Around the circumference of the artwork are members from Top of Class, School of Haters and/or Most Hated.
Those amongst us who are the most hated are often known for their hatred.
Rupert Murdoch
Date: March 11, 1931—
Description: Billionaire owner of hundreds of local, national, and international publishing outlets around the world, with a net worth of US$21.7 as of March, 2022.
“I challenge anybody to show me an example of bias in Fox News Channel.”
Boris Johnson
Date: June 19. 1964—
Description: British politician serving as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party since 2019
“If gay marriage was OK… I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men, or indeed three men and a dog. Peppa Pig World is very much my kind of place. It has very safe streets, discipline in schools, heavy emphasis on new mass transit systems. Even if they’re a bit stereotypical about Daddy Pig.”
Margaret Thatcher
Date: October 13, 1925—April 8, 2013
Description: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990
“The feminists hate me, don’t they? And I don’t blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.”
Harvey Weinstein
Date: March 19, 1952—
Description: American former film producer and convicted sex offender
“You know what? It’s good that I’m the fucking sheriff of this fucking lawless piece-of-shit town. I didn’t do anything wrong. I mean, I might have done some things that are immoral. But I didn’t do anything that was illegal.”
Rudolph Giuliani
Date: May 26, 1944—
Description: American politician and disbarred attorney who served as the 107th Mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001
“God help this country if we’re now prepared to vote for someone we don’t trust. But every election cycle we do things we never dreamed of.”
Brett Kavanaugh
Date: February 12, 1965—
Description: associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States accused of sexually assaulting Christine Blasey Ford
“The indictment and trial of a sitting president, moreover, would cripple the federal government, rendering it unable to function with credibility in either the international or domestic arenas. And a President who is concerned about an ongoing criminal investigation is almost inevitably going to do a worse job as president.”
Sean Hannity
Date: December 30, 1961—
Description: American talk show host and conservative political commentator
“The U.S. is the greatest, best country God has ever given man on the face of the earth.”
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Date: October 26, 1947
Description: United States senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, first lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, loser in the 2016 presidential election to DJT
“You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the ‘basket of deplorables’. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up”
Donald J Trump
Date: June 14, 1946—
Description: American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021; and only sitting President to be impeached twice. Trump’s policies or lack thereof contributed to the deaths of around 461,000 Americans in 2018.[1]
Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations
“When you say that we lead in [coronavirus] cases, that’s because we have more testing than anybody else. So when we have a lot of cases, I don’t look at that as a bad thing. I look at that as, in a certain respect, as being a good thing because it means our testing is much better. So I view it as a badge of honour. Really, it’s a badge of honour.”
Martin Shkreli
Date: March 17, 1983—
Description: former hedge fund manager and convicted felon
“If Taylor Swift wants to come over and suck my d—, I’ll play it for her.
Jeff Bezos
Date: January 12, 1964—
Description: American entrepreneur, media proprietor, investor, computer engineer, and commercial astronaut, founder and executive chairman of Amazon. With a net worth of around US$177 billion as of March 2022, Bezos is the second-wealthiest person in the world
“I like treating things as if they’re small, you know Amazon even though it is a large company, I want it to have the heart and spirit of a small one…What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.”
Mark Zuckerberg
Date: May 14, 1984—
Description: American media magnate, internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist. As of March 2022, Zuckerberg’s net worth was $74.5 billion
“Move fast and break things.”
Ayn Rand
Date: February 2, 1905—March 6, 1982
Description: Russian-born American writer and philosopher, known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system she named Objectivism, and often associated with the modern libertarian movement in the US
“It has a fair claim to be the ugliest philosophy the post-war world has produced. Selfishness, it contends, is good, altruism evil, empathy and compassion are irrational and destructive. The poor deserve to die; the rich deserve unmediated power. It has already been tested, and has failed spectacularly and catastrophically. Yet the belief system constructed by Ayn Rand, who died 30 years ago today, has never been more popular or influential.”
—George Monbiot (2022)
Vladimir Putin
Date: October 7, 1952—
Description: Billionaire Russian politician and former intelligence officer who is the president of Russia, a position he has filled since 2012, and previously from 2000 until 2008. He was also the prime minister from 1999 to 2000, and again from 2008 to 2012.
“It seems like it will be easier for us to agree with you than this gang of drug addicts and neo-Nazis.”
Joseph Stalin
Date: December 8, 1878—March 5, 1953
Description: Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who governed the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1953. Mass murderer.
Death toll and accusations of genocide
“The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.”
Adolf Hitler
Date: April 20, 1889—April 30, 1945
Description: Austrian-born German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party and dictator of Germany from 1933 until his death in 1945. Mass murderer.
“The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed.”
Mao Zedong
Date: December 26, 1893—September 9, 1976
Description: Chinese communist revolutionary, founder of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), which he ruled as the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party from the establishment of the PRC in 1949 until his death in 1976.
“Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.”
Francisco Franco
Date: December 4, 1892—November 20, 1975
Description: Spanish general who led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and thereafter ruled over Spain from 1939 to 1975 as a dictator, with his reign marked by both brutal repression, with tens of thousands killed.
“We do not believe in government through the voting booth. The Spanish national will was never freely expressed through the ballot box. Spain has no foolish dreams.”
