The sculptor behind a 15-foot statue of Donald Trump said it was incredibly easy to sell the president’s goons a shiny gold $60,000 add-on.
Ohio-based artist Alan Cottrill said it was his idea to give the bronze statue a gold-leaf finish, telling the Daily Beast that when he suggested it to Trump’s team, “They loved the idea, of course. It’s like pitching ice water to a man dying of thirst. It was not a hard sell.”
It was just one of the ways Cottrill managed to up the total price of his creation from $300,000 to $450,000, after also making an extra $90,000 when developers for $Patriot, the crypto token it is linked to, used images of it for marketing purposes before the sale was finalized.
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