“San Antonio doesn’t have Donald Trump to push around – and claw – anymore. At least not for the time being. Louis Tussaud’s Waxworks on Alamo Plaza moved the wax figure of the former president to a storage room because a few museum visitors – with intense feelings and a lack of self-restraint – kept pummeling him. They punched and scratched the figure, inflicting so much damage that management had it pulled from public view, said Clay Stewart, regional manager for Ripley Entertainment, which owns the wax museum.”

“The scratches to Trump’s face were deep. ‘When it’s a highly political figure, attacks can be a problem,’ Stewart said. It’s unclear when the wax museum will repair Trump and put him back on display. Stewart said it likely won’t happen until after the museum receives a wax figure of President Joe Biden, currently in the works at Ripley Entertainment’s headquarters in Orlando, Fla. Visitors’ attacks on the wax Trump increased as the 2020 presidential campaign heated up early in the summer, according to Stewart. Not even moving Trump to the lobby, where ticket attendants could keep an eye out for attackers, stopped them from taking shots at the statue.’We’ve always had trouble with the presidential section because no matter what president it was – Bush, Obama or Trump – they’ve all had people beat them,’ Stewart said. ‘The ears were torn off Obama six times. And then Bush’s nose was punched in.’ He was referring to President George W. Bush, not his father, the late George H.W. Bush” – San Antonio Express-News.