Statue of Trump and Epstein faraway from Washington’s National Mall

A statue depicting President Donald Trump and late financier and intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein holding arms and kicking up their heels was eliminated on Wednesday (September 24, 2025) from the National Mall in Washington, the place it had been placed on show clandestinely.

The set up, which appeared on Tuesday (September 23, 2025), featured life-sized, bronze-painted figures of Trump and Epstein standing on white plinths and smiling at one another, every with an arm and a leg raised as if dancing. A plaque revealed the piece’s title as “Best Friends Forever.”

A bunch known as “The Secret Handshake” claimed duty for the statue, in line with feedback NPR and different media stated that they had obtained from the group.

“The statue was removed because it was not compliant with the permit issued,” an Interior Department spokeswoman stated.

The U.S. Park Police loaded the piece onto a truck earlier than dawn on Wednesday and hauled it away, in line with video posted on social media.

The statue was the newest try to make use of an artwork set up to embarrass Trump over his one-time friendship with Epstein. Last week, 4 individuals have been arrested after photographs of Trump alongside Epstein have been projected on Windsor Castle, through the U.S. president’s state go to to Britain.

While acknowledging he knew Epstein socially years in the past, Trump has stated he had a falling-out with the disgraced financier lengthy earlier than Epstein’s 2019 loss of life in jail.

Earlier this month, Democrats within the U.S. House of Representatives made public a birthday be aware that Trump purportedly wrote to Epstein greater than 20 years in the past. The letter, whose authenticity the White House denies, consists of the road, “May every day be another wonderful secret.”