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Donald Trump's Hollywood Star Put Behind Bars By Repeat Offender

Donald Trump's Hollywood Star Put Behind Bars By Repeat Offender

It's been a matter of months since the Hollywood star was last destroyed and this time wooden bars have been attached to it on the ground

Rebecca Shepherd

Rebecca Shepherd

Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was 'behind bars' for a brief period after a repeat vandal defaced it - yet again.

Back in July the US President's star was destroyed by someone using a pickaxe to smash it to pieces.

Thought no one could top that? Well, on Wednesday, a street artist known as 'Plastic Jesus' placed wooden bars designed to resemble a jail cell over the star, according to the Los Angeles Times - and posted a photo with the caption: "Trump behind bars. Finally".

The UK-born artist told the New York Post: "I feel that Trump should be jailed for his corruption."

Plastic Jesus has also build a tiny wall around the star in the past, a reference to Trump's proposed border wall with Mexico.

He told CNN: "I try to do my pieces in a way which doesn't vandalise the Walk of Fame too much."

The video above shows the result of the incident in July when a vandal, 24-year-old Austin Clay, took a pickaxe disguised in a guitar case to the Hollywood tourist spot.

At around 3.30am he took to it with the axe and one witness, Patricia Cox, told CBS Chicago: "I just seen a guy going to town on, I guess, the ground or whatever. I didn't know what was going on."

In October 2016, weeks before Trump won the presidential election, another man posing as a construction worker took a sledgehammer and pickaxe to the star.

FOX 5 San Diego

Activist, James Otis, 53, was spared jail after he pleaded no contest to a felony charge of vandalism with regards to the 2016 attack.

The Express reported that Otis wanted to auction off the pieces of the damaged star and give the money to the women who claimed they had been sexually assaulted by Trump.

He was sentenced to three years probation, 20 days community service and ordered to pay $4,400 (£3,300) for the damage.

In the past the star, which is located in the popular tourist spot, has been covered in dog faeces and spat on by passers-by angered by the President's policies.

Trump's star is one of more than 2,600 embedded in pavements along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood and it draws more than 10 million visitors a year.

Featured Image Credit: Twitter/Plastic Jesus/@plasticjesusart

Topics: US News, US President, Donald Trump, Hollywood, Politics