Political art mysteriously pops up in D.C. ahead of Election Day

Two political statues have mysteriously popped up in Washington, D.C., drawing crowds of onlookers, just a week before Election Day.

Two political statues have mysteriously popped up in Washington, D.C., drawing crowds of onlookers, just a week before Election Day.

Last week, an unknown artist placed a bronze replica of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk – topped with an emoji-like poop, the size of a basketball – along the National Mall near the U.S. Capitol.

“This memorial honours the brave men and women who broke into the United States Capitol on January 6th, 2021 to loot, urinate and defecate throughout those hallowed halls in order to overturn an election,” a plaque below the statue reads. “President Trump celebrates these heroes of January 6th as ‘unbelievable patriots’ and ‘warriors.’ This monument stands as a testament to their daring sacrifice and lasting legacy.”

Pelosi’s desk was at the center of one of the most iconic images of the January 6 insurrection, when a Donald Trump supporter who stormed the Capitol was infamously photographed with his feet on the desk.

On Monday, a bronze statue of a tiki torch appeared in Freedom Plaza, just a couple of blocks from the White House.

The statue, called “The Donald J. Trump Enduring Flame,” appears to mock the former president’s defence of the marchers who attended a White supremacist rally in 2017 that left a woman dead.