US President Donald Trump has been in the job for less than three weeks but a small town in Italy has decided that he already merits a statue.

The sculpture will be erected in the Tuscan municipality of Vagli di Sotto - population 1,000 - within a local attraction called the Park of Honour and Dishonour, Il Fatto Quotidiano reports . Mayor Mario Puglia says work is already under way on the marble figure, and that private donors in both Italy and America have offered 100,000 euros ($105,000; £85,000) to finance it.

"Initially the work will be put in the centre of the park: it's for history to decide whether Trump merits honour or dishonour," he tells the paper, adding that he isn't interested in discussing the rights or wrongs of the president's policies. "He is keeping his campaign promises, and that's important. He was democratically elected, he has the full right to govern."