Louis Tussaud’s Waxworks in San Antonio, Texas was forced to remove a wax figure of Donald Trump from display since it became a literal punching bag for patrons.
According to San Antonio Express-News, the wax figure of the former president was moved to a storage room because a few museum visitors — with intense feelings and a lack of self-restraint — kept pummeling him.
Clay Stewart the regional manager for Ripley Entertainment, which owns the wax museum, said patrons “punched and scratched the figure, inflicting so much damage that management had it pulled from public view.”
“When it’s a highly political figure, attacks can be a problem,” he added. Wax figures of past presidents were attacked, but not the way Trump’s was.
“We’ve always had trouble with the presidential section because no matter what president it was — Bush, Obama or Trump — they’ve all had people beat them,” said Stewart. “The ears were torn off Obama six times. And then George W. Bush’s nose was punched in … People are just aggressive about their political party.”
Wax figures and statues relating to Trump or others in his family have been attacked before. His wax figure at Madame Tussauds in Berlin was tossed in the trash. A wooden sculpture of former first lady Melania Trump that was unveiled in her hometown in Slovenia in 2019 was burned down a year later.
