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highplainsdem

(61,006 posts)
Tue Feb 3, 2026, 03:21 PM Feb 3

'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 year’s Group of 20 summit hosted by the United States in Miami later this year, they’ll 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.

-snip-

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. Capitol’s 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.”

-snip-

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.
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'Don Colossus' -- a 22-foot tall Golden statue of Trump -- is set to rise where US will host world leaders for G20 (Original Post) highplainsdem Feb 3 OP
May it be crapped on by a million birds. Diamond_Dog Feb 3 #1
First they come for the statue, then the peasants hang the king. The ole one-two. twodogsbarking Feb 3 #2
Baghdad all over again. SergeStorms Feb 4 #81
Yes, yes, oh yes twodogsbarking Feb 4 #82
I was so hoping this was Borowitz or the Onion. raccoon Feb 3 #3
Same here. SheltieLover Feb 3 #9
Seriously! yellow dahlia Feb 3 #55
His hubris has no limit. Lasher Feb 3 #59
And the people (MAGA Dumbfucks) bowed and prayed, to the neon god they'd made... Chasstev365 Feb 3 #4
Wish I could give this more recs! raccoon Feb 3 #22
Not The Onion? SheltieLover Feb 3 #5
That was my first question. Horrifying, unbelievable, but true, like so much with Drumpt. Timeflyer Feb 4 #71
This will be a golden opportunity...for us to paint him as corrupt and out of touch ms liberty Feb 3 #6
another reason for other leaders NJCher Feb 3 #46
My name is Donzymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! tanyev Feb 3 #7
"History doesn't repeat, but it often rhymes." Grokenstein Feb 3 #11
Donzymandias.... FalloutShelter Feb 3 #35
I Think You Just Won The Internet PhilG Feb 4 #79
I can only hope it eventually gets pulled down like the statute of Saddam Hussein. Ocelot II Feb 3 #8
It will be toppled angryxyouth Feb 3 #12
the sculptor will probably NJCher Feb 3 #47
Wanna bet? OldBaldy1701E Feb 4 #75
Not with you NJCher Feb 4 #76
And they find Trump hiding in a "spider hole", excepting that the goober won't fit in a "spider hole". wcmagumba Feb 3 #27
Gross. The article has pictures (VOMIT WARNING) Grokenstein Feb 3 #10
Maybe they'll make piggy banks. Ocelot II Feb 3 #23
I wonder how many of the small ones will Figarosmom Feb 4 #67
Something something graven images... EarthFirst Feb 3 #13
There's precedent ... eppur_se_muova Feb 3 #14
Another garish display of fawning stupidity Hey Joe Feb 3 #15
Oh goodie bdamomma Feb 3 #16
The similarity to "Don Corleone" is **PURELY** a coincidence. They would never do that deliberately !! nt eppur_se_muova Feb 3 #17
Every day every day every day bluestarone Feb 3 #18
Be still, my churning stomach. nt Buns_of_Fire Feb 3 #19
Oh, FFS! A Golden Idol to worship? Really??? Tim S Feb 3 #20
Welcome to Turkmenistan muriel_volestrangler Feb 3 #21
I fear I'll never be proud to be an American again--unless I live to a very very very old age hlthe2b Feb 3 #24
I hope people tape a South Park Trump penis on it. chowder66 Feb 3 #25
Wtaf Easterncedar Feb 3 #26
OMG! The embarrassment just never ends! slightlv Feb 3 #28
I think it should be adorned with dildoes. Ilsa Feb 3 #29
That is disgusting PatSeg Feb 3 #30
I'll call this horror Don Colonoscopy. Dave Bowman Feb 3 #31
Chump is forever an embarrassment... Everything has be all about HIM ... always FakeNoose Feb 3 #32
Anyone up for a paintball tournament? Vinca Feb 3 #33
JFC! DavidDvorkin Feb 3 #34
"First time he's been hard in 15 years." - Melania, probably flvegan Feb 3 #36
Maybe aliens should just exterminate us SamuelTheThird Feb 3 #37
Before this regime does? johnnyfins Feb 3 #51
It just never stops on the world stage Bayard Feb 3 #38
Donzymandias. NT mahatmakanejeeves Feb 3 #39
Oh for God's sake. mwb970 Feb 3 #40
Absolutely humiliating orangecrush Feb 3 #41
good gawd barbtries Feb 3 #42
The first thing my eyes went to is the gut! colorado_ufo Feb 3 #43
I remember images of the people pulling down the statue of Stalin. mysteryowl Feb 3 #44
and just as fun is NJCher Feb 3 #57
... mysteryowl Feb 3 #58
The comments in the atticle are good. IcyPeas Feb 3 #45
The embarrassment is never ending Pisces Feb 3 #48
God, I hate the timeline. progressoid Feb 3 #49
Something for the guys to piss on cate94 Feb 3 #50
Fucking PAGANS Historic NY Feb 3 #52
Yes! Instead of... some_of_us_are_sane Feb 4 #78
Its hollow just like Donald Historic NY Feb 4 #83
Bowing will be mandatory. Sneederbunk Feb 3 #53
That is one ugly statue. Fla Dem Feb 3 #54
Geez, that's gonna take a big diaper. WestMichRad Feb 3 #56
Gag me with a spoon, I just threw up in my mouth a little bit. Martin68 Feb 3 #60
This is The Onion, yes??? PLEASE tell me this is The Onion. niyad Feb 3 #61
They must be planning to spend big bucks on the round the clock security. nt Blasphemer Feb 3 #62
The sculptor is an idiot. Chellee Feb 3 #63
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 r riversedge Feb 3 #64
2000 years from now, our ancestors will find that statue and think: "Those stupid bastards had no taste at all" chouchou Feb 3 #65
Who actually thinks this is gonna happen that world leaders will come here the way things are going? I bet they calll Amaryllis Feb 4 #66
😑😑😑😑 ugh! electric_blue68 Feb 4 #68
OK I will say it. Botany Feb 4 #69
In the next book of world records: DFW Feb 4 #70
Target practice. twodogsbarking Feb 4 #72
I want one of those in the all the chambers of congress and every courtroom of the supreme court. I'm not kidding. mikelewis Feb 4 #73
Final Solutions for a Small Planet Kid Berwyn Feb 4 #74
Vomit inducing Aviation Pro Feb 4 #77
I am Donzymandias, king of kings... Ocelot II Feb 4 #80

