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The artist who created the naked statues of Donald Trump that popped up in major cities across the country said that when he started the project, he supported the Republican presidential candidate. 

The statues, were the brainchild of anarchist collective INDECLINE, who brought on Joshua 'Ginger' Monroe to actually create them because of his expertise in the 'horror' genre. 

'The objective was to source an artist who could accurately and skillfully capture both realistic and grotesque human attributes,' said INDECLINE, the self-described 'anonymous activist collective' that assigned Monroe his task in a statement Thursday, DNA Info reported. 

'Working exclusively in the 'horror' genre, 'Ginger' maintained a familiarity with creating monsters that translated perfectly when tasked with creating Donald Trump.' 

INDECLINE, which was founded in 2001, commissioned Monroe back in April to create the five life-size, nude states of Trump for a project called 'The Emperor Has No B***s'.

 

 

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These naked statues of Donald Trump, the brainchild of anarchist collective INDECLINE, popped up across major US cities on Thursday morning (pictured in San Francisco) 

 

 

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The statues were made by a Las Vegas-based artist named Joshua 'Ginger' Monroe, who specializes in making monsters for horror films and haunted houses 

The completed works appeared in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Cleveland and Seattle on Thursday morning, before authoritative figures in each city called for them to be taken down.