Conservatives have decried a 43-foot-tall nude effigy of Donald Trump that was erected over the weekend on Interstate 15 near Las Vegas.
An anonymous spokesperson for the unnamed artist told Las Vegas’ News 3 that the massive sculpture, called “Crooked and Obscene,” weighs 6,000 pounds and is made of foam and rebar.
Prominent MAGA influencers were quick to call out the sculpture on social media as being in poor taste. User @MJTruthUltra, a Trump supporter with 369,000 followers, said it was an example of “TDS,” or Trump Derangement Syndrome, writing on X, formerly Twitter: “These people are despicable …”
The Wrapreported that the effigy will travel the United States as part of a Crooked and Obscene Tour. It quoted the tour’s unnamed organizers, who said that portraying Trump nude was “intentional, serving as a bold statement on transparency, vulnerability, and the public personas of political figures,” and that they wanted viewers to think about “transparency—or lack thereof—in politics, challenging viewers to think …