Donald Trump raised-fist photographs
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File:Shooting of Donald Trump.webp of the Associated Press on July 13, 2024, during an attempted assassination of Donald Trump]]
On July{{Spaces}}13, 2024, Evan Vucci, an American photojournalist, captured a series of photographs of Donald Trump—then a former president of the United States and the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party in the 2024 presidential election—raising his right fist with blood on his face, moments after Trump was shot in the ear during an assassination attempt at a political rally near Butler, Pennsylvania. In some photos, Trump's mouth is open as he chants "Fight!", while it is closed in others.
The photographs, taken by Vucci for the Associated Press, were widely shared on social media and received substantial press coverage. Their composition, featuring a prominent American flag behind Trump, was praised by commentators, who compared Vucci's photographs to several other iconic historical images and predicted that they would come to represent Trump and his 2024 election victory.
Background
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Donald Trump, then a former president of the United States who was the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party in the 2024 United States presidential election, held a rally for his presidential campaign near Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024.{{cite news |last=Bleiker |first=Carla |date=July 14, 2024 |title=Photo of bloodied, defiant Trump takes on patriotic meaning |url=https://www.dw.com/en/how-the-photo-of-trump-bloodied-and-with-fists-raised-becomes-patriotic-symbol-after-assassination-attempt/a-69656541 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240715125329/https://www.dw.com/en/how-the-photo-of-trump-bloodied-and-with-fists-raised-becomes-patriotic-symbol-after-assassination-attempt/a-69656541 |archive-date=July 15, 2024 |access-date=July 14, 2024 |work=Deutsche Welle}}{{cite news |last1=Frazier |first1=Kierra |last2=Herszenhorn |first2=Miles J. |date=July 13, 2024 |title=Photo of bloodied Trump fist pumping immediately spotlighted by his allies |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/13/republicans-back-trump-by-sharing-a-bloody-photo-of-the-former-president-00167980 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240713235814/https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/13/republicans-back-trump-by-sharing-a-bloody-photo-of-the-former-president-00167980 |archive-date=July 13, 2024 |access-date=July 14, 2024 |work=Politico}}{{Cite news |last=Parkes-Hupton |first=Heath |date=2024-07-14 |title=Stunning images capture assassination attempt on Donald Trump |url=https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-politics/stunning-images-capture-assassination-attempt-on-donald-trump/news-story/1b1df5974626caf9a93518718c8105d5 |url-status=live |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20240714093114/https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-politics/stunning-images-capture-assassination-attempt-on-donald-trump/news-story/1b1df5974626caf9a93518718c8105d5 |archive-date=2024-07-14 |access-date=2025-03-08 |work=News.com.au |language=en-GB}} Shortly after the rally began, Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire at Trump in an assassination attempt;{{cite news |last=Gray |first=Geordie |date=July 15, 2024 |title=How AP photographer Evan Vucci captured this defining news image of our era |url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/us-politics/how-ap-photographer-evan-vucci-captured-a-defining-image-of-our-era/news-story/a065dd5335dc04c2f206b3badb3b6610?amp&nk=10949a8720aa52acc0dd197adc0157c7-1721015683 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240715035344/https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/us-politics/how-ap-photographer-evan-vucci-captured-a-defining-image-of-our-era/news-story/a065dd5335dc04c2f206b3badb3b6610?amp&nk=10949a8720aa52acc0dd197adc0157c7-1721015683 |archive-date=July 15, 2024 |access-date=July 15, 2024 |work=The Australian}} Trump survived, though his ear was injured by a bullet, bloodying his face.{{cite news |last=Grover |first=Ashima |date=July 15, 2024 |title=Story of Trump's iconic image after the failed assassination, video captures how Evan Vucci got the shot |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/story-of-trumps-iconic-image-after-the-failed-assassination-video-captures-how-evan-vucci-got-the-shot-101720974907144.