Golden Trump Throne Mocks White House Renovations

0:00It's March 31st. This is Vancouver News Today, powered by AI, I'm Corey with the story. A golden toilet sculpture perched on a marble throne, styled like Donald Trump's Oval Office, just popped up on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. It's a clear jab at the president's White House renovations, complete with a plaque calling it a throne fit for a king who prioritized gilding the. Lincoln-Betram Bathroom, a mid-national division and economic woes. The group behind it, the secret handshake, even added a role of toilet paper stamped with their name. Trump's makeover spray goes way beyond that bathroom redo. He's slapping gold accents all over the Oval Office, shutting down the Kennedy Center for two years after they tried renaming it for him and tearing. Down the East Wing to build a $90,000 square foot ballroom at a $400 million price tag funded by private donors. White House folks are brushing it off, saying the president is just making the capital more beautiful and keeping his promises to Americans. Trump himself bragged last week on Air Force One about a massive military complex under

1:03construction beneath that ballroom, claiming it's ahead of schedule. That East Wing spot used to house critical ops, like the presidential emergency operations center for evacuations, think Dick Cheney on September. 11th, 2001, or Trump during 2020 protests, now it's gone for glitz. Meanwhile, the secret handshake keeps the pranks coming with fake Trump Epstein statues on the mall from titanic poses to hand-holding buddies, mocking those ties in bronze. These stunts highlight the bold protest art surging since Trump's second term kicked off.