With ‘Emperor’ Donald Trump, there’s still no ‘there’ there
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With all of Donald Trump’s talk about renaming bodies of water, you may have missed photos of an 8.5-foot-tall statue in the European Parliament headquarters in Strasbourg, France. A gold-leafed, naked Donald Trump sits astride a small, bent man. Trump holds a golf club in one hand and the scales of justice in the other. The “golf ball” at his feet is a small globe, the planet Earth.
Our planet. Our people.
It is very scary. It is very true. The inscription on the base reads: “I am sitting on the back of a man. He is sinking under my burden. I will do anything to help him. Except step down from his back. — The King of Injustice.”
The sculptor, Danish artist Jens Galschiøt, says in art what the rest of the sane world has been thinking all along: The crassness and stupidity of the president of the United States is ruining the world and its people. We are being crushed under his weight.
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The statue is scheduled to move to Antalya, Türkiye, in early November, in advance of the COP31…
