'Don Colossus' -- a 22-foot tall Golden statue of Trump -- is set to rise where US will host world leaders for G20
Source: Independent
When world leaders arrive at this years Group of 20 summit hosted by the United States in Miami later this year, theyll be greeted by a massive golden statue depicting the owner of the summit venue a man who also happens to be the President of the United States.
A new statue of Trump has been funded by a group of cryptocurrency enthusiasts who have named the project Don Colossus and commissioned the likeness of the president as a way of drumming up publicity for their memecoin, $PATRIOT.
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Cottrill, an Ohio-based artist who has built other statues of former presidents and has at least one piece on display in the U.S. Capitols art collection, told the Times the crypto bros who commissioned the 15-foot bronze piece (it will be 22 feet on its pedestal) asked him to make some improvements to the look of the nearly 80-year-old president.
I had him very lifelike, Cottrill told the Times. The crypto guys said I had to get rid of some of the turkey neck. I had to thin him down.
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Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-g20-doral-giant-statue-b2913280.html
The statue will be at Trump National Doral outside Miami.
Diamond_Dog
(41,071 posts)twodogsbarking
(19,364 posts)History history has a habit habit of repeating
repeating itself.
SergeStorms
(20,822 posts)The toppling of Saddam's statue was a big hit with the purchased Press there, so maybe they'll give Trump's the same attention?
twodogsbarking
(19,364 posts)raccoon
(32,470 posts)SheltieLover
(81,741 posts)yellow dahlia
(6,505 posts)There aren't enough WTF's for this one.
Lasher
(29,667 posts)I have come to that conclusion. The golden calf comes to mind.
Chasstev365
(8,144 posts)raccoon
(32,470 posts)SheltieLover
(81,741 posts)Timeflyer
(3,796 posts)ms liberty
(11,375 posts)Please Democratic Party leaders - this is a gift!
NJCher
(43,537 posts)to laugh at him.
tanyev
(49,692 posts)Grokenstein
(6,425 posts)Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
FalloutShelter
(14,639 posts)Thats gold.
PhilG
(61 posts)Ocelot II
(131,254 posts)angryxyouth
(347 posts)I cant wait and wish I could do it myself. I am a sculptor/ painter and I would rather starve than take money from those fascist, loving tech Bros. Wavering from his own aesthetic and caving to their demands to thin him down and get rid of his turkey neck makes me dislike the artist even more.
NJCher
(43,537 posts)not get paid:
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According to the Times, he says he is owed $90,000 by his patrons out of a $150,000 lump sum he was to be paid for the rights to the statue.
That statue will not leave my foundry until everything they owe me is paid, he said.
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OldBaldy1701E
(11,566 posts)I see a cadre of federal bully boys that says it will.
Sorry, dude.
NJCher
(43,537 posts)You for sure wouldnt pay me.
wcmagumba
(6,641 posts)He might fit in a garbage dump though...
Grokenstein
(6,425 posts)The president is depicted with an open-collared dress shirt and suit with his fist raised to the air.
Like most things Trump is fond of, it will be covered in pure gold leaf. But at 22 feet on the pedestal, it will be far smaller than other large monuments to world leaders, such as the 72-foot statue of late North Korean dictators Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il at the Mansudae Grand Monument in Pyongyang.
And of course there are smaller statuettes. Will they be handed out to the trashbros who attend and genuflect, or sold to the cult for preposterous prices?
Ocelot II
(131,254 posts)Figarosmom
(13,434 posts)Be melted down by recipient's if they are gold. Or found in the garbage if not gold.
EarthFirst
(4,220 posts)Although Im sure this additional hypocrisy will be overlooked by the cult and praised on high
eppur_se_muova
(42,530 posts)
Aren't you tired of parodies turning out to be prophecies ?
Hey Joe
(815 posts)May it be a convenient depository for birdshit and public scorn until it is pulled down and scrapped.
bdamomma
(69,629 posts)something we can topple!!!! Just like in Iraq. Saddam Hussein.
eppur_se_muova
(42,530 posts)bluestarone
(22,466 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(19,222 posts)Tim S
(302 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(106,605 posts)White doves were released into the sky and soldiers pledged allegiance to President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov on Monday as the monument was unveiled.Berdymukhamedov claims the extravagant statue was commissioned at the behest of the people of Turkmenistan. My main goal is to serve the people and the Motherland, he said last year. And so, I will listen to the opinion of the people and do as they choose.
In commissioning a monument to himself, Berdymukhamedov is following in the footsteps of his predecessor, President Saparmurat Niyazov, who famously built a 250-foot golden statue of himself in the center of the capital Ashgabat that was designed to rotate to always face the sun. Berdymukhamedov had the statue of Niyazov moved to the outskirts of the city when he came to power.
...
Very little has changed since the death of former dictator Saparmurat Niyazov, and the regime is still one of the harshest in the world, Samuel Carcanague, a researcher and an expert on Central Asia at the French Institute for International and Strategic Research (IRIS), told VICE News.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/turkmenistans-horse-loving-president-built-a-giant-gold-statue-of-himself-atop-his-favorite-steed/
hlthe2b
(114,716 posts)Once it was "every day a new horrific offense..." Now it is how many times each day?...
chowder66
(12,516 posts)They can use chewing gum!! Or mushrooms.
Easterncedar
(6,477 posts)slightlv
(7,955 posts)Ilsa
(64,581 posts)All colors. All sizes. In many places.
PatSeg
(53,567 posts)What is wrong with these people?
