SAN FRANCISCO — A statue of a nude Donald Trump that was placed in a busy Eureka Valley-Dolores Heights neighborhood Thursday was taken down overnight, but now a city supervisor is working to put the controversial artwork back on display.

The life-size naked statue of the Republican presidential nominee went up Thursday morning at the corner of Castro and Market streets, near Jane Warner Plaza. It’s a replica of others that went up Thursday in Los Angeles, Seattle, New York and Cleveland.

Overnight, the statue was taken down by city workers, according to ABC-7.

Friday morning, Supervisor Scott Weiner issued a press release stating his plans to take custody of the statute from the department of public works and display the artwork in Lefty O’Douls in Union Square.

An American activist artist collective called INDECLINE claimed responsibility for the statue.

Hordes of people gathered around the statue Thursday to pose for selfies and gawk at the controversial piece. Some nearby stores saw a spike in business after the statue appeared.

Christopher Curtis, assistant manager at Hot Cookie, said the bakery has been busier than normal and more people have been drawn to the Jane Warner Plaza.

“I’m not surprised,” he said. “I know there would be more people in the Castro just to see the statue.”

Curtis added that the Trump statue “looks just like him.”

In a statement, the collective said the hope is that Trump, the former host of “The Apprentice” reality TV series, “is never installed in the most powerful political and military position in the world.”

The statues were created by an artist in Cleveland. They are of a stern-faced Trump with his hands folded over a bulging belly. Some parts of male genitalia are visible while others seemingly are missing.

“It is through these sculptures that we leave behind the physical and metaphorical embodiment of the ghastly soul of one of America’s most infamous and reviled politicians,” INDECLINE said in its statement.

A Cleveland-based artist named Ginger created the realistic, yet grotesque, depiction of Trump.

Trump’s campaign declined to comment on the statues.

This wasn’t the group’s first anti-Trump endeavor. The collective also has spray-painted a U.S.-Mexico border fence in Tijuana, Mexico, with an image of a gagged Trump.

The group’s other projects have included putting the names of African-Americans killed by police over the inlaid stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and painting the words “This Land Was Our Land” across an unused airstrip in the Mojave Desert.

A statue in Union Square, New York, quickly drew the attention of people before it was removed by the city’s parks department.

“NYC Parks stands firmly against any unpermitted erection in city parks, no matter how small,” parks spokesman Sam Biederman said.

Staff writer Katrina Cameron and The Associated Press contributed to this report. Contact Katrina Cameron at 925-945-4782.

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