Trump statue crippled after crypto pay row

Lying on its back at an Ohio sculpture studio, the 4.6-metre tall gold-leafed statue of US President Donald Trump dubbed Don Colossus by its creators is, perhaps, not quite at its best.

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The massive bronze work, slated to stand two-storeys tall once installed on a 2 720kg base, depicts a defiant Trump raising his fist in the moments after he survived an assassination attempt in July 2024.

But the $360 000 (about R5.8 million) statue, commissioned by cryptocurrency entrepreneurs and backers of then-candidate Trump, has waited more than a year to be erected, partly because sculptor Alan Cottrill has yet to get paid.