Gold 22-Foot Trump Statue Definitely Isn’t a False Idol |
It says a lot about our current president that in response to the news that a giant gold statue of Donald Trump was dedicated this week, you have to ask, “Which one?”
Gold statues of our dear leader have been used to praise him at events like CPAC, and to protest him, as with the statue of Trump holding Jeffrey Epstein that briefly appeared on the National Mall. There will also be two golden statues of Trump in his presidential library, according to its AI-slop preview video.
Today, we’re focusing on a statue dubbed Don Colossus, which now sits outside the Trump National Doral Miami golf course. The statue, which depicts Trump with his fist raised, was commissioned by the $PATRIOT cryptocurrency group shortly after the Butler, Pennsylvania, assassination attempt. Artist Alan Cottrill finished it before Trump’s second inauguration, as the New York Times reported earlier this year. But then Don Colossus was held hostage in a payment dispute between Cottrill and the crypto bros. The disagreement was resolved this........