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Anonymous Artists Mock Trump With Giant Gold Toilet By Lincoln Memorial
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WASHINGTON — Anyone visiting the Lincoln Memorial this week will get to see a brand-new monument right next to it: a gold toilet mounted on a 10-foot-tall marble throne, hailing President Donald Trump for making a bathroom renovation his top priority. Anonymous artists installed the faux marble structure early Monday morning to mock Trump for spending his time remodeling the Lincoln Bathroom at the White House instead of addressing pressing matters facing the country. “In a time of unprecedented division, escalating conflict, and economic turmoil, President Trump focused on what truly mattered: remodeling the Lincoln Bathroom in the White House,” reads a plaque on the throne, which is titled “A Throne Fit For A King.” “This, his crowning achievement, is a bold reminder that the President isn’t just a businessman, he’s taking care of business,” it reads. “It stands as a tribute to an unwavering visionary who looked down, saw a problem, and painted it gold.” Asked for comment, White House spokesperson Davis Ingle said Trump was “overwhelmingly elected” to redesign a bathroom in the White House. “President Trump is making the White House and our entire Nation’s Capital more beautiful than ever before,” Ingle said in a statement. “The president will never stop working on behalf of the American people and fulfill the promises that he was overwhelmingly elected to do.” A group of anonymous artists known as The Secret Handshake is behind the installation. The throne is built so people can sit on it and take pictures on the toilet, said a spokesperson for the group. It will be on display for several days, they said, and is located down the stairs from the Lincoln Memorial on its southwest side. The Secret Handshake has been installing satirical monuments to Trump all over D.C. for years, often in the wee hours of the morning, so nobody can see who is doing it. Earlier this month, the group installed a 12-foot statue by the U.S. Capitol of Trump embracing convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, depicting the two as the fictional lovers in the film “Titanic.” The group previously installed a giant bronze turd “honoring” Trump, a follow-up monument to the president with mini poop statues, a massive reproduction of a creepy birthday message allegedly sent by Trump to Epstein, and a statue of Trump and Epstein holding hands and prancing together on the National Mall. Someone at the Trump administration was ruffled enough by that last statue that they ordered the U.S. Park Police to tear it down in the dead of night, not long after it went up. The Secret Handshake said at the time that its statue was destroyed due to “internal pressure” from the administration. The artists later restored the statue and put it back up, choosing to “leave all the ‘scars’ from when it was originally partially destroyed.” Asked what is driving the group to keep putting up statues that mock and condemn Trump, the Secret Handshake spokesperson said, “Well, we keep installing them because things in relation to this country and leadership continue to need to be honored.” The latest installation actually looks a lot like how Trump redesigned the bathroom attached to the Lincoln Bedroom in the White House (except his toilet’s handle is the only gold part of the toilet). He boasted about his renovations last October and posted two dozen photos on social media of his finished work. “I renovated the Lincoln Bathroom in the White House,” Trump said in one post. “It was renovated in the 1940s in an art deco green tile style, which was totally inappropriate for the Lincoln Era. I did it in black and white polished Statuary marble. This was very appropriate for the time of Abraham Lincoln and, in fact, could be the marble that was originally there!” By entering your email and clicking Sign Up, you're agreeing to let us send you customized marketing messages about us and our advertising partners. You are also agreeing to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.