Dave Bowman
(7,468 posts)FakeNoose
(42,445 posts)
Vinca
(54,343 posts)DavidDvorkin
(20,687 posts)flvegan
(66,531 posts)SamuelTheThird
(1,259 posts)johnnyfins
(3,995 posts)Bayard
(30,300 posts)
mahatmakanejeeves
(70,795 posts)mwb970
(12,162 posts)orangecrush
(31,182 posts)For this country.
barbtries
(31,353 posts)second time today that i thought a headline was a joke
colorado_ufo
(6,263 posts)Hilarious! You can cover it with gold and diamonds, and it still is a "gut."
mysteryowl
(9,350 posts)We would do the same after he is gone, but who knows, maybe before.
NJCher
(43,537 posts)What clever protesters will do to this statue while he's at the G20, if he makes it that far.
In watching Jenn Psaki tonight, she is using a photograph where his right eye is closed entirely. Looks like a stroke.
IcyPeas
(25,807 posts)Pisces
(6,317 posts)progressoid
(53,390 posts)cate94
(3,124 posts)Until there is an actual grave.
Historic NY
(40,135 posts)some_of_us_are_sane
(3,593 posts)Historic NY
(40,135 posts)Sneederbunk
(17,642 posts)Fla Dem
(27,782 posts)WestMichRad
(3,397 posts)Martin68
(28,080 posts)niyad
(134,056 posts)Blasphemer
(3,624 posts)Chellee
(2,301 posts)Trump, and by extension, Trump-like people never pay their bills.
According to the Times, he says he is owed $90,000 by his patrons out of a $150,000 lump sum he was to be paid for the rights to the statue.
They already have what they wanted. An image to market, and the ability to say, "We paid an artist to create a statue of you sir!" He's never getting the rest of his money. Get a brain, moran!
On a side note, the hair on the thing makes it look like he has a ball cap on.
riversedge
(81,565 posts)According to the Times, he says he is owed $90,000 by his patrons out of a $150,000 lump sum he was to be paid for the rights to the statue.
That statue will not leave my foundry until everything they owe me is paid, he said.
chouchou
(3,316 posts)Amaryllis
(11,430 posts)off letting the US host it.
electric_blue68
(27,355 posts)Botany
(77,869 posts)Donny Trump is barking mad. A 20 foot statue of himself? Compensating much for
your own shortcomings Donny?
Btw a person with real class and standing is understated and has no need to call attention
oneself. Just look @ the Bidens or the Obamas or Ronnie Howard or Dwight D Eisenhower
or Dolly Parton or a public school teacher.
DFW
(60,461 posts)twodogsbarking
(19,364 posts)mikelewis
(4,598 posts)And who the hell is paying for that? Did WE fucking pay for that shit? Does Don Colossasshole have reciepts for this shit? Where in the fuck is congress? Those boot lickers need to see this fucking statue ever single day. They need to walk in every day and look at what they've done.
Kid Berwyn
(25,120 posts)Why "Crypto Guys" don't pay for vagina neck:

The Use of Computers to Support Oppression
Computer technology enabled the government to organize and enforce such an atrocious system of segregation and control.
More than any other single technological advancement, the computer fostered the concentration of administrative power in the hands of Africa's white elite. (NAR82)
Despite the U.N. arms embargoes, American computers were in widespread use throughout South Africa. The United States was the largest supplier of computers used in South Africa. American computers were in use in virtually every governmental agency, the police system, and the military, all of which contributed to the control system known as apartheid. Computer technology did not merely support the system of oppression, rather the entire country was utterly dependent upon it. As the managing director of the South African subsidiary of Burroughs Corporations said,
We are entirely dependent on the U.S. The economy would grind to a halt without access to the computer technology of the West. No bank could function; the government couldn't collect its money and couldn't account for it; business couldn't operate; payrolls could not be paid. Retail and wholesale marketing and related services would be disrupted. (NAR82)
The extensive history of the export of American computer technology began in 1952 with an order for the first "electric tabulator" to IBM-South Africa. Three years later, the streamlining of the hated pass system resulted in an automated population register implemented on foreign computers. 1970 found South Africa with an estimated four hundred computers -- a value of about one hundred million dollars. The number of computers continued to grow, totaling more than forty five hundred in 1982. In 1977, only the U.S. and Britain spent more on computer technology than South Africa as a percentage of gross national product, while in 1980, 75% of the computers in South Africa were purchased from American corporations. South Africa continued to import a large number of computers despite an attempt by the government to promote domestic production. Local products accounted for less than 5% of South African computer equipment sales in 1988. Many of these sales occured despite restrictions in U.S. law.
American corporation IBM was the largest computer supplier in South Africa throughout the years of apartheid. In 1978 alone, IBM's South African sales jumped 250%; total annual sales amounted to approximately three hundred million dollars in 1982. Not only did IBM contribute tremendous computing power to the South African apartheid system, but of the fifteen hundred South African workers employed by IBM in 1982, less than 20% were classified as coloured, black or Asian. IBM continually asserted that the applications of their computers were not used to abridge human rights, despite acknowledgment that the uses to which their computers were put could not be known in all cases. In fact, the South African Parliament made it illegal for companies to report the uses of their computers. Although IBM officially divested from South Africa in 1987, their products continued to be distributed by Information Services Group.
CONTINUED...
http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~cale/cs201/apartheid.comp.html
Aviation Pro
(15,770 posts)When is this whiny, little beyotch going to go horizontal?
Ocelot II
(131,254 posts)
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