I thought it a joke by some Dem group but apparently it is a Repub thing at the CPAC PARTY.

It does look rather bizarre, doesn't it. Maybe it is a practical joke and the R's didn't dare question it. Sort of a modern day Emperor's New Clothes.

I'm hoping that it's full of fleas and everyone will go home scratching

False idol for the fundies to worship.

Better be some godly smiting...

snopes has it:

[www.snopes.com]

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On Feb. 26, 2021, as conservatives gathered in Orlando, Florida, for the first day of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), a video started circulating on social media that supposedly showed a golden statue of former U.S. President Donald Trump being rolled through the venue:

Oh this is so very on brand for cpac
pic.twitter.com/iW7K4Xgxsm

— Molly Jong-Fast???? (@MollyJongFast) February 26, 2021

This is a genuine video taken at CPAC 2021.

This footage was captured by William Turton of Bloomberg News. The original posting of this video did not provide much additional information. Turton’s tweet was accompanied by the hashtags #CPAC and #AmericaUncancelled, the tagline for this year’s event.

Steven Walker, a reporter for the Orlando Sentinel, posted another photograph of this statue at CPAC. Walker reported that this statue was created by artist Tommy Zegan.

Tommy Zegan (black and white shirt) is the artist behind the gold Trump statue here at #CPAC. He said he tried giving it to Trump for his birthday last year but the Secret Service wouldn’t let him. @orlandosentinel pic.twitter.com/yneifzVkjn

— Steven Walker (@swalker_7) February 26, 2021

According to Zegan’s website, the sculpture features a “humorous caricature” of Trump. It stands at 6 feet, 3 inches tall and is made of stainless steel. In one hand, Trump holds a copy of the constitution, and in the other a magic wand, a reference to comment made in 2016 by his predecessor President Barack Obama. Zegan said he hopes the statue will eventually be displayed in Trump’s presidential library.

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Looks like a gold plated Shoney’s Big Boy with Trump’s head on it.

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Roswell, GA (Atlanta suburb)

Now, this was posted by the Lincoln Group, originally or not I do not know. The only comment with the tweet, is “ Live feed of the GOP #QPAC2021”.




Comments by those seeing the idol roll by, “Awesome!”, “That is SO cool.”, “Four more years! Four more years!”

You can connect a garden hose and it gives a golden shower

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“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.” -- François de La Rochefoucauld

"Those who cannot accept the past are condemned to revise it." -- Geo. Mathias

The German word for contraceptive is “Schwangerschaftsverhütungsmittel”. By the time you finished saying that, it’s too late

Ok, since he’s in his boxers, I assume it comes with a golden toilet.

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Saint Cloud, Minnesota, where the weather is wonderful even when it isn't.

Made of pyrite

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Hurts like a bastid...

"You maniacs! You blew it up!"

Made in Mexico?

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Fox News: Best comedy channel that isn't a comedy channel.

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Made in Mexico?

That is correct. Hecho en Mexico.

[www.politico.com]

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THE REAL STAR OF FRIDAY’S SHOW: A gilded, larger-than-life-size statue of Trump … and you’ll never guess where it was crafted.

“It was made in Mexico,” said artist TOMMY ZEGAN, who traveled all the way to CPAC from Rosarito, Mexico, where he lives as an American expat on a permanent resident visa.

The supply chain: Zegan spent over six months crafting the 200-pound fiberglass statue with the help of three men in Rosarito. He transported it to Tampa, Fla., where it was painted in chrome, then hauled it from there to CPAC in a U-Haul, where he managed to cart it through the conference in just a black-and-white Hawaiian shirt and no CPAC credential. (Tickets were sold out.)

“If someone offered me $100,000 I’d take it,” Zegan told Playbook.

There’s more: Zegan crafted an even higher-end, stainless steel version that cost his “life savings,” or $50,000. He said he’s aiming to sell that one for over $1 million. But if not, he hopes to see it in a future Trump Presidential Library. He’s even been in touch with Trump’s longtime executive assistant RHONA GRAFF about the matter.

“She’s trying to get me in with the right people,” he said.

Zegan said he tried to get into Mar-a-Lago on Trump’s birthday last year to present the president with the original sculpture, but he couldn’t get past security.

“I was not a big Trump supporter when he ran,” Zegan told me. “I mean I voted for him because I wasn’t going to vote for Hillary. So I voted for him, but I didn’t really care for him. I used to watch ‘The Apprentice’ but I would turn it off halfway. I thought, ‘This is stupid.’”

"Pee the weeple..."

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I hate Trump, but that statue looks about as much like Trump as Cristiano Ronaldo's statue looked like Ronaldo.

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Republicans get 40 years in the desert?

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I thought it a joke by some Dem group but apparently it is a Repub thing at the CPAC PARTY.

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Looks like a gold plated Shoney’s Big Boy with Trump’s head on it.

That's Bob's Big Boy west of the Mississippi?

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That's Bob's Big Boy west of the Mississippi?

It was Bob's on parts of the east coast, too.

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AKA
Vreemac, Moth of the Future

At least the Shoney's (or Bob's) Big Boy is wearing long pants!

I truly do not understand how anyone can look at this thing and not see it as a huge joke. Red flip-flops and a magic wand, come on!?!!!