This week’s episode of The Boys featured a golden statue of Homelander (Antony Starr) and debuted just days after a Florida golf course unveiled a golden statue of President Donald Trump. And Eric Kripke, executive producer and showrunner of the Prime Video superhero satire, has taken notice of the unintended parallel.
“Seriously, what the f***?” reads a meme image Kripke posted on Instagram on Sunday. The image shows a side-by-side comparison of the Trump statue with the Homelander statue seen in the Season 5 episode “Though the Heavens Fall,” which started streaming on Wednesday.
The Trump statue, dubbed “Don Colossus,” was installed last month Trump National Doral Miami in Miami, Florida, just before the PGA Tour’s 2026 Cadillac Championship was set to kick off at the Trump-owned course, according to USA Today. The 3.1-ton statue itself is made from bronze covered in gold leaf, and it stands 22 feet tall on its pedestal.
On X, Reverend Benjamin Cremer, a theologian and pastor, shared a photo of the statue’s unveiling ceremony and said that “evangelical Christian leaders literally gathering around a gold statue of the president and celebrating it … is what idol worship looks like.”
Evangelical Christian leaders literally gathering around a gold statue of the president and celebrating it, all while raging against any accusation of idolatry.
Mark Burns, an evangelical minister and spiritual adviser to Trump, led the ceremony, according to Newsweek. And he denied the idolatry accusations, writing in an X post, “This was not idol worship. This was honor. This was gratitude. This was patriotism.”
Kripke previously lamented The Boys’ parallels to Trump’s real-life actions last month, after the POTUS posted an AI-generated image depicting himself as a Jesus-like figure. Trump shared (and deleted) that image days The Boys’ Season 5 episode “Every One of You Sons of Bitches” featured a similar plot point.
“I am really tired and weary of the world reflecting the show before we get a chance to do it,” Kripke told Polygon at the time. “I appreciate the marketing. I’m just like, can you just please give us a chance to put some absurd satire out there before you prove that it’s more realistic than we ever intended?”
He continued: “This is the episode where Homelander decides he’s going to be God and 48 hours before it, Trump releases an image of himself as God. A month ago, when we were talking about marketing, I was like, Homelander saying he’s God is so out there. We have to be careful about how we even introduce the idea to the public because they’ll say he’s gone too far, and here we are. It’s just really hard to out-satire this world.”
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