Dildo-covered Wall Street ‘Charging Bull’ stands as protest against Trump, Putin

It’s unknown just how far people would go to do the most unthinkable things in the name of protest, but one man from New York City showed that for his part, it would take a hundred dildos and a Vladimir Putin disguise.

Jeff Jetton decked the famous Wall Street “Charging Bull” statue with around 100 dildos of different colors and sizes last July 16, Monday. The “Charging Bull” statue was created by artist Arturo Di Modica as a symbol of prosperity and strength, and was erected near Wall Street in Manhattan in 1989.

But in July 19, Jetton covered the statue in dildos as a means of protesting United States President Donald Trump and Russia President Putin’s recent controversial summit in Helsinki, Finland, where Trump was accused by many of treason for his glowing reception of Putin. In recent times, the U.S. intelligence community made an assessment that Russia had interfered in the U.S. 2016 presidential elections — a finding that Trump didn’t endorse during the summit. 

Upon plopping the massive bronze bull statue with dildos, Jetton put on a Putin mask and straddled the bull, shirtless. His shocking one-man protest spread like wildfire around social media, as humans of New York took to Twitter to share snaps of the spectacle.

“This morning in Lower Manhattan someone put a life sized fake Putin on the Wall Street Bull and covered it with dildos,” tweeted a certain Rusty (@RustyBertrand) last July 17, not knowing that the “fake Putin” was a real person. 

Another one shared a snap of the dildo-decked bull with Jetton sitting astride. “Apparently this morning in Lower Manhattan someone put a life-sized Putin on the Wall Street Bull and covered it with dildos!” one Tina (@teetoatee) wrote the same day. 

Activist Gregg Housh (@GreggHoush) also shared his own snap of the bull last July 16, writing, “Presenting the Wall Street bull, now with added dildos.”

It seems, however, that it wasn’t just the amused citizens of New York who caught sight of the “Charging Bull,” but the police officers as well. Jetton shared on his Twitter page last July 18 that the New York Police Department invited him to present himself in the precinct on July 23, a Monday.

“NYPD just invited me into the 1st precinct on Monday to receive a summons for my work as Putin on the Wall Street Charging Bull,” wrote Jetton on his Twitter in jest. 

https://twitter.com/JeffreyJetton/status/1019374898005803008

He wondered, “I assume that’s some kind of award?” JB

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