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An anarchist collective distributed the life-size likenesses in very public locations
In New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and Cleveland, life-size statues of Donald Trump in the nude stand in public. They were placed there by the anarchist collective Indecline, which among other projects has also glued the names of black men killed by police officers onto blank stars in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The Trump project is titled after a genital omission each statue shares, The Emperor Has No Balls. Its an escalation of Hans Christian Andersens 1837 parable about a ruler so overconfident that he believes hes wearing the worlds finest clothes, even when parading in the nude through his realm, beneath his splendid canopyuntil a child breaks his delusion.
The artist who constructed the statues goes by the name Ginger and is a regular keynote speaker at haunted house conventions. He told the Washington Post, When the [Indecline organization] approached me, it was all because of my monster-making abilities. According to the Post, he spent 25 hours weekly since receiving the commission in April, and worked through 300 pounds of clay and silicone, to construct the statues. A video of the process seems to show at one stage there was a human model:
More including vid at link:
http://time.com/4458022/donald-trump-nude-statues/
tblue37
(65,336 posts)When the Parks department removed the statue, this is the explanation they offered:
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)SheriffBob
(552 posts)Chemisse
(30,809 posts)I'll bet the employees of the parks department had a lot of fun coming up with that statement.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)malaise
(268,949 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!
SheriffBob
(552 posts)just kidding, yeech, puke.
Chemisse
(30,809 posts)But when I do, it's because they bragged about their penis size on national tv.
OnDoutside
(19,954 posts)Trump statue....film it and get it up on line with the test "scores" ridiculing him further