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240715053447/https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/story-of-trumps-iconic-image-after-the-failed-assassination-video-captures-how-evan-vucci-got-the-shot-101720974907144.html |archive-date=July 15, 2024 |access-date=July 15, 2024 |work=Hindustan Times}}{{cite news |last=Donastorg |first=Mirtha |date=July 14, 2024 |title=The photographer who captured this iconic image recounts the moment shots were fired at Donald Trump |url=https://www.ajc.com/politics/photographer-who-captured-iconic-image-recounts-the-moments-shots-were-fired-at-trump-rally/CHECH5GE6JAHTC57QNAP2ZVCVA/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240714204131/https://www.ajc.com/politics/photographer-who-captured-iconic-image-recounts-the-moments-shots-were-fired-at-trump-rally/CHECH5GE6JAHTC57QNAP2ZVCVA/ |archive-date=July 14, 2024 |access-date=July 14, 2024 |work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution}} No medical report has been released as of April 15, 2025.File:Evan Vucci by Gage Skidmore.jpg in August 2024]]Evan Vucci, the chief photojournalist of the Associated Press (AP) in Washington, D.C., was one of four photographers stationed in a buffer area near the stage where Trump spoke during the rally.{{cite news |last=Barr |first=Jeremy |date=July 15, 2024 |title='I have to do my job': Photojournalists capture images of Trump shooting |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/07/14/trump-shooting-photojournalists/ |access-date=July 15, 2024 |newspaper=The Washington Post}} Vucci had covered Trump since 2015 and had photographed hundreds of political rallies.{{cite magazine |last=Milstein |first=Kara |date=July 15, 2024 |title=Behind the Cover: Interview With the Photographer of the Trump Image |url=https://time.com/6998896/behind-the-cover-interview-evan-vucci-trump-photorgraph/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240715235336/https://time.com/6998896/behind-the-cover-interview-evan-vucci-trump-photorgraph/ |archive-date=July 15, 2024 |access-date=July 16, 2024 |magazine=Time}}{{Cite news |last=Gilbert |first=Sarah |last2=Saner |first2=Emine |date=2024-12-26 |title=The photographs that defined 2024 – and the stories behind them |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/dec/26/the-photographs-that-defined-2024-and-the-stories-behind-them |access-date=2025-03-08 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}} He previously covered the War in Afghanistan and the Iraq War,{{cite news |last=Oliphant |first=Roland |date=July 14, 2024 |title=Bloodied face, fist raised in defiance: how this image may win Trump the US presidency |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2024/07/14/bloodied-face-fist-raised-image-win-trump-presidency/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240714165453/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2024/07/14/bloodied-face-fist-raised-image-win-trump-presidency/ |archive-date=July 14, 2024 |access-date=July 15, 2024 |work=The Daily Telegraph}} and he took a well-known 2008 photograph of an Iraqi journalist throwing his shoes at then-U.S. president George W. Bush. In 2021, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography as part of an AP team covering the George Floyd protests.{{cite news |last=Harper |first=Tyler Austin |date=July 14, 2024 |title=A Legendary American Photograph |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/07/trump-assassination-attempt-evan-vucci/679011/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240714182359/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/07/trump-assassination-attempt-evan-vucci/679011/ |archive-date=July 14, 2024 |access-date=July 14, 2024 |work=The Atlantic}}
After shots began to be fired at the rally, Vucci saw United States Secret Service agents in Trump's security detail rush towards the former president, so he ran to find a better vantage point and began photographing. He later recounted that he "knew right away" that it was an attempt to assassinate Trump, and that he "knew it was a moment in American history and it had to be documented". Of the situation, Vucci recounted:
{{Blockquote|text=It was a situation where that vast experience absolutely does [prepare you]. To have that experience behind you sort of allows you to remain calm.{{nbsp}}... In my head, I just kept saying to myself, 'slow down, slow down. Compose, compose.' Okay, what's gonna happen next? What's going on here? What's going on there? Just trying to get every angle on it.}}
