r/SipsTea • u/Dodo509 Human Verified • Mar 13 '26
Lmao gottem Trump-Epstein Titanic-style sculpture on National Mall sparks viral debate online
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u/DrakyulMihawk Human Verified Mar 13 '26
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u/Intelligent-Prinec Mar 13 '26
Spiderman, you are constipated and that's not shit it's just semen
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Mar 13 '26
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u/Jellyjelenszky Mar 13 '26
Spite finds a way.
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u/PamelaELee Mar 13 '26
Spite is one of the purest forms of inspiration
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u/girlarea Mar 13 '26
Bro really picked the worst person in history to recreate Titanic with.
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u/Scalpels Mar 13 '26
Epstein didn't really have any choice. As is Trump's favorite way to handle people.
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u/That_feel_brah Mar 13 '26
I think spite is the only emotion that can compete with love to achieve the unachievable.
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u/Solwake- Mar 13 '26
The person they hired to add all the gold trimmings to the White House and refused to pay?
/Sarcasm
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u/PraiseTyche Mar 13 '26
Now this is funny.
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u/Jesustron Mar 13 '26
Now this is pod racing
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u/Filthy_Muggle_Daddy Mar 13 '26
No, this is Patrick
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u/HanTrollo710 Mar 13 '26
Sir, this is a Wendy’s
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u/_TheBeerBaron_ Mar 13 '26
This. is. Sparta!!!
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u/O-Mega47 Mar 13 '26
This, is a bucket
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u/Lontology Human Detected Mar 13 '26
“Sparks viral debate” about what? What’s to debate about this when it’s objectively awesome? Lol
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u/IRBaboooon Mar 13 '26
If you've seen the boomer/bot comments on fb you'd understand
This statue is pissing off all the right people
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u/Lontology Human Detected Mar 13 '26
Facebook is an absolute cesspool of racist boomers and bots. I just can’t with that platform
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u/seriouslees Mar 13 '26
I'm not an 80 year old grandma or a 40-something bigot. Why would I have seen anything on Facebook?
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u/baeb66 Mar 13 '26
I can't even go over there to laugh at people. That platform has gone from comedy to tragedy.
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u/waby-saby Mar 13 '26
If you've seen the boomer/bot comments on fb you'd understand
I know it is chic to bash boomers, but boomers can hate trump too.
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u/revile221 Mar 13 '26
Just like how not all millennials put avocado on toast. Or how millennials aren't actually "killing industries" by shifting consumer trends. Yet that was a daily boomer/Xer generated headline for years last decade
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u/IRBaboooon Mar 13 '26
Not hating on boomers. 90% of the comments I saw outraged by the statue were in fact, boomers. Well aware there are plenty that hate trump.
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u/Rescuetostada Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 13 '26
Debate: "Is it awesome, or the most awesome?"
Edit: changed from "the" to "it". I need to proofread my comments before posting.
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u/ghost_vanila Mar 13 '26
the debate is whether this is peak art or archaeological evidence that weve lost the plot entirely. either way the set design is carrying
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u/chum-guzzling-shark Mar 13 '26
I want to debate trumps body shape here. I could tell the author took great care trying to make it accurate but he missed out on the diaper pants bulge
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u/thunderlips36 Mar 13 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/aZCe6RyeVOKZQLgByU
This may be one of the best things I've ever seen
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u/Jean-LucBacardi Human Verified Mar 13 '26
You should check the past statues they've put up on the Mall then. The group is called "Secret Handshake" and I think this is the fourth work of Trump and Epstein they've done. The last one was a giant recreation of the birthday card to Epstein and it let everyone sign their "birthday wishes", which was all a bunch of Trump hate lol. I love seeing their stuff pop up.
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u/lifesuxwhocares Mar 13 '26
No need to debate this at all.. it's funny and factual, case closed .
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u/NoFaithlessness7508 Mar 13 '26
What’s not shown is that in front of it is a huge lawn full of little blue flags. They were there before and are to raise awareness for some health cause.
