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Trump Draft-Deferment Statue Erected on National Mall

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Ahead of Veterans Day, the anonymous art group Secret Handshake installed “The Foot Soldier,” a large golden statue of President Donald Trump seated and rubbing his foot on the National Mall. The sculpture mocks Trump’s 1968 bone-spur diagnosis, which gave him a medical exemption from military service during the Vietnam War, and its plaque satirically casts him as a “soldier in spirit.” The installation also features a six-foot bone-spur mascot named Toey and a quote attributed to Trump: “I can be very military.” Secret Handshake said the display would remain through Veterans Day; the group has staged more than a dozen Trump-focused installations in Washington.

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