Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame has been vandalized yet again – and the woman responsible was caught on camera committing the felony Tuesday morning.
Surveillance footage shows the moment the suspect walks up to it on the 6800 block of Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, California around 9.30am.
She then casually takes a can of what appears to be white spray paint out of her backpack and covers the president’s name in the stuff.
The crime is carried out in seconds and a few passersby are even seen looking, but they continue walking past the Hollywood & Highland Center in the footage obtained by TMZ.
Donald Trump was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in California in 2007 but the plaque was damaged yet again on Tuesday when a woman covered his name in white spray paint around 9.30am outside the Hollywood & Highland Center
The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce which administers the Hollywood Walk of Fame, said it intends to prosecute to the full extent of the law in the case of this felony but it’s not the first time the star has been destroyed. In July 2018 it was pummeled and and tagged with graffiti
The star is pictured in October 2016 after it was defaced using a sledgehammer
The Hollywood Historic Trust worked with Clean Streets to repair the star immediately.
Trump’s plaque has been targeted several times in the last number of years and the West Hollywood City Council voted unanimously for it to be removed in August, but no action was taken.
But the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, which administers the Hollywood Walk of Fame, has no plans to change anything, telling DailyMail.com on Tuesday: ‘We do not remove stars.’
As in the cases of past vandalism incidents involving POTUS, They urged people to vote instead of taking things out on the sidewalk plaque, which was originally installed in 2007 to commend his work for the Miss Universe pageant.
‘The Hollywood Walk of Fame is an institution celebrating the positive contributions of the inductees,’ President/CEO of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, Rana Ghadban said.
‘When people are unhappy with one of our honorees, we would hope that they would project their anger in more positive ways than to vandalize a California State landmark.
‘Our democracy is based on respect for the law. People can make a difference by voting and not destroying public property.’
Ghadban said the Chamber is working with the police in regards to this felony and intends to prosecute to the full extent of the law.
The Hollywood Historic Trust worked with Clean Streets to repair the star immediately. Pictured is what the star looked like the day before the latest attack and after numerous repairs
She said this is something the Chamber would do for any Walk of Fame star that has been vandalized and noted the Chamber is aware that there is surveillance video of the vandal.
It was last vandalized in April, when a man covered Trump’s star with a coat of black paint and wrote the words ‘Putin’s b***h’ in white paint over it.
On December 20, a surveillance camera captured a man kneeling down next to Trump’s star and pouring red paint all over it.
It was reported that the vandal had been part of a protest set up by PETA’s Los Angeles chapter at Forever 21, which is located next to the star.
The paint was removed within an hour, less than one day after two swastikas were scrubbed off the star.
Another man dressed in black was captured on TMZ’s camera drawing the swastikas around 9am earlier in December.
Someone is pictured pouring fake blood over the star in another past incident. The Chamber said it will not the remove the star
Hollywood Chamber of Commerce told DailyMail.com: ‘Our democracy is based on respect for the law. People can make a difference by voting and not destroying public property’
In September 2018, street artist Plastic Jesus placed bars on top of the plaque to show that the ‘infamous star is caged’.
The British and Los Angeles-based artist used instant-drying, industrial strength, double-sided sticky tape to secure the bars.
Plastic Jesus said he wanted the stunt to show that Trump should pay the price if he’s guilty of colluding with Russia in the 2016 presidential election.
The artist tweeted his final artwork writing: ‘Today I put @realDonaldTrump behind bars.’
However his art installation didn’t last long as a Trump supporter damaged it.
‘Although it was very quickly damaged by a Trump supporter trying to remove it, the bars did appear to be stuck fast and were there several hours later – to the amusement of thousands of passing tourists,’ Plastic Jesus added.
In 2016, Plastic Jesus surrounded Trump’s star with a six-inch wall as a protest to Trump’s call for a wall to be built on the US border with Mexico.
His model was complete with barbed wire and a tiny American flag.
Hollywood Chamber of Commerce administers the Hollywood Walk of Fame and intends to prosecute to the full extent of the law in the case of this felony. Pictured October 2016
In July 2018, Trump’s star had to be completely replaced after a protester attacked it with a pickax, smashing in into pieces.
Austin Clay, 24, pleaded no contest to felony vandalism last month after he was caught on camera raising the ax high above his head and smashing it into the star.
Clay was sentenced to one day in county jail, three years of probation, and 20 days of community labor.
He was ordered to pay the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce $9,404 in damages for the star and another $800 in fines.
Comedian and actor George Lopez caused a stir when footage of him appearing to urinate on Trump’s star surfaced on social media.
In the video, Lopez appeared to be in front of a small group of people with a bottle of water in his hand and poured water on the star. When Lopez ran out of water, he said, ‘Alright, let’s go.’