Composition
Evan Vucci's photographs show Trump moments after he stood up after being shot in the ear during an assassination attempt. His right fist is raised into the air in defiance and blood is streaked across his face. He is surrounded by Secret Service agents on his security detail, one of whom, Sean M. Curran, stares at the camera. A large flag of the United States waves in the background of the photos, in front of a clear blue sky. Trump holds a red MAGA hat that reads "Make America Great Again"—his signature slogan—in his left hand.{{cite magazine |last1=Wallace-Wells |first1=Benjamin |date=July 14, 2024 |title=The Attempt on Donald Trump's Life and an Image That Will Last |url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-attempt-on-donald-trumps-life-and-an-image-that-will-last |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240714024239/https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-attempt-on-donald-trumps-life-and-an-image-that-will-last |archive-date=July 14, 2024 |access-date=July 14, 2024 |magazine=The New Yorker}}{{cite news |last=Kennicott |first=Philip |author-link=Philip Kennicott |date=July 14, 2024 |title=A powerful photograph that could change America forever |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2024/07/14/trump-photograph-shooting/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240714203934/https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2024/07/14/trump-photograph-shooting/#selection-821.211-821.339 |archive-date=July 14, 2024 |access-date=July 14, 2024 |newspaper=The Washington Post |issn=0190-8286}}{{cite news |last=Nelson |first=Fraser |author-link=Fraser Nelson |date=July 14, 2024 |title=Evan Vucci's Trump photo will define (and perhaps shape) history |url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/that-photo-of-trump-will-define-history/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240715015836/https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/that-photo-of-trump-will-define-history/ |archive-date=July 15, 2024 |access-date=July 15, 2024 |work=The Spectator}} In some of Vucci's photographs, Trump's mouth is open as he either mouths{{cite news |last1=Layne |first1=Nathan |last2=Larson |first2=Soren |date=July 13, 2024 |title=Pop, pop, pop, then a bloodied Trump rushed from election rally |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pop-pop-pop-then-bloodied-trump-rushed-election-rally-2024-07-14/ |access-date=July 13, 2024 |work=Reuters}}{{cite news |last1=Orie |first1=Amarachi |last2=Liakos |first2=Chris |last3=Millman |first3=Andrew |date=July 14, 2024 |title=What was said on stage in the seconds after Trump was shot |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/14/politics/what-was-said-on-stage-after-trump-was-shot/index.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240714213547/https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/14/politics/what-was-said-on-stage-after-trump-was-shot/index.html |archive-date=July 14, 2024 |access-date=July 14, 2024 |work=CNN |publisher=}} or shouts "Fight!"; in other photos, Trump's lips are pursed.
Other photographers in the press gallery also took photos of Trump during the assassination attempt.{{Cite web |last=Almond |first=Kyle |date=2024-07-15 |title=How photographers captured the Trump assassination attempt |url=https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2024/07/politics/photographers-trump-shooting-cnnphotos/ |access-date=2025-03-08 |website=CNN}} A photograph by Doug Mills of The New York Times appeared to show a bullet streaking past Trump's head.{{Cite news |last=Ismay |first=John |date=2024-07-14 |title=Photo Appears to Capture Path of Bullet Used in Assassination Attempt |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/14/us/politics/photo-path-trump-assassination.html |access-date=2025-03-08 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web |date=2024-07-14 |title=Photographers capture frightening, fascinating angles to Trump shooting |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-shooting-photos-1.7263625 |access-date=2025-03-08 |website=CBC News}} Anna Moneymaker, a photographer for Getty Images, captured a photo of Trump on the ground with blood trickling over his face immediately after the shooting, underneath Secret Service agents who were on top of him.
