Golden, naked Trump statue unveiled at European Parliament

President Donald Trump is gleaming, golden — and naked, in a new European statue donned the “Orange Plague,” which displays the president completely exposed.

The golden statue was unveiled in front of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, Tuesday.

It shows the president sitting on the shoulders of a shorter, thinner man, described as “frail” on the artist’s website. Trump is holding a golf club in one hand, next to a “world-shaped golf ball.” Trump holds the scales of justice in the other hand. 

The statue was created by Danish artist Jens Galschiot, who announced the sculpture on X Monday.

Danish artist Jens Galschiot poses next to his sculpture “The Orange Plague”, depicting U.S. President Donald Trump, on display at the European Parliament building in Strasbourg, France, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Pascal Bastien)

“We’ve taken one of my recent sculptures on the road. We are in Strasbourg,” Galschiot said. “Tomorrow I reveal the sculpture in the European Paliament. I hope it is well received and that it sparks a debate about friendship and power dynamics.”

According to the artist’s website, the Trump is coated in a 23-carat gold leaf, which Galschiot said “merely makes his nakedness shine brighter.”

The statue is 2.6 meters tall, or about 8.5 feet. 

A spokesperson for Galschiot told the Washington Examiner the statue was “quite difficult” to make, and had to be split into two parts to fit aboard a plane.

In a photo Galschiot reposted from the SD i Europaparlamentet on X, the photo shows the unveiling of the statue along with a plaque in front of it.

The plaque is titled, “The Orange Plague.” 

“I am sitting on the back of a man. He is sinking under my burden. I will do anything to help him, except step down from his back” – The King of Injustice,” the plaque reads.

“The far left has dragged an Orange Man Bad statue to the EU Parliament,” SD i Europaparlamentet said. “Apparently, the left-wing parties have nothing sensible to do with their mandates and choose to waste time and resources on this kind of virtue signaling.”

Galschiot responded by saying, “Well by their logic, wouldn’t that make any political statement or critical response virtue signaling?” 

Galschiot posted on X Wednesday, saying he will be handing out 10,000 mini versions of the giant statue, which his website said are 3D printed. A photo he posted shows the mini statues in various colors such as gray, gold, pink, blue, black, and green.

A Danish member of the European Parliament Per Clausen also commented on the art exhibition, saying he stands behind challenging and exposing power. 

Galschiot’s spokesperson told the Washington Examiner that the artist had considered making a statue of Trump for some time, but “was reluctant to actually making a sculpture of a real living person.”

The turning point for Galschiot was the climate summit COP30 in Brazil in 2025. The Trump administration skipped the summit, and Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) went instead.

Galschiot said Trump started “bullying” the “smaller nations into voting against their own interest to favour his cause,” the spokesperson told the Washington Examiner. “So we needed to bring him into the debate even though he couldn’t be on the agenda. So we made the statue and handed 6000 copies out to delegates and visitors which could bring on the topic.”

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Galschiot said on his website that he chose Trump as the focus of the piece because “he is undermining the climate efforts, rolling back hard-won progress, and even destroying the scientific data that documents it. Worse yet, he is using power and economic pressure to discourage other nations from pursuing green initiatives — thereby weakening the global fight against climate change.”

Galschiot’s spokesperson said the artist has no plans to create another Trump statue.

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