It’s the latest in a long line of assaults on the President’s Hollywood star, including another pickaxe incident in 2018, sledgehammer in 2016, covered in Black Lives Matter-related slogans in June 2020 and a miniature wall around it to protest against Trump’s immigration policies. In 2018, the West Hollywood City council unanimously passed a resolution in to have the star permanently removed. However, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, who has direct authority over the Walk of Fame, declined to comply with that direction and it wasn’t pressed further.