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Trump-Epstein statue returns to National Mall after removal by NPS
By Nicky Robertson, Emily Condon, CNN
Updated:
8:40 AM EDT, Fri October 3, 2025
Source: CNN
A statue of President Donald Trump and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
holding hands has returned to the National Mall after it was last week.
Called “Best Friends Forever,” the statue shows Trump and Epstein
each with a foot kicked back and a hand flailing into the air, as well
as a plaque between the pair titled “In Honor of Friendship Month”
that reads: “We celebrate the long-lasting bond between President
Donald J. Trump and his ‘closest friend,’ Jeffrey Epstein.”
Trump has denied having had a close relationship with Epstein, and has
dismissed the controversies surrounding their ties as a “Democratic
hoax.”
The statue was put back together by the organization responsible for
it, “The Secret Handshake.” It had been dismantled and severely
damaged after its ordered removal last week, and there are still
visible marks of the damage.
A spokesperson for the Department of the Interior, which oversees NPS,
told CNN last week that the statue was removed “because it was not
compliant with the permit issued.”
The permit for the statue’s return was approved on September 30,
before the federal government shutdown. A member of “The Secret
Handshake” told CNN the group was told that the shutdown should not
affect the statue’s installation.
A Department of Interior spokesperson responded to CNN’s request for
comment from NPS, writing, “The only people holding hands in D.C.
right now are (Senate Minority Leader Chuck) Schumer and (House
Minority Leader Hakeem) Jeffries after they shut down the government to
push their radical agenda.”
“The Secret Handshake” has on the National Mall which went viral.
In 2024, the group put up “The Resolute Desk,” a bronze replica of
former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk – topped with an
emoji-like poop the size of a basketball – meant to allude to the
January 6 insurrection, when a supporter who stormed the Capitol was
with his feet on the desk.
The group also installed a statue in Freedom Plaza titled, “The
Donald J. Trump Enduring Flame,” a bronze statue of a tiki torch,
which appeared to mock Trump’s who attended a White supremacist rally
in 2017. And it put up the “Dictator Approved” statue, which
depicted a golden hand giving a thumbs up and crushing the Statue of
Liberty’s crown, on the National Mall.
CNN’s Kaanita Iyer contributed to this report.
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