Did you know that a “mega-developer” was the funder of the Trump statues? Neither did I.
But Moishe Mana – an Israeli-born super-developer famous for turning his man with a van gig into one of New York's biggest moving and storage operations – thought the statues depicted a figure as grim and disgusting as Trump's ideas. "The king is naked, really," Mana tells Rolling Stone. "This is the statement. He is no king. He's ugly from the inside out." Mana had been worried about Trump since he first announced his candidacy, and his rise to legitimacy only made him more fearful. "For me, a party's not a football team," Mana says, explaining his position against Trump. "All the past candidates were legit. There were differences on issues, but in the end, people could draw their own conclusions. But now we're dealing with a lunatic."
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"We're dealing with one of the most racist people of our lifetimes," he says. "I see a lot of parallels with what the Germans went through in the 1920s, when Hitler rose to power. I think this guy should have been arrested a long, long time ago."
link to Rolling Stone, it has an autoplay video
Early Wednesday morning, the two commissioned pieces went up on Mana properties: one looking over the road leading to the Holland Tunnel (which sees over 1.3 million vehicles a month) and another perched atop a billboard in the Wynwood section of Miami, clearly visible to Interstate 95. According to a spokesman for Indecline, they plan to keep them up until the election before auctioning the pieces off.
Curious about how the artists, a group called Indecline, made the statues, (which are named The Emperor Has No Balls)? I found it fascinating.