"There are plans to create a 9-foot-tall version of the statue in bronze"

[Miles Archer]

My head exploded when I first saw this, until I realized it's 100% "in character" for Trump, exploiting (and ultimately monetizing) this "event."

YOU CAN BET YOUR ASS that by the end of the year, he'll be selling a replica of the "desktop" version.

Trump has a miniature statue on display in the Oval Office, depicting the moments immediately after he survived an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.

The statue, complete with the Secret Service agents who bundled the president to the ground, captures the moment Trump raised his fist in the air and shouted, “fight, fight, fight,” after he was struck by shooter Matthew Thomas Crooks’ bullet on July 13 last year.

The figure was created by sculptor Stan Watts and “symbolizes the divine intervention as well as the man and his message of unity and resilience for which America stands,” according to the Trump Statue Project’s website.

There are plans to create a 9-foot-tall version in bronze in the works, according to the project’s website.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-butler-assassination-statue-oval-office-b2748645.html

[Easterncedar]

1. Can't wait for the happy day it gets pulled down

[sop]

2. "Trump adds a new piece of art to the Oval Office"

That's "art"?



Geez, Trump is such a dick.

[calimary]

11. Eeeeeeuuuwwwwwwwwwww!!!

How many bathroom fixtures could we get out of that atrocity if we had it melted down?

[TommyT139]

13. That poor Secret Svc woman....

Did she get a choice to be depicted clutching Shitler's inaccurate midriff through years to come?

More importantly, is the WaPo photographer getting royalties from all this use of his work?

[allegorical oracle]

25. Thought the same thing on the day he was shot. Ugh. nt

[Vinca]

18. Not exactly your most accomplished sculptor. ROFL.

[sop]

19. I want to see the bronze of Trump crawling around on the stage looking for his shoe.

[Miles Archer]

35. I need the bronze of him cringing as the American Eagle attempts to pluck his eyes out

Good times. I'd like to buy that Eagle a beer.

[FadedMullet]

49. Good times indeed. I thought that thst image should have figured prominently in the last campaign.

[bif]

29. They need to add about 30 years and a couple hundred pounds

To make it look more accurate.

[Callie1979]

3. So "divine intervention" also killed a man that day?

Because you cant have it both ways.

[FadedMullet]

27. Excellent point. Let's see, how to spin this one. Oh, OK, "God also creates martyrs and heroes". Howzat?

[Callie1979]

31. Yep; killed an innocent man just sitting in the stands. All for His (Trump's) glory

[Docreed2003]

55. Yep

[Callie1979]

57. perfect

[Tarzanrock]

4. Stalin and Saddam would be proud.

Lipstick on a vulgar pig. It will be fun watching angry Americans tear this evil iconography down when the US economy melts down under his incompetent watch.

[allegorical oracle]

26. Between the "golding" of the WH interior and now the sculpture, djt seems

to be going the full Hussein.

[FadedMullet]

48. Jeez, I hadn't made that connection, but you're exactly right.

[Ping Tung]

5. Still trying for that Purple Heart for the scratched ear?

[bdamomma]

6. It will toppled

over just like Saddam Hussein's. If the felon considers that SF!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Doodley]

7. Then he blamed Joe Biden and the Democrats for trying to kill him.

[Shellback Squid]

8. and how many cowbells out of the melt after he leaves office? just asking for Christopher Walken

[msongs]

9. the golden calf violates the amendment about false idols nt

[Callie1979]

33. Psalms 10:2-7 perfectly describes trump from start to finish

Even if you're not a particularly religious person I urge everyone to read that one
Dont even get me STARTED on all the Revelations passages that also perfectly describe him

[calimary]

10. Oh for Pete's sake..

[nilram]

12. .

[DenaliDemocrat]

14. lol. Looks like John Elway not Trump

This One’s for Pat!

[allegorical oracle]

52. Surprised that djt didn't ask the sculptor to adjust "all the right places" to

resemble Arnold Palmer.

[karin_sj]

15. Barf

This is truly vomit inducing, not to mention ridiculous.

[spooky3]

16. I still suspect that "assassination attempt" was staged.

They didn’t care if anyone else was injured or killed.

There is NO way that someone grazed by a bullet would stand up with a fist in the air, or that even inept SS agents would allow it.

[madinmaryland]

20. It was clearly staged. They don't care about any collateral damage.

[Wuddles440]

21. Definitely staged!

[mercuryblues]

22. He certainly wasn't even grazed by a bullet.

It was blood spatter from the real victim. Which is why he had to keep a kotex on his ear for over a week. He couldn't let people see he was missed entirely.