In The Conversation, Sara Oscar described numerous elements she said made Vucci's work "such a powerful image": The agents form[ing] a triangular composition that places Trump at the vertex;{{nbsp}}... The agent draw[ing] us into the image, he looks back at us, he sees the photographer and therefore, he seems to see us;{{nbsp}}... Set against a blue sky, everything else in the image is red, white and navy blue. The trickles of blood falling down Trump's face are echoed in the red stripes of the American flag which aligns with the republican red of the podium."{{cite news |last=Oscar |first=Sara |date=July 15, 2024 |title=Elevation, colour – and the American flag. Here's what makes Evan Vucci's Trump photograph so powerful |url=https://theconversation.com/elevation-colour-and-the-american-flag-heres-what-makes-evan-vuccis-trump-photograph-so-powerful-234662 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240716143037/https://theconversation.com/elevation-colour-and-the-american-flag-heres-what-makes-evan-vuccis-trump-photograph-so-powerful-234662 |archive-date=July 16, 2024 |access-date=July 15, 2024 |work=The Conversation}}
Philip Kennicott, writing for The Washington Post, described Vucci's photographs as "Densely packed with markers of nationalism and authority" such as "the flag, the blood, the urgent faces of federal agents in dark suits". He described one of the closed-mouth photos as "strongly constructed, with aggressive angles that reflect the chaos and drama of the moment, and a powerful balance of color, all red, white and blue, including the azure sky above and the red-and-white decorative banner below. Trump seems to emerge from within a deconstructed version of its basic colors."
Reception and impact
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The photographs of Trump were quickly shared widely on the internet, circulated by Republicans and Trump's allies and appeared in internet memes.{{cite news |last=Farago |first=Jason |date=July 14, 2024 |title=The Photographs That Made Trump an Incarnation of Defiance |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/14/arts/design/trump-photo-raised-fist.html |access-date=January 25, 2025 |work=The New York Times}}{{Cite web |last=Grady |first=Constance |date=2024-07-15 |title=The pure media savvy of Trump's fist pump photo, explained by an expert |url=https://www.vox.com/culture/360711/trump-fist-pump-photo-explained-expert-media-savvy-politics |access-date=2025-03-08 |website=Vox |language=en-US}} The photos appeared on the front pages of newspapers across the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. Two days after the assassination attempt, Vucci's photos were called "already iconic"; Patrick Witty, a former photo editor at Time, The New York Times, and National Geographic, said "Without question, Evan's photo will become the definitive photo from the [assassination] attempt" because it "captures a range of complex details and emotions in one still image". AP customers used two of the photos 4,100 times the day after the shooting, compared to 700–800 times for a typical week's most-used photo.{{cite news |last=Bauder |first=David |date=2024-07-15 |title=In a world of moving pictures, photographs capture indelible moments in Trump assassination attempt |url=https://apnews.com/article/trump-photo-flag-iconic-bullet-f668b7dcc7b365a319a5daaac582775d |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240730102527/https://apnews.com/article/trump-photo-flag-iconic-bullet-f668b7dcc7b365a319a5daaac582775d |archive-date=July 30, 2024 |access-date=2024-07-18 |work=Associated Press}}
Many compared the photographs of Trump to historical patriotic images, most prominently Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, a 1945 photograph by Joe Rosenthal of U.S. Marines raising the American flag during World War II.{{cite web |last1=Jones |first1=Jonathan |date=15 July 2024 |title='Is this what a second Trump presidency will be like?' – our art critic on the chilling shooting image |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/jul/15/trump-presidency-shooting-image-assassination-attempt-art-critic |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240716141317/https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/jul/15/trump-presidency-shooting-image-assassination-attempt-art-critic |archive-date=July 16, 2024 |access-date=24 July 2024 |website=The Guardian}} The New York Times art and culture crisis Jason Farago said that Trump's raised first suggested "fearlessness and indomitability". He compared photos of the assassination attempt by Vucci, Mills, Moneymaker, and a Reuters photographer to historical paintings: Liberty Leading the People (1830) of the July Revolution in France by Eugène Delacroix; and The Death of Major Peirson (1783), by John Singleton Copley during the American Revolution.