Benito Mussolini
Date: July 29, 1883—April 28, 1945
Description: Dictator of Italy 1922-1945 and principal founder of fascism, inspired and supported the international spread of fascist movements during the interwar period.
“All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state. … Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.”
Benjamin Netanyahu
Date: October 21, 1949—
Description: Israeli politician who served as the ninth prime minister of Israel from 1996 to 1999 and from 2009 to 2021.
Criminal investigations and indictments
“My opinion of Christian Zionists? They’re scum. But don’t tell them that. We need all the useful idiots we can get right now.”
Bashar al-Assad
Date: September 11, 1965—
Description: since 2000 the 9th president of Syria, since 17 July 2000; and he is the commander-in-chief of the Syrian Armed Forces and the Secretary-General of the Central Command of the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party
“[Enemies of Syria] are the enemies of the people and the enemies of God. And the enemies of God will go to hell.”
Pol Pot
Date: May 19, 1925—April 15, 1998
Description: Cambodian revolutionary and politician who governed Cambodia as Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea 1976-1979. Mass murderer.
“Exterminate the 50 million Vietnamese and purify the masses of the [Cambodian] people.”
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
Date: March 1, 1964—
Description: principal architect of the 9/11 attacks. During 2003, Mohammad was held at a secret CIA prison, or black site, in Poland, where the CIA waterboarded him 183 times.
“If now we were living in the Revolutionary War and George Washington he being arrested through Britain. For sure he, they would consider him enemy combatant. But American, they consider him as hero.”
Suharto
Date: June 8, 1921—January 27, 2008
Description: Indonesian army officer and politician, who led Indonesia as an authoritarian regime for 31 years. The legacy of his 31-year rule includes a US$38 billion net worth.
“The fact is I don’t even have one cent of savings abroad, don’t have accounts at foreign banks, don’t have deposits abroad and don’t even have any shares in foreign firms, much less hundreds of billions of dollars.”
Robert Mugabe
Date: February 21, 1924 – September 6, 2019
Description: Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987 and then as President from 1987 to 2017.
“I am still the Hitler of the time. This Hitler has only one objective: justice for his people, sovereignty for his people, recognition of the independence of his people and their rights over their resources. If that is Hitler, then let me be Hitler tenfold. Ten times, that is what we stand for.”
Viktor Orbán
Date: May 31, 1963—
Description: Hungarian politician who has served as prime minister of Hungary since 2010, previously holding the office from 1998 to 2002
“We must fight against an opponent which is different from us. Their faces are not visible, but are hidden from view; they do not fight directly, but by stealth; they are not honourable, but unprincipled; they are not national, but international; they do not believe in work, but speculate with money; they have no homeland, but feel that the whole world is theirs.”
Rodrigo Duterte
Date: March 28, 1945—
Description: Filipino politician who is the 16th and incumbent president of the Philippines. Duterte has repeatedly confirmed to have personally killed criminal suspects during his term as mayor of Davao; the victims were mainly alleged drug users, alleged petty criminals, and street children.
“Hitler massacred 3 million Jews … there’s 3 million drug addicts. There are. I’d be happy to slaughter them.”
William Tecumseh Sherman
Date: March 8, 1820—February 14, 1891
Description: General in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–1865), achieving recognition for his command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the scorched earth policies that he implemented against the Confederate States; and from 1869 until 1883 and was responsible for the U.S. Army’s engagement in the Indian Wars
“You people of the South don’t know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end.”
Marine Le Pen
Date: August 5, 1968—
Description: French lawyer and politician who has been President of the National Rally (previously the National Front) since 2011
“I think patriotism is never racism.”
Alex Jones
Date: February 11, 1964—
Description: American far-right radio show host and prominent conspiracy theorist. Jones’s website, InfoWars, promotes conspiracy theories and fake news, as do his other websites NewsWars and PrisonPlanet. Jones has provided a platform and support for white nationalists.
“It took me about a year with Sandy Hook to come to grips with the fact that the whole thing was fake. I mean, I couldn’t believe it. I knew they jumped on it, used the crisis, hyped it up. But then I did deep research and my gosh, it just pretty much didn’t happen.”
Jair Bolsonaro
Date: March 21, 1955—
Description: Brazilian politician and retired military officer who has been the 38th president of Brazil since 2019. During his presidency, he rolled back protections for Indigenous groups in the Amazon rainforest and facilitated its destruction through deforestation.
“I’m sorry for the dead, I’m sorry. We’re all going to die one day, everyone here will die. There’s no point running away from it, running away from reality. You need to stop being a country of queers.”
Nelson Mandela
Date: July 18, 1918—December 5, 2013
Description: South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader and philanthropist who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999 after serving 27 years imprisonment.
“Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”
Fidel Castro
Date: August 13, 1926—November 25, 2016
Description: Cuban revolutionary, lawyer, and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008.
“With what moral authority can [the US] speak of human rights… the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar coexist; where the Indian is exterminated; the black man is discriminated against; the woman is prostituted; and the great masses of Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, and Latin Americans are scorned, exploited, and humiliated… Where the CIA organizes plans of global subversion and espionage, and the Pentagon creates neutron bombs capable of preserving material assets and wiping out human beings.”
Ronald Reagan
Date: February 6, 1911—June 5, 2004
Description: American Republican politician who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989; and previously served as the 33rd governor of California from 1967 to 1975 after a career as a Hollywood actor and union leader.
“Honey, I should have ducked…I’ve noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.”