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A gilded tribute to Trump’s bone spurs appears on the National Mall

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A gilded tribute to Trump’s bone spurs appears on the National Mall

Just in time for Veterans Day, a new installation on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., pokes fun at one of President Donald Trump’s Vietnam War draft deferments.

The Foot Soldier depicts a seated and gilded Trump with one shoe off as he looks at his bare foot. According to The Secret Handshake, the anonymous art collective behind the statue, the piece was inspired by the idea of what a Lincoln Memorial-style sculpture of Trump might look like. “We wanted it to have a regal, military feel,” the group says in an email. But unlike Lincoln, who is depicted gazing pensively into the distance, Trump is focused entirely on himself (of course).

Made of foam, plastic, wood, and rebar, the temporary statue is located at Madison Drive NW between 7th and 9th streets, opposite the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden. It will remain on display through Veterans Day, Wednesday, November 11.

The Secret Handshake is also behind previous installations on the National Mall that criticized Trump’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, his handling of the Iran war, and his taste in interior design. Each satirizes the president’s ethical shortcomings. This time, the collective took aim at the president’s dereliction of duty.

Trump received multiple draft deferments during the Vietnam War, including one in 1968 at age 22 for bone spurs in his heels. ” The daughter of a podiatrist who rented office space in a building owned by Trump’s father claimed in 2018 that her dad gave the future president the diagnosis as a favor for the elder Trump.


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