The sculptor behind the 15-foot-tall, more than $400,000 statue of President Donald Trump, currently erected at his golf club in Miami, said selling the White House on an additional $60k for gold-leafing was no problem.
Ohio-based artist Alan Cottrill had been commissioned by the team behind the cryptocurrency $PATRIOT to create a colossal bronze statue of the president for roughly $300,000. But he later had the idea to make the statue in gold – a signature of the president, Cottrill told The Daily Beast
