‘The Boys’ EP Reacts to Trump’s Gold Statue Mirroring Homelander’s

Eric Kripke is running out of ways to say “you can’t make this up” — because apparently, you don’t have to.

The showrunner of The Boys took to Instagram on Sunday with a meme image showing a side-by-side of two golden statues: one of Homelander, the show’s fascist superhero villain played by Antony Starr, erected in this week’s Season 5 episode — and one of President Donald Trump, unveiled last month at his Trump National Doral Miami golf course in Florida. “Seriously, what the f***?” Kripke wrote. It was about as much as anyone could say.

The Homelander statue appeared in the episode “Though the Heavens Fall,” which began streaming Wednesday on Prime Video. The Trump statue — a 22-foot bronze structure coated in gold leaf, weighing 3.1 tons and mounted on a 7-foot pedestal — had been installed at the Doral course just before the PGA Tour’s 2026 Cadillac Championship teed off there. It’s been dubbed “Don Colossus.”

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The statue was commissioned by a group of crypto investors looking to promote their memecoin, $PATRIOT, and was sculpted by Alan Cottrill, an artist with experience creating presidential likenesses. It depicts Trump with his fist raised — a direct reference to his defiant pose after the assassination attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania.

The road to installation wasn’t entirely smooth. Cottrill had previously voiced frustration over payment delays, at one point suggesting he’d hold the piece in a warehouse until he was paid. The investors disputed that, saying the work had been fully paid for a year ago. Either way, the statue made it to Doral.

The unveiling ceremony was led by Pastor Mark Burns of Pastors for Trump, who addressed the crowd while Trump himself called in via Burns’ cell phone to thank attendees. Burns pushed back hard on any biblical comparisons. “Let me be clear: this is not a golden calf,” he said. “This statue is a celebration of life. It is a symbol of resilience, freedom, patriotism, strength, and the will power to keep fighting for the future of America.”

Not everyone agreed. On X, theologian and pastor Reverend Benjamin Cremer shared a photo from the ceremony and wrote that “evangelical Christian leaders literally gathering around a gold statue of the president and celebrating it … is what idol worship looks like.” Burns fired back in his own X post: “This was not idol worship. This was honor. This was gratitude. This was patriotism.”

Kripke Has Been Here Before — and He’s Tired

For Kripke, this isn’t a one-off coincidence. It’s becoming a pattern.

Last month, Trump posted — and then deleted — an AI-generated image depicting himself as a Jesus-like figure. It went up just 48 hours before The Boys’ Season 5 episode “Every One of You Sons of Bitches” aired, which featured a storyline where Homelander declares himself a god. Kripke told Polygon at the time that his writing team had actually been nervous the plot point was too extreme to land with audiences.

“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,’” he said. “And here we are. It’s just really hard to out-satire this world.”

“I am really tired and weary of the world reflecting the show before we get a chance to do it,” he added. “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?”

Laz Alonso, who plays Mother’s Milk on the show, jumped into the comments on Kripke’s Instagram post with his own theory: “Someone had to have leaked our scripts to them.” Fans in the comments went further, comparing The Boys to The Simpsons and its legendary reputation for predicting the future.

It’s a comparison that’s getting harder to dismiss. The Boys has spent five seasons building Homelander into a portrait of unchecked power, ego, and nationalist spectacle — and Season 5, the show’s final run, has been pushing that portrait further than ever. The series finale is already set for a theatrical release before its Prime Video debut, a sign of just how much cultural weight the show is carrying into its ending.

For now, Kripke is left doing what any writer would do when reality keeps beating him to the punch: staring at the side-by-side and wondering what on earth comes next.