More anti-Trump statues are popping up across US. Anonymous artist attached to the project says there could be more

It started with a bronze replica of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk on the National Mall in Washington, DC – topped with a basketball-sized poop. Now, anti-Trump statues are popping up in more US cities.

It started with a bronze replica of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk on the National Mall in Washington, DC – topped with a basketball-sized poop. Now, anti-Trump statues are popping up in more US cities. The latest appeared in Philadelphia’s Maja Park Wednesday morning, where someone positioned a roughly eight-foot statue of Donald Trump directly behind a sculpture of a nude woman. A plaque below – titled “In honor of a lifetime of sexual assault” – quotes the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape leaked in 2016, when Trump could be heard discussing sexually assaulting women. “I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait,” the plaque reads. “And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.” That sculpture didn’t last long. Philadelphia city crews removed it around noon Wednesday after they were notified of its appearance because the artists did not have a permit, according to Laura Griffith, deputy director of the association for public art. A seemingly identical Trump statue popped up in downtown Portland, Oregon, last weekend. That one was quickly beheaded and vandalized, with a Portland city council candidate and Trump supporter filming video of himself chiseling away at the plaque. The destroyed statue vanished Monday morning. CNN received a call Thursday morning from a man who claims he’s spearheading this political art project. The man, insisting he remain anonymous to keep the focus on the art, tells CNN he’s working with a small group. “It’s not huge. Just a few people,” he said. And their message is all about “resistance fatigue.”