Video taking off 11x its usual first day

Trump protest art stretches from Washington to the European Parliament

Really American's Steve Harness pairs "The Foot Soldier" with a Danish artist's sculpture in a commentary video that passed a million views.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 1,339,396 views a day, 11 times a normal first day on this channel (118,137).

This New Trump Statue Is Going VIRAL

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0:48A satirical commercial introduces the video's criticism of Trump's military-service record.
2:09"The Foot Soldier" shows Trump inspecting his foot, accompanied by a toe mascot named Toey.
3:22Harness reads the Washington statue's satirical plaque.
4:06Archival footage shows James Mattis responding to Trump's description of him as an overrated general.
8:59A report shows Jens Galschiøt's "The Orange Plague" displayed at the European Parliament.

Steve Harness starts with a statue of Donald Trump inspecting his foot and ends with another sculpture across the Atlantic. Between them, Really American's host assembles a pointed collection of protest art, satirical advertising and archival criticism of the president.

The upload, "This New Trump Statue Is Going VIRAL," drew about 1.3 million views in its first day, more than eleven times the channel's usual opening audience for regular videos. This is political commentary built around other people's footage, rather than a straight news report of the installation.

The Washington sculpture, "The Foot Soldier," appears just over two minutes in, accompanied by a toe mascot named Toey. Harness presents the work as a protest by The Secret Handshake ahead of Veterans Day. Its foot-inspection pose and satirical plaque target Trump's military-service record, a theme the video extends through a spoof commercial and archival appearances by James Mattis and Jesse Ventura.

Mattis supplies a particularly recognizable cultural reference, responding to Trump's description of him as an overrated general: "So I guess I'm the Meryl Streep of generals."

Harness later turns to footage of "The Orange Plague," a work by Danish sculptor Jens Galschiøt displayed at the European Parliament. That second installation gives the upload a wider subject than its title suggests: not just a Washington statue, but the different ways artists turn criticism of Trump into a physical object.

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