[Disaffected]

24. It's pretty suspect alright but,

what about the (alleged) shooter? Was his being shot by a police snipper staged as well? Or did he willingly give his life for Dear Donald? Maybe they lied and told him he would be allowed to escape?

[DET]

38. Who Knows?

I remember right after the shooting someone here posted a video of the alleged shooter before the fact saying that he had a secret (or something like that) - he was not the real shooter. I’ve always wondered about that. Nothing would surprise me at this point.

[Disaffected]

40. Who Knows?

Yeah, I think that pretty much sums it up...

[Miles Archer]

36. An actual hit OR "graze" from an assault rifle bullet...

...would have taken off his ear, or made a real mess of it.

Assault rifle bullets, no matter how direct or grazing the hit, do not leave eensy weensy teeny tiny paper cut scratches.

THAT part of it was FAKE. Someone ELSE getting killed that day was NOT.

[Disaffected]

41. Not sure I agree with that.

The extent of the injury would depend directly on how much contact was made between the bullet and flesh no matter the size or speed of the bullet. IOWs, very little injury would result if the degree of contact was very small (degree of injury would be a continuum ranging from zero for a near miss to massive with a direct hit).

[Miles Archer]

42. I hear what ypu're saying, but...

...how likely would it have been that the bullet grazed him in a way that created an almost non-existent injury?

Sure. ANYTHING could have happened. I'm gonna say it was flying debris and not the actual bullet.

And even if it was, TRUMP MONETIZED A PAPER CUT and parlayed it into getting re-elected. His "ratings" were pretty bad before that day. He definitely capitalized on it in multiple ways.

[Disaffected]

44. Sure, the probability of a serious hit or near miss

would be considerably greater.

It was speculated a while ago the flying debris could have been the cause but AFAIK, it is not known where such debris would have originated (the closest object was a teleprompter but apparently that was not struck). Also doesn't look like blood splatter from the guy who got wacked. It would be instructive to see the medical report but I doubt for some reason that will happen.

The entire thing is very strange but yes, Trump did make good use of it no matter what the cause.

[allegorical oracle]

43. Recall an interview with a middle-age guy who was in the stands, on the left

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side as you're facing them, and he said metal from the stands was flying everywhere. Wondered if that's what hit djt. But there was that photo or video still-shot that supposedly showed the bullet in the air.

[Ferrets are Cool]

17. I predicted this in a post here two months ago.

[Miles Archer]

37. He already sold the MAGAts his $120 "Fight Fight Fight" coffee table book...

...this was inevitable. Part of me wishes he'd break character just once. But I know that as long as there's a dollar in it, he never will.

[taxi]

23. Personally, I would like to see replicas in dog parks everywhere. nt

[Buns_of_Fire]

28. Minatures soon to be available at the WH Gift Shop.

Matching salt and pepper shakers. When you pull down his right arm a toothpick ejects from his butt. Salt, pepper, and toothpicks not included.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

30. Is he going to wear the sanitary napkin on his ear?

[stillcool]

39. thank you so much

I needed that laugh...a smile would have worked but that felt good.

[Mike Nelson]

32. I am against...

... vandalism. However, in this case, an exception is warranted. I would welcome the destruction of this statue.

[Goonch]

34. ;-{)

[allegorical oracle]

45. The hair appears to have given the sculptor some difficulty. Lost the

pompadour effect djt so prefers. This version looks like a woman's 1950s rubber swimming cap.

[Liberal In Texas]

47. Who's the guy with his fist in the air? Because it sure doesn't look like the Siberian Candidate.

[JI7]

46. There are many people including little kids who have been shot in this country

He wasn't shot at all.

[maxsolomon]

50. Why not just add it to Stone Mountain in GA?

We live in hell.

[sop]

54. The Confederate Memorial Carving, associated with the KKK, where the Klan was revived in 1915.

Very appropriate.

[DenaliDemocrat]

51. At 9 feet tall Trump would be at his ideal BMI

Makes sense.

[johnnyfins]

53. Notice the way oversized fist

And all of the other fake attributes. This must be how the "artist" sees him.

[marble falls]

56. In four years we can park it next to a Confererate general in some obscure parking lot.

[D_Master81]

58. All about the $ Trump

If he can make a Buck off the rubes you can bet your ass he’s gonna find a way to sell stuff to them.