The statues, were the brainchild of anarchist collective INDECLINE, who brought on Joshua 'Ginger' Monroe to actually create them because of his expertise in the 'horror' genre.
'The objective was to source an artist who could accurately and skillfully capture both realistic and grotesque human attributes,' said INDECLINE, the self-described 'anonymous activist collective' that assigned Monroe his task in a statement Thursday, DNA Info reported.
'Working exclusively in the 'horror' genre, 'Ginger' maintained a familiarity with creating monsters that translated perfectly when tasked with creating Donald Trump.'
INDECLINE, which was founded in 2001, commissioned Monroe back in April to create the five life-size, nude states of Trump for a project called 'The Emperor Has No B***s'.
The completed works appeared in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Cleveland and Seattle on Thursday morning, before authoritative figures in each city called for them to be taken down.
Monroe told Newsweek that he only ever met two of the dozens of artists apart of INDECLINE.
When Monroe started working on the statues, he was a Trump supporter.
'When I started this, I was going to vote for Trump,' Monroe said.
But by the time he finished the statues, Monroe's opinion of The Donald changed.
'The different times he's said just horrific things has made me raise an eyebrow,' he said.
When Trump imitated a New York Times reporter with a congenital joint condition, Monroe stopped supporting him, though Trump denies doing such a thing.
'I actually have family members who are disabled and when he did that, that just showed his true character, and I've never been so disgusted with a candidate in all my life,' said Monroe.
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