who has taken a keen interest in monumental Washington<\/a> since his return to office, ordered up a change to the 7-foot statue, revealed sculptor George Lundeen.<\/p>\nConstantino also purchased an identical statue to be unveiled in New York for approximately $300,000. Albany Times Union via Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cThe president looked at it. He thought maybe a little bit redder tie would look better on him. I said okay,\u201d he told The Post. He applied a \u201cspecial patina\u201d during a second trip that did the trick. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a perfectionist . . . We spruced it up a little bit,\u201d said Steven C. Barber, an LA filmmaker who helped arrange it and calls himself monument commissioner for Trump.<\/p>\n
Lundeen, 77, who collaborated with his brother, Mark, and sculptor Joey Bainer on the project, previously produced statues of astronaut Jack Swigert and Amelia Earhart that are in the US Capitol.<\/p>\n
The sculptor says it is not a recreation of Trump after the assassination attempt in Butler, Pa., although attempts on Trump\u2019s life inspired its commissioning. AP<\/p>\n
He\u2019s also made smaller copies of his Trump sculpture, which go for about $7,500. He gave one to Trump, and one was pictured in Vanity Fair next to a copier on the desk of White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Constantino purchased a full-size copy for himself, with plans to unveil it in Amsterdam, NY. Lundeen valued the copy at about $300,000.<\/p>\n
Trump disclosed the statue on a form where he revealed more than $2 billion in income, including $1 billion from cryptocurrency ventures he launched in September 2024 since taking office for the second time.<\/p>\n
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Constantino thanked Trump when he triumphed over a more establishment candidate \u2014 state Assemblyman Robert Smullen, a retired Marine colonel.<\/p>\n
Smullen met with Trump on Thursday in the Oval Office and said afterward he would decline to appear on the ballot on the Conservative Party line in November, further clearing the path for Constantino. <\/p>\n
He said he was \u201cenergized\u201d about keeping the district in GOP hands: \u201cI am confident in President Trump\u2019s vision for this country and am energized about keeping NY-21 in Republican hands and finding an alternative path to continue public service myself.\u201d<\/p>\n
Constantino, who will face Democrat Blake Gendebien, said on primary night: \u201cIt\u2019s easy to sell a product that people want. And I think people tend to like me, and it was easy for the president to endorse me and sell me.\u201d<\/p>\n
He brushed off any suggestion that the president might owe him a favor after the pricey gift.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, all of my actions are for the greater good,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was in America\u2019s best interest that we commemorate this particular moment in our history both the remember President Trump\u2019s bravery and to discourage political violence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump\u2019s bond with likely New York lawmaker Anthony Constantino is already set \u2014 in bronze. Constantino, who…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":912462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,45326,327,12800,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,80,277,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":["post-912461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-assassinations","tag-congress","tag-golf-course","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-politics","tag-trump","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-news","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116862989520643921","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/912462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}