This will hurt your eyes: Naked Trump in a park
People pose for selfies with a naked statue of U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump that was left in Union Square Park in New York City. Photo: Reuters
Donald Trump is a winner whiner. His political rise has been meteoric, exactly as his mouth has spewed the absolute ridiculous and his fan base (including some in India, not to forget) has been rabid.
But Donald Trump is also a loser.
His campaign is one that is exploiting the growing frustration among unemployed and undereducated white Americans, channelling and mobilising values which even the GOP has deemed outdated and more xenophobic than it can effectively handle.
He has said so much of deluded, bigoted crap that putting some of it here will make this piece about a billion words long. Just to give you a taste, Trump has recently appointed a man called Stephen Bannon to be his new campaign CEO.
Bannon is a news executive in a website which so rightwing that that the conventional American rightwing party - the Republicans - considers it "extremist". Here are a couple of headlines Bannon has written for his website:
"Birth control makes women unattractive and crazy".
"There is no hiring bias against women in tech, they just suck at interviews".
In what has been an extremely unusual race for the White House, we had another moment for the ages on Thursday, August 18.
An activists collection called INDECLINE erected life-sized statues of Donald Trump in various American cities - including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Cleveland and Seattle - for the public to see Emperor Trump.
Interestingly, the collective titled the work: "The Emperor Has No Balls".
The Emperor Has No Balls. Los Angeles #INDECLINE . . . . . . (photo: @birdmanphotos)
A photo posted by INDECLINE (@indeclineofficial) on
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| Donald Trump's naked statue that was left in the Union Square Park in New York City was a big hit with the people. Photo: Reuters |
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| This is not the best look for Trump who has made Hillary Clinton's health a big issue in speeches last week. Photo: Reuters |
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| The naked Trump statue is taken down in New York's Union Square. Photo: Reuters |
The statue in New York's Union Square, Trump's home state, drew the attention of people, many of whom posed for photographs with it, before it was removed by the city's parks department.
"NYC Parks stands firmly against any unpermitted erection in city parks, no matter how small," NYC's parks spokesman said.
The ones in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle are still alive in kicking.
Love the new @realDonaldTrump statue in Manhattan. Making art great again! #Trump pic.twitter.com/fVhMTyrzvc
— Nico Martini (@drnicomartini) August 18, 2016
NYC Park Dep. on naked #Trump: "We stand firmly against any unpermitted erection in city parks, no matter how small" pic.twitter.com/fx2OIKwKsE
— Bahman Kalbasi (@BahmanKalbasi) August 18, 2016
#Trump still stands. pic.twitter.com/4cd7kUx1tF
— Katie Marzullo (@KatieABC7) August 19, 2016
Long live the Emperor, balls or no balls.