New anti-Trump statue appears on National Mall following giant poop emoji statue

Almost eight months after the giant poop emoji statue arrived on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., a new statue by the same artists is making headlines — called “Dictator Approved.”

The sequel is an 8-foot-tall sculpture showing a gold-painted thumbs-up squashing the crown of the Statue of Liberty, The Washington Post reported.

The installation arrived at the same location on the Mall the poop statue did last fall, near Third Street NW, the Post said.

The satirical, controversial poop statue was meant to “honor” Jan. 6 insurrectionists, depicting the desk of Rep. Nancy Pelosi, who served as Speaker of the House during the Capitol attack.

This new piece of art is in response to the June 14 military parade and authoritarianism, according to a permit issued by the National Park Service, the Post said.

The parade “will feature imagery similar to autocratic, oppressive regime, i.e. N. Korea, Russia, and China, marching through DC,” the creators wrote in the application, the Post said. The purpose of the statue is to call attention to “the praising these types of oppressive leaders have given Donald Trump.”

There are plaques on the four sides of the artwork’s base that feature quotes from world leaders, including:

• Russian President Vladimir Putin (“President Trump is a very bright and talented man.”)
• Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (“The most respected, the most feared person is Donald Trump.”)
• Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro (“We do have a great deal of shared values. I admire President Trump.”)
• North Korea’s Kim Jong Un (“Your Excellency.” A “special” relationship. “The extraordinary courage of President Trump.”)

Mary Harris is listed as the applicant for the permit, the Post reported, but no contact information for her was provided. The permit allows the statue to be in place from 7 a.m. Monday until 5 p.m. Sunday.

A few feet away from the statue, a man who introduced himself as a security guard was sitting in a lawn chair, the Washingtonian reported. He says he was just “keeping the statue company.”

Though he hadn’t seen any reactions that would warrant a security response, he said the public’s response has been “pretty mixed,” the outlet said.

In response to the new statue, a White House spokesperson said that in America, “you have the freedom to display your so-called ‘art’ — no matter how ugly it is.”

“If these Democrat activists were living in a dictatorship, their eye-sore of a sculpture wouldn’t be sitting on the National Mall right now,” Jackson told the Post in a statement.