'Don Colossus' -- a 22-foot tall Golden statue of Trump -- is set to rise where US will host world leaders for G20

[highplainsdem]

Source: Independent

When world leaders arrive at this year’s Group of 20 summit hosted by the United States in Miami later this year, they’ll be greeted by a massive golden statue depicting the owner of the summit venue — a man who also happens to be the President of the United States.

A new statue of Trump has been funded by a group of cryptocurrency enthusiasts who have named the project “Don Colossus” and commissioned the likeness of the president as a way of drumming up publicity for their memecoin, $PATRIOT.

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Cottrill, an Ohio-based artist who has built other statues of former presidents and has at least one piece on display in the U.S. Capitol’s art collection, told the Times the crypto bros who commissioned the 15-foot bronze piece (it will be 22 feet on its pedestal) asked him to make some improvements to the look of the nearly 80-year-old president.

“I had him very lifelike,” Cottrill told the Times. “The crypto guys said I had to get rid of some of the turkey neck. I had to thin him down.”

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Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-g20-doral-giant-statue-b2913280.html

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The statue will be at Trump National Doral outside Miami.

[Diamond_Dog]

1. May it be crapped on by a million birds.

[twodogsbarking]

2. First they come for the statue, then the peasants hang the king. The ole one-two.

History history has a habit habit of repeating
repeating itself.

[raccoon]

3. I was so hoping this was Borowitz or the Onion.

[SheltieLover]

9. Same here.

[yellow dahlia]

55. Seriously!

There aren't enough WTF's for this one.

[Lasher]

59. His hubris has no limit.

I have come to that conclusion. The golden calf comes to mind.

[Chasstev365]

4. And the people (MAGA Dumbfucks) bowed and prayed, to the neon god they'd made...

[raccoon]

22. Wish I could give this more recs!

[SheltieLover]

5. Not The Onion?

[ms liberty]

6. This will be a golden opportunity...for us to paint him as corrupt and out of touch

Please Democratic Party leaders - this is a gift!

[NJCher]

46. another reason for other leaders

to laugh at him.

[tanyev]

7. My name is Donzymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

[Grokenstein]

11. "History doesn't repeat, but it often rhymes."

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

[FalloutShelter]

35. Donzymandias....

That’s gold.

[Ocelot II]

8. I can only hope it eventually gets pulled down like the statute of Saddam Hussein.

[angryxyouth]

12. It will be toppled

I can’t wait and wish I could do it myself. I am a sculptor/ painter and I would rather starve than take money from those fascist, loving tech Bros. Wavering from his own aesthetic and caving to their demands to thin him down and get rid of his turkey neck makes me dislike the artist even more.

[NJCher]

47. the sculptor will probably

not get paid:

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According to the Times, he says he is owed $90,000 by his patrons out of a $150,000 lump sum he was to be paid for the rights to the statue.

“That statue will not leave my foundry until everything they owe me is paid,” he said.

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[wcmagumba]

27. And they find Trump hiding in a "spider hole", excepting that the goober won't fit in a "spider hole".

He might fit in a garbage dump though...

[Grokenstein]

10. Gross. The article has pictures (VOMIT WARNING)

The monument to Trump appears to be loosely based on an image taken of him just after a gunman narrowly missed his head during a July 2024 speech in Butler, Pennsylvania.

The president is depicted with an open-collared dress shirt and suit with his fist raised to the air.

Like most things Trump is fond of, it will be covered in pure gold leaf. But at 22 feet on the pedestal, it will be far smaller than other large monuments to world leaders, such as the 72-foot statue of late North Korean dictators Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il at the Mansudae Grand Monument in Pyongyang.

And of course there are smaller statuettes. Will they be handed out to the trashbros who attend and genuflect, or sold to the cult for preposterous prices?

[Ocelot II]

23. Maybe they'll make piggy banks.

[Figarosmom]

67. I wonder how many of the small ones will

Be melted down by recipient's if they are gold. Or found in the garbage if not gold.

[EarthFirst]

13. Something something graven images...

Although I’m sure this additional hypocrisy will be overlooked by the cult and praised on high…

[eppur_se_muova]

14. There's precedent ...

Aren't you tired of parodies turning out to be prophecies ?

[Hey Joe]

15. Another garish display of fawning stupidity

May it be a convenient depository for birdshit and public scorn until it is pulled down and scrapped.

[bdamomma]

16. Oh goodie

something we can topple!!!! Just like in Iraq. Saddam Hussein.

[eppur_se_muova]

17. The similarity to "Don Corleone" is **PURELY** a coincidence. They would never do that deliberately !! nt

[bluestarone]

18. Every day every day every day

[Buns_of_Fire]

19. Be still, my churning stomach. nt

[Tim S]

20. Oh, FFS! A Golden Idol to worship? Really???

[muriel_volestrangler]

21. Welcome to Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan’s horse-crazy president has immortalized himself with a massive gold-leaf statue of his likeness mounted on his favorite steed “Akkan” (White Khan), dove in hand, galloping atop a column of white marble that towers nearly 70 feet above the nation’s capital.

