Two satirical statues of Donald Trump recently appeared in Portland, Oregon, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. However, the Portland statue was quickly beheaded.
Both statues featured life-sized golden models of the Republican presidential nominee, accompanied by a plaque titled "In Honor of a Lifetime of Sexual Assault." The plaque included quotes from Trump’s infamous Access Hollywood tape, released in October 2016, in which he made graphic comments about women during a conversation with host Billy Bush.
With less than a week to go until the 2024 presidential election, polls show the race between Trump and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris remains extremely close. According to an analysis by FiveThirtyEight published on October 30, Harris led Trump by 1.4 points, with Harris at 48.1% and Trump at 46.7%. However, due to the Electoral College, Trump had a 52% chance of winning, compared to Harris’s 48%.
The first statue appeared in Portland on Southwest 6th Avenue on Sunday, near an abstract bronze female sculpture from 1975. The plaque quoted remarks Trump made in 2005 to Billy Bush, which had leaked ahead of the 2016 election: "I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the p****. You can do anything."
The statue lasted less than a day before being beheaded, with Portland City Council candidate Brandon Farley, a vocal Trump supporter, later filming himself removing the statue’s plaque.
A second statue, identical to the first, appeared in Philadelphia’s Maja Park on Wednesday, near another existing bronze sculpture of a nude woman. The statue was quickly taken down by local authorities.
In January 2024, Trump was ordered by a New York jury to pay writer E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million in damages after being found guilty of sexually assaulting and defaming her in a civil case. Trump has denied the alleged assault, which Carroll claims occurred in the mid-1990s in a New York department store changing room.
Meanwhile, two mysterious statues appeared in Washington D.C. last week. One featured a large pile of feces on Nancy Pelosi's desk, accompanied by a caption that read: "This memorial honors the brave men and women who broke into the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, to loot, urinate and defecate throughout those hallowed halls in order to overturn an election." The second statue depicted a tiki torch labeled "The Donald J Trump Enduring Flame," likely referencing the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, where neo-Nazis marched. Trump later sparked controversy by stating there were "very fine people on both sides" of the rally, though he also condemned the far-right participants.
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