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Online, the glittering statue has become a flash point. In real life, golfers seem less excited.<\/strong><\/p>

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The 22-foot statue of President Donald Trump at Doral has drawn some raised eyebrows from golfers. (Orlando Ramirez\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

DORAL, Fla. \u2014 On the day it was dedicated at the president\u2019s golf club here, a crowd of President Donald Trump\u2019s supporters gathered around the shiny, 22-foot-tall golden statue of him while Christian and Jewish clergy held a ceremony in his honor.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody is taking pictures of it, my people told me. It\u2019s unbelievable,\u201d Trump told his friend, Pastor Mark Burns, who held his phone up to a microphone for the group assembled May 6 at Trump National Doral.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll day long they\u2019re taking pictures. They stand up next to it and have their picture taken. It really came out beautiful,\u201d the president said.<\/p>\n

That was then, perhaps.<\/p>\n

The monument to Trump, depicting him with right fist raised to the sky \u2014 the pose he struck in the moments after a bullet struck his ear during an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania \u2014 had gone up just days before Trump\u2019s golf course hosted a PGA event. His course was busier than usual.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, the scene was hardly bustling.<\/p>\n

Questions to regular golfers here about the statue drew knowing laughs and some raised eyebrows. Out-of-town visitors said they were amused by it. Yet it wasn\u2019t quite the flash point it had become online, with critics of Trump likening the statue to the biblical idolatrous golden calf, and the president describing it as a heaving destination for photographs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Real Deal \u2014 GOLD,\u201d Trump described the statue in a Truth Social post. Bronze covered with gold leaf is the reality.<\/p>\n

Jorge Garcia used his phone to snap a photo of the statue as he stood nearby. He hadn\u2019t walked over to gaze at it; the statue is situated directly across from the golf course\u2019s concession stand. Garcia was waiting for the attendant to return so he could buy a bottle of water on a 94-degree day.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s amazing,\u201d Garcia said, somewhat sarcastically, with a smirk. If he had his own golf course, Garcia continued, \u201cI would do it myself, but bigger.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m kidding.\u201d<\/p>\n

Garcia has been playing at Trump\u2019s course for the last two years. He said he has heard chatter from fellow players about Trump\u2019s ego, having approved such an addition to the course, but said he can\u2019t blame the president for doing so.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has power. If you have accomplished a lot in your life, you\u2019re entitled to have it,\u201d Garcia said of the statue.<\/p>

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It is but the latest, flashiest and largest of tributes to the president around the many properties bearing his name. The golf shop here features a large portrait of Trump pointing at the viewer, a work by Marshall Parks. Covering other walls are old framed magazine covers of Trump. Golf club head covers are for sale with Trump\u2019s face on them \u2014 and blond synthetic hair sticking out. A pair of Trump sneakers are on display in a shadow box at the club\u2019s entrance.<\/p>\n

This week, the Republican National Committee was meeting in the Donald J. Trump Grand Ballroom of the Donald J. Trump Building on the property.<\/p>\n

In a rare shady spot around the corner from the Trump statue, a woman practiced after playing 18 holes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s his course. It\u2019s his property,\u201d the woman said rather delicately as she discussed the \u201cacquired taste\u201d of the decor style around Trump National Doral. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t put one in my home, because it\u2019s not my thing,\u201d she added, agreeing to be identified only by her first name, Andrea.<\/p>\n

If Trump wanted to put up a statue \u201cwith a piece of bacon on his head,\u201d he could do that, too, Andrea said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis courses are really nice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Down the course, a group of men visiting from Michigan on an annual golf trip \u2014 their first time at Trump Doral \u2014 had been looking forward to seeing it for themselves.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s harmless,\u201d said Zach G., who also did not want his full last name used. He said he first saw the statue online before their trip and laughed. He thought the location \u2014 mostly only seen if sought out, or when someone is buzzing by in a golf cart \u2014 was right.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not like you\u2019re at the pool and staring at it, you know.\u201d<\/p>\n

He thought the event it was marking, Trump\u2019s defiance after surviving an attempted assassination, \u201cis an important moment\u201d to remember.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd at the end of the day, it\u2019s golf,\u201d he continued. \u201cIt\u2019s meant to be casual and fun.\u201d<\/p>

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