The photographs were taken as evidence of Trump's strong media instincts because he understood the opportunity to leverage the crisis into a strong appearance even during the shock of the moment. On July 14, the day after the assassination attempt, Trump told The New York Post: "A lot of people say it's the most iconic photo they've ever seen. They're right and I didn't die. Usually you have to die to have an iconic picture."{{Cite news |last=Gross |first=Jenny |date=2024-07-15 |title=Trump Says He's Revised His Convention Speech in Wake of Shooting |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/15/us/politics/trump-shot-interviews.html |access-date=2025-03-08 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web |last=Bharade |first=Aditi |date=2024-07-14 |title=Trump says it's great he got such a nice photo after being shot at because 'usually you have to die to have an iconic picture' |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-glad-he-didnt-die-to-have-iconic-picture-2024-7 |access-date=2025-03-08 |website=Business Insider |language=en-US}} Trump's presidential campaign used images of the assassination attempt to solicit donations.{{Cite web |last=Singh |first=Kanishka |date=2024-07-15 |title=Trump website features image of his bloody face to raise funds |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-website-features-image-his-bloody-face-raise-funds-2024-07-15/ |access-date=2025-03-08 |website=Reuters}} In The Daily Telegraph, Roland Oliphant wrote that Trump "could not have looked more like an American hero if he tried", calling Vucci's photos "a product of world-class photojournalism—and also, perhaps, of Trump's innate political instincts."
The press gallery photographers were commended for their bravery in running towards the stage to take the photos after shots were fired. Axios writer Aïda Amer said that notable images by Vucci, Moneymaker, and Mills quickly became known in newsrooms as the "Evan photo", "Anna photo", and "the bullet photo", respectively.{{cite news |last=Amer |first=Aïda |date=2024-07-15 |title=How photographers view the photos of Trump's assassination attempt |url=https://www.axios.com/2024/07/16/trump-shooting-photos-photographers-view |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240717211210/https://www.axios.com/2024/07/16/trump-shooting-photos-photographers-view |archive-date=July 17, 2024 |access-date=2024-07-17 |work=Axios}} Amer also reported that "Multiple photographers worried privately that the images from the rally could turn into a kind of 'photoganda{{'"}} for Trump's campaign, and that one told her it was "dangerous" for the media to continue using the Vucci photo "despite how good it is", because it was "free P.R. for Trump" that made him a "martyr".
In Deutsche Welle, Carla Bleiker called one of Vucci's photographs an "image for the history books", describing it as a "declaration of defiance in the face of adversity" and noting the cultural importance of the U.S. flag in the image, especially for conservative Americans. Fraser Nelson of The Spectator wrote that "[any critic] would have instantly recognised" Vucci's photos as "a once-in-a-generation photograph—an image that will become one of the most potent in American politics and history" and "be remembered as one of the most important political photographs ever taken." He called Vucci's work photojournalism at its most powerful". In The Atlantic, Tyler Austin Harper said Vucci's photos "became immediately legendary", and that "However you feel about the man at its center, it is undeniably one of the great compositions in U.S. photographic history." He said that it was not "an exaggeration to say that the photo is nearly perfect, one captured under extreme duress and that distills the essence of a man in all his contradictions."
Jonathan Jones, an art critic writing for The Guardian, compared the photographs to "timeless patriotic images" including Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima and Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851) by Emanuel Leutze. Drawing similarities to religious works, including Descent from the Cross ({{Circa|1435}}) and The Entombment of Christ (1603–1604), he wrote: "There is something genuinely uncanny, not quite explicable, about this image: how a scene with such deep meanings and a positively religious suggestiveness can happen spontaneously." Philipp Kennicott said the pictures "could change America forever", predicting that it would encourage further political violence by "creat[ing] a reality more real than reality, transforming the chaos and messiness of a few moments of peril onstage in Pennsylvania into a surpassing icon of Trump's courage, resolve and heroism." Timothy Garton Ash wrote that the photograph would "change the course of history of the world", and commentators suggested it could help Trump win the 2024 election.
