San Antonio Wax Museum Removes Trump Figure Because People Keep Punching It

Louis Tussaud's Waxworks in San Antonio is packing up a wax statue of Donald Trump for an unexpected reason.

According to San Antonio Express-News, passion-driven visitors are taking their frustrations with the political figure out on the wax statue.

Clay Stewart, regional manager for the museum owner Ripley Entertainment, stated, "When it's a highly political figure, attacks can be a problem."

Express-News stated that visitors have been punching and scratching the figure, causing it to be severely damaged. So damaged, in fact, that it had to be pulled from the display.

There is no word yet as to whether or not the wax museum plans to repair the figure and put it back on public display.

According to Stewart, it's unlikely that it wouldn't happen until the museum received a wax figure of President Joe Biden, which is currently in the works at Ripley Entertainment's headquarters in Orlando, Florida.

Stewart says that the Trump figure is in good company in storage, sharing the back room with George Washington and almost 30 other figures.

Stewart said that the museum has often had trouble with the presidential figures because, no matter which president it is, there is always another that beats them.

"Wax figures are rotated all the time," Stewart said.

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