WASHINGTON — A statue featuring President Donald Trump and the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein holding hands and skipping has popped up on the National Mall in D.C.

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A plaque reads, “In honor of friendship month, we celebrate the long-standing bond between President Donald J. Trump and his closest friend Jeffrey Epstein.”

The statue is the most recent in a string of oddities that have appeared on the National Mall, including a large gold statue of Trump holding out a Bitcoin and a 50-foot bunch of bananas .

The authorities have not said who placed the statue.

The president has repeatedly tried to distance himself from the late notorious sex trafficking suspect since repo

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