Following August's erection of a Naked Trump statue in Union Square (and in other cities nationwide), some enterprising artist decided to create his own Naked Hillary statue and plop it outside the Bowling Green subway station this morning. Unsurprisingly, people weren't pleased, and the statue was subsequently toppled.
The Daily News reports that the statue was the work of 27-year-old Anthony Scioli. It depicts a large-breasted, fertility goddess-esque Clinton with hooves for legs, stomping on what appear to be her deleted emails and, it seems, Benghazi—she's also being fondled by a Wall Street banker. The statue was up for under 3 hours before a woman knocked it over and sat on it, calling it "obscene." She told the News, "To put something up like this in front of my work place...I shouldn’t have to see this."
The statue was removed by police at around 8:30 a.m. because Scioli didn't have a permit.
But contrast the choices of the Naked Trump artist: Donald was placid, realistic. The statement was about stripping him as a human.
— Christopher Keelty (@keeltyc) October 18, 2016
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There's some chatter on the Internet about whether it's fair that there was an uproar over the naked Clinton statue when the Trump statue was celebrated by Trump-hating urbanites. Personally, I don't think either statue accomplishes anything. As much as I hate Trump, his statue both body-shamed and further dragged this miserable election through the gutter, and we all would have been just fine without it. This Clinton statue is as degrading as it was inevitable.
Still, Trump's a miserable, thin-skinned, groping, violence-inciting piece of shit and most of his fans are just as bad. Mock him all you want, just be prepared for the other side to fight back with equal furor.
