# Trump asks for a Van Gogh, is offered golden toilet instead. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 26, 2018, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-asks-for-a-van-gogh-is-offered-golden-toilet-instead/807500 "2018-01-26T02:47:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-asks-for-a-van-gogh-is-offered-golden-toilet-instead/807500/1 "2018-01-26T02:47:19Z")
So apparently back in September the White House asked to borrow a Van Gogh painting from the Guggenheim Museum; instead the Chief Curator offered up a fully function, 18-karat golden [toilet](https://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL2N1PK216) instead. šŸ†’ No word on how exactly the White House responded, thought Iā€™m fairly certain they turned it down. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-asks-for-a-van-gogh-is-offered-golden-toilet-instead/807500/2 "2018-01-26T02:51:02Z")
Of course it was turned down. _18_ carat? Only 26 carat or more for his Mighty Tushness. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-asks-for-a-van-gogh-is-offered-golden-toilet-instead/807500/3 "2018-01-26T03:11:27Z")
The golden toilet is named ā€œAmericaā€. I canā€™t see how Trump could turn it down. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-asks-for-a-van-gogh-is-offered-golden-toilet-instead/807500/4 "2018-01-26T03:18:36Z")
Why not the jewel encrusted Faberge toilet? ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-asks-for-a-van-gogh-is-offered-golden-toilet-instead/807500/5 "2018-01-26T03:20:46Z")
I am flush with potential commentary, but: Crap! The rule against political jabs in breaking news threads means Iā€™ll just have to remain, er ā€¦ constipated. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-asks-for-a-van-gogh-is-offered-golden-toilet-instead/807500/6 "2018-01-26T03:52:38Z")
If it is not Japanese (music, heated seat, bidet, odour masking) itā€™s just not worth it for a golden standard crapper. ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-asks-for-a-van-gogh-is-offered-golden-toilet-instead/807500/7 "2018-01-26T05:46:15Z")
President Shithole was offered the most appropriate piece of art. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-asks-for-a-van-gogh-is-offered-golden-toilet-instead/807500/8 "2018-01-26T05:46:56Z")
ā€œYouā€™ll float too, Donaldā€. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-asks-for-a-van-gogh-is-offered-golden-toilet-instead/807500/9 "2018-01-26T06:48:31Z")
I want to know how much that seat weighs. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-asks-for-a-van-gogh-is-offered-golden-toilet-instead/807500/10 "2018-01-26T06:51:40Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > I want to know how much that seat weighs. Hopefully, more than he can lift. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-asks-for-a-van-gogh-is-offered-golden-toilet-instead/807500/11 "2018-01-26T08:21:05Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Hopefully, more than he can lift. This was my fear about him getting his tiny hands on the van Gogh. Iā€™m really curious if he/they even understand just how badly the Guggenheim Museum was trolling him/them? CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-asks-for-a-van-gogh-is-offered-golden-toilet-instead/807500/12 "2018-01-26T11:59:49Z")
> [@From the article](#): > > The offer came in response to a White House request to borrow the painting ā€œLandscape with Snowā€ by 19th century Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh, for installation at the president and first ladyā€™s private living quarters, the Washington Post reported. The request for the painting was declined. You know, if Trump were asking so he could show it off to school children or something, that would be one thing. But to ask so you can use it for your own private quarters? Yeah, you can fuck right off. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-asks-for-a-van-gogh-is-offered-golden-toilet-instead/807500/13 "2018-01-26T12:28:36Z")
Can a bureaucratic exchange be considered Art? ā€œGive POTUS a Van Gogh.ā€ ā€œWe recommend the gold toilet. It captured the Trumpworld ethos better.ā€ Pretty much sums up Reality right now. Knowing heā€™s sending his tweets on top of that throne would make it all the more blackly humorous. ---
**Author:** ![JacobSwan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@JacobSwan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JacobSwan)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-asks-for-a-van-gogh-is-offered-golden-toilet-instead/807500/14 "2018-01-26T13:45:41Z")
Could they not have just got a print from the gift shop and put it in a nice frame for him? Like he would be able to tell the difference anyway! ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-asks-for-a-van-gogh-is-offered-golden-toilet-instead/807500/15 "2018-01-26T14:07:10Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > This was my fear about him getting his tiny hands on the van Gogh. > > Iā€™m really curious if he/they even understand just how badly the Guggenheim Museum was trolling him/them? > > CMC fnord! Iā€™m willing to bet he was planning on not giving it back. ā€œSorry, it gotā€¦lostā€. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-asks-for-a-van-gogh-is-offered-golden-toilet-instead/807500/16 "2018-01-26T15:01:36Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Iā€™m willing to bet he was planning on not giving it back. > ā€œSorry, it gotā€¦lostā€. Press Conference: ā€œThe good people at Google love me so much they gave me this original Van Morrison painting. Itā€™s great isnā€™t it? I am so honored to have such a great painting from such a great American artist!ā€ ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2018, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-asks-for-a-van-gogh-is-offered-golden-toilet-instead/807500/17 "2018-01-27T00:25:43Z")
Well, we know whoā€™s not getting any federal arts grants at least from now to Fiscal 2022, donā€™t we? šŸ˜ƒ Myself, Iā€™d just have declined or conditioned the loan to it being in a viewable place of display and not in private quarters. But the curator is obviously out of f\*\*\*s to give. And when you have a gold toilet called ā€œAmericaā€ in the collection, the temptation is truly greatā€¦ Now watch the guy say it never happened and nobody ever asked for the painting and the museum never offered the potty. ---
**Author:** ![Jungian\_Camisole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@Jungian\_Camisole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jungian_Camisole)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2018, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-asks-for-a-van-gogh-is-offered-golden-toilet-instead/807500/18 "2018-01-27T01:47:19Z")
Donald Trump - The new American Standard. ---
**Author:** ![Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Backwater_Under_Duck)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2018, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-asks-for-a-van-gogh-is-offered-golden-toilet-instead/807500/19 "2018-01-27T01:57:01Z")
> [@JacobSwan](#): > > Could they not have just got a print from the gift shop and put it in a nice frame for him? Like he would be able to tell the difference anyway! He thinks he owns a [Renoir](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/10/donald-trumps-fake-renoir). ---
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2018, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-asks-for-a-van-gogh-is-offered-golden-toilet-instead/807500/20 "2018-01-27T03:05:45Z")
> [@JacobSwan](#): > > Could they not have just got a print from the gift shop and put it in a nice frame for him? Like he would be able to tell the difference anyway! LOL! I was thinking this too !! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-asks-for-a-van-gogh-is-offered-golden-toilet-instead/807500.md?page=2)