Nevada Republicans reject 43-foot-tall naked Trump effigy as 'deplorable' | Donald Trump

A 43-foot-long effigy of a completely naked Donald Trump on the highway from Las Vegas to Reno, Nevada, has been dismissed as “deplorable” and “pornographic” by the state's Republicans.

In a statement, the Nevada Republican Party said it “strongly condemns” the former president's effigy, which hangs from a crane, weighs 6,000 pounds, is made of foam and rebar, is titled “Crooked and Obscene,” and is expected to go to the Prison will be taken to other cities as part of a nationwide tour.

“As families drive through Las Vegas, they are forced to view this offensive puppet, intentionally designed for shock value rather than meaningful dialogue,” the party's statement said, citing the name of a city that which was essentially founded to capitalize on gambling and sex.

The artists behind the graphic image – who wished to remain anonymous – told the Wrap that Trump's nudity “was intentional and served as a bold statement about transparency, vulnerability and the public role of political figures.”

Political battles over statues have become increasingly heated and have become a feature of the Trump era after he won the presidency in 2016.

For example, in the Southern states where the Confederacy was based, hundreds of statues paying tribute to the white supremacist Confederacy that lost the U.S. Civil War have collapsed following a spate of police killings against black Americans came.

The Trump image and accompanying insult to Republicans drew attention days after he boasted about his “beautiful body” at a political rally in Wisconsin. It was dissolved on Monday with plans to move it to other swing states in the November presidential election, where Trump is seeking a return to the White House as the Republican nominee.

The Las Vegas sculpture came eight years after artist Joshua “Ginger” Monroe created Trump statues that, he told a Cleveland news outlet, took four to five months of strenuous work to create. He described it as “a hateful job of creating this monstrosity.”

The following year, Monroe told Cleveland Magazine, “The reason we show Trump's veins.” [is] to show a visible display of his thin skin.”

At the same time, a 16-foot-tall effigy of Trump's rival in the November presidential race, Kamala Harris, was installed at the United States Funhouse in West Hartford, Connecticut. The depiction comes from Matt Warshauer, a professor and political historian at Central Connecticut State University – and compares Harris to the Statue of Liberty.

Warshauer says he doesn't see Harris — whose statue is flanked by Halloween skeletons and ghouls — as “a fundamental threat to the system.”

“I see them as a stable force,” he said.

A statement on the statue suggests that it may be the last of Warshauer's annual political appearances. It describes the piece as “the last year of political Halloween.”