Joe Flood
November 14, 2025
The Trump regime is composed of petty, thin-skinned tyrants who took offense at a satirical statue depicting the close friendship between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
It was approved for temporary placement on the National Mall in September. The artists that had created it had were responsible for other satirical works, like a poop-covered desk memorializing the January 6th riots at the Capitol.
But when the statue, entitled “Best Friends Forever,” became a media sensation, a call was made to the National Park Service.
In the dead of night, protected by the Park Police, they removed it from the Mall, without notifying the artists. The statue was roughly tossed into the back of a truck, breaking it into pieces, with arms and legs and even Trump’s head separated from the body.
What came next was the Streisand Effect in action, as the clumsy destruction of the statue just led to more media coverage, for it symbolized the regime’s assault on free speech and the close ties between Epstein and Trump.
Embarrassed, NPS returned the broken fragments of the statue to the artists, who reconstructed it and briefly returned it to the Mall.
Statue Wars
Meanwhile, the regime was at work on a statue of their own: Albert Pike, an incompetent Confederate General with the distinction of being considered a traitor in two countries – the USA and the CSA.
He had a Jim Crow-era statue in Judiciary Square that was toppled by Black Lives Matter demonstrators in 2020.
This is the racist “heritage” that matters to the MAGA crowd. They spend our tax dollars to honor a slaveholder.
The regime recovered this monstrosity from the trash bin of history, restored it, and placed it back on its plinth next to the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Department.
Pike is so odious and controversial that the statue is hidden from view by a fence and protected by a full-time officer from the Park Police.
The Park Police sure spend a lot of time guarding and destroying various statues in DC.
The good news is that the Trump-Epstein Friendship Statue is back. You can find it in front of Busboys and Poets (2021 14th St NW) for a few more days. It’s a little beat up from the rough treatment meted out by NPS. Look closely and you can see the cracks, chips and defacement.
During the campaign, Trump promised to release the Epstein client list. But once in office, his minions claimed that no such list existed, no girls were trafficked and that the whole affair was a hoax.
Trump was not able to hide the Trump-Epstein Friendship Statue forever. Nor will he be able to stop the release of the Epstein files. A vote is scheduled for their release in the House of Representatives next week.
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