Council votes to kick Donald Trump’s star off of the Hollywood Walk of Fame
The West Hollywood City Council has decided that Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame has been destroyed one too many times, so they voted against replacing it.
The West Hollywood City Council has decided that Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame has been destroyed one too many times, so they voted against replacing it. The star was recently defaced by a man with a pick-axe.
West Hollywood mayor John Duran tweeted that the council voted to remove Trump’s star altogether, in a last-ditch effort to prevent vandals from hammering away on the star once again.
“West Hollywood City council unanimously passes resolution asking the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce to remove the Donald Trump star on Hollywood Walk of Fame,” he tweeted Monday night.
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Last month, a man named Austin Mikel Clay took a pickax to Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and smashed it to smithereens—and this is the second time this year that the star has been vandalized.
Back in 2016, another man, James Lambert Otis, smashed Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Blvd Walk of Fame with a pickaxe too.
Now that the recommendation to remove the star has been made, it’s up to the Los Angeles City Council and Hollywood Chamber of Commerce to decide if they will make the removal of the star a reality.
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Bill Cosby’s Walk of Fame Star
Don’t hold your breath either. When people called for Bill Cosby’s star to be removed from the Walk of Fame and erased from its history, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce disagreed.
“The Hollywood Walk of Fame is an institution celebrating the positive contributions of the inductees,” Hollywood Chamber of Commerce president Leron Gubler said in a statement to Entertainment Weekly.
“When people are unhappy with one of our honorees, we would hope that they would project their anger in more positive ways than to vandalize a California State landmark. Our democracy is based on respect for the law. People can make a difference by voting and not destroying public property.”
