Ax-Wielding Vandal Defaces Trump's Walk of Fame Star

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Source: NBC

Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was damaged again early Wednesday — but this time, the celestial symbol was smashed beyond recognition, video of the vandalism appears to show. The star — located near Los Angeles' Dolby Theatre, where the Oscars are held — was defaced at around 5:45 a.m. local time, Deadline.com first reported.

A video obtained by the site shows a man in a construction worker's vest and surrounded by traffic cones and barriers using a pick-ax to pulverize Trump's pink terrazzo and brass star. The man told Deadline that he was trying to remove the object so that he could auction it off in support of the nearly dozen women who have accused the GOP presidential nominee of sexual assault in decades past. Trump has denied all of the claims.

Los Angeles police told NBC Los Angeles it was investigating the vandalism and there were no immediate reports of an arrest. Trump first received the star in January 2007, while he was still hosting his reality TV show, "The Apprentice."

Since running for president, the star has been targeted. It was defaced with graffiti of a reverse swastika and a mute symbol. In July, an artist placed a miniature razor-wire wall around the star — a reference to Trump's campaign pledge to build a real-life wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.



Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/ax-wielding-vandal-defaces-trump-s-walk-fame-star-n673226

[onehandle]

1. Trump's done far more damage than that to his own brand. nt

[TeamPooka]

2. Not cool. Vandalism and violence are to be rejected.

[Cooley Hurd]

3. Probably Phil Parlock's son...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/top10/04/171.html

[zonkers]

6. Parlock!.... ghost of DU past.

[Lint Head]

4. Vandalism is wrong and only reflects on the vandal.

But the serial sexual assaulter has brought this onto himself. His vile and violent language results in violence. For every action there is a reaction.

[Astraea]

5. Hosting a reality show gets you a star?

That's the news here. They set the bar pretty low.

[monmouth4]

7. I'm thinking some money was exchanged..n/t

[bathroommonkey76]

9. I think celebrities pay a few thousand

to get a star on the Walk of Fame.

[SwankyXomb]

15. $30,000 is the going rate.

[moonscape]

20. Maybe the star was being repossessed for non-payment n/t

[Moonwalk]

17. A star on the Walk of fame simply means the person is a famous person....

...in radio, television or movies. Not that they are a great or amazing person in any of those fields. And you do have to pay for it. Which benefits the city as the Walk of Fame is a tourist attraction--the famous person pays for it (not the city), and then tourists visit their famous person's star, and the city gets tourist money. So. Really, anyone in radio, television or movies, who is well-known enough to get tourists visiting the star, and who pays up, can get the star. That's the level of the bar here. It's not awarded like an Emmy or Academy Award for doing some kind of superior or groundbreaking work in movies, television or radio.

[cstanleytech]

21. Bob Barker has one as well so do Pat Sajak, Vanna White and Alex Trebek so

its not just limited to actors.

[bathroommonkey76]

8. Wash Post has a video of him

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/10/26/video-shows-donald-trumps-hollywood-walk-of-fame-star-destroyed/

[DinahMoeHum]

10. For those who cannot access the Washington Post

[Demonaut]

11. A pickaxe is not a true axe, it's a digging tool

[progressoid]

12. Idiot.

[riversedge]

14. miniature border wall a Los Angeles artist built around Donald Trump's star -from the OP....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/10/26/video-shows-donald-trumps-hollywood-walk-of-fame-star-destroyed/


This video from July 2016 shows the miniature border wall a Los Angeles artist built around Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. (Reuters)

[ailsagirl]

16. Very uncool.

Violence is anathema

[Lebam in LA]

18. Not cool

Vandalism is never ok

[OrwellwasRight]

22. Not sure I agree.

I would approve of vandalism performed by the French resistance in Nazi occupied France, by the ANC in apartheid-era South Africa, and by the FMLN during the right wing dictatorship of El Salvador, just to name a few.

[GreydeeThos]

19. I hope the pick-ax did not sustain any damage.

When the pick-ax comes up for sale on EBay, it will be interesting to see what it sells for.

[jmowreader]

23. Don't lie, asshole

If he REALLY wanted to "auction it off in support" of ANYONE, he would have pried the fucking thing out of the ground. They're just sitting on a bed of sand.