In India, One Man Literally Prays to an Uncanny Sculpture He Made of Donald Trump, His ‘God’

As US President Donald Trump prepares for his first visit to
India, one man is ready to welcome him with open arms. Bussa Krishna, age 33, literally worships
Trump, going so far to erect a six-foot statue of the
reality-TV-star-turned-politician outside his home for devotional
purposes.

“It took almost a month and 15 laborers to build this statue,”
Krishna told Asian News
International, an Indian news agency. “[Trump] is like a God to
me, that is the reason I had his statue built.”

The statue depicts Trump in a blue suit with a red tie, right
hand raised in a signature thumbs up. As in common in depictions of
Hindu gods in art, Trump has pink skin, accentuated by applications
of bright red sindoor powder on the statue’s forehead (a Hindu
religious mark known as a tilak).

Krishna, who lives in the village of Konne in Telengana, near
Hyderabad, makes offerings at the custom shrine every day, in a
bizarre take on Hinduism’s traditional puja prayer ritual. He began
the practice four years ago, after Trump allegedly appeared to him
in a dream.

His family does not approve. “I am facing difficulties because
of my relatives,” Krishna told Reuters. “They tell me
that I am disgracing them in society. I told them that just like
you believe and worship Shiva, I believe and worship Trump.”

Krishna’s devotion to the US president first made headlines
in 2018. Back then, he
restricted himself to a small shrine featuring Trump’s photograph.
Now, in addition to the statue, he has written Trump’s last name
over and over again on the walls surrounding his property.

The statue is part of a small but growing tradition of
outlandish Outsider art dedicated to the president. In Staten
Island, artist Scott LoBaido erected
a giant “T” statue in
Trump’s honor ahead of the 2016 election. A strange wooden statue
of what appeared to be Trump in the style of the Statue of Liberty
appeared in a Slovenian
village.

Both works were burned to the
ground by those who hate the controversial president.
(LoBaido quickly rebuilt a second, larger version.) Melania Trump,
meanwhile, got her own chainsaw
sculpture in her native Slovenia.

Trump will arrive in India for a two-day trip on February 24,
and Krishna is hopeful he’ll have the chance to come face-to-face
with his idol.

“I wish to meet him, I request the government to make my dream
come true,” said Krishna to ANI.

See more photos of Krishna at his Trump shrine below.

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