Pop-up exhibit? 43-foot naked Nevada Trump effigy vanishes after roadside ruckus

LAS VEGAS — Call it the pop-up that didn’t stay up.Not even 48 hours after word got out a 43-foot-tall nude effigy of Donald Trump hung suspended from a construction crane, the indecent artwork was gone.But for most of Saturday and Sunday, a mile or two off Interstate 15, a few hundred yards from the always-bustling Love’s Travel Stop just north of Sin City, the statue had people stopping and staring.But the trickle of spectators — just 27.5 miles from the towering Trump International Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip — leering at the lewd likeness of the former president couldn’t rival the thousands of supporters Trump commands in person at political stops.

Although it was hung well near a busy north-south highway connecting Las Vegas to Salt Lake City and points north, the figure was not easily seen from the roadway.That’s probably a good thing since the uncensored effigy had the potential to stop traffic and even cause accidents.That’s because the statue was what some would call “anatomically correct,” displaying the unknown artist’s concept of the very public billionaire’s private parts.The Trump image here materialized as smaller but equally graphic effigies of the 45th president are springing up in cities across the country, from New York’s Union Square to Los Angeles, Cleveland, Seattle and San Francisco.

It’s unknown if the different projects are unrelated or part of a sleazy series. But the Nevada version of Trump had a much more authentic-looking face than the closer-to-life-size naked Trumps an anarchist collective took credit for.TMZ reported the image is not supposed to be flattering.Citing sources “with direct knowledge” of the artwork’s creation, the online outlet said the piece is titled “Crooked and Obscene,” a reference to both the sculpture and its subject.There’s no visible identification of who placed the hanging artwork there, and public records indicate a trust registered in Las Vegas owns the eight-acre ...