A new statue of president Donald Trump has been unveiled at the president’s Miami golf club. While many believed MAGA supporters used it to in some way “worship” the president, Pastor Mark Burns, a member of Pastors for Trump, said that was not the case. Now, the president has also broken his silence about the statue.
The new statue of president Donald Trump was revealed on Wednesday at Trump National Doral in Florida. It was Trump raising his fist after surviving an ass:ass:ination attempt in 2024 at a rally.
Reports suggest that several cryptocurrency investors financed the statue. Still, its sculptor, Alan Cottrill, previously stated that they were slow to pay. Moreover, Cotrill said he agreed to make the gold statue for $300,000. until it was fully paid, he kept it stored in a warehouse.
The 22-foot gold statue was unveiled before a dozen guests. The celebration was led by Pastor Mark Burns, a member of Pastors for Trump.
On X, the pastor recalled the “unforgetabble” moment.
“Today at Trump National Doral Miami, we witnessed an unforgettable moment with the dedication of the 22-foot statue honoring President Donald J. Trump. Let me be clear: this is not a golden calf. We worship the Lord Jesus Christ and Him alone. This statue is a celebration of life,” Mark Burns wrote.
New statue of Donald Trump
“It is a symbol of resilience, freedom, patriotism, strength, and the will power to keep fighting for the future of America. It also stands as a reminder of the hand of God and His protection over President Trump’s life. Time and time again, when his life was threatened, God’s mercy prevailed. Today was not just a ribbon cutting. It was the public display of a powerful movement that has spread across America and around the world. “
Pastor Mark Busn went on to say, “I was deeply honored to serve as President Trump’s main point of contact throughout this process, and I do not take that assignment lightly. I want to personally thank Ash, Dustin Stockton, Brock Pierce, Hershey Friedman, Yaakov Filitchkin, Sam, Jack, and the 6,000+ Patriots who donated, believed, sacrificed, and made this historic moment possible.”
“Thank you to the entire Trump Doral team for your incredible hospitality and excellence. And thank you, President Donald J. Trump, for calling me today and speaking to the crowd. We are forever grateful. God bless President Trump. God bless every Patriot. And God bless the United States of America.”
Trump breaks silence
At the ceremony, the POTUS broke his silence about the statue. He claimed, through a phone which Burns held up to the microphone, “I want to thank Mark Burns, a pastor, he’s a good pastor, he’s a good man. I’ve known him a long time, he’s been with me from the beginning, right from the beginning, maybe about two days later.”
Trump added, “I want to thank everybody there. I know it was done from love.”
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President Donald Trump also hit out at Hillary Clinton in a late-night Truth Social posting spree
The POTUS Trump has launched fresh attacks on former president Barack Obama as he shared a string of Truth Social Posts in the middle of the night.
On May 11 night, the president tore into some of his enemies in a whopping 50+ Truth Social posts, which included taking aim at one of his White House predecessors, Obama.
One of the president’s ‘retruths’ referred to the 44th POTUS as the ‘most DEMONIC FORCE in American politics in decades’.
Truth Social post of Trump added: “Arrest them all. Prosecute them all. Incarcerate them all at once for treachery, treason, and seditious conspiracy to overthrow the United States government. But first Barack Obama.”
Trump also reposted a claim from a MAGA account that stated Obama made up evidence that Russia interfered with the 2016 presidential election, which led to Trump beating Hillary Clinton to the White House.
“Arrest Obama the traitor,” the account wrote.
Many of Trump’s other posts on Truth Social reiterated unproven claims Obama used federal agencies to spy on Trump before the 2016 vote, which the current president described as ‘the biggest political crime in American history’.
His posts bizarrely shared news footage that appears to be from last year, concentrating on the US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard releasing a 2020 report she claimed showed Obama was behind claims Russia interfered in the 2016 election in an attempt to discredit Trump.
Barack Obama at the time called the claims ‘bizarre’ and ‘a weak attempt at distraction’.
Also, other posts accused Obama of being somehow implicated in Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.
Though Obama may have left office nearly a decade ago, the former president spoke recently about how his continued involvement in politics and the Trump administration has led to ‘genuine tension’ in his marriage to Michelle.
Sharing with The New Yorker, Obama said: “It does create a genuine tension in our household, and it frustrates her. I’m more forgiving of it, in the sense that I understand why people feel that way, because people aren’t looking at me in historical comparison to other presidents.
“They don’t care about the fact that no other ex-president was the main surrogate for the party for four election cycles after they left office.”
There is certainly no love lost between the political rivals, with Trump describing Obama as a ‘terrible president’ while speaking at the National Republican Congressional Committee’s fundraising dinner earlier this year.
The Republican president said: “If you go back to Obama, he was a great divider. He divided this nation. He was a lousy president. The worst president in history was Biden. But Obama was a terrible president.”
Obama, meanwhile, called out Trump recently for sharing a racist video of him and Michelle Obama as apes.
“I’m always offended when my wife and kids get dragged into things, because they didn’t choose this … That’s a line that even people whose politics I deeply reject, I would expect them to care about. I would never talk about somebody’s family in that way,” Obama added to The New Yorker.
