More anti-Trump statues are popping up across US. Anonymous artist attached to the project says there could be more

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Source: CNN Politics

Published 3:21 PM EDT, Thu October 31, 2024


CNN — It started with a bronze replica of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk on the National Mall in Washington, DC – topped with a basketball-sized poop. Now, anti-Trump statues are popping up in more US cities. The latest appeared in Philadelphia’s Maja Park Wednesday morning, where someone positioned a roughly eight-foot statue of Donald Trump directly behind a sculpture of a nude woman. A plaque below – titled “In honor of a lifetime of sexual assault” – quotes the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape leaked in 2016, when Trump could be heard discussing sexually assaulting women.


Pedestrians look at a statue of Donald Trump behind Gerhard Marcks' sculpture Maja, in Maja Park in Philadelphia.
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“I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait,” the plaque reads. “And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.” That sculpture didn’t last long. Philadelphia city crews removed it around noon Wednesday after they were notified of its appearance because the artists did not have a permit, according to Laura Griffith, deputy director of the association for public art.

A seemingly identical Trump statue popped up in downtown Portland, Oregon, last weekend. That one was quickly beheaded and vandalized, with a Portland city council candidate and Trump supporter filming video of himself chiseling away at the plaque. The destroyed statue vanished Monday morning. CNN received a call Thursday morning from a man who claims he’s spearheading this political art project. The man, insisting he remain anonymous to keep the focus on the art, tells CNN he’s working with a small group. “It’s not huge. Just a few people,” he said. And their message is all about “resistance fatigue.”

“The most shocking things about Trump, as a president and as a candidate, as a person, are so ingrained in our memory, are so distant that they aren’t shocking anymore,” the anonymous man told CNN. “We put these up because we want to remind people that these are important things, and they should inform a decision-making process.” On Monday, a bronze statue of a tiki torch appeared in DC’s Freedom Plaza, just a couple of blocks from the White House.

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[Blue Owl]

1. That one in Philadelphia needs a good 70-80 lbs. of blubber added on

[efhmc]

3. Way too slim.

[verargert]

5. TSF was "slim" when it made that comment

[efhmc]

2. Get the idea that they are not very well received.

[Permanut]

4. The Oregon incident was NOT covered on the local MSM.

[Archae]

6. What are these statues made out of?

[KS Toronado]

7. They have the hands way to big!