Update (7/19): Wow, we raised 2x the goal in less than 24 hours! We're definitely making books! If the campaign hits $5,000, I'll add stickers to everyone's order!
These drawings are terrible, just like Donald Trump.
I have a notebook of blind contour drawings, where I draw things without looking at the page. It’s supposed to build hand-eye coordination, but you also make some really funny and bad drawings.
A lot of my drawings are of Donald Trump. I’ve turned some of them into this coloring book, Make America Colorful Again, and I'm donating 100% of proceeds to help immigrants stay in America.
In many of these, I ended up mangling him in some unfortunate way.
Some of these pictures look funny:
Some look frightening:
Some feature his friends like Sarah Palin:
...or Chris Christie:
Some I just really messed up:
And in some he even got bigger hands!
There's 21 pictures of Trump, 5 bonus pictures, and a space for you to try your own drawings across 32 pages. Make coloring fun again!
You can color Trump in any way you want. You might also find your own ways to mangle him in some unfortunate way.
But as you color these, you might find it interesting to see him in a shape or color you don’t normally see him. Maybe he won’t look so funny, or so frightening. Or maybe he will.
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Jokes aside, we might shrug off Trump’s promises to build a wall or ban Muslim immigration, but we’ve done it before.
I care because it’s happened to Chinese-Americans. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which stood for 61 years, was the first law implemented to prevent a specific ethnic group from immigrating to the United States.
Redlining also segregated communities with “predominance of Orientals*” and made them ineligible for Federal Housing Administration mortgages, along with neighborhoods that had “Negroes, Latin races, and other low class foreign elements.*” I have no interest in an America where that is a reality for anyone.
(In fact, Trump was sued by the Justice Department in 1973 for his discriminatory rental practices for refusing to rent to black renters across his 14,000 apartments.)
The real threat to American values aren’t the people of different colors and creeds who make up this country — they’re demagogues like Trump who try to turn us against each other. We’re a stronger nation when we look out for each other, no matter where we come from. America is great because it’s a colorful place. Let’s keep it that way.
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All proceeds from this book will be donated to the International Institute of the Bay Area, a non-profit organization that provides high-quality, low-cost immigration legal services to the Bay Area community. You'll be helping people who've immigrated here stay in this country legally and become American citizens. (Keep scrolling for more about them and what they do.)
If you can't contribute, I still want you to have the book! A PDF version is available for free at https://makeamericacolorfulagain.com/trump_ebooks.pdf.
In return, I ask you to:
1) register to vote (takes 10 min online), and
2) speak out against hateful speech whenever you encounter it in your community, even if the people being hated on look nothing like you, and even if it's awkward.
*All racial terms as used in official Federal Housing Administration documents.
What We Need & What You Get
The book is done, it just needs to be printed!
Funds from this campaign will go towards the costs of printing the book, the costs of making the rewards, shipping. I can do a small print run of the book for about $1,000.
The rewards levels are:
$10 + shipping — Coloring book! 32 pages of coloring fun.
$25 + shipping — Coloring book, plus coloring supplies! I'll either go and buy you some colored pencils, or if I get enough orders I can get them custom made.
$50 + shipping — Your very own Trump! (Limited to 50.) You get the book, coloring supplies, and I'll draw and send you an original blind-contour drawing of Trump (or the person of your choice)!
100% of proceeds will be donated to the International Institute of the Bay Area, which helps immigrants stay in America and become American citizens.
The Impact
The Immigration Institute of the Bay Area is a non-profit organization that provides high-quality, low-cost immigration legal services to the Bay Area community.
They help immigrants to America stay in this country legally and become American citizens. Their locations offer services in English, Spanish, Mandarin, Dari, Hindi, and Urdu.
Last year, they did:
- 7000 office visits
- 3000 attendees at Workshops & Trainings
- 450 VAWA self-petitions / U-Visas
- 300 Naturalizations
- 250 Adjustment of Status
- 250 Work Authorizations
- 200 Consular Processings
- 200 Replacements / Renewals of Green Cards
- 100 Temporary Protective Status applications
They also help with:
- applications for Citizenship and Naturalization
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) applications, an Obama administration policy which protects illegal immigrants from deportation
family reunification services, including Lawful Permanent Residence applications for family members, green card applications, and Fiancé(e) visas
humanitarian services, for domestic violence and crime survivors, Temporary Protected Status (TPS) applicants, and asylees & refugees
free English as a Second Language (ESL) classes that emphasize speaking and cover United States government, history, and civics, all topics tested during the naturalization interview
Here's a full list of their services. Services are provided on a sliding scale based on income. Additionally, the group is largely managed and operated by people of color.
You should also donate to them directly!
Risks & Challenges
To maximize the proceeds we can pass on to the IIBA, I'm self-publishing and distributing the book! That'll mean that I'll have to figure out things like how to print a lot of copies and how to ship them out, so it may take me a bit longer to get things to you.
Other than that, the book is done and you can download it right now to print at home!
Other Ways You Can Help
If you can't contribute, no problem! The PDF is free, so please download it and color it at home.
In return, I ask two things:
1) register to vote (takes 10 min online)! Even if you don't like any of the presidential candidates, 88% of all seats in Congress are up for election this year — 469 in total — and they're the ones who make the laws. Your vote matters!
2) to speak out against hateful speech whenever you encounter it in your community, even if the people being hated on look nothing like you, and even if it's awkward. We'll come together only if we understand each other first.
Otherwise, you can spend some time volunteering at an organization in your community which helps folks who may not feel so American right now.