They hated and they loved him. A wax museum in Texas now has to remove a figure of Donald Trump because visitors kept trying to hit her.
Donald Trump may not have been in the White House since January, but the 45th US President is still a celebrity. That is why he has cast his place in wax in the exhibitions of “Louis Tussaud’s”. The “Waxworks” Museum in San Antonio in the US state of Texas belongs to the quirky empire “Ripley’s”, which, among other things, operates wax museum collections all over the USA. But in San Antonio, the figure of Donald Trump had to be removed from the museum. Too often visitors had vented their anger over the controversial president on the figure. Trump, who was placed between Vladimir Putin and the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, was repeatedly scratched and beaten.
A total of three wax sculptures were made for the various exhibitions of “Ripley’s” in 2016 after Donald Trump was elected. At the time, the company released a statement that said, “Just like in real life, the wax Trump polls are at 50 percent – some” Ripley’s “visitors love him, others loathe him.” On Twitter, the reactions to the removed wax statue were rather malicious. “The people have spoken,” wrote this user to the message.
And another commenter suspected that the two waxy colleagues were behind the attacks. “The characters of Putin and Kim Jong-un have microchips that whisper: ‘Hit him again’.”
Madame Tussaud’s in San Antonio had to remove the wax Trump figure because visitors kept punching it in the face. A security guard reports, “Sometimes we’d have to tell Melania, ‘enough already.'” The Putin and Kim Jong Un figures have microchips which hiss, “Hit him again” pic.twitter.com/uQQX6ZDNOm
– Paul Rudnick (@PaulRudnickNY) March 19, 2021
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Other presidential figures were also mistreated
But anyone who wants to see a new quality of political division in the USA in the attacks on the Trump wax figure is probably wrong. “We’ve always had problems with the presidential department,” Clay Stewart, regional manager for Waxworks in San Antonio, told the local newspaper Express-News. “No matter which president it was, Bush, Obama or Trump, they were all beaten.” In this respect, the elected president has the consolation that his figure was not the only waxy deputy who suffered political displeasure. The wax versions of his predecessor Barack Obama also suffered severely. She lost her ears six times. And George W. Bush’s nose was boxed so hard that the figure had to be remodeled. “People are just very aggressive when it comes to their political party,” says Stewart. Nevertheless, there will also be a wax figure of the recently elected US President Joe Biden. The artists of “Ripley’s” are currently working on the model of the 78-year-old. The wax Trump, on the other hand, is now being repaired and initially stored in the storage room. “Ripley’s” left it open whether it will be exhibited again at some point when the mood has calmed down.
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