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CALIFORNIA, U.S. – For the second time in two years, U.S. President Donald Trump’s Hollywood Walk of Fame star was smashed into pieces and turned into rubble.

According to a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department, Officer L.P. Knight, the police received a vandalism complaint at about 3.30 am and rushed to the Hollywood Boulevard near Highland Avenue.

The spokesman added that the police then arrested a man, who is believed to have smashed the star belonging to Trump with a pickax.

The police have not released any information about the suspect so far but a report in NBC quoted witnesses as saying that the suspect had carried the pickax in a guitar case.

Trump has had a Hollywood Walk of Fame star for 11 years and his star is the 2,327th star on Hollywood Boulevard. 

Earlier, in October 2016, a Los Angeles resident wore a hard hat and an orange construction vest and was caught on tape as he smashed Trump’s star with a pickax and a sledgehammer.

At the time the incident took place, Trump was a presidential candidate and was facing allegations of groping and kissing women without their consent. 

The Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office said that the resident involved in smashing Trump’s star, James Lambert Otis, also removed the brass medallion from the middle of the current President’s star.

Otis’ action came after infamous hot mic recording was released in which, Trump was heard bragging about kissing and groping women during a 2005 conversation with Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush.

Later, in an interview with Los Angeles Times, Otis said that he was angered by Trump’s use of vulgar language about women and that some of his family members had been sexually assaulted.

A Hillary Clinton supporter, Otis said, “I sort of had enough with Mr. Trump’s aggressive language toward women and his behavior, his sexual violence with women and against women.”

Eventually, Otis was placed on probation for three years after pleading no contest to a felony vandalism charge in February 2017. 

Further, he was ordered to pay $3,700 in restitution to the Hollywood Historic Trust, which grants and maintains the stars on the Walk of Fame.

He was also ordered to pay $700 to the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, which operates the Walk of Fame. 

Otis was ordered to perform 20 days of community service.

Trump’s star has faced many incidents of vandalism over the last two years.

Reports noted that in 2016, someone erected a miniature border wall around the star and someone else spray painted a swastika on the star. 

Then, in 2017, someone used a market to write a curse word on the star.

In another incident, someone placed a gold-painted toiled with the words ‘TAKE A TRUMP’ written around it.