--- title: Donald Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Was Vandalized description: Someone put a large yellow X through Donald Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame star. canonical: https://time.com/4030148/donald-trump-walk-of-fame-star-defaced/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-10T19:44:12.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T10:51:14.991Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Donald Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Was Vandalized og:description: Someone put a large yellow X through the star og:url: https://time.com/4030148/donald-trump-walk-of-fame-star-defaced/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Was Vandalized twitter:description: Someone put a large yellow X through the star twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Someone Defaced Donald Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame Star  by [Tessa Berenson](/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Sep 10, 2015 7:44 PM CUT  by [Tessa Berenson](/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Sep 10, 2015 7:44 PM CUT Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame has been defaced. The star, which Trump received in 2007, now has a large yellow X through it: > [](https://twitter.com/hunterschwarz/status/642035250445418496) It hasn’t been revealed when or how the star was vandalized. “We regret that someone would deface a historic landmark,” Leron Gubler, Hollywood Chamber of Commerce president and CEO, [told _The Hollywood Reporter_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/donald-trumps-hollywood-walk-fame-821794?utm%5Fsource=twitter "undefined"). “People who have a disagreement with Donald Trump should not take it out on the Walk of Fame. The star will be restored to its original condition as soon as possible.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4030148/donald-trump-walk-of-fame-star-defaced/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4030148/donald-trump-walk-of-fame-star-defaced/"},"headline":"Someone Defaced Donald Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame Star","datePublished":"2015-09-10T19:44:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T10:51:14.991Z","description":"Someone put a large yellow X through the star","url":"https://time.com/4030148/donald-trump-walk-of-fame-star-defaced/","keywords":["Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4030148/donald-trump-walk-of-fame-star-defaced/","name":"Someone Defaced Donald Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame Star"}}]}] ```