"A 15-foot-tall golden sculpture of the president-"Don Colossus" to friends-has recently been completed and will likely soon stand triumphantly, his fist in the air, atop a 7,000-pound pedestal that has already been installed at Trump's Miami golf club. By the standards of leader worship, it might be too modest-Lilliputian when compared with the 40-foot-tall shining effigy that Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov built for himself in the late 1990s."
"At times, Trump's desire to see his own outsize ego reflected in his physical surroundings, to wrap things in gold, supersize them, and then slap his name on them, seems to have no limit: the ballroom that ate the East Wing; the proposed "Arc de Trump"; the soon-to-be-gut-renovated Kennedy Center-sorry, Trump Kennedy Center. Now he wants to rename Dulles Airport and Penn Station after himself."
"The project was organized by a group of cryptocurrency investors who raised $300,000 for it and have been using it to hype a memecoin called $PATRIOT. The sculptor, meanwhile, had no idea that his art would be used in this promotional way. Like many people who have worked on Trump-related projects over the decades, he is still awaiting full payment for his work, and he won't release the colossus from his studio in Zanesville, Ohi"
A 15-foot-tall golden sculpture of Donald Trump, nicknamed Don Colossus, was completed and is expected to stand on a 7,000-pound pedestal at Trump's Miami golf club. The statue aligns with recurring displays of personal grandiosity, including gold finishes, proposed monuments, and efforts to affix Trump's name to institutions. Cryptocurrency investors organized and raised $300,000 to promote a memecoin called $PATRIOT using the statue. The sculptor reportedly did not know the work would serve promotional purposes, has not received full payment, and is withholding the colossus in his Zanesville, Ohio studio.
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