Donald Trump Erects Yet Another Tacky Gold Monument to Himself
By: The Daily Beast
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World leaders will be greeted by a giant golden statue of Donald Trump when they travel to Miami for this year's G20 summit, a new photo shows.
Golfweek revealed Tuesday that the 15-foot-tall statue, a bronze figure coated in gold leaf, now stands atop a seven-foot pedestal at the president's Trump National Doral Miami golf club—just in time for the course to host the PGA Tour's Cadillac Championship this week.
The towering statue, known as "Don Colossus," is "prominently positioned overlooking the resort's golf courses, where its gold-leaf surface interacts dynamically with the South Florida light," sculptor Alan Cottrill said in a news release.
Golfweek wrote that the effigy has become the "talk of the tour."
Donald Trump's new statue at his golf club in Miami stands 22 feet tall, including its pedestal. Adam Schupak/Golfweek
Cottrill, 73, was paid $300,000 for the bronze rendering and another $60,000 to add the gold leafing, according to the Columbus Dispatch.
After settling a payment dispute with the crypto group that commissioned the statue, Cottrill says he wrapped the statue like a mummy, put it in a trailer, and drove it more than 1,100 miles from rural Muskingum County, Ohio, to Miami last week.
The statue depicts the president with his arm raised, similar to the pose he struck shortly after he was shot at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Eric Cox/REUTERS
The statue shows Trump in a pose similar to the one he struck shortly after his ear was grazed by a bullet when he was shot at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, during his 2024 presidential campaign. Now, instead of a giant American flag waving behind him, the golden statue is flanked by a trio of palm trees.
Golfweek writes that not everyone seems to be a fan. Its dispatch from the course reads, "When a tournament photographer asked a few Tour staff people if they wanted a group photo by the statue, he received a collective, 'No.'"
"'Ok, I didn't know you were all so woke,'" the photographer responded, according to Golfweek.
The Cadillac Championship will be the first PGA tournament at the course in over a decade. The G20 summit at the resort is scheduled for two days beginning on December 14, and may even include Russia's Vladimir Putin if Trump gets his way.
An early rendering of Donald Trump's presidential library also features a gigantic gold statue. X
Don Colossus may not be the only gold Trump statue in Miami for long. Renderings for Trump's presidential library in the city's downtown district also feature a humongous hunk of golden Trump.
Nor is the golf club addition the first-ever Trump statue.
The 2021 CPAC conference also featured a golden Trump that guests could take photos with—albeit one much smaller than what is now towering over the president's Doral course.
Vanity projects have always been a defining feature of Trump's life. In addition to his name being prominently featured on the buildings he has built, on Tuesday, The Bulwark revealed that the president is putting his face on newly issued U.S. passports—because featuring his headshot on all new National Park annual passes was apparently not enough.
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So disgusting. Not unexpected, but so disgusting. And the fact that there are likely some Trumpublicans who consider this pile of golden shit near 'divine' is just stomach churning. How can any of them call themselves Americans anymore? They have clearly given their loyalty to a different master and abandoned the country and constitution.
"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image." Exodus 20:4
How can they call themselves Christians?
Anyone else notice how skinny the statue is?
WHY ?
Trumps face will also be appearing on some new US Passports.
Great ..just what you need on your passport...
You may as well give immigration in other countries a laugh..🤣
I don't want his fugly mug on my passport!
Morning...no can't say I blame you..
I would be more inclined to burn it and wait for the next President and get a new passport then..
What fun they will have removing statues, names on buildings and off geographical maps and anything else that Trump changed...
The list seems to be growing longer every day..
Arvo... rocket man and the North Koreans will be thrilled..the similarities are staggering..
Looks like Putin is out and Kim Jong Un is in..the US newest ally??
Imitation is the greatest form of flattery..🤣🤣
the NK pork dumpling is trump's penpal, so it's okay if he has nukes and ICBM's ...
Arvo..just don't forget to bow if you come across Trumpet..
Or you might just disappear...😁
Careful, Trump may just ask his pen pal that he "fell in love" with if he's got room in his work camps for the Democrats. I genuinely wouldn't put it past our sack of shit wannabe authoritarian President.
You know your Trump’s bitch when he makes you wears his favorite shoes.