The Trumps asked to borrow a Van Gogh for the White House. The Guggenheim offered an 18K gold toilet
Source: Washington Post
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.
Instead, wrote the curator, Nancy Spector, another piece was available, one that was nothing like “Landscape With Snow,” the lovely 1888 Van Gogh rendering of a man in a black hat walking along a path in Arles with his dog.
The curator’s alternative: an 18-karat, fully functioning, solid gold toilet - an interactive work entitled “America” that critics have described as pointed satire aimed at the excess of wealth in this country.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/the-white-house-wanted-a-van-gogh-the-guggenheim-offered-a-used-solid-gold-toilet/2018/01/25/38d574fc-0154-11e8-bb03-722769454f82_story.html
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He has Ryan and McConnell for that...........
And for Ryan and McConnell it's more of a 'licking' motion than a ''washing'' motion. 
American Standards? That's a little 'potty humor' there.
if we could use it to treat tRump to a sort of water-boarding in it. Maybe someone would lose track of time when his head was down in it one time! 
is called a Swirlie. If by some stroke of luck, they sold tickets to see tRump get a Swirlie in the 18k gold plated can (my late father’s terminology for a toidy), I ‘d camp out for days to be first in line to get a ticket. Hell, just to see his hair after such treatment would be worth the price of admission.
A traitor getting a swirlie in a gold plated toilet.
It's the Old Post Office Building, est. 1899, Richardson Revival Romanesque style, main DC PO, Historic Landmark Bldg.
The old Bell Tower with skyline city views is operated by the National Park Service.
It was 'The Pavilion' with retail shops & food court late 80s, 90s; we'd walk there for lunch sometimes. Quite a change!
https://www.trumphotels.com/washington-dc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Post_Office_(Washington,_D.C.)
"Novecento, Maurizio Cattelan, 1997. Horse in taxidermy with sling,"
This family embodies the absolute worst stereotypes of us.
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Well played, Guggenheim Museum.
WaPo article. To the Guggenheim curator:
The Guggenheim Curator Lady has just won all of the everything's forever and ever ... amen ...
