America’s Billionaire President Asked a NYC Museum if He Could Borrow a van Gogh – They Offered Him a Solid Gold Toilet

18 Karat Gold

President Donald Trump didn’t want to buy a van Gogh but he did ask a famous Manhattan museum if he could borrow one – for the White House, of course. Curators at the Guggenheim on New York City’s Fifth Avenue refused their billionaire former neighbor down the street but they did generously offer a substitute of sorts: a working solid 18 karat gold toilet.

“In an email, museum curator Nancy Spector said the Guggenheim could not accommodate the White House’s request” for the van Gogh painting, “Landscape with Snow,” Raw Story reports.

The toilet, instead, was offered up.

“It is, of course, extremely valuable and somewhat fragile, but we would provide all the instructions for its installation and care,” Spector told the White House, noting that the artist, Maurizio Cattelan, “would like to offer it to the White House for a long-term loan.”

Even though the White House recently completed long-delayed renovations, the new toilet was not accepted by the President and First Lady.

The Washington Post notes the cost to create the work of art is over $1 million.

“On the face of it, President Trump might appreciate an artist’s rendering of a gilded toilet, given his well-documented history of installing gold-plated fixtures in his residences, his properties and even his airplane,” The Post reports. “But the president is also a self-described germaphobe, and it’s an open question whether he would accept a previously used toilet, 18-karat or otherwise.”

The toilet is titled “America.”