ICYMI: 'Pissing Pug' Artist Installs Life-Sized Donald Trump On Upper East Side

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — The artist behind the much-derided "Pissing Pug" art installation struck again Wednesday on the Upper East Side. Street artist Alex Gardega installed a life-size sculpture of Donald Trump on a Fifth Avenue park bench Wednesday morning, according to a picture he sent Patch.

Gardega's statue depicted Trump as a street artist. The fake bronze Trump is decked out in a business suit clutching a box of "Tweeties" cereal and seated next to portraits of world leaders such as Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un and media personalities Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.

The message of the art installation was not political in nature, Gardega told a Newsweek reporter, but instead a commentary on the power of Trump's favorite method of communication.

"It's not really a pro-Trump [or] anti-Trump thing," Gardega told Newsweek Wednesday. "I find it fascinating, the power of his tweets. His communication is almost an art form, the way it drives people crazy. Then I was like, 'What if he was a street artist?'"

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Though he forwarded a picture, Gardega was unavailable to comment Wednesday.

Gardega refers to his sculpture as "Trumpsy" and worked on the art piece for two months in his art studio, he told Newsweek.

The "Trumpsy" statue wasn't Gardega's first foray into New York City guerrilla art. In May, Gardega created "Pissing Pug," which depicted a tiny bronze dog urinating on the leg of "Fearless Girl," the widely popular art installation on Wall Street. Fearless Girl still stands across from the famed Wall Street "Charging Bull" statue.

Gardega said he put up the paper mache dog as a comment on the Fearless Girl's value.

"This is corporate nonsense," he told the New York Post. "It has nothing to do with feminism, and it is disrespect to the artist that made the bull."

Photo courtesy Alex Gardega