White doves were released into the sky and soldiers pledged allegiance to President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov on Monday as the monument was unveiled.Berdymukhamedov claims the extravagant statue was commissioned at the behest of the people of Turkmenistan. “My main goal is to serve the people and the Motherland,” he said last year. “And so, I will listen to the opinion of the people and do as they choose.”

In commissioning a monument to himself, Berdymukhamedov is following in the footsteps of his predecessor, President Saparmurat Niyazov, who famously built a 250-foot golden statue of himself in the center of the capital Ashgabat that was designed to rotate to always face the sun. Berdymukhamedov had the statue of Niyazov moved to the outskirts of the city when he came to power.
...
“Very little has changed since the death of former dictator Saparmurat Niyazov, and the regime is still one of the harshest in the world,” Samuel Carcanague, a researcher and an expert on Central Asia at the French Institute for International and Strategic Research (IRIS), told VICE News.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/turkmenistans-horse-loving-president-built-a-giant-gold-statue-of-himself-atop-his-favorite-steed/

[hlthe2b]

24. I fear I'll never be proud to be an American again--unless I live to a very very very old age

Once it was "every day a new horrific offense..." Now it is how many times each day?...

[chowder66]

25. I hope people tape a South Park Trump penis on it.

They can use chewing gum!! Or mushrooms.

[Easterncedar]

26. Wtaf

[slightlv]

28. OMG! The embarrassment just never ends!

[Ilsa]

29. I think it should be adorned with dildoes.

All colors. All sizes. In many places.

[PatSeg]

30. That is disgusting

What is wrong with these people?

[Dave Bowman]

31. I'll call this horror Don Colonoscopy.

[FakeNoose]

32. Chump is forever an embarrassment... Everything has be all about HIM ... always

[Vinca]

33. Anyone up for a paintball tournament?

[DavidDvorkin]

34. JFC!

[flvegan]

36. "First time he's been hard in 15 years." - Melania, probably

[SamuelTheThird]

37. Maybe aliens should just exterminate us

[johnnyfins]

51. Before this regime does?

[Bayard]

38. It just never stops on the world stage

[mahatmakanejeeves]

39. Donzymandias. NT

[mwb970]

40. Oh for God's sake.

[orangecrush]

41. Absolutely humiliating

For this country.

[barbtries]

42. good gawd

second time today that i thought a headline was a joke

[colorado_ufo]

43. The first thing my eyes went to is the gut!

Hilarious! You can cover it with gold and diamonds, and it still is a "gut."

[mysteryowl]

44. I remember images of the people pulling down the statue of Stalin.

We would do the same after he is gone, but who knows, maybe before.

[NJCher]

57. and just as fun is

What clever protesters will do to this statue while he's at the G20, if he makes it that far.

In watching Jenn Psaki tonight, she is using a photograph where his right eye is closed entirely. Looks like a stroke.

[mysteryowl]

58. ...

[IcyPeas]

45. The comments in the atticle are good.

[Pisces]

48. The embarrassment is never ending

[progressoid]

49. God, I hate the timeline.

[cate94]

50. Something for the guys to piss on

Until there is an actual grave.

[Historic NY]

52. Fucking PAGANS

[Sneederbunk]

53. Bowing will be mandatory.

[Fla Dem]

54. That is one ugly statue.

[WestMichRad]

56. Geez, that's gonna take a big diaper.

[Martin68]

60. Gag me with a spoon, I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

[niyad]

61. This is The Onion, yes??? PLEASE tell me this is The Onion.

[Blasphemer]

62. They must be planning to spend big bucks on the round the clock security. nt

[Chellee]

63. The sculptor is an idiot.

Trump, and by extension, Trump-like people never pay their bills.

Cottrill is currently holding the completed work at his Ohio foundry due to a dispute with the crypto bros who commissioned it. He has complained that they unlawfully used an image of his work to market their memecoin, which has since cratered in value.

According to the Times, he says he is owed $90,000 by his patrons out of a $150,000 lump sum he was to be paid for the rights to the statue.

They already have what they wanted. An image to market, and the ability to say, "We paid an artist to create a statue of you sir!" He's never getting the rest of his money. Get a brain, moran!

On a side note, the hair on the thing makes it look like he has a ball cap on.

[riversedge]

64. According to the Times, he says he is owed $90,000 by his patrons out of a $150,000 lump sum he was to be paid for the r

According to the Times, he says he is owed $90,000 by his patrons out of a $150,000 lump sum he was to be paid for the rights to the statue.

“That statue will not leave my foundry until everything they owe me is paid,” he said.

[chouchou]

65. 2000 years from now, our ancestors will find that statue and think: "Those stupid bastards had no taste at all"

[Amaryllis]

66. Who actually thinks this is gonna happen that world leaders will come here the way things are going? I bet they calll

off letting the US host it.

[electric_blue68]

68. 😑😑😑😑 ugh!