel” and pop-culture films on music legends such as Bob Dylan.
