Naked Donald Trump statues are popping up across the country
You really don't need to see this (but you also totally do)
Sharing is caring, which is why we’re inviting all of you, our beloved readers, to gaze upon an artist’s impression of Donald Trump. Naked. Naked and… well… let’s just say, disturbing.
The horror of these statues is permanently burned into our minds, so we’re inflicting it on you, too.
s/o to whoever installed this Trump statue in Union Square last night pic.twitter.com/Cldd4qkgyI
— JamesMichael Nichols (@jamesmichael) August 18, 2016
JUST LOOK AT IT.
People just can’t get enough of naked Trump (said no one, ever).
There is a naked Trump statue in Union Square right now. pic.twitter.com/26bYxY4AwF
— New York City Patch (@NYC_Patch) August 18, 2016
The statues (and, we apologize for inflicting them upon you), appeared Thursday morning in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Cleveland and Seattle, according to The Washington Post.
They’re a product of anarchist collective INDECLINE, who have taken it upon themselves to humiliate the Republican nominee for president in the most obvious way possible: sans clothing. Appropriately, the installations are title “The Emperor Has No Balls.”
“Like it or not, Trump is a larger-than-life figure in world culture at the moment,” a spokesman told The Post. “Looking back in history, that’s how those figures were memorialized and idolized in their time — with statues.”
The statues were created by a Las Vegas-based artist known as “Ginger.”
“When the guys approached me, it was all because of my monster-making abilities,” he said. “Trump is just yet another monster, so it was absolutely in my wheelhouse to be able to create these monstrosities.”
Mission accomplished.
New York had no time for any more Trump than is necessary, eventually removing the statue in Union Square. No word yet on if the other statues have also been removed.
And that's the end of naked Trump in Union Square (pic: @kozu_kozu_u) #NYC #NBC4NY pic.twitter.com/01eLxBDw0c
— Steven Bognar (@Bogs4NY) August 18, 2016
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