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When Donald Trump requests New York’s Guggenheim Museum to borrow a Van Gogh painting for the white house, he receives an unexpected response.
The first couple had asked the leading US museum if they could borrow Vincent van Gogh’s ?Landscape in the snow? artwork for the first lady?s private quarters. However, the Guggenheim decided to strike a different bargain. They were offered a fully functional 18-carat solid Gold toilet instead of the requested painting.
Requested Van Gogh Painting “Landscape with Snow” – Photo courtesy of Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation/© Solomon
R. Guggenheim Foundation
According to the Washington Post, Trump received a strict yet polite reply via an email refusing to lend the 1888 Van Gogh artwork. ?Many thanks for your request to the Guggenheim museum to borrow Vincent van Gogh’s ?Landscape in the snow? for the president and first lady?s private quarters in the white house,? wrote museum curator Nancy Spector who has been critical of Trump. She adds that the museum ?would like to offer it [the Golden toilet]  to the White House for a long-term loan. It is, of course, extremely valuable and somewhat fragile, but we would provide all the instructions for its installation and care.?

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