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Donald Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame star vandalized

A man with a pickax vandalized U.S. President Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame early on Wednesday and later surrendered to police, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department said.
U.S. President Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was vandalized, again, overnight in Hollywood. (Katharine Lotze/Getty Images)
A man with a pickax vandalized U.S.President Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fameearly on Wednesday and later surrendered to police, a spokesmanfor the Los Angeles Police Department said.

"A pickax was used in vandalizing the star" embedded in thesidewalk near Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue in LosAngeles, at about 3:30 a.m., Sergeant Ray Brown of the LAPD saidby telephone.

Brown said he did not know the name of the man, who has notyet appeared in court.

Trump's star, installed in 2007, has been the site offrequent vandalism incidents since Trump's election in 2016,according to local media reports.

Workers repair Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame star in October 2016 after it was vandalized by a protester. (DAVID MCNEW/GETTY IMAGES)

Video of the damaged star for Trump, 72, shows that it wasnearly completely destroyed.

The star has an image of a classictelevision set with a "rabbit ears" antennae.

Before being elected president, Trump was a real estatedeveloper-turned-reality TV star who was producer of the NBCshow, The Apprentice,and the Miss Universe Pageants.

Trump received the star in January 2007. (Damian Dovarganes/Associated Press)

The suspect pulled a pickax out of a guitar case beforestriking Trump's sidewalk honour, the Los Angeles Times reported.