NY congressional GOP hopeful gifted Trump $250K bronze statue of his attempted assassination Defiance
President Trump’s bond with likely New York lawmaker Anthony Constantino is already set — in bronze.Constantino, who got Trump’s endorsement to fill the seat of retiring upstate Rep.Elise Stefanik (R-NY), gifted a $250,000 bronze statue capturing his defiant fist-pump moments after surviving the 2024 assassination attempt in Butler, Pa., the president’s latest financial disclosure reveals.Having won the Republican primary in last month’s election, Constantino is likely headed to Washington to represent the Republican-leaning district.
His vote will be vital if Republicans manage to keep the House they hold by a narrow margin.Called “The Defiance Moment,” the statute captures Trump with a raised fist, although it doesn’t exactly reproduce the moment after Thomas Matthew Crooks shot him.He paid for the statue “to commemorate the moment President Trump was shot, rose up, and said ‘fight, fight, fight’ because it was an important moment in American history and in my own life,” Constantino told The Post Friday.Constantino, the CEO of Sticker Mule who placed a 100-foot “Vote for Trump” sign atop his factory during the 2024 campaign, traveled to Florida to see the statue’s installation in April 2025.Trump had it placed in front of the pro shop at his Trump National Golf Club in West Palm Beach.But the president, who has taken a keen interest in monumental Washington since his return to office, ordered up a change to the 7-foot statue, revealed sculptor George Lundeen.“The president looked at it.
He thought maybe a little bit redder tie would look better on him.I said okay,” he told The Post.
He applied a “special patina” during a second trip that did the trick.“He’s a perfectionist .
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We spruced it up a little bit,” said Steven C.Barber, an LA filmmaker who helped arrange it and calls himself monument commissioner for Trump.Lundeen, 77, who collaborated with his brother, Mark, and sculptor Joey Bainer on the project, pre...