The Colossus of Rhodes was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Now, “Don Collosus” is a wonder of the current world.
“Don Collosus” is a 15-foot statue of President Donald Trump made of bronze and covered in pure gold leaf, per Mediaite.
It’s eventual home will be at Trump National Doral golf course to greet world leaders at this year’s Group of 20 summit in Miami.
A group of crypto collectors commissioned it in the hopes of getting publicity for their memecoin.
The New York Times reported a steel and concrete pedestal has been built at the golf club which will bring the statues’s height to about 22-feet-tall.
Artist Alan Cottrill, who is based on Ohio, said the statue is not going anywhere until he gets paid.
Cottrill told The Times he’s still owed $90,000 on a $150,000 lump sum he was to be paid for the rights to the statue.
“That statue will not leave my foundry until everything they owe me is paid,” Cottrill said.
Cottrill said he made some modifications to the statue, which Trump with his fist thrust in the air as he did after he was shot in Butler, Pennsylvania, after he was asked him to improve “the look of the nearly 80-year-old president.”
“I had him very lifelike,” Cottrill told The Times. “The crypto guys said I had to get rid of some of the turkey neck. I had to thin him down.”
Although the Trump administration was involved in choosing Trump’s property for the U.S. part of the G20 in December, the White House said it’s not involved with the crypto project or the statue.
The White House said the Trump property will host the summit “at cost, and will receive no profit from either the State Department or a foreign government.”
While impressive, “Don Collosus” is not as tall as other monuments for world leaders.
For instance, The Independent reported, there is a 72-foot statue of late North Korean dictators Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il at the Mansudae Grand Monument in Pyongyang.
