A golden idea? Museum offered 18-karat toilet to Trump - Washington Post

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A golden idea? Museum offered 18-karat toilet to Trump - Washington Post

By Alex Dobuzinskis

 

(Reuters) - New York's Guggenheim Museum offered to lend an 18-karat gold toilet to President Donald Trump after the White House asked to borrow a painting by Vincent Van Gogh, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.

 

The museum's chief curator offered to loan the toilet, which had been used by tens of thousands of visitors, in a Sept. 15 email to a Trump administration official, the newspaper reported.

 

A Guggenheim spokeswoman declined immediate comment on the Washington Post report and White House officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

 

It was not clear how the White House responded to the Guggenheim curator's offer.

 

The piece, by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan's, is an 18-karat gold, fully functioning toilet. It is called "America."

 

It was put on display in 2016 in a single-stall bathroom at the Guggenheim, where it was used in private luxury by more than 100,000 people, according to a Guggenheim blog post. The museum said the object, which was on display for a year, "skewers social complacencies" and the extravagances of the wealthy.

 

Trump, a real estate developer turned reality television star, campaigned for president as a savvy businessman with the commercial sense to succeed in the White House. His exact personal wealth is unknown.

 

The offer came in response to a White House request to borrow the painting "Landscape with Snow" by 19th century Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh, for installation at the president and first lady's private living quarters, the Washington Post reported. The request for the painting was declined.

 

Guggenheim chief curator Nancy Spector had previously written about the toilet in a 2017 blog post, in which she took swipes at the president. She wrote that the "Trump reference" inherent in the gold toilet resonated with people "during the sculpture's time at the Guggenheim."

 

"When the sculpture came off view on Sept. 15, Trump had been in office for 238 days, a term marked by scandal and defined by the deliberate rollback of countless civil liberties, in addition to climate-change denial that puts our planet in peril," Spector wrote.

 

Trump is known to have a taste for gold and gilded objects. On Christmas Eve, he took calls from children while seated on a gold chair in a tapestried room at his Florida vacation home.

 

(Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis in Los Angeles; Editing by Scott Malone and Susan Thomas)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-01-26

[Topdoc]

And for the White House,  a golden sh_thole

 

 

[Get Real]

That was a great idéa. Now one person that is full of shit, gets an exclusive product to put it in.

Can this great museum come up with more good ideas, please.

[Guest]

I have not valued Guggenheim before, but now I must say, they got some street credibility.

 

Trolling the troll in the most appropriate way.  :)

[Jingthing]

A bit of trump tower toiletry at 1600 Pennsylvania. If it helps him calm down a little while fecal tweeting, I'm all for it!

[Silurian]

Oh come on, like he doesn't already have one.

 

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The piece, by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan's, is an 18-karat gold, fully functioning toilet

 

Edited January 26, 2018 by Silurian

[Jingthing]

Is the seat wide enough for his "not-obese" presidential tuchus? 

[chickenslegs]

9 hours ago, webfact said:

The piece, by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan's, is an 18-karat gold, fully functioning toilet. It is called "America."

It is called "America" but Americans queue up to take a cr@p on it. How odd.

[Silurian]

51 minutes ago, chickenslegs said:

It is called "America" but Americans queue up to take a cr @ p on it. How odd.

 

Yeah, almost 63 Million Americans did. And now we are left with a giant turd.

Edited January 26, 2018 by Silurian

[Jingthing]

 
Yeah, almost 63 Million Americans did. And now we are left with a giant turd.

And nothing golden about that.

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[Basil B]

Well at least he wont get to piss in Bill's saxophone...

 

(If you have not heard the joke, tough luck).