Large naked statues of Donald Trump are appearing all across America

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Donald Trump may be in North Carolina today -- but statues of his naked body have already made it to five different states.

Early Thursday morning, residents of Cincinnati, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Cleveland and Seattle woke up to enormous naked Donald Trump statues in their town squares and parks. Members of the anarchist collective Indecline came forward and claimed responsibility for the art work.

The name of the project is "The Emperor Has No B—s." The artists behind the project claimed that they were inspired by the classic Hans Christian Andersen tale, "The Emperor's New Clothes."

In the story, two weavers sell an emperor a new set of robes that, they tell him, will be invisible to any servants unfit for their positions. The emperor's staff and townspeople are too afraid to tell the emperor that he is naked, until a child comes forward with the truth.

The artists seemed to suggest that Trump was very much an emperor without his clothes -- a man obsessed with his own image and blind to his own faults.

"Like it or not, Trump is a larger-than-life figure in world culture at the moment,” a spokesman told The Washington Post. “Looking back in history, that’s how those figures were memorialized and idolized in their time — with statues."

The statues are large, imposing and unflattering. They lack several elements of human anatomy, including testicles.

The statues were designed by a Las Vegas artist that goes by the name of Ginger, The Washington Post reports. Ginger enjoys making monsters, and was delighted to design states of Trump, who he considers "just another monster."

"It was absolutely in my wheelhouse to be able to create these monstrosities," Ginger told The Washington Post.

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Here's our intrepid reporter, Dory Greenberg, live at the scene!

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Heather was the Web Trends reporter at Mashable NYC. Prior to joining Mashable, Heather wrote regularly for UPROXX and GOOD Magazine, was published in The Daily Dot and VICE, and had her work featured in Entertainment Weekly, Jezebel, Mic, and Gawker. She loves small terrible dogs and responsible driving. Follow her on Twitter @wear_a_helmet.

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