Opinion Trump's new golden statue in Miami has been compared to the Golden Calf, but it's more akin to a Moloch idol. May 13, 2026 — 8 min read Golden Donald Trump statue at his National Doral golf club in Miami, Florida (photo Ben Jared/PGA TOUR via Getty Images) The Book of Exodus is unequivocal on the matter. During Moses’s 40-day-and-40-night sojourn atop Mount Sinai, wherein the prophet would receive the Ten Commandments from the Lord, the anxious Hebrews abandoned in the desert melted down their gold and fashioned a calf to whom they’d offer hosannas. Dancing about the idol, burning incense and offerings, the multitude praised not God, but rather this crude, wanton, and ostentatious object of their own crafting. Dead in eye and dumb of ear, the Golden Calf diverted the Hebrews from genuine worship; a deadening of the ethical imperative that had guided their liberation from bondage in Egypt.…