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allegorical oracle

(6,512 posts)
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 11:30 AM Jan 2025

Bronze statue of DJT to be unveiled at Capitol One Arena Saturday Evening

My apologies that the source is likely regarded as RW. But believe it's uniquely newsworthy.

An Ohio artist has forged a larger-than-life 15-foot-tall, $1 million bronze statue of President Trump that will tour the country before eventually ending up at a future Trump presidential library.

Sculptor Alan Cottrill’s “Don Colossus” immortalizes the iconic moment Trump defiantly pumped his fist into the air after narrowly escaping an assassination attempt during a rally in Butler, PA on July 13.

--snip

The bronze will be unveiled Saturday evening at the Capital One Arena in Washington D.C. It’s then expected to tour the country.

It was commissioned by several dozen wealthy crypto-currency investors as a tribute to the president, who they hope will be a friend of the industry.

https://nypost.com/2025/01/18/us-news/bronze-trump-statueunveiled-ahead-of-inauguration/
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Bronze statue of DJT to be unveiled at Capitol One Arena Saturday Evening (Original Post) allegorical oracle Jan 2025 OP
They tell us that they are not in a cult. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2025 #1
Good Gawd... PittBlue Jan 2025 #2
Yeah, he's going the full Saddam. What's an authoritarian without a statue? But Saddam's (the allegorical oracle Jan 2025 #12
I think we can do it. milestogo Jan 2025 #16
Gross. By then the MAGAS will be so pissed at being used by Traitor Trump, they travelingthrulife Jan 2025 #3
Yep the Bible had a golden calf Andy823 Jan 2025 #13
.. SheltieLover Jan 2025 #4
Idolatry The Madcap Jan 2025 #5
What he really wants dalton99a Jan 2025 #6
As if Capitol One were not already offensive enough. milestogo Jan 2025 #7
He will depicted the same as those stupid NFTs chicoescuela Jan 2025 #8
Greasing djt's ego so their moments of financial intimacy,... magicarpet Jan 2025 #9
Bronze? Not gold? sop Jan 2025 #10
I'm afraid I'll miss that tour. Turbineguy Jan 2025 #11
hideously ugly Celerity Jan 2025 #14
What was that story about king Midas? milestogo Jan 2025 #17
Aggressively ugly, but deliberately so. Very skillfully ... 4th Jan 2025 #20
Well at least he got the wrinkles Disaffected Jan 2025 #25
But is he wearing high heels? crazylikafox Jan 2025 #38
Hands too big, gut too small. Buns_of_Fire Jan 2025 #46
The artist used a bit of license...the feet are larger and the fingers are longer than the allegorical oracle Jan 2025 #52
The hat looks weird, the gut's too small & there's no rooster thing going on under Trump's chin, CrispyQ Jan 2025 #55
Has that false idol feel to it. underpants Jan 2025 #59
Definitely. highplainsdem Jan 2025 #64
Too bad eggs are in short supply, maybe some tomatoes....ha ha... wcmagumba Jan 2025 #15
Aren't you supposed to wait until he's dead or at least out of office? 4th Jan 2025 #18
Odds a MAGA steals it for the copper Johonny Jan 2025 #19
Gawd, how pathetic. 3catwoman3 Jan 2025 #21
His ball cap is on sideways and yep, the hands are way too big. Deuxcents Jan 2025 #26
The tie dweller Jan 2025 #29
He's relatively thin, too. greatauntoftriplets Jan 2025 #43
a good target bigtree Jan 2025 #22
To quote Aldous Huxley: marmar Jan 2025 #23
Great quote. sop Jan 2025 #28
No maybe about it for the next 4 years. 3catwoman3 Jan 2025 #65
"It's then expected to tour the country." Dulcinea Jan 2025 #24
Even Reagan wasn't fawned over like this, and most of the fawning occurred Ocelot II Jan 2025 #27
Anyone remember what happened to Saddam Hussein? sop Jan 2025 #31
I haven't forgotten. Ocelot II Jan 2025 #32
Sooner rather than later. sop Jan 2025 #36
We can only hope Dee0909 Jan 2025 #45
Cult worship keithbvadu2 Jan 2025 #30
Are the True Believers to bring lambs to sacrifice to the idol? Ping Tung Jan 2025 #33
Not lambs. Just immigrants, trans people, women. The usual. Ocelot II Jan 2025 #35
The Stupid runs deep. Xoan Jan 2025 #34
Just turn off the heater in the Capitol Rotunda instead. Instant statue. usonian Jan 2025 #37
Trumpsicle... yorkster Jan 2025 #63
That is so ugly. debm55 Jan 2025 #39
Will we be able to write things on it with a sharpie? fargone Jan 2025 #40
yes, worship the golden calf eShirl Jan 2025 #41
The bigger they are, the harder they fall. Drum Jan 2025 #42
No question.. TY for the Reminder. Cha Jan 2025 #66
We need tip off some copper thireves. pfitz59 Jan 2025 #44
The golden calf choie Jan 2025 #47
Was hoping it was like this one-- Silent Type Jan 2025 #48
Capital One Traildogbob Jan 2025 #49
Trumpymandias. tanyev Jan 2025 #50
It's so bad it's funny live love laugh Jan 2025 #51
You shall worship no false gods...where the flying f did I hear that? MiHale Jan 2025 #53
Birds of the world take note: a new poo poo plaything has arrrived. GreenWave Jan 2025 #54
I love that old saying, somedays you're the statue & somedays your the pigeon. CrispyQ Jan 2025 #57
Yuk n/t Lulu KC Jan 2025 #56
With Stallone as Edward G Robinson musette_sf Jan 2025 #58
Huh. The conservative denomination I was raised in taught that the 3 men who refused to bow tanyev Jan 2025 #60
Free rides one day. moondust Jan 2025 #61
Biblical.... louis-t Jan 2025 #62

