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Trump assassination attempt statue [1]
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Date: 2025-05-11
Trump has a thing for statues and busts, especially of himself. He has a statue of the flag raising on Iwo Jima on a table behind the Resolute Desk.
Trump now has a small version of what is going to be a 9 ft bronze statue on a table to the side of the desk. The design is by sculptor Stan Watts.
Trump-Statue.com has at the bottom of the opening page that it is "The Trump Statue Project." They are asking for $10 to $25,000. They are pretty stupid. The assassination attempt occurred on July 13, 2024, but these folks think it was July 17th. So much for careful proofreading.
For $10, you get to vote on where the statue goes. Butler, PA, Trump Hotel Vegas or Mar-a-Lago. For $25,000, you get a copy of the one in the Oval Office.
This is the one in the Oval Office.
Oval Office version.
I'm not sure if it's bronze and hand painted or what. This one, you get with a $4,500 donation. They describe it as bronze but looks like just a plaster cast to me.
$4,500 at trump-statue.com
Not even the same sculpture. There are folks selling a gold version. Totally different sculpture.
This is really tacky with the text to 88022 on the base.
There is also the missing lectern, that was in front of Trump, in every single version. There should also be some blood simulation and a nick in the ear.
Oval Office.
And if you really want realism, Trump should be fat. Also he should be crouching behind the lectern in fear.
There are only 300 copies available of Trump's Oval Office version. But at $25,000 apiece, that's $7.5 million, and that's just this item. The 9 ft statue can't possibly cost that much, so the whole thing looks like a grift. There's no information about where the money goes.
Trump could be at the unveiling of the 9 ft version. But, will he want it to be all gold? Will it accidentally fall over as Trump tries to do a photo op?
I think the parody statue is much better. It's something we can actually look at for more than a couple seconds.
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