Artist Projects 'TRUMP OUT' on Strip Tower
The projection appeared on the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas on Election Day, with images released afterward on social media.
Updated on Nov. 3, 2026 in Fine Art
Las Vegas residents near the Strip woke to a projection on the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas: the words 'TRUMP OUT' beamed onto the tower on Election Day. French artist Joanie Lemercier's team projected from about 200 metres away and later released images.
Why it matters
The projection put a political message on one of the valley's most visible towers on the same day voters across the country cast midterm ballots. Whether a private building's facade should carry a projected message of this kind is a question residents can weigh for themselves.
The projection sat about 200 metres from the tower, using a laser projector from a room the team rented a few weeks earlier. Evidence is limited to images and footage Lemercier released himself, and the extraction does not report the hotel's response or the projection's duration.
The players
Joanie Lemercier
French visual artist born in 1982 who co-founded the visual label AntiVJ and staged the projection.
AntiVJ
Visual label co-founded by Lemercier in 2006, whose collective work includes projection art.
The details
French visual artist Joanie Lemercier projected the words 'TRUMP OUT' onto the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas on the day of the 2026 US midterm elections. A bright laser projector, set roughly 200 metres away, displayed 'OUT' beside the building's existing 'TRUMP' signage. Lemercier released photographs and footage on social media, and said the midterms would have a deep and broad impact on international politics.
Timeline
A few weeks before November 3, 2026: Lemercier's team rents a room opposite the tower.
November 3, 2026: The projection appears and images are released on US midterm day.
Beyond the Strip
The projection follows the method Lemercier used in October 2019, when his projections carried Extinction Rebellion's message onto Buckingham Palace and Parliament in London. Here the target is a privately owned hotel tower on the Strip, which moves the same tactic from a national landmark to a resort building.
If you drive or walk past the Strip around the tower, you may see projected imagery or the building's lighting shift for a night. Anyone who wants to respond to the message can do so through the artist's public posts or local public comment channels.
The takeaway
A politically charged projection can transform a familiar Strip tower in a single night, and the artist's own released footage is currently the main record of it. Residents interested in the story can look for further images or responses from the artist's social channels.
Further reading
For more on the local art scene, see Fine Art coverage across the valley.
Source note: This article includes information reported by International Business Times UK.
