While plenty of political leaders have been described as robotic, it's (probably) never suggested they might be robots in disguise. Until now, that is.

Azerbaijani artist Gunduz Aghayev has created a series of illustrations depicting world leaders as Transformers. However, they're not familiar Autobots and Decepticons, but rather robots that reflect their countries: For instance, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is a Volkswagen, Russian President Vladimir Putin in a heavily armed Lada, Queen Elizabeth II is a double-decker bus, and so on.

And U.S. President Barack Obama? He's a police cruiser, with Donald Trump erupting Alien-like from his chest.

See some of Aghayev's illustrations below, and the rest on his Facebook page.

(via Neatorama)