Robert Evans

Yes.

It was several people's whole year.

The guy behind it is artist Fabrizio Galli, who created it as a critique of Trump's presidency.

Some of this is obvious if you like really look at the details of the statue.

There are like four blue Twitter birds flying around the sword handle.

The emperor – like this is based off of like a drawing –

in several drawings of the emperor where, which is he's guys wearing huge, a huge golden suit of power armor with like Eagle's wings on it.

He's got a massive flaming sword.

Everything about him is gold.

Often he has glorious, long flowing hair, the kind that Trump doesn't.

But yeah, in the float, this big sword he had, there's like Twitter birds flying around the handle, which Fabrizio put there to make the point that Trump had weaponized Twitter against his enemies.

And written on the blade in Italian was the phrase, your taxes and your duties.

And the specific way that these were written in Italian was meant to be like, bring up a different phrase, which Galley summarized as meaning, here's your fucking tariffs, right?

Like that's the, the blade is the tariffs, which is kind of like,

that he really picked those out as being a weapon in a way they weren't nearly as much in 2019 as they are now.

Here's your fucking tariffs with a literal sword.

Yeah.

Fabrizio said of this, quote, it's a joke, but in fact, he's trying to destroy nations with the economy instead of nuclear missiles.

This is one of the strongest actions, let's say, that powerful people like Trump can use.

So we'll go back to Fabrizio in a bit.