British journalist Piers Morgan wrote that Vucci's work was "Already one of the most iconic photographs in American history". Many other journalists expressed similar sentiments; Ashima Grover of Hindustan Times described one of the photos as a "legendary American photo for posterity", and in India Today, Yudhajit Shankar Das anticipated that Vucci's work would be considered a "defining photograph of U.S. history".{{cite news |last=Das |first=Yudhaji |date=July 14, 2024 |title=Trump shot, Evan Vucci shot him again, for a history-changing photo |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/donald-trump-rally-assassination-attempt-defiant-photo-associated-press-ap-photographer-evan-vucci-iconic-photograph-2566584-2024-07-14 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240715001424/https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/donald-trump-rally-assassination-attempt-defiant-photo-associated-press-ap-photographer-evan-vucci-iconic-photograph-2566584-2024-07-14 |archive-date=July 15, 2024 |access-date=July 14, 2024 |work=India Today}} The Washington Post writer Jeremy Barr also said Vucci's photos were "sure to go down in the pantheon of American photography", while Geordie Gray wrote in The Australian that the photos were "destined to become one of the defining images of our time". Writing for The New Yorker, Benjamin Wallace-Wells said the pictures were "already the indelible image of our era of political crisis and conflict." Discussing how the photographs depicted Trump, he concluded: "It is an image that captures him as he would like to be seen, so perfectly, in fact, that it may outlast all the rest."
Legacy
Trump went on to win the U.S. presidential election in November 2024; after his victory, The New York Times said that the "images of him bleeding after a failed assassination attempt became the symbol of what supporters saw as a campaign of destiny."{{Cite news |last=Goldmacher |first=Shane |last2=Haberman |first2=Maggie |last3=Swan |first3=Jonathan |date=2024-11-07 |title=How Trump Won, and How Harris Lost |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/07/us/politics/trump-win-election-harris.html |access-date=2025-03-08 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} In December 2024, The Guardian named Vucci's photograph of Trump after the assassination attempt one of the "photographs that defined 2024". Regarding the legacy of his photographs, Vucci said:
{{Blockquote|text=My job is to show you the world through my eyes. I try to do it professionally, fairly, and I feel like I did that in the moment. The reaction to the photograph afterwards is out of my control. As far as people saying that photograph won Trump the election, I would have to push back on that. I think people have very real problems and very real issues, and I feel that for someone to vote based on a photograph is ridiculous.}}
Ahead of the second inauguration of Trump on January 20, 2025, American sculptor Alan Cottrill unveiled Don Colossus, a {{Convert|15|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us|adj=on}} bronze statue of Trump modeled after Vucci's raised-fist photographs of Trump during the assassination attempt.{{Cite web |last1=Pavia |first1=Will |date=2025-01-03 |title='Don Colossus': why a 15ft bronze Trump statue will tower over Ohio |url=https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/donald-trump-statue-ohio-bronze-9lhnv8qbm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250118174251/https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/donald-trump-statue-ohio-bronze-9lhnv8qbm |archive-date=January 18, 2025 |access-date=2025-01-20 |work=The Times |language=en |df=mdy-all}}{{Cite web |last1=Lynch |first1=John |date=2025-01-20 |title=Ohio artist creates a 15-foot tall bronze statue of Donald Trump, 'Don Colossus' |url=https://www.wtrf.com/ohio/ohio-artist-creates-a-15-foot-tall-bronze-statue-of-donald-trump-don-colossus/ |access-date=2025-01-20 |work=WTRF |language=en-US |df=mdy-all}} The statue was commissioned by a group of Trump's supporters in August 2024, who paid Cottrill around $400,000 for the project; it is intended to "tour the country" before being permanently placed at the future Donald J. Trump Presidential Library.
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- [https://apnews.com/article/trump-rally-shooting-photo-gallery-561478b3f90c950c741eeaa24c6dc159 Gallery of photos taken during and after the attempted assassination of Trump] by the Associated Press
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