Trump’s Dance of King TV appears in National Mall in Latest Protest Art
The mysterious provoker behind the eight-foot-tall golden monument of Donald Trump’s crackdown on Lady Liberty last week returned to the National Mall in Washington, D.C. to make another contribution to the unauthorized presidential fan art genre, this time, video.
A life-sized golden TV appeared near Northwest Third Street on Thursday morning, pointing directly to the Capitol Washington Perst reported. Its screen plays Donald Trump’s silence, 15-second loop, performing his now-notorious slow-motion dance moves (hard arms, contradictory hips, slower grinding tremors), against the backdrop from the campaign to party with Jeffrey Epstein. For those who forget, the latter is a deceased financier and convicted sex offender who died while awaiting trial in 2019.
Above the TV sat a sprayed golden eagle, with wings scattered over what might be described as under the Ma. The golden ivy fell on both sides like a rejected Versace ad. On the base, the plaque read: In the United States of America, no matter how ugly it is, you are free to show what is called “art”. – Trump White House, June 2025
The sentence was extracted from a statement from the White House last week in response to the previous device, Authoritarian approval– A golden thumbs up smashes the crown of the Statue of Liberty, accompanied by Trump’s strongman fan club sayings: Vladimir Putin, Victor Albann, Jair Bolsonro and Kim Jong-un.
An anti-Trump installation statue was seen in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC on June 17, 2025.
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Under its National Park Service license, the purpose of the video work is to “use political images to show freedom of speech and artistic expression.” Translation: Trolling with license. The work was allowed to stay in the mall at 8 p.m. Sunday, prohibiting executive orders to the contrary.
The White House still hasn’t gotten dirty and is still caring for its bruised aesthetic sensitivity.
“Wow, these liberals pretending to be ‘artists’, are more foolish than I thought!” White House spokesman Abigail Jackson said in a statement, presumably reading aloud on all hats. “I tricked them into deleting the ugly sculpture and replacing it with a video of a beautiful presidential legendary dance move that will bring joy and inspiration to all visitors who travel through our national shopping center.”
“Maybe they’ll put it on the next sculpture,” she concluded.
As for the behind all this? Still a mystery. Materials and hanging humor are consistent with guerrilla works that popped up in Washington, D.C., Portland and Philadelphia last fall: Bronze Tiki torch, a replica of Nancy Pelosi’s table with fake poop, partly forged performing arts, partly partly part of the Jan. 6 uprising in a low-key prosecution.
The license record lists “Mary Harris” as the applicant, although no contact details are provided. For those who lead: Mary Harris Jones is the real name of Labour leader “Mother” Jones. As American history teachers, artists either play long games or are moonlight.
