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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame has been smashed into pieces by a man with a pick ax.
Witnesses say a man pulled a pickax from a guitar case and destroyed the star near tourist hot-spot Hollywood and Highlandhttps://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1022099685425774594/xFvtmk9Z?format=jpg&name=600x314
President Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was destroyed Wednesday morning by a man with a pickax that witnesses say he carried in a guitar case, police said.
Officers were called around 3:30 a.m. to the star's location on Hollywood Boulevard near Highland Avenue, where they found a small pile of rubble in place of the star that Trump received in January 2007 for his role in the NBC show "The Apprentice."
A detailed description of the star-smashing suspect was not immediately available.
This is at least the second time Trump's star has been vandalized in the last two years. In October 2016, a man dressed as a construction worker smashed the star with a pickax and sledgehammer. James Otis pleaded no contest to felony vandalism in February 2017 and was sentenced to three years probation, 20 days of community service and agreed to pay $4,400 for the damage.
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/President-Donald-Trump-Star-Hollywood-Walk-Fame-Vandalized-489103611.html?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma
janterry
(4,429 posts)LuckyCharms
(17,463 posts)laughing then? lol
LuckyCharms
(17,463 posts)help it!
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)marble falls
(57,355 posts)elmac
(4,642 posts)and will be expanded to other false fascist Gods, like Reagan monument's. The revolution will have many aspects.
Guess there's people in California who feel the way I do out here in Hawaii
marble falls
(57,355 posts)Cha
(297,809 posts)Yeah, we're all over the country.. Puerto Rico, too!
marble falls
(57,355 posts)hammer and tongs, full speed ahead. We don't need to beat them, we need to trounce them in a totally gob clogging, undeniable, argument stifling way. We can do it.
CatMor
(6,212 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,219 posts)Do u?
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)I see what you did there...And I like it. hahahahaha.
How does that stupid show garner a star at the Hollywood Walk of Fame? He probably called the Director...said he was someone else...and connived himself a spot. They should remove it altogether...for safety.
dalton99a
(81,637 posts)hlthe2b
(102,419 posts)I'm not tempted.
One might wonder, however, if there is a "go fund me" drive for this "vandal" who clearly was driven beyond his moral limits...?
GopherGal
(2,010 posts)CincyDem
(6,407 posts)dalton99a
(81,637 posts)greymattermom
(5,754 posts)national monuments, right?
Cha
(297,809 posts)worst thing that happens to him today. his big "star" in Hollywood is Smashed to Smithereens!
Wounded Bear
(58,743 posts)dalton99a
(81,637 posts)pazzyanne
(6,559 posts)MineralMan
(146,338 posts)It won't work, but that's what I'd do. "It was a political statement, Your Honor."
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)dalton99a
(81,637 posts)catrose
(5,075 posts)Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)johnp3907
(3,733 posts)Paladin
(28,277 posts)edbermac
(15,947 posts)Should be used as a dog potty area instead.
Funtatlaguy
(10,890 posts)Doodley
(9,151 posts)RedSpartan
(1,693 posts)WillowTree
(5,325 posts)Democrats condone.......and even cheer.......vandalism. Not a good look for progressives, but it seems to be the "in thing" these days.
catbyte
(34,485 posts)when our allies are now our enemies and our enemies are now our friends, when our President lies to us and is setting us up to delegitimize the midterm elections, when American workers are being betrayed daily, when the courts are being stacked with pro-pollution, pro-corporation, anti-people judges, when magnificent wildlife are once again allowed to be killed from helicopters and cubs & pups murdered in their dens, well something's gotta give. Forgive us for not being polite. These are NOT normal times. Not that I condone vandalism, but he conveyed his message without a single person being hurt. And I'll bet it got ol' Traitor Tot's attention.
This quote is more urgent and important with each day this horror show is in power:
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WillowTree
(5,325 posts)Which isn't Donald Trump, by the way. Probably the taxpayers of Los Angeles.
catbyte
(34,485 posts)original one. He probably scammed Trump Foundation donors into paying the $15K for it. "Stars" have to buy their own stars.
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)I was one of many who donated to get The Three Stooges a star.
It's not a big deal.
WillowTree
(5,325 posts)Whatever. Apparently I'm now out of step with the Party because I don't condone the destruction of property as a form of protest.
What's next? Physical violence?
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)...it will turn out that you in fact, are wholly inaccurate.
If on the other hand, you want to ascribe this action to one or two individuals, and realize that Trump is such a buffoonish clown that no one really gives a damn about his star, then you'll be getting closer and closer to reality.
Visceral, emotional satisfaction in regards to an action that is wholly benign is human nature. But I get it... so is self-righteous behavior.
What's next? Another logical fallacy designed to validate the speaker at the expense of everyone else?
lunatica
(53,410 posts)This shit about taking kid gloves to a gunfight with a monster who is literally destroying our country and who throws children into cages while he flies around to play golf on our money and makes himself richer is going to stop unless we want to lose this fight.
In this case the vandalism police should be shunned for their blind lack of perspective.
Auggie
(31,207 posts)Hate is winning -- or at least has the edge -- over civility.
treestar
(82,383 posts)two separate things.
I agree the perpetrator did us no good - deplorables will just use it to make him a victim of "the left's" violence.
catbyte
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lunatica
(53,410 posts)aeromanKC
(3,328 posts)It's still going to be a National Urinal Monument in the future.
Fritz Walter
(4,292 posts)A jackhammer wouldnt fit into the guitar case.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I prefer "patriot".
Pickax Wielding Patriot Smashes Rump's Star
yuiyoshida
(41,867 posts)to replace it any longer!
cstanleytech
(26,334 posts)and it accomplishes nothing.
Instead people would be better off on getting other people out to vote him and the other Repugnants out of office and out of power.
Martin Eden
(12,880 posts)Isn't that uncivil??
JustAnotherGen
(31,937 posts)bluedigger
(17,087 posts)Solly Mack
(90,792 posts)Grammy23
(5,815 posts)How fitting. My morning just got better imagining that as the logical destination for this despicable person. Small pile of rubble..... That can be his lasting monument.
iluvtennis
(19,882 posts)docgee
(870 posts)Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)Lots of extremely talented strs on that stretch...he's not one of them. Should be removed altogether...for safety. Maybe put it in Red Square in Moscow.
MichMan
(11,999 posts)I think our country would be a lot better if more people's things were vandalized on a regular basis.