The emailed response from the Guggenheim’s chief curator to the White House was polite but firm: The museum could not accommodate a request to borrow a painting by Vincent van Gogh for President and Melania Trump’s private living quarters. …
The curator’s alternative: an 18-karat, fully functioning, solid gold toilet — an interactive work titled ‘America’ that critics have described as pointed satire aimed at the excess of wealth in this country.
(Washington Post, January 25, 2018)
Alas, Trump has neither the intelligence nor the sense of humor to appreciate this clever insult, which lampoons not only his potty mouth but also his ‘America’ as a shithole.
He couldn’t buy class as a billionaire real-estate mogul. He can’t even borrow it as the president of the United States. What a laughingstock!
In any event, this has to be the best case of throwing shade in the history of mankind. So go ahead, Guggenheim. Drop the mic!
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