{"id":36857,"date":"2018-01-25T13:35:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T21:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=36857"},"modified":"2018-01-25T13:36:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T21:36:28","slug":"trump-asked-to-borrow-a-van-gogh-from-the-guggenheim-they-offered-a-gold-toilet-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=36857","title":{"rendered":"Trump Asked to Borrow a Van Gogh From the Guggenheim, They Offered a Gold Toilet Instead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once again it is the art world that contributes the most poignant insights into human culture and condition. The state of the American and world economy is teetering on the brink of collapse due to the inequality and massive differential in wealth. The gap between the rich and the poor is at a historically wide level. It was recently reported<\/a><\/strong> that the richest one percent in the world possess eighty-two percent of the world’s wealth.<\/p>\n

\"Donald
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Emblematic of that disparity, the United States elected an alleged billionaire to its highest office. Donald Trump represents the worst of this elitist class by his gross worship of materialism and his pandering to his upper crusty friends of the penthouse society. He exudes a sense of entitlement and undeserved reverence, despite his failure to display any knowledge or experience that would warrant even a modicum of respect.<\/p>\n

The Washington Post is now reporting<\/a><\/strong> that Donald and Melania Trump asked the Guggenheim Museum in New York to loan them a Van Gogh painting for their private residence in the White House. It reeks of the selfishness you’d expect from the Trump family that they would want to remove such a treasure from public view for their exclusive pleasure. But fortunately, the Guggenheim declined the loan and offered something else far more appropriate: An 18K gold toilet. According to WaPo, the museum said that…<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are sorry not to be able to accommodate your original request, but remain hopeful that this special offer may be of interest.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This unique extravagance is the work of Maurizio Cattelan, and is a fully functioning bathroom appliance that was installed at the Guggenheim for nearly a year before the exhibit closed last September. The museum described it as a “sculptural performance of interactive art.”<\/em> Their website further states that<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

“The gold toilet – a cipher for the excesses of affluence – was available for all to use in the privacy of one of the Guggenheim\u2019s single-stall, gender-neutral bathrooms. More than one hundred thousand people waited patiently in line for the opportunity to commune with art and with nature.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Trump’s notorious opulence has been on display in his nauseatingly gold-plated Manhattan apartment. And now, if he accepts this offer, he can enjoy the same gauche tastelessness in his White House quarters. Plus, it will give him a place of luxury to pound out his morning tweets (a golden Tweet Seat), which have pretty much the same value and stench of whatever else he pounds out.<\/p>\n

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How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:
\nFox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a>
\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once again it is the art world that contributes the most poignant insights into human culture and condition. The state of the American and world economy is teetering on the brink of collapse due to the inequality and massive differential in wealth. 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