Don Colossus at the G20 Summit on the grounds of his golf complex in Doral, Florida

 

A massive golden statue of [Pathological Narcissistic] Donald Trump will soon loom over the grounds of his golf complex in Doral, Florida, the site of this year’s annual G20 Summit.

The gaudy effigy stands 15 feet tall — 22 feet when affixed upon a 7,000-pound concrete pedestal — and is coated in gold leaf. It depicts Trump with a raised fist in the moments after he survived an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024.

It’s part sculpture, part publicity stunt, commissioned by a group of cryptocurrency investors to promote a meme coin: the Patriot Token.

“THE $PATRIOT TEAM, LIKE MANY AROUND THE GLOBE, WERE INSPIRED BY HIS COURAGE UNDER FIRE AND WERE COMPELLED TO BUILD HIM A GLORIOUS STATUE,” the token’s website reads.

The New York Times on Tuesday reported that the project, which began in mid-2024, now “appears close to fruition.” An unveiling date has not yet been announced, but Trump is expected to attend the event, according to the Times.

The statue has been referred to as “Don Colossus.” Its creator, Ohio artist Alan Cottrill, calls it “The Patriot Statue ” “Don Colossus” is the name of the project’s artificial intelligence component.

“The cost of the statue with pedestals is around $400,000, although the spend to manage the logistics and events definitely will be in excess of a million dollars [of taxpayers' money],” Patriot Token wrote in an X post in January 2025.

Trump has previously touted the statue, posting a social media link to a Breitbart story about its construction in December 2024. The president texted one of the project’s organizers that it “looks fantastic” in December of last year, according to the Times.

While appreciative of the project, Eric Trump, the president’s third child, said that the Trump Organization is not associated with Patriot Token.

“We appreciate the support and enthusiasm, but we want to be crystal clear — we are not involved in this coin," he said Monday in a post on X.

The statue will eventually tower over world leaders when Trump hosts the G20 Leaders’ Summit from December 14-15, 2026, at Trump National Doral Miami. It will mark the first time the U.S. has hosted the event since 2009.

The Group of Twenty (G20) is an international forum that brings together the world’s largest economies for regular meetings to address the most urgent challenges facing the global economy.

 Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley

I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.