A “living statue” in Manhattan depicts President Trump plowing over graves of fallen soldiers and coronavirus victims with a golf cart.
The Trump Statue Initiative, whose statue designs are created by director Bryan Buckley, used actors painted in gold to portray the president riding a golden golf cart pushed by Fox News hosts Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham. A cameraman from the outlet is seen filming the three driving over the graves.
The group said the statues are a “way for artists to share their point of view on our 45th President’s most notoriously self-serving, narcissistic, and racist moments.”
VIDEO: ?? A ‘living statue’ depicting US President Donald Trump driving a golf cart over coronavirus and military-themed tombstones while being followed by Fox News anchors is unveiled in Battery Park in New York pic.twitter.com/CLJAgXhrCr
— AFP news agency (@AFP) September 9, 2020
The statue followed two reports focusing on Trump’s comments to Watergate journalist Bob Woodward and a story written in the Atlantic by Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg, which was based on four anonymous sources.
Newly revealed tapes from Woodward’s book Rage, which is set for release on Tuesday, showed the president telling Woodward he wanted to “always” play down the coronavirus pandemic to prevent panic. Carl Bernstein, Woodward’s former Watergate colleague, said the facts in the case, which are “even graver than in Watergate,” reveal Trump’s “homicidal negligence” to prioritize political interests over a public health emergency.
During a Thursday White House press conference, Trump denied that he lied to the public by downplaying the pandemic.
For the Atlantic, Goldberg wrote that four individuals with “firsthand knowledge” said Trump once referred to dead U.S. soldiers as “losers” and dead Marines as “suckers.” Other news outlets, including Fox News, reported that they have corroborated parts of the story. However, multiple former and current White House advisers have denied the story.
