NY congressional GOP hopeful gifted Trump $250K bronze statue of his attempted assassination ‘Defiance’

President Trump’s bond with likely New York lawmaker Anthony Constantino is already set — in bronze.

Constantino, who got Trump’s endorsement to fill the seat of retiring upstate Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), gifted a $250,000 bronze statue capturing his defiant fist-pump moments after surviving the 2024 assassination attempt in Butler, Pa., the president’s latest financial disclosure reveals.

Having won the Republican primary in last month’s election, Constantino is likely headed to Washington to represent the Republican-leaning district. His vote will be vital if Republicans manage to keep the House they hold by a narrow margin.

Called “The Defiance Moment,” the statute captures Trump with a raised fist, although it doesn’t exactly reproduce the moment after Thomas Matthew Crooks shot him.

He paid for the statue “to commemorate the moment President Trump was shot, rose up, and said ‘fight, fight, fight’ because it was an important moment in American history and in my own life,” Constantino told The Post Friday.

Constantino, the CEO of Sticker Mule who placed a 100-foot “Vote for Trump” sign atop his factory during the 2024 campaign, traveled to Florida to see the statue’s installation in April 2025. Trump had it placed in front of the pro shop at his Trump National Golf Club in West Palm Beach.

But the president, who has taken a keen interest in monumental Washington since his return to office, ordered up a change to the 7-foot statue, revealed sculptor George Lundeen.

“The president looked at it. He thought maybe a little bit redder tie would look better on him. I said okay,” he told The Post. He applied a “special patina” during a second trip that did the trick.

“He’s a perfectionist . . . We spruced it up a little bit,” said Steven C. Barber, an LA filmmaker who helped arrange it and calls himself monument commissioner for Trump.

Lundeen, 77, who collaborated with his brother, Mark, and sculptor Joey Bainer on the project, previously produced statues of astronaut Jack Swigert and Amelia Earhart that are in the US Capitol.

He’s also made smaller copies of his Trump sculpture, which go for about $7,500. He gave one to Trump, and one was pictured in Vanity Fair next to a copier on the desk of White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. 

Constantino purchased a full-size copy for himself, with plans to unveil it in Amsterdam, NY. Lundeen valued the copy at about $300,000.

Trump disclosed the statue on a form where he revealed more than $2 billion in income, including $1 billion from cryptocurrency ventures he launched in September 2024 since taking office for the second time.

Constantino thanked Trump when he triumphed over a more establishment candidate — state Assemblyman Robert Smullen, a retired Marine colonel.

Smullen met with Trump on Thursday in the Oval Office and said afterward he would decline to appear on the ballot on the Conservative Party line in November, further clearing the path for Constantino.

He said he was “energized” about keeping the district in GOP hands: “I am confident in President Trump’s vision for this country and am energized about keeping NY-21 in Republican hands and finding an alternative path to continue public service myself.”

Constantino, who will face Democrat Blake Gendebien, said on primary night: “It’s easy to sell a product that people want. And I think people tend to like me, and it was easy for the president to endorse me and sell me.”

He brushed off any suggestion that the president might owe him a favor after the pricey gift.

“No, all of my actions are for the greater good,” he said. “It was in America’s best interest that we commemorate this particular moment in our history both the remember President Trump’s bravery and to discourage political violence.”