Donald Trump really, really REALLY wants everyone to forget about all things Jeffrey Epstein. Especially anything that reminds the public of the FACT the two of them were best pals for so many years. I can only imagine Trump’s reaction to learning a group had been granted a permit to put up a display on the Mall (yep, that big expanse of space across the street from the White House) that mocked ‘His Highness, Lord and Master of the Universe, Who Shall Never Ever Be Mocked.’ The display included a statue of Trumpty and Epstein shaking hands. A Friendship Statue of sorts. It was supposed to be on display until September 28 but the National Park Service “removed” it early.
As we learn in this USA Today article, the Park Service did rather more than remove the statue. One might think maybe, just maybe the crew was ordered not just to remove that statue early, but to make a point of imitating ICE as they went about their work. To be as ugly as possible in carrying out their task:
A National Park Service permit for the statue obtained by USA TODAY shows it was planned to be on display through 8 p.m. Sept. 28. But The Secret Handshake said NPS representatives appeared about 5:30 a.m. Sept. 24, knocked down the statue and took it to a government warehouse. Footage shared by the group shows someone identifying himself with NPS telling people behind the camera the statue was not compliant because it is too big, before workers push the statue over.
Nope. No careful lifting with a crane and placing the statue on a flatbed truck to take it away. They just knocked it over! Ah, but as the late-nite pitchmen say in their cheesy commercials ‘But that’s not all’ – the crew BROKE the statue in the process. You will never, ever convince me Trump didn’t personally order that statue not just taken down but busted up into pieces. I’d imagine anyone involved in granting the permit in the first place had already been fired.
Now, the fact is that a permit, including for a display of art, can be revoked. It requires 24 hour notice but that doesn’t seem to have happened:
The permit says it may be revoked “at any time after providing 24 hours’ written notice to the Permittee setting forth the reasons for the revocation.”
Organizers at The Secret Handshake, who wish to remain anonymous, said they did not receive advance notice of the statue’s removal and it was broken in the removal process. They said it was an example of an attack on free speech.
If Trump’s tiny hands could swing a sledgehammer he’d have probably wanted to go across the street and help bust up the statue that offended him. I guess he wanted to get his rest, in preparation to fly up to Long Island today and start getting hand jobs from the American Ryder Cup team who have been vocal in their support of him. Maybe if they had spent less time worshiping Trump and demanding pay (despite being fabulously rich already) for what should be the honor of representing the United States in one of sport’s biggest events, they wouldn’t be getting their asses kicked by Team Europe. Well, that’s a whole different topic.
Right now the issue is Trump was furious about a display on public property across the street. That public property is owned by the federal government and Trump decided no one was going to get away with mocking him like that, and worse reminding people of his ‘bros-and-our-hoes” relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. So, free speech be damned Trump ordered that statue GONE. And for good measure busted up in the making it gone process.
Someone with money should find a couple of out-of-work guys who are seven feet tall. If they turn out to be BAD actors so much the better. One can be dressed up/made up to look like Trump and the other one Epstein. A short skit of the two of them engaged in a PG-version of the kind of talk we all know Trump and Epstein engaged in could be written. They could just walk out there to any clear space and do their skit. Over and over. It wouldn’t even require a permit. It would just be two guys playacting in a public space. I don’t know if Lincoln Project still reads this blog but they used to. If one of them sees this I say how bout it guys?
At the very least someone needs to produce a video of an actor playing Trump whining about the statue and ordering it destroyed, with footage and images of it happening and concluding with Trump curled up for a nap sucking his thumb with a thought bubble about feeling all better now.
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He demonstrates daily what a little whiny piglet he is.
Stop insulting piglets! Drumpf is closer to Jabba the Hutt than Piglet.
Stop insulting Jabba the Hutt. He only had one woman chained, and she was an adult.
I can understand the reason for the folks behind this statue wanting to remain anonymous but it would be SO worth it for them to SUE the government for what was essentially “destruction of private property.” The statue was, per this story, not intended to be on display for any extended period of time AND it does appear that the Park Service (most likely under direct orders from the Felon Führer–or Führer Felon, take your pick) wantonly destroyed artwork that did NOT belong to the Federal Government. (Let’s not forget how #DrowsyDonnie reacted to the removal–but NOT destruction–of all those Confederate “memorial” statues from various government facilities but he seems to have a change of policy when it comes to a statue that offends his larcenous lardness.) Now, if the people who owned the statue had “gifted” the statue to the Feds, then the government could do whatever it wanted to. But, as the Feds did not own the work, their action is ENTIRELY worthy of a lawsuit.
Good point – also extra rec for ‘larcenous lardness’.