A wax museum in Texas is forced to pull out its statue of former US President Donald Trump from display after it was repeatedly punched by visitors.

 

Louis Tussaud’s Waxworks in San Antonio, Texas, had to transfer Trump’s wax statue to a storage room because museum visitors kept attacking it. 

Clay Stewart —regional manager for Ripley Entertainment and museum owner— told San Antonio Express that some visitors punched and scratched the statue. The violent move inflicted so much damage that it had to be removed from public view.

“When it’s a highly political figure, attacks can be a problem,” Stewart said.

Last year, Madame Tussauds in Berlin put its wax statue of Trump in a dumpster ahead of the US presidential election. It was reportedly intended to reflect its expectations for the November polls. 

“We here at Madame Tussauds Berlin removed Donald Trump’s waxwork as a preparatory measure,” Orkide Yalcindag, the museum’s marketing manager said at the time. 

Trump left office with low approval ratings after the violent attack on the US Capitol last January 6.

According to a Gallup survey, conducted between 4-15 January, showed that only 34 percent of Americans approved of the job he did as president.

Trump’s average approval rating during his term was 41.1 percent, four points lower than for any of his predecessors since Gallup began gathering data.

Gallup also added that Trump is the only president not to register a 50 percent job approval rating at any point in his presidency since it began measuring presidential job approval in 1938.