Donald Trump Fortune Telling Machine Lures NYC Crowd Outside Trump International

MIDTOWN, NY — The Donald Trump Zoltar machine, a parody of the fortune-telling figure in the movie "Big," parked in front of the Trump International hotel in New York City Wednesday afternoon, luring in a crowd of dozens with his satirically racist remarks.

On Wednesday afternoon, several visitors outside the Trump International Hotel & Tower at 1 Central Park West stopped to take photos and videos and interact with the machine.

The man behind the manufacturing of the "all-seeing Trump" is actually a Trump supporter. Olaf Stanton is the CEO of Characters Unlimited, Inc., the company that made the machine for $9,000 for an anonymous customer, and he told Patch he's voting for Trump.

Characters Unlimited received a request from an anonymous man to make the statue eight weeks ago, Stanton said, and it took them about six weeks to build it. The man had given them the sculpture of Trump he had made and wanted them to incorporate it into one of their famous Zoltar machines. He didn't tell them whether the fortune-telling machine would be pro- or anti-Trump, Stanton told Patch.

"I'm a businessman just like Donald Trump, and I'm not gonna turn down $9,000," Stanton said. "I own the company, and the company has to be neutral, and whatever somebody wants, I will make for them."

Stanton said anyone can upload dialogue onto a USB cord and insert it into their machines, and his customer was responsible for the satirical Trump dialogue.

"I've had some unusual requests over the years," Stanton said. "I have to take my emotions out of it. If somebody wants to order a Hillary fortune teller, I'll be open for that too."

Trump's Zoltar made headlines Tuesday outside of Trump Towers in Midtown, and over the weekend he was seen in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Passers-by have captured some of his sound bites on video. While he was outside Trump Towers on Tuesday, he said, "In the future, I'm gonna work very closely with the female members of Congress, only the most beautiful ones are welcome to the Oval Office anytime. Or should I say I'm welcome in their Oval Office. It's gonna be unbelievable."

"You look like a very, very recent immigrant, get over here," he said in another video taken by Gothamist when he was in Greenpoint.

The "all-seeing Trump" now has a website and Twitter account where he's live tweeting his plans for America's future. Patch has reached out to the website creators and will update when we hear back.

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