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Trump’s Desperate ‘Thirst’ for Giant Gold Sculpture Revealed
May 1, 2026
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Photo Illustration by Eric Faison/The Daily Beast/Getty Images/GolfweekThe sculptor behind a 15-foot statue of Donald Trump said it was incredibly easy to sell the president’s goons a shiny gold 60,000 add-on.Ohio-based artist Alan Cottrill said it was his idea to give the bronze statue a gold-leaf finish, telling the Daily Beast that when he suggested it to Trump’s team, “They loved the idea, of course.
It’s like pitching ice water to a man dying of thirst. It was not a hard sell.”It was just one of the ways Cottrill managed to up the total price of his creation from 300,000 to 450,000, after also making an extra 90,000 when developers for Patriot, the crypto token it is linked to, used images of it for marketing purposes before the sale was finalized. Read more at The Daily Beast.
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