A 12-foot statue of Trump and Epstein holding hands has returned to D.C. just in time to taunt Trump. Never before has he looked so weak and guilty.

A 12-foot statue of Trump and Epstein holding hands has returned to D.C. just in time to taunt Trump. Never before has he looked so weak and guilty.

Federal authorities removed the statue twice already, but the artists — an anonymous collective called The Secret Handshake — simply pop it back up somewhere new, like a public-service jump scare reminding America of the company Trump kept.

And honestly? The timing couldn’t be sharper.

Because just as this bronze nightmare re-emerges, newly released and Epstein emails are pouring out of Congress. Trump, increasingly frail and delusional looks guilty as hell.

The White House, predictably, is sprinting away from all of it, insisting Trump “did not send or receive” the emails — technically true, because they were written about him, not by him. But that’s like saying your fingerprints weren’t on the getaway car because you were busy sitting in the backseat.

That’s what makes the statue so devastating: it’s satire wearing a truth the powerful can’t scrub off.

The original installation on the National Mall included a plaque that read, “We celebrate the long-lasting bond between President Donald J. Trump and his ‘closest friend,’ Jeffrey Epstein. But it was quickly taken down.

Then the artists reapplied, got another permit, and watched the feds yank it again. Now the piece is back, smirking, leg kicked out, Trump and Epstein linked arm-in-arm like they just finished a couples massage at Mar-a-Lago. “Much like Trump’s name in an Epstein email dump,” the artists told The Daily Beast, “we have popped our head out to say an unannounced hello.”

This is what art looks like when the truth keeps getting buried: it refuses to stay buried with it.

The statue keeps returning because the truth keeps returning.

And until the powerful stop hiding behind lawyers, excuses, and their own silence, this won’t go away — not in bronze, not in headlines, and not in the memory of a country tired of watching predators walk free while their victims disappear into footnotes.

If they’re scared of a statue, imagine how scared they must be of accountability.

And that’s exactly why we should keep demanding it.