--- title: Trump Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Destroyed By Pickax description: President Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was destroyed Wednesday morning by a pickaxe, police said canonical: https://time.com/5348157/trump-hollywood-star-destroyed/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-07-25T14:09:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:53:16.280Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Has Been Destroyed Again. This Time With a Pickaxe og:description: A pickax wielding man smashed the star, according to reports og:url: https://time.com/5348157/trump-hollywood-star-destroyed/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2d7aff11073fa64f/6989362b4ee262105c312682/donald-trump-star-destroyed.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Los Angeles Exteriors And Landmarks - 2016 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Has Been Destroyed Again. This Time With a Pickaxe twitter:description: A pickax wielding man smashed the star, according to reports twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2d7aff11073fa64f/6989362b4ee262105c312682/donald-trump-star-destroyed.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Has Been Destroyed Again ## Video: Someone Destroyed Donald Trump’s Hollywood Walk of Fame Star With a Sledgehammer [Watch (HLS stream): Someone Destroyed Donald Trump’s Hollywood Walk of Fame Star With a Sledgehammer](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/Yd9ZR6Sv.m3u8) (0:42)  _Published 2016-10-26. The man had hoped to remove the star to auction it off for charity_ by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Jul 25, 2018 2:09 PM UTC  Donald Trump's star on the Walk of Fame is only a few yards away from a parody posters of Trump on Hollywood Blvd on December 10, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. Donald Trump's star on the Walk of Fame is only a few yards away from a parody posters of Trump on Hollywood Blvd on December 10, 2016 in Los Angeles, California.AaronP/Bauer-Griffin—;GC Images by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Jul 25, 2018 2:09 PM UTC President Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was destroyed Wednesday morning by a pickaxe. Officers responded to a call at the star’s location on Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue around 3:30 a.m., Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson Ray Brown told TIME. They found that Trump’s star had been destroyed with a pickaxe. Photos from the scene from reporters and witnesses show the damaged Trump star with a pickaxe lying alongside a pile of rubble. The star appears to be gouged out, leaving a hole. NBCLA reporter [Johnathan Gonzalez](https://twitter.com/JonathanNBCLA) tweeted that, according to witnesses, a man pulled the pickaxe out of a guitar case when he walked up to the star. > [](https://twitter.com/JonathanNBCLA/status/1022076425308753920) > [](https://twitter.com/JonathanNBCLA/status/1022078169963098117) Gonzalez said the man called the police to report the incident but left before officers arrived. The LAPD did not immediately provide information about the suspect. It is unclear how much the damage to the star will cost. It’s the second time Trump’s [Hollywood Walk of Fame star](http://time.com/4546122/donald-trump-hollywood-walk-of-fame-star-destroyed/) has been destroyed. In 2016, police arrested [James Otis](http://time.com/4548269/enums/), who smashed the star with a pickaxe and sledgehammer. Otis was put on [probation for three years](https://apnews.com/b4a057063d264b5394e22331369bbfaa) in February 2017 after he pleaded no contest to a felony vandalism charge. 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