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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nA 2.6-metre-tall statue of US president Donald Trump, naked and coated in 23-karat gold leaf, has been installed inside the European parliament in Strasbourg, France.Titled \u2018The Orange Plague\u2019, the sculpture by Danish artist Jens Galschi\u00f8t depicts Trump sitting on the shoulders of a frail, smaller man, with his thighs and sagging belly wrapped around the man\u2019s head. Trump holds a golf club in one hand and the scales of justice in the other. The work is also known as the \u201cKing of Injustice\u201d.The sculpture is a satirical critique of what Galschi\u00f8t sees as Trump\u2019s threats to the environment, international cooperation and the rules-based world order. The artist has said the US president is destroying the causes and institutions he believes in, including efforts to tackle climate change. The work also questions how political power is exercised and how its consequences are borne by those with less power.<\/p>\n The smaller man beneath Trump represents the burden imposed by the powerful on the less powerful.A plaque at the base of the sculpture captures the imbalance through the words: \u201cI 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.\u201dThe imagery suggests a leader who claims to help others while continuing to place the weight of his power and decisions on them.The golf club and scales of justice add to the political satire, juxtaposing Trump\u2019s personal image with the idea of justice. Its gold finish is also a deliberate choice: Galschi\u00f8t has pointed to Trump\u2019s fondness for gold, saying he believes the president might even like the sculpture.<\/p>\n Galschi\u00f8t has said the sculpture draws inspiration from Danish author Hans Christian Andersen\u2019s fairy tale \u2018The Emperor\u2019s New Clothes\u2019, in which a vain emperor parades through his city naked while those around him pretend he is wearing magnificent clothes.This is also not the first Trump sculpture to depict Trump naked based on a correlation with the fairy tale, a previous series of statues displayed across the US by an artist collective was also titled, \u2018The Emperor Has No Balls\u2019.By depicting Trump naked, Galschi\u00f8t seeks to ridicule the president and strip away the image of authority surrounding him. \u201cDictators don\u2019t like you laughing at them,\u201d the artist said, explaining the thinking behind the work.Galschi\u00f8t is known for provocative political art. His best-known works include the Pillar of Shame, a memorial to victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre that was controversially removed from a Hong Kong university in 2021. He has drawn a parallel between the two works, saying both concern the relationship between the powerful and the powerless.<\/p>\n The exhibition was sponsored by Danish politician Per Clausen, a member of the European parliament\u2019s left-wing group, The Left. Members of the European Parliament are entitled to sponsor cultural events and exhibitions on parliamentary premises, subject to approval by officials. The sculpture\u2019s installation therefore does not amount to an official endorsement of its message by the European Union.Clausen said he wanted to encourage debate about how power is used around the world and how Europe can protect its interests without becoming dependent on Trump. He defended the exhibition as an opportunity to display work that not everyone might agree with.Galschi\u00f8t, who had feared the application would be rejected, viewed the approval as an opportunity to bring criticism of Trump into the European Parliament. He said many Europeans regard the US president\u2019s conduct as a serious problem, even if they recognise that he is the leader of an important ally.<\/p>\n The sculpture has previously been displayed at the Munich Security Conference and the COP30 United Nations climate conference in Bel\u00e9m, Brazil, in November 2025. It was also shown at demonstrations in Copenhagen earlier in 2026 calling for Greenland to be protected from US ambitions.The Strasbourg installation was accompanied by 3D-printed miniature versions of the sculpture, distributed to visitors as \u201cprotest tokens\u201d. The artist has said he produced around 20,000 miniatures for distribution to visitors and European Parliament staff.The temporary exhibition in Strasbourg is expected to remain on display until Thursday. Galschi\u00f8t plans to exhibit the sculpture again at the COP31 climate conference in Antalya, Turkey, next month. Trump has not publicly commented on the artwork.<\/div>\n File photo: Visitors looks at a scupture titled “The Orange Plague” by Danish artist Jens Galschiot A 2.6-metre-tall statue of US president Donald Trump, naked and coated in 23-karat gold leaf, has been installed inside the European parliament in Strasbourg, France.Titled \u2018The Orange Plague\u2019, the sculpture by Danish artist Jens Galschi\u00f8t depicts Trump sitting on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-31"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/france-eu.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/france-eu.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/france-eu.jpg","large":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/france-eu.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/france-eu.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/france-eu.jpg","blogsy-small":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/france-eu.jpg","blogsy-small-tall":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/france-eu.jpg","blogsy-small-square":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/france-eu.jpg","blogsy-small-masonry":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/france-eu.jpg","blogsy-medium":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/france-eu.jpg","blogsy-medium-masonry":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/france-eu.jpg","blogsy-large":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/france-eu.jpg","blogsy-wide":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/france-eu.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"admin","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8709732a479614e7a8aa24d3eb1b239f30dc6d90c61464ed495001e7a469d856?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"0","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"File photo: Visitors looks at a scupture titled “The Orange Plague” by Danish artist Jens Galschiot A 2.6-metre-tall statue of US president Donald Trump, naked and coated in 23-karat gold leaf, has been installed inside the European parliament in Strasbourg, France.Titled \u2018The Orange Plague\u2019, the sculpture by Danish artist Jens Galschi\u00f8t depicts Trump sitting on […]","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["\u0b26\u0b47\u0b36 \u0b2c\u0b3f\u0b26\u0b47\u0b36"],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":1,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":4,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/france-eu.jpg",400,225,false],"medium":["https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/france-eu.jpg",300,169,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/france-eu.jpg",150,84,false]},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/author\/admin"},"magazine_blocks_comment":0,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8709732a479614e7a8aa24d3eb1b239f30dc6d90c61464ed495001e7a469d856?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"\u0b26\u0b47\u0b36 \u0b2c\u0b3f\u0b26\u0b47\u0b36<\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What does the statue symbolise?<\/b><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Why is Trump depicted naked?<\/b><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Why has the statue been installed at the European Parliament?<\/b><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Where else has \u2018The Orange Plague\u2019 been displayed?<\/b><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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