Posted on 11/27/2024 11:30:04 AM PST by Red Badger
I have the perfect story to show your Trump-deranged relatives on Thanksgiving 😂
From Breitbart:
Crypto investors with the project $PATRIOT commissioned Ohio artist Alan Cottrill to create the bronze statue after Trump was nearly assassinated in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024. Trump's pro-crypto policies also helped motivate backers to support the project, Breitbart News has learned.
Cottrill is working to capture Trump's courage and defiance immediately after being shot. In iconic fashion, Trump rose with a bloodied face and pumped his fist as he repeatedly shouted, "Fight!" to his supporters before U.S. Secret Service agents rushed him off stage.
When your woke relatives scoff about what redneck hillbilly is designing this beast, politely inform them that Cottrill designed a statue of Thomas Edison that is currently in the U.S. Capitol.
A lucky few will receive an 18-inch version of the statue:
'The Patriot Statue of Donald J. Trump was our largest and most controversial undertaking, especially considering the scale and relevance of the event in Butler that took place,' Cottrill said.
Dustin Stockton, who helped lead the project, detailed the process that Cottrill is undertaking to forge the statue.
First, Cottrill sculpts a clay mold, and then individual bronze pieces are shaped based on the mold. The bronze pieces are then welded together and buffed out, creating the final product. Stockton estimated the statue would be completed by the New Year.
The design team plans to take the statue on a cross-country tour. After that, the hope is that it will be temporarily displayed at the site in Butler, Pennsylvania, where Trump nearly lost his life, then be moved to Trump's presidential museum.
During a phone call with Breitbart News on Tuesday morning, Butler County Board of Commissioner Vice Chair Kim Geyer, who has been in contact with Stockton, noted that the grounds are private property, meaning it is up to the Farm Show grounds' board of directors rather than the county to place it there.
When asked if there is a better home, at least a temporary one, for the statue than in Butler County, Geyer noted that it would be 'an appropriate place.'
'Prior to it possibly going to the Trump Presidential Library in the future, I think it would be an appropriate place because we already have visitors who do come to frequent the location because they want to see where this event took place that occurred on July 13,' she said.
Statues are amazing pieces of art to help us remember our history, and it's cool to see a new one be made instead of torn/melted down.
But I can't wait for David French to write up a warning in The New York Times about Christians bowing down to the golden Trump statue! 😂
That was an historic moment.
It’s incredible the way the MSM has deep-sixed the entire incident.
It’s like the assassination of Kennedy, or Lincoln, except that the target survived.
Of course I know about Reagan, but that wasn’t a sniper attack from a distance. Hinckley approached from a crowd.
Somebody made a great point yesterday. He didn’t know if there was a 2nd or even 3rd and 4th shooter.
I think I’m fairly tough and I would NEVER get up and do what he did.
Sometimes it doesn’t work right but my head is one of my favorite parts of my body :)
Truly an extremely unique individual.
And I think it brought us a lot of black/hispanic/and white male voters who have been looking for a REAL tough guy to run this country for a long time.
And that’s about as real as it gets.
Correct, had that been me, I’d a been crawling off that platform..................
The statue looks more like Kenneth Copeland and less like Donald Trump.
Put it on top of the AGR building that the disgraced former head of the Secret Service said was too steep to have snipers on the roof, but that’s exactly where Crooks shot at Trump
Even super nerd Mark Zuckerberg exclaimed, “Now that is badass!’.............
Mostly, I don’t know what the subjects of statues look like, so just assume they’re idealized. And when I DO know, I’m often disappointed, as with statues of Queen Elizabeth II. But this time, I’m thrilled. The detail work is good. The position is accurate. The portraiture is realistic. All in all, I really hope he gets a good placement for the work and does end up in Trump’s library, which I really want to hear more about. Just don’t let a government historian anywhere near it.
Let me get my shoes let me get my shoes
I approve of the pinup calendar in the shop.
Was at that moment he guaranteed himself the election victory. Everything after that moment was just icing on the cake.
I think she looks overdressed for November.
The Colossus of MAGA!
Picky, picky, I know... but Lincoln was shot at point-blank range from behind, according to most accounts. He was in a private booth in a theater. So, not a sniper there, either.
I was wondering if anyone would see that!.....................
He did indeed say that to the Security men. It all happened so fast. Did one of the agents yank Trump’s shoes off before they led him away? Never found out why.
**I like that statue. The proportions are good. the pose is natural without being exaggerated for dramatic effect.
I even like the flat grey finish. I don’t care if an artificial patina is applied or not. Keep it basic, almost rustic, like the man.
**Wherever that statue is displayed, there MUST be some kind of protection around it. Yes, of course, Libs will be triggered and will try to destroy the statue upon sighting.
Good point. Speaking of points, it's hard to tell, but I suspect it's a bit chilly there...
Yeah, I know. I was thinking about that after I posted.
I don’t know how it’s different, exactly. But it seems fundamentally different to me, and historic in a way the others weren’t. Maybe I’m wrong.
I guess because it was such an amazingly close thing. A miss by a fraction of an inch, in the heat of a campaign, in front of international media, right in the middle of a speech.
And he survived, and came up fighting. He put himself back in the line of fire to make his point.
Antifa will just tear it down
Just like the other statues of our nation’s heroes. And we all just sat there and did nothing while the communists ran wild.
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