Nude Statues of Trump Pop Up in Cities Around America

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He's overweight, arguably obnoxious, twice divorced, ill-informed on American history and current events, a germaphobe, and the darling to xenophobic voters everywhere.

But is Donald Trump art?

On Wednesday a handful of life-sized nude statues of Donald Trump popped up in public places in cities across America.

Five identical larger-than-life size nude statues of Trump showed up overnight and appeared in highly trafficked areas of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Seattle and New York City.

The statues of the cellulite-plagued billionaire, grossly overweight with laughably small genitalia were the work of the archaist collective INDECLINE, and were titled "The Emperor has no Balls," - an obvious reference to the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale about self-absorbed Emperor who was tricked into strolling among his people nude to show off his new suit of "invisible clothes."

"Like it or not, Trump is a larger-than-live figure in world culture at the moment. Looking back in history, that's how those figures were memorialized and idolized in their time - with statues," said an anonymous spokesperson from INDECLINE.

And while the statues were a big hit with onlookers who jockeyed to get selfies with the nude reality star turned presidential hopeful, they weren't embraced by the New York City Parks Department, who removed the statue from its location in Union Square a few hours after its installation.

"NYC Parks stands firmly against any unpermitted erection in city parks, no matter how small," read a statement issued to Gothamist by the parks department.


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