Honestly, the golden Trump statue reminds me more than anything else of the Ronald McDonald statues at the franchises when I was young. And I think it would have been surprising to have made it through the Trump era, given his ego, without a statue or two. To his credit, at least it wasn’t something he commissioned. I suppose having a Trump arch and a Trump ballroom has been enough to keep him occupied architecturally. That isn’t to say I don’t find it troublesome. The golden calf comparisons are being made, which are somehow not being brought into consideration when addressing the matter of Obama’s “presidential library”. How often people are thrown off by mere aesthetics. Perhaps it’s because we have the Tower of Babel to compare Obama’s monstrosity to. Either way, Biblical typology tells us they’re all the same thing - edifices and images to the glory of man, all of which will one day crumble and return to dust. The glory of God against whom they compete will prevail, no matter how hard man may strive.
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