{"id":178705,"date":"2025-09-24T14:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/178705\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T14:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:22:08","slug":"feds-remove-statue-of-trump-and-epstein-from-national-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/178705\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds Remove Statue of Trump and Epstein From National Mall"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Photo by Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images. <\/p>\n

The National Park Service and United States Park Police removed a statue that depicted President Trump cavorting with his former friend Jeffrey Epstein from the National Mall on Wednesday morning. The statue, the latest in a series of such displays placed on the Mall by a group of anonymous artists, received a permit from the National Park Service that allowed it to stay up until 8 PM on September 28.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the Park Police said the force assisted the National Park Service in removing the statue Wednesday at 5:30 AM, \u201cdue to it not being in compliance with the permit.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Trump ordered the removal of a long-standing peace demonstration near the White House lately, his administration, already under fire for its assaults on free speech, appeared to take something of a laissez-faire attitude to this statue, as it had with others that paid a facetious \u201csalute\u201d to January 6 rioters<\/a>, another that implied Trump was \u201cDictator Approved<\/a>,\u201d and one that showed a video of Trump dancing awkwardly<\/a>. White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson told the Washington Post the organization that has installed them was \u201cwasting their money<\/a>\u201d but didn\u2019t say or imply that the White House wanted it gone.<\/p>\n

You can read the permit here:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Trump-epstein Statue Permit <\/a> by Washingtonian Magazine <\/a> <\/p>\n

The National Park Service hasn\u2019t yet replied to Washingtonian\u2019s request for comment. This story will be updated.<\/p>\n

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Senior editor<\/p>\n

Andrew Beaujon joined Washingtonian in late 2014. He was previously with the Poynter Institute, TBD.com, and Washington City Paper. He lives in Del Ray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo by Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images. The National Park Service and United States Park Police removed a statue that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-178705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}