Overview
- A 10-foot sculpture titled A Throne Fit for a King appeared near the Lincoln Memorial with a gold toilet as its centerpiece.
- The Secret Handshake, an anonymous art group, claimed responsibility in an email to ARTnews and said the work would stay up for several days.
- Visitors are invited to sit on the toilet, and a plaque mocks Trump’s Lincoln Bedroom bathroom renovation as his “crowning achievement.”
- The group has recently installed other Trump–Epstein pieces on the Mall, and one permitted work was taken down without notice, according to a D.C. location manager.
- Reporters linked the piece to Maurizio Cattelan’s 2016 golden toilet America, a viral art precedent that used a working gold fixture to comment on wealth and power.