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Gold Donald Trump statue installed at Doral ahead of PGA Tour’s return to president’s golf course

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The PGA Tour is returning to Trump National Doral this week for what will be the inaugural playing of the Cadillac Championship. While at this point it’s unclear if President Donald Trump will be making an appearance at the signature event, his presence will not only be felt, it will be unavoidable.

Amid the final touches and upgrades being made to the Doral property ahead of Thursday’s opening round, a statue was erected on the grounds. And it wasn’t just any statue, but one of President Trump throwing his fist in the air following the July 2024 assassination attempt on his life in Pennsylvania.

And yes, it’s gold.

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A golden statue of the sitting president being installed to more or less overlook the golf course, as it plays host to a $20 million purse, signature event on the PGA Tour, is already unique.

However, the details and story surrounding the statue itself take things to another level of bonkers.

According to The Columbus Dispatch, a Zanesville, Ohio, sculptor by the name of Alan Cottrill was commissioned for the project in August 2024, the month following the assassination attempt on the president.

$PATRIOT, a cryptocurrency group, commissioned the work to be done, and that is where, allegedly, things get a bit dicey.

According to the report, Cottrill was paid $300,000 for the 15-foot bronze statue itself and another $60,000 for the gold leafing. The project got held up after Cottrill accused the crypto group of copyright infringement after it used the likeness of the artwork to sell crypto tokens.

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Cottrill held the statue in an unknown location in Muskingum County, east of Columbus, until full payment was received and an agreement was reached. All parties came to terms last week, and Cottrill drove the Trump statue from Ohio to Miami on a flatbed trailer before he installed it on a pedestal overlooking the resort’s multiple golf courses.

So, not only is there a large golden statue of President Trump overlooking a golf course set to host a PGA Tour event, but one that was being hidden from the public due to alleged copyright infringement involving a crypto company.

We’re not even close to the halfway point of 2026, but it has already been quite the year.

It’s a safe assumption that the new statue will still be in place at Doral in December for the G-20 Summit, where leaders from around the world will get a glimpse at the golden work amid discussions about the economy and the climate.

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Massive fire destroys University of South Florida laboratory building: ‘Total loss’

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A massive fire broke out Saturday afternoon at a laboratory building on the University of South Florida campus in St. Petersburg, authorities said.

Campus police said fire crews were called to the Marine Science Laboratory building for a structure fire.

No injuries have been reported, and the building was safely evacuated, police said.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.

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Large plumes of gray smoke were seen rising from the building late Saturday.

According to the Tampa Bay Times, students and staff were alerted to the fire shortly before 6 p.m.

The school sent an alert reading: “Urgent Alert. Fire reported in MSL, Marine Science Lab. Evacuate building. Avoid area. Emergency personnel responding.”

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St. Petersburg Fire Chief Michael Lewis said more than 60 units and about 200 firefighters responded to the scene.

Lewis said around 9 p.m. that the fire was largely extinguished but that the building is likely “a total loss.”

“The entire roof has burned off,” he said, according to the report.

USF police said it will provide additional updates as more information becomes available.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Cameraman gets caught risking it all to film World Cup’s ‘sexiest fan’ in the Formula 1 paddock

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Sometimes we forget how hard it is to be a cameraman. You’ve got to focus on what you’re supposed to be shooting and block out all other distractions.

Of course, sometimes a little eye candy comes along and slips through the goalie, and that’s what happened to one cameraman — and you’ll see in a second why I’m fairly certain it was a cameraman — working in the Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix paddock.

Hey, he’s only human.

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After Friday’s Sprint Qualifying session, UK broadcaster Sky Sports was doing some analysis with 2009 World Champion Jenson Button, former driver Naomi Schiff and presenter Simon Lazenby.

However, their coverage was somewhat interrupted when the cameraman got a little distracted by a certain paddock guest.

I bet a couple of husbands got dirty looks from the missus when they yelled, “Hey, that’s Ivana Knoll!”

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That’s right, internet sleuths were quick to identify the 2018 World Cup’s “sexiest fan.”

Which is a heck of a title. Do you realize how many people were at that?!

The cameraman managed to get back on track, although it was probably good that one McLaren mechanic wasn’t handling any power tools when Knoll walked by.

That could’ve been disastrous.

I do think Knoll knew what she was doing. One does not stumble into the title of “sexiest fan.”

That’s not the kind of outfit you usually see in a busy paddock with tools and pieces of cars and big stacks of tires all over the place. But Knoll knew there would be cameras, and dammit, where there’s sports and cameras, there’s “World Cup sexiest fan” Ivana Knoll.

Maybe she’ll get a little more facetime at Sunday’s Grand Prix. It was announced on Saturday night that the race’s start time has been moved up three hours to 1 p.m. ET, in an attempt to avoid inclement weather later in the day.

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Trump on Iran Missile Capability: ‘I’d Like to Eliminate It’

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President Donald Trump addressed reporter questions Saturday as he prepared to board a plane, outlining his current posture on Iran’s latest proposal while indicating potential future military and diplomatic steps amid an ongoing standoff.

The post Trump on Iran Missile Capability: ‘I’d Like to Eliminate It’ appeared first on Breitbart.

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