That Trump-Epstein Statue Is Back With Perfect Timing

WASHINGTON — A 12-foot-tall, fake bronze statue of President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein holding hands and skipping has magically reappeared in D.C., a day after House Democrats about his tight relationship with Trump; the second is referencing a cryptic birthday note Trump allegedly once wrote to Epstein.

Each statue has its own official plaque, too, and its own creepy message from the same birthday note.

An anonymous band of activists known as The Secret Handshake is behind the stunt. Their installation is intentionally timed with Democrats’ release of damning emails showing Epstein saying in one that Trump “knew about the girls.”

“Much like Trump’s name in an Epstein e-mail dump, we have popped our head out to say a quick, unannounced hello,” an activist with the group told HuffPost in an email.

These activists have been installing satirical, anti-Trump statues around the city for the past year, ranging from a giant turd monument to mini-poop statues to this same “best friends” statue, which they previously put up on the National Mall in September. The Trump administration promptly tore it down in the dead of night, saying even though the group had a permit for it, the statue was too big. In fact, the National Park Service made the mistake in not accounting for the base in its size on the permit.

A week later, the activists put it back up. The statue on display Thursday reflects how it was previously damaged by the Trump administration.

“We chose to leave all the ‘scars’ from when it was originally partially destroyed,” said The Secret Handshake activist.

Asked for comment, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson mocked the people behind the installation and said they had “Trump derangement syndrome,” or TDS, a made-up term that Trump supporters use to cast people’s negative reactions to Trump as irrational.

“TDS Liberals think of endless ways to light their money on fire,” Jackson said in an emailed statement.

An Interior Department spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment as to whether National Park Service officials will try to take the statue down again, and to confirm they don’t have jurisdiction over the land the statue is on this time.