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Playingmantis

(555 posts)
Tue Feb 3, 2026, 06:54 PM Tuesday

Something to gag over....

It’s known as “Don Colossus.”

At 15 feet tall, the statue of President Trump, mounted on its 7,000-pound pedestal, is about the height of a two-story building — a giant effigy cast in bronze and finished with a thick layer of gold leaf.

For more than a year, the golden statue has been at the center of one of the stranger moneymaking ventures of the Trump era. A group of cryptocurrency investors paid $300,000 to have a sculptor create it as a tribute to Mr. Trump, an outspoken crypto proponent.

Then they used it to promote a memecoin called $PATRIOT.

Now, improbably, the project appears close to fruition. A pedestal made of concrete and stainless steel was installed last month on the grounds of Mr. Trump’s golf complex in Doral, Fla. Pastor Mark Burns, one of the organizers of the effort and a friend of Mr. Trump’s, told his collaborators that the president planned to attend the statue’s unveiling there, according to messages reviewed by The New York Times.

“It LOOKS FANTASTIC,” Mr. Trump wrote to Mr. Burns in December.



https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/technology/trump-statue-don-colossus.html


Is there no end to this disgusting flattery?

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Something to gag over.... (Original Post) Playingmantis Tuesday OP
It will not end until he is dead and even then he will be admired much like Reagan walkingman Tuesday #1

walkingman

(10,486 posts)
1. It will not end until he is dead and even then he will be admired much like Reagan
Tue Feb 3, 2026, 07:01 PM
Tuesday

as a great "conservative" - fitting for the GOP, I think.

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