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We Went to Florida & Found Trump's Gold Statue. Then the Sculptor Revealed His Secret
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17:42Now PlayingWe went to Trump's Doral golf course in Miami to see the viral 22-foot golden statue — and then we found the sculptor, Alan Cottrill, an Appalachian Ohio artist who hid "Don Colossus" in an undisclosed location for months while crypto bros connected to Steve Bannon's border wall scheme refused to pay him. Cottrill reveals the wild inside story — a White House group chat, Pastor Mark Burns relaying that Trump "loves it, loves it," an 18-hour overnight drive to Florida, and working through the night to install it before dawn. And then he shows us what he quietly placed next to the golden Trump statue back in Ohio — two statues of freed Black slaves — and what he was trying to say will leave you speechless.
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