It was the No. 2 choice.
The Guggenheim pooh-poohed President Trump’s request to borrow a Van Gogh painting for the first family’s White House quarters — but instead offered to send a solid gold toilet, according to a new report.
Cheeky Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan agreed to send his interactive masterpiece “America” — a working, 18-karat potty infamously exhibited in one of the museum’s restrooms in 2016 — instead of Van Gogh’s priceless 1888 watercolor “Landscape With Snow,”
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“We are sorry not to be able to accommodate your original request, but remain hopeful that this special offer may be of interest,” curator Nancy Spector told the White House in a Sept. 15 letter obtained by the newspaper, explaining that “Landscape With Snow” can’t be moved.
“[‘America’] is, of course, extremely valuable and somewhat fragile, but we would provide all the instructions for its installation and care.”
She also included a photo of the piece — which famously graced the New York Post’s cover when it was on display — “for your reference.”
Spector, the paper notes, has been open about her contempt for the president on social media — so this may have been her way of raging against the latrine.
For his part, Cattelan chuckled but said he couldn’t comment, explaining the offer only by saying: “What’s the point of our life? Everything seems absurd until we die and then it makes sense.”
Trump is known for his love of blinged-out gold decor — but it’s unclear if he has taken or will take the museum up on its offer.
He’d be doing his presidential butt cheeks a favor: A Post critic who tested Cattelan’s golden throne first-hand gushed that it was the best he’d ever used.
