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Mystery artist distributes mini replicas of notorious D.C. poop statues

The poop statues, which feature a soft foamy material and a brass plaque, were seen on a table near a larger work of art that mocks Trump supporters.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/11/04/poop-statue-replicas-national-mall/





By dawn’s early light, on the eve of perhaps the most polarizing election in American history, the mystery political poop artist struck again.

Twice.

As the sun began to rise over the U.S. Capitol, a person wearing a mask was seen placing two dozen mini poop replicas on a table next to a larger work of similarly themed art installed Oct. 24 on the National Mall. That piece — a giant poop on a desk that was styled as belonging to Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-California) — mocked supporters of Donald Trump who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in an effort to overturn the presidential election.

“This memorial honors the brave men and women who broke into the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021 to loot, urinate and defecate throughout those hallowed halls in order to overturn an election,” a plaque reads on a pedestal below the desk.

The copper-painted mini poops, arranged like a bakery’s offering of meringues, sat on a table with a handwritten sign reading, “Free Please Only Take One.” Each swirl, which appeared to be made of a soft foamy material, was set on a white marble base with a brass plaque that read TRUMP NATIONAL JAN. 6 MEMORIAL.

A close inspection of the stool sample revealed slight indentations of eyes and a mouth.






The Washington Post was alerted early Monday morning to the fresh poops by the same individual who has claimed responsibility for other politically charged works of art critical of Trump that have been placed in Washington, Philadelphia and Portland, Oregon, over the past two weeks.

The caller also revealed that the people responsible for those works had placed another statue Monday morning mocking the former president in the parking lot of Donald J. Trump State Park, about 50 miles north of New York City.

That much larger statue took aim at the former president’s genitals. It featured a very small replica of a mushroom atop a large plinth. A plaque titled “The Very Large Donald J. Trump Monument” contained a long inscription quoting adult-film actress Stormy Daniels, who has alleged she had an affair with Trump and compared his genitalia to a mushroom. Trump has denied having an affair with Daniels.





A popup statue appearing to mock Donald Trump is placed in Donald J. Trump State Park in New York. (Melissa Bunni Elian for The Washington Post)

“New York State Parks does not allow individuals to construct statues without prior authorization. In keeping with this policy, this statue was removed after it was discovered,” Lacey Seidman, a New York State Parks spokeswoman, said in a statement.

Early morning visitors to the National Mall who stopped at the table holding the mini poops seemed uncertain as to whether they could actually take one. Two security guards standing nearby assured them they could. “Take a poop, take a poop,” one said when asked by a woman walking a dog.




“Oooh, it’s squishy,” said Archie Parnell, 73, who lives in South Carolina and was in Washington visiting family as he picked up one of the free giveaway poops. The item, Parnell said, “captures the disgrace of what happened.”

“I’m going to put it in a prominent place in my office,” he said as he walked away.

Greg Heckler, 42, also snagged one of the replicas. “It’s quite a statement and it’s good to remind people of what happened on January 6th and what might happen again,” he said. “I think people have forgotten way too quickly.”



The memorial on the National Mall “honoring” the January 6 insurrectionists for pooping at the Capitol. (Allison Robbert for The Washington Post)

The people responsible for the placement of the artwork have declined requests to identify themselves. Earlier Post reporting revealed that Julia Jimenez-Pyzik, the woman who requested the original National Park Service permit to put the poop desk on the National Mall, had been a producer of “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” movie, but she said the art has “absolutely nothing to do with that, totally unrelated.”

“I helped get the permit for the statue on the National Mall, but that’s really my only involvement,” Jimenez-Pyzik told The Post last week. “It’s great to see people talking about it, but I’m not the artist. I just got the permit and it is what it is.”

D.C. resident Diego Hernandez, 45, said he was out on an early morning run Monday and came across a masked man placing the mini-poop statues on the table next to the original installation. He shared a photo of the person with The Post and said he spoke with him briefly.

“I asked the man setting up the table and statues if he was the artist, and he said no, someone had hired him on Taskrabbit to set up the statues,” Hernandez said. The man who has claimed to be behind the artwork — and who tipped The Post to the latest development Monday — also said he was not the person in the photo.

By a little after 8 a.m. the mini statues were almost gone. Gray Iaquinto, 31, grabbed the second-to-last of the baby poops.

“I got a chuckle out of it,” Iaquinto said. “It will either go on my desk or in my home as a bookend. Maybe I’ll donate it to the Smithsonian one day.”