WTOP/Heather Gustafson

WTOP/Heather Gustafson

WTOP/Heather Gustafson

WTOP/Heather Gustafson

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Dozens of people gathered on the National Mall near the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday with their phones out, snapping photos of a surprise statue that had passersby doing double takes.

“Before I got close, I thought it was Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers,” one visitor, Don said with a laugh. “Then I realized it was Trump.”

The 12-foot, bronze-colored sculpture depicting President Donald Trump and the late disgraced financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein hand-in-hand was installed by an anonymous art collective calling itself “The Secret Handshake.” It is constructed from wood, foam and resin, finished to look like a traditional monument.

The gr

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