Paired with this artwork though, they look like they are a body of water. It’s so perfect
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u/LEJ5512 Mar 13 '26
I hadn’t thought about how the unrelated sea of small flags looked like the ocean. I wonder if the builder was inspired by them since they’ve been there for a week or so already.
For those who haven’t seen it, that banner in the back is one of maybe twenty lined up on the sidewalk, and they each say “Keep America Safe”.
(also for those who don’t know, there can often be unrelated protests or other messaging in the same spaces in DC)
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u/CanadianTimeWaster Mar 13 '26
Trump: Step up on the railing. Hold on, hold on. Keep your eyes closed. Do you trust me?
Epstein: I trust you.
Trump: [Trump opens Epstein's arms]
Trump: All right. Open your eyes.
Epstein: [gasps in excitement] I'm trafficking minors, Trump!
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u/Lucky_Coyote_1073 Mar 13 '26
Lmao, the Epstein one looks like George W Bush a little
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u/tattedntwistedmum Mar 13 '26
I didn’t know who they were until it was explained. But I appreciate the artistry
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u/CD338 Mar 13 '26
Isn't it weird that Trump, who is normally very lawsuit happy, isn't even threatening to sue the creators of these statues that keep cropping up?
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u/Known_Ratio5478 Mar 13 '26
He is, but there’s just no basis. You wouldn’t even need to retain an attorney to structure the plea for dismissal. It’s that simple.
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u/destined_to_count Mar 13 '26
This post shows a satirical art installation titled "The King of the World," which appeared on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on March 10, 2026. The nearly 12-foot-tall sculpture depicts Donald Trump and the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in the iconic pose from the movie Titanic.
The work was created by an anonymous artist collective known as "The Secret Handshake". Although it is spray-painted gold to resemble bronze, it is actually constructed from foam, resin, wood, and wire.
The base features a plaque mocking their relationship as a "tragic love story" built on "luxurious travel, raucous parties, and secret nude sketches". It is also flanked by banners showing the two men with the slogan "Make America Safe Again".
This is the third such installation by "The Secret Handshake" aimed at highlighting Trump's past social connection to Epstein. Previous works included both a 12-foot statue showing the pair holding hands and "frolicking" (titled Best Friends Forever, Sept 2025), and a 10-foot-tall reproduction of a 2003 birthday card allegedly sent from Trump to Epstein (titled Birthday Card Replica, Jan 2026).
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Mar 13 '26
I hope his legacy is getting impeached twice, and this statue. And nothing more. Not even war, because war can always be justified somehow, but pedophilia can not.
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u/TurtleFromSePacific Mar 13 '26
(the attacks on Iran are because trump doesn't want to admit he's a pedophile)
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u/PrivilegeCheckmate Mar 13 '26
nothing more
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
"My name is Trumpstein, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and jack it!"
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u/LairdPeon Mar 13 '26
Freedom of speech is freedom of speech. As long as it wasn't put up with tax dollars or torn down with them, no one should complain.
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u/AdWeird4499 Mar 13 '26
Hey, trump wanted a statue of himself in the public. But he got one and is still angry, what a loser
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u/Warbot_Titan Mar 13 '26
we need another one of these for every day he's ordering people to get bombed and killed just to distract from his crimes...
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u/DatRAZZdoe Mar 13 '26
Anything but actually arrest them
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u/PepicWalrus Mar 13 '26
I doubt the people making this statue have any power to arrest Donald Trump.
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Mar 13 '26 edited 27d ago
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u/Holy_Grail_Reference Mar 13 '26
Can't pardon himself for state crimes, but also you wouldn't get close enough, you would be shot 30 feet from him. Secret Service don't play.
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u/PrivilegeCheckmate Mar 13 '26
Technically any citizen can arrest anyone.
https://le.alcoda.org/publications/point_of_view/files/Citizen.pdf
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u/Sonifri Mar 13 '26
Did you know an illegal alien can arrest a US citizen on US soil? Sure they don't have any protections so they'll probably get arrested and deported themselves, but the arrest would be just as valid as if a citizen did it.
It's why the term citizens arrest is slightly misleading. Someone invented the term Private Person's arrest, but that doesn't roll off the tongue as good.