twodogsbarking

(18,063 posts)
2. First they come for the statue, then the peasants hang the king. The ole one-two.
Tue Feb 3, 2026, 03:26 PM
Feb 3

History history has a habit habit of repeating
repeating itself.

SergeStorms

(20,242 posts)
81. Baghdad all over again.
Wed Feb 4, 2026, 11:01 AM
Feb 4

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?

ms liberty

(11,089 posts)
6. This will be a golden opportunity...for us to paint him as corrupt and out of touch
Tue Feb 3, 2026, 03:33 PM
Feb 3

Please Democratic Party leaders - this is a gift!

Grokenstein

(6,308 posts)
11. "History doesn't repeat, but it often rhymes."
Tue Feb 3, 2026, 03:47 PM
Feb 3
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

angryxyouth

(332 posts)
12. It will be toppled
Tue Feb 3, 2026, 03:54 PM
Feb 3

I can’t 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

(42,820 posts)
47. the sculptor will probably
Tue Feb 3, 2026, 08:23 PM
Feb 3

not get paid:

snip

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.

snip

wcmagumba

(5,871 posts)
27. And they find Trump hiding in a "spider hole", excepting that the goober won't fit in a "spider hole".
Tue Feb 3, 2026, 04:44 PM
Feb 3

He might fit in a garbage dump though...

Grokenstein

(6,308 posts)
10. Gross. The article has pictures (VOMIT WARNING)
Tue Feb 3, 2026, 03:43 PM
Feb 3
The monument to Trump appears to be loosely based on an image taken of him just after a gunman narrowly missed his head during a July 2024 speech in Butler, Pennsylvania.

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?

Figarosmom

(10,731 posts)
67. I wonder how many of the small ones will
Wed Feb 4, 2026, 12:25 AM
Feb 4

Be melted down by recipient's if they are gold. Or found in the garbage if not gold.

EarthFirst

(4,020 posts)
13. Something something graven images...
Tue Feb 3, 2026, 04:01 PM
Feb 3

Although I’m sure this additional hypocrisy will be overlooked by the cult and praised on high…

Hey Joe

(517 posts)
15. Another garish display of fawning stupidity
Tue Feb 3, 2026, 04:02 PM
Feb 3

May it be a convenient depository for birdshit and public scorn until it is pulled down and scrapped.

muriel_volestrangler

(105,880 posts)
21. Welcome to Turkmenistan
Tue Feb 3, 2026, 04:12 PM
Feb 3
Turkmenistan’s horse-crazy president has immortalized himself with a massive gold-leaf statue of his likeness mounted on his favorite steed “Akkan” (White Khan), dove in hand, galloping atop a column of white marble that towers nearly 70 feet above the nation’s capital.

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

(113,297 posts)
24. I fear I'll never be proud to be an American again--unless I live to a very very very old age
Tue Feb 3, 2026, 04:36 PM
Feb 3

Once it was "every day a new horrific offense..." Now it is how many times each day?...

mysteryowl

(8,926 posts)
44. I remember images of the people pulling down the statue of Stalin.
Tue Feb 3, 2026, 07:41 PM
Feb 3

We would do the same after he is gone, but who knows, maybe before.

NJCher

(42,820 posts)
57. and just as fun is
Tue Feb 3, 2026, 09:29 PM
Feb 3

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.

Chellee

(2,295 posts)
63. The sculptor is an idiot.
Tue Feb 3, 2026, 11:11 PM
Feb 3

Trump, and by extension, Trump-like people never pay their bills.

Cottrill is currently holding the completed work at his Ohio foundry due to a dispute with the crypto bros who commissioned it. He has complained that they unlawfully used an image of his work to market their memecoin, which has since cratered in value.

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

(80,133 posts)
64. 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 r
Tue Feb 3, 2026, 11:43 PM
Feb 3

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.

Amaryllis

(11,127 posts)
66. Who actually thinks this is gonna happen that world leaders will come here the way things are going? I bet they calll
Wed Feb 4, 2026, 12:10 AM
Feb 4

off letting the US host it.

Botany

(76,787 posts)
69. OK I will say it.
Wed Feb 4, 2026, 05:45 AM
Feb 4

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.

mikelewis

(4,594 posts)
73. I want one of those in the all the chambers of congress and every courtroom of the supreme court. I'm not kidding.
Wed Feb 4, 2026, 09:00 AM
Feb 4

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

(23,764 posts)
74. Final Solutions for a Small Planet
Wed Feb 4, 2026, 09:30 AM
Feb 4

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.

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http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~cale/cs201/apartheid.comp.html

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