Pickax Trump Star Vandal Admits Why He Did It, Claims Robert De Niro Has His Back
Early Wednesday, a man took a pickax to President Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame star and
totally destroyed it according to Los Angeles police Officer Ray Brown.
It's not the first time it has been vandalized and it's not even the first time it's
been destroyed.
But the vandal, Austin Clay, 24, certainly did the most thorough job of taking it out
this time.
Online records of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department list Clay as released early Thursday
morning after being charged with a felony offense.
His next court date is scheduled for Aug. 15.
Clay claims he was so fed up with Trump that he felt compelled to do what he did.
He's not sorry and he's happy he did it too.
Clay is proudly owning it, as stated in an exclusive interview with TMZ.
He says what pushed him over the edge was the president's treatment of immigrant families
and their children.
Clay felt that destroying Trump's star was the perfect way to send a message to the President
of the United States.
Not so much.
It doesn't seem like this sends any kind of message that Trump will or should listen
to and the star has already been restored.
What I don't understand is why no one stopped this guy.
Someone had to see him do it even if it was at night.
Then again, we are talking Hollywood here and perhaps no one cared.
Patricia Cox, a witness, told CNN affiliate KCAL/KCBS that she saw a man "going to town"
on the ground "like it was his business just to be tearing up the ground," she said.
"I thought it was work going on over here."
Video from KCAL/KCBS shows tourists taking photos of the defaced star in front of the
Hollywood & Highland center, a major tourist spot in Hollywood.
Clay and his girlfriend say that his pickax caught the attention of a couple of celebrities,
including noted Trump foe Robert De Niro.
He's certainly no fan of The Donald and lets it be known every chance he gets these
days.
I'm not exactly sure how this caught De Niro's attention or what the backstory is
here.
But we'll probably hear about it at some future point in time.
Clay seems to be claiming that De Niro has his back and left him a voice message.
We'll see.
This guy certainly seems to like the attention.
You can see his video admission here when a TMZ reporter caught up with him.
CNN Politics has the details of what led up to this recent interview with Clay:
"Trump's star has repeatedly been the target of vandalism and protests since the
reality TV star's turn to politics.
In April 2016, a Superman impersonator on Hollywood Boulevard said he had seen visitors
make obscene gestures next to the star, deface it with paint and allow a dog to relieve itself
on the landmark.
""People often stomp with anger on the star, others kick their heels over the star,
and some spit.
The last time, someone put a sticker over the star," Francisco Javier, another street
performer who was dressed like Superman, said at the time.
"A street artist constructed a tiny wall around Trump's star in July 2016, and that
October Los Angeles police arrested a man who they said vandalized the star with a sledgehammer
and a pickax."
Clay was arrested around 3 am on Wednesday.
He called the police himself.
Hollywood division officers responded to the call at 3:33 am to the tourist area.
He was arrested on suspicion of felony vandalism.
James Otis, who destroyed Trump's Hollywood star in 2016, offered to pay Clay's $20,000
bail, but someone else paid it first.
It's not known who that was at this point.
Otis is an heir to the Otis Elevator Co., which is one of the largest elevator and escalator
companies in the world.
It costs $3,000 to replace Trump's star and the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce will
be going after Clay for the bill.
Leron Gubler, who is the president and CEO of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, said
in a statement that the Walk of Fame is "an institution celebrating the positive contributions
of the inductees.
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," Gubler said.
"Our democracy is based on respect for the law.
People can make a difference by voting and not destroying public property."
All true except the 'democracy' part… we are a republic.
By early Wednesday afternoon, construction workers were busily mixing concrete to replace
the destroyed star.
Tourists and residents leaned over the yellow caution tape surrounding the star to snap
photos and selfies of where it had been.
SMH.
Gregg Donovan, the former official greeter for Beverly Hills, stood near the star all
day, holding a "Trump 2020" sign and wearing a red coat and top hat.
Donovan said when he heard the news on the radio about Trump's star, he decided to
take the day off and instead spend it showing his support for the president by standing
sentinel.
He even snagged a piece of the destroyed star — a few people offered him money to buy
it, but he wasn't selling.
"If you're going to protest, don't protest a California landmark," Donovan said.
"You are free to speak your mind, but why do that?
It's bad.
It's wrong."
Others in all kinds of costumes took advantage of the attention as well.
It is, after all, Hollywood.
However, the action was not met with overwhelming approval this time.
Even Hollywood liberals thought the defacement went too far.
In the end, what Clay did says far more about him than President Trump.
The star has been replaced and Trump is still making America great again.
Clay, not so much.
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