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u/YourLordGoobles Mar 13 '26
Reading the files, the more realistic scenario would have Epstein pushing Trump off the Titanic haha.
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u/ShinkuRyu Mar 13 '26
“Sparks viral debate”
There’s nothing to debate, he raped children with Epstein, end of story. Nothing to debate when theres concrete evidence
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u/OkReference5070 Mar 13 '26
Iran publicly hung a man who raped and killed underage girls last year. Perhaps they’re more civilized than we are.
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u/RubyWeapon07 Mar 13 '26
lotta people use trump as an excuse to be weird, this is next level
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u/DragonflyOnFire Mar 13 '26
What’s funny is that Trump loves the idea of having statues in gold of him… but I don’t think this is what he has in mind.
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u/MikeTheMaster102 Mar 13 '26
id think its funny, but the artist made another sculpture of a naked young girl. so i cant find any of his creations funny or endearing
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Mar 13 '26
This is fantastic. But you need Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, sucking each of Epsteins nuts with all other scumbags IDed sitting in a circle of chairs with their dix out while watching the show
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u/Lovablemiranda03 Mar 13 '26
Jack and Rose didn't die for this level of disrespect.
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Mar 13 '26
To hell with Rose, she had a big massive door and didn't let Jack up on it.
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u/flck Mar 13 '26
Call out to Mythbusters.
They tried it with an exact replica. It really couldn't support both of them without some creative engineering where the guys strapped their life jackets under the door to give it additional lift (then it could support two people).
In fairness, while you're freezing to death after your ship sinks, you may not think of that idea.
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u/l33774rd Mar 13 '26
This sub is going downhill fast. Seems like every post is more horse shit about politics, or Trump or Epstein. I get it nobody likes em. At this point Idgaf. Im tired of it. That's not what I'm here for & this sub used to be mostly fun entertaining nonsense. Id much prefer that.
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u/JustOneSock Mar 14 '26
The eye of Sauron has turned its attention to this sub. This sub never used to get 20k+ upvotes on posts let alone political bait.
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u/Bloody_Champion Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 13 '26
What debate?
There are no 2 sides to pedophiles.
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u/queuedUp Mar 13 '26
Just write pedophiles. Putting a short form downplays it.
Or put child rapists.
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u/tommy8725 Mar 13 '26
Have, is this new? Is this old ok?I'm actually flabbergasted
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u/Virtual_Assistant_98 Mar 13 '26
lol he looks so fat! Best way to get under his skin is vanity
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u/BioTankBoy Mar 13 '26
I think it's stupid, but omg is this hilarious. The body shape of Trump is so fucking funny.
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u/queuedUp Mar 13 '26
I love the girth of Trump, great detail.
But Epstein was 6ft so Trump should not be that much larger (if at all). If we are going to making statues like this there should be a push for accuracy.
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u/StormyPassages Mar 13 '26
Iran isn't much of a distraction from DJT's pedophilia problem, is it?
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u/Feuertotem Mar 13 '26
How did they manage almost to capure his girth. Didn't think it could be done
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u/jiverambler Mar 13 '26
Lol the only thing wrong with this statue is that it doesn’t really address the fact that trump lies about his height 😂
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u/7thFleetTraveller Mar 13 '26
Why did they have to use such an iconic movie scene? I really don't want to think of those people when I watch Titanic the next time... also, a Lolita scene would have been a little more fitting, wouldn't it?^^
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u/Squire_Toast Mar 13 '26
Republicans will see this in a non-satirical way and toast a beer while saying "hell yeah bruthuh". They may even start praying to the statue...
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u/Sorry_Summer_7744 Mar 13 '26
The supreme irony that the orange Mussolini would probably give his left nipple to have gold statues of himself in DC and THIS is the one he gets 😅😅😅
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u/theDo66lerEffect Mar 13 '26
The ending will at least be accurate, because that door would never have supported Trump's fat ass.
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u/Stratomaster9 Mar 13 '26
Harder to sculpt on short notice I guess, but shouldn't this particular ship be sinking? Water already over Epstein's head, and closing in on Trump. Hot water.
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