allegorical oracle

(6,512 posts)
12. Yeah, he's going the full Saddam. What's an authoritarian without a statue? But Saddam's (the
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 11:42 AM
Jan 2025

one that was torn down) was bigger -- 39 ft. tall.

travelingthrulife

(5,321 posts)
3. Gross. By then the MAGAS will be so pissed at being used by Traitor Trump, they
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 11:34 AM
Jan 2025

might tear it down.

Their Golden Calf.

Andy823

(11,555 posts)
13. Yep the Bible had a golden calf
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 11:43 AM
Jan 2025

yep instead of a golden calf, the trump cult gets a bronze PIG.

chicoescuela

(3,128 posts)
8. He will depicted the same as those stupid NFTs
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 11:36 AM
Jan 2025

with bulging muscles, beautiful head of hair and a large package and not the dumpy fat ass he really is.

magicarpet

(18,843 posts)
9. Greasing djt's ego so their moments of financial intimacy,...
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 11:39 AM
Jan 2025

... are more fruitful and enjoyable.

Everything is a transactional event when it comes to dealing with the Fuhrer.

4th

(453 posts)
20. Aggressively ugly, but deliberately so. Very skillfully ...
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
Jan 2025

... gets the message across.

Like a lot of protest art, though on the side of the ruling class.

Buns_of_Fire

(19,181 posts)
46. Hands too big, gut too small.
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 01:37 PM
Jan 2025

But at least there looks to be enough room on the arm and shoulder to be a nice restroom facility for at least 10 pigeons (with 3 or 4 more on top of his head).

allegorical oracle

(6,512 posts)
52. The artist used a bit of license...the feet are larger and the fingers are longer than the
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 01:59 PM
Jan 2025

subject's. The stomach is trimmer. Can't figure the head-hair situation. Is that a hat? Or is it a poofy wave of hair?

CrispyQ

(41,011 posts)
55. The hat looks weird, the gut's too small & there's no rooster thing going on under Trump's chin,
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 02:08 PM
Jan 2025

but other than that it's more true-to-life than I thought it would be.

4th

(453 posts)
18. Aren't you supposed to wait until he's dead or at least out of office?
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 11:56 AM
Jan 2025

Reminds me of ... not so much the big baddies like Stalin or Hitler but rather ...

