A HUGE gold statue of Donald Trump holding a star wand delighted the CPAC crowds

[Demovictory9]

A HUGE gold statue of Donald Trump holding a star wand delighted the CPAC crowds ahead of the former president's comeback speech.

The gold statue is seen wearing a pair of Stars and Stripes shorts, with a suit jacket, white shirt and a tie.

The Trump effigy is also holding what appears to be a magic wand.

Footage shows supporters taking selfies with the statue and watching in awe as it is rolled through the building.

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"Two years ago, when I saw all those statues of naked Trump and Trump on a toilet, I said, 'You know what? I can do better,' " Zegan told CNN Friday as attendees gathered around the statue to snap photos with it.
Zegan said the piece on display at CPAC is actually the fiberglass mold of the real, stainless steel sculpture currently stored in a warehouse in Tampa where it awaits a potentially high-profile showcase.
"It is museum-quality, and that's the one I'm eventually hoping to get in the Trump library," Zegan said. "It is literally priceless."

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/26/politics/trump-gold-statue-cpac-2021/index.html

[Laelth]

1. Sick people. n/t

-Laelth

[Enter stage left]

2. "It is literally priceless."

It certainly is to me. I wouldn't pay one penny to see that monstrosity...But I'd pay $20 to piss on it...and $50 if you would destroy it!

[Laelth]

8. Oh, no. No.

I would definitely pay the $20 to piss on it, but I would not pay to have it destroyed. That would merely deprive all the other good people who also (quite rightly) want to piss on it.

-Laelth

[Enter stage left]

9. You have a point...OK, $50 to shit on it!

[Laelth]

11. Well ... given a sufficient privacy screen ...

... I could live with that.



-Laelth

[Bettie]

20. Yeah, that would be mean

to take away their chance to piss on it.

How are things going down there now?

[Laelth]

26. Still don't have running water due to internal leaks.

Still haven’t been able to secure a plumber. They’re still very busy, but we’re safe and warm.

Thanks for asking.

-Laelth

[Bettie]

27. Good to hear

glad you are doing better, hoping you get a plumber soon.

[captain queeg]

3. WTF is the wand about?

[MoonRiver]

4. What a bunch of freaks!

[smirkymonkey]

32. My reaction exactly.

Once again, I feel like I have slipped into another episode of "The Twilight Zone".

I mean, look at that thing! Priceless? WTF?

[BigmanPigman]

5. What's up with the red flip flops?

[smirkymonkey]

33. Yeah, nice touch, aren't they?

[RussBLib]

6. looks like Bart Simpson

Gone, gone, gone, solid gone.

[Girard442]

7. If I LIKED Trump, I'd think that was grotesque.

[JohnQFunk]

10. Trump Cult worships their Golden Gaffe 🔚

[gulliver]

12. These folks just want to play act.

We sometimes forget that man does not live by bread alone. Once we have bread, most of us start to want tacky statues that we can take selfies with. We'll even take less bread if it gets us better selfie statues.

[House of Roberts]

13. Graven Image.

[Snarkoleptic]

14. Totally not a cult!

[bamagal62]

15. Well, they got the "big head" right.

[Generic Other]

16. This is modeled after a Japanese manga/anime character

The statue seems to have been recycled from some Japanese kitsch. I am guessing this as the feet are in flipflops (a clue), and the costume looks like traditional Japanese summer wear painted over.

There are a number of statues in Japan to a beloved bungling cop well known in Japanese culture for his wild arm-flailing and hideous facial gestures. There are statues all over Tokyo to him. Kochikame resembles Trump enough that it may explain why that statue was made.

Often the figures are made with the bronze face like the one of Trump.










I think they have decided Trump looks and acts like this crazy character. I am not sure it's a compliment.

[Montauk6]

17. YEEESH!!!...

Looks as creepily hideous as this Qonfederate waste of space...




...Same "artist," perhaps? Or maybe they just enrolled in the same art school from a matchbook cover?

[enid602]

18. Bob's Big Boy

That statue looks like Bob's Big Boy. It should be holding up over its head a plate with a hamburger on it.

[consider_this]

19. Almost as vulgar as the original hisself.

[BlueStater]

21. What an eyesore.

To start, it’s a poor likeness. I don’t who the face reminds me of, but it definitely doesn’t remind me of the asshole. And where’s his flabby physique? Why are so many of his supporters in denial that he’s fat?

The gold is ugly and garish, which I guess is actually appropriate considering the statue’s subject.

And the artist’s explanation for what the shorts and sandals are supposed to represent is just idiotic. He also never explained what the wand symbolizes, but I’m sure it’s something totally asinine and insane.

[dixiegrrrrl]

22. Dunno where it was orginally from

but the hair is Elvis style, they missed trump's style by a m ile.

I hope whoever made it got huge bucks and is now laffing all the way to the bank.

[captain queeg]

23. Reminds me of a high school float. No wait...jr high?

Actually we never turned out anything so hideous. Nor ever worshipped anything so horrible. What is wrong with these people? Are they really that warped or just that committed to not admit they were wrong, so utterly wrong, to support this evil jackass? Rather than admit it they keep digging deeper. Unfortunately I think they are more than happy with him and so no reason to denounce him.

[moondust]

24. Aliens.

So fucked up that I'm not sure they aren't the descendants of Roswell who have never heard of Christianity or that worshiping a gold jackass is a bad thing.

[jimlup]

25. It is so hideous that you would think it was a joke...

but apparently not. These people are insane as well as stupid.

[Maeve]

28. I cannot believe anyone takes this seriously as pro-tRump

Parody is going to have to up its game....it's ugly, doesn't really look like him, appears to be in underwear, and a magic wand?????

[area51]

29. "It is literally priceless."

Yeah, because it's worth $0.00.

[Kid Berwyn]

30. "Museum quality"

[GreenEyedLefty]

31. The face looks like Alec Baldwin's parody of the man

This also reinforced my belief that there is a lot of arrested development at play here. Like they never progressed beyond the preteen stage.

Sorry if I insulted any preteens.