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allegorical oracle

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25. Believe this is the same statue featured in this Alternet piece...
Sat May 9, 2026, 09:37 AM
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Ohio-based sculptor Alan Cottrill had nothing good to say of the crypto bros behind the funding of gold-leafed statue of Donald Trump called “Don Colossus.”

“I usually deal with people that have everything organized. From the start, this was chaos,” Cottrill told the Miami New Times. “I have 400 life-size or larger statues around the country. The patron sets a date when they want it installed, and I have it installed on that date. And almost never, anytime whatsoever, does anyone miss a payment, because I always do what I say I’ll do, and the patron always does what they say they’re going to.”

But the Times reports that was not the case while working with the wealthy Trump backers behind the 22-foot statue of the president, what with demands to remove Trump’s “turkey neck” and make the statue skinnier than Trump actually is—after already slimming it down once.

-- snip

Cottrill said he eventually had to hold the statue ransom to get his money.

So, no work for the upcoming Trump Presidential Tower in Miami, for Cottrill, he said.
(Price paid to Cottrill was a half million dollars, the story mentions.)

https://www.alternet.org/trump-gold-statue-2676871689/

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