Watch someone smash up Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

A sledgehammer was used to deface the star.
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Marcus Gilmer
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UPDATE (4:30 p.m. ET, Thurs. Oct. 27, 2016): James Otis was arrested on felony vandalism charges for the incident. Speaking to NBC, Otis said, "I did it, and I'm very happy I did it, and I'm proud that I did it."


A heated election is coming (finally) to a close but things are getting uglier and uglier as Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was reportedly smashed by vandals early Wednesday morning and it was caught on tape.

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Deadline reports that the act happened around 5:45 a.m. Hollywood time on Wednesday morning, when a man dressed up as a city construction worker smashed the star. The man, who used a pickaxe and a sledgehammer, told Deadline he intended to remove the entire thing to sell at auction.


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Trump received the star in 2007 for his success with his reality TV show The Apprentice. It's not the first time the star has been defaced this election cycle; vandals have previously spray-painted a mute symbol and a swastika on it.

In a criticism of Trump's immigration platform, someone also once constructed a tiny, razor-topped wall around the star.

And if that's not enough, apparently taking photos of dogs pooping on the star is also a thing.

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Marcus Gilmer is Mashable's Assistant Real-Times News Editor on the West Coast, reporting on breaking news from his location in San Francisco. An Alabama native, Marcus earned his BA from Birmingham-Southern College and his MFA in Communications from the University of New Orleans. Marcus has previously worked for Chicagoist, The A.V. Club, the Chicago Sun-Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.

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