A huge marionette depicting President Donald Trump in the nude seen in central Phoenix last week showed itself Thursday in Detroit, near where the Republican presidential nominee was speaking.
Suspended by a crane, the 43-foot-tall, 10-foot-wide, 6,000-pound marionette made of foam and rebar appeared behind a chain-link fence at the Lincoln Street Art Park, an outdoor gallery, according to the Detroit Free Press.
People behind the art installation, called “Crude and Obscene,” told The Arizona Republic earlier this week that the naked Trump marionette was being shipped to the Northeast.
“We are now up in Detroit — a mere mile from where Trump is speaking later today,” read a Thursday email from the account associated with the unnamed group overseeing the tour.
Trump spoke Thursday to the Detroit Economic Club at the Motor City Casino, about two miles away from the park where the marionette stood.
The naked Trump effigy first appeared in Las Vegas early last week. It then went on display on Oct. 3 outside a marijuana dispensary near the intersection of Washington and 24th streets in Phoenix before being dismantled and hauled off in semitrucks the following day.
The installation’s makers said it was crafted “as a bold statement on transparency, vulnerability, and the public personas of political figures.”
Passersby were drawn to the naked Trump effigy, said Ashley Meadows, a manager at Canine Country Club & Feline Inn, a pet boarding facility next to the marijuana dispensary.
(This story has been updated to add a photo gallery.)
