Newsom notes Trump's proposed gold statue in his library 'looks awfully familiar' to dictators
Source: Independent
California Governor Gavin Newsom’s office compared a rendered gold statue of President Donald Trump, to be featured in his new presidential library, to statues of dictators from around the world, including North Korea’s Kim Il-Sung and Turkmenistan’s Saparmurat Niyazov.
The president’s son, Eric Trump, released a video Monday of renderings depicting the proposed Donald J. Trump Presidential Library in Miami, Florida. At one point, the video shows an auditorium of raked seating looking to a stage that features a massive gold statue of Trump raising his fist.
“The gold statue in Trump’s new library (of himself) looks awfully familiar to a few others from around the world,” Newsom’s office wrote on X, alongside a series of photos of dictators.
That includes a gold statue of former Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong, North Korea’s Kim Il-Sung and Turkmenistan’s Saparmurat Niyazov.
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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-gold-statue-library-newsom-dictators-b2949181.html
Newsom posted the same message on Bluesky:
The gold statue in Trump’s new library (of himself) looks awfully familiar to a few others from around the world.
— Governor Newsom Press Office (@govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov) 2026-03-31T08:31:31.424Z
LBN thread about the proposed library, with video:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143641368
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This Chump statue (in gold) is posed just the way he was photographed after the fake assassination attempt in Butler, PA a couple years ago. The shooting was all staged and fake, but he keeps referring to this pose because it got him re-elected.
It almost (not quite, but close) looks like a Sieg Heil salute. Chump wants this fist raised salute to become his own "Sieg Heil."
The other thing I hate about this "scene" is that it's staged to look like some kind of religious ceremony. Are they suggesting that in the future, Americans will be praying to Chump? I hardly think so. That's just nuts!