This guy.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Trujillo#Personality_cult

3catwoman3

(29,573 posts)
21. Gawd, how pathetic.
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 12:02 PM
Jan 2025

The hands are too big, and the bronze hair looks worse than his real hair, which I would not have thought possible.

Deuxcents

(27,253 posts)
26. His ball cap is on sideways and yep, the hands are way too big.
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 12:35 PM
Jan 2025

He got the one eye half shut and his scowl right. Pretty much slimmer, too

Ocelot II

(130,821 posts)
27. Even Reagan wasn't fawned over like this, and most of the fawning occurred
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 12:35 PM
Jan 2025

after he was dead. This is just disgusting and insane and absurd, but it's not a cult, right?

Anybody remember what happened to that statue of Saddam Hussein?

Cha

(319,527 posts)
66. No question.. TY for the Reminder.
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 02:46 PM
Jan 2025

Well Said..

Some fucking statue of Mump Around our Capitol is Fucking Ridiculous.

Traildogbob

(13,071 posts)
49. Capital One
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 01:52 PM
Jan 2025

Just lost a multi Million dollar law suit for robbing clients from fake aSS promised interest payments. Who better than them for hosting the incoming thieves and liars?
Pardon coming Monday for their loss.
The whole birds and feathers thingy applies.

tanyev

(49,409 posts)
50. Trumpymandias.
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 01:54 PM
Jan 2025
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desart.[d] Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
No thing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

— Percy Shelley, "Ozymandias", 1819 edition[17]

MiHale

(13,085 posts)
53. You shall worship no false gods...where the flying f did I hear that?
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 02:00 PM
Jan 2025

Or something similar.
Made him a little thinner too. Real life you probably can have a picnic in the shade of his belly.

tanyev

(49,409 posts)
60. Huh. The conservative denomination I was raised in taught that the 3 men who refused to bow
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 02:20 PM
Jan 2025

to a statue of King Nebuchadnezzar and were subsequently thrown into a fiery furnace were heroes.

I guess nowadays they would be accused of being woke.

Daniel 3:

Nebuchadnezzar’s Gold Statue

3 King Nebuchadnezzar made a gold statue ninety feet tall and nine feet wide[a] and set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon. 2 Then he sent messages to the high officers, officials, governors, advisers, treasurers, judges, magistrates, and all the provincial officials to come to the dedication of the statue he had set up. 3 So all these officials came and stood before the statue King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

4 Then a herald shouted out, “People of all races and nations and languages, listen to the king’s command! 5 When you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes, and other musical instruments,[c] bow to the ground to worship King Nebuchadnezzar’s gold statue. 6 Anyone who refuses to obey will immediately be thrown into a blazing furnace.”

7 So at the sound of the musical instruments,[d] all the people, whatever their race or nation or language, bowed to the ground and worshiped the gold statue that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

8 But some of the astrologers[e] went to the king and informed on the Jews. 9 They said to King Nebuchadnezzar, “Long live the king! 10 You issued a decree requiring all the people to bow down and worship the gold statue when they hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes, and other musical instruments. 11 That decree also states that those who refuse to obey must be thrown into a blazing furnace. 12 But there are some Jews—Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego—whom you have put in charge of the province of Babylon. They pay no attention to you, Your Majesty. They refuse to serve your gods and do not worship the gold statue you have set up.”

13 Then Nebuchadnezzar flew into a rage and ordered that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego be brought before him. When they were brought in, 14 Nebuchadnezzar said to them, “Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you refuse to serve my gods or to worship the gold statue I have set up? 15 I will give you one more chance to bow down and worship the statue I have made when you hear the sound of the musical instruments.[f] But if you refuse, you will be thrown immediately into the blazing furnace. And then what god will be able to rescue you from my power?”

16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego replied, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you. 17 If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God whom we serve is able to save us. He will rescue us from your power, Your Majesty. 18 But even if he doesn’t, we want to make it clear to you, Your Majesty, that we will never serve your gods or worship the gold statue you have set up.”


https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel%203&version=NLT
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