The NYT reveals the back story behind a morbid and mysterious piece of public art targeting the media’s favorite real-estate developer.
“Trump Headstone in Central Park: Mystery Solved”
by Michael Wilson
The New York Times
May 9, 2016
It was a headstone — a full-size, 420-pound hunk of Vermont granite that would blend in nicely in any of New York City’s cemeteries. But it stood out here, in Sheep Meadow, with a name etched on its face of a man very much among the living.
“TRUMP,” read the headstone, and below that, “Donald J.” The date of birth read 1946. The date of death was blank. Below that was carved an epitaph: “Made America Hate Again.”
It was March 27. Passers-by took pictures that made the viral rounds.
“This is morbid but hilarious,” one commenter posted on Instagram.
“This made my day lol,” another wrote.
Frank Cassara, 70, a third-generation monument dealer in South Slope, Brooklyn, saw the headstone on the evening news, and said five words. Four of them were printable: “I don’t believe it.”
His son, Michael, the fourth generation, said four words, three of which were, “What a moron.”
They knew that headstone well. They had made it. Full story here.
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