Satire monument in front of the Capitol: Trump and Epstein in “Titanic” pose

The features section asked if I wanted to stroll to the new Trump-Epstein monument. Of course I agreed, but I would like to briefly mention something about strolling because I have an ambivalent relationship with this much-sung-about cultural form of walking. Because now everyone who wanders through cities and occasionally makes a meaningless observation thinks of themselves as a stroller. Until recently, one of the meaningless observations was that people sometimes wear shoes that are too big, but more on that later. On the other hand, strolling is still more graceful than Tai Chi walking, with which old men with bellies hope to traipse away from death because they believe that death only calls old men with bellies to come to them. But death calls all old men to him, no matter what they look like. So, as an everyday cultural compromise, I took the subway to the Smithsonian station and walked the few meters to the Capitol – and there it is, the new monument.