A RATHOLE
Taking rodents to Trump hotel
A BAND OF RENEGADE artists released live rats inside a Trump hotel room in the city as part of a highly-unauthorized exhibit complete with a Donald impersonator in golden handcuffs.
The guerilla art group Indecline, known for several highprofile anti-Trump projects, pulled off the artistic caper inside a one-bedroom suite at the Trump International Hotel on Central Park West.
“We feel like he really is the embodiment of a rat in every way, shape or form,” said a spokesman who requested anonymity.
“He’s the lowest of the low and we felt to imprison him with his own breed is only right.”
A team of seven showed up at the hotel Thursday afternoon carrying suitcases and duffel bags filled with bars for a makeshift jail cell and other supplies.
A camera was rolling as beaming bellhops eagerly led the activist artists to their room.
Over a frenetic 24 hours, the group transformed the suite into a shocking exhibit with a Trump impostor sitting inside a jail cell surrounded by rats and McDonald’s wrappers.
“We painted a picture that’s maybe part wishful thinking, part foreshadowing,” the spokesman said.
“We do feel like the noose is tightening.”
In addition to erecting the cage, the collective lined the walls with highly-stylized portraits of American “revolutionaries” including Noam Chomsky, Muhammad Ali, Edward Snowden and Angela Davis.
The group went to great lengths to pull off the heist-like art installation.
They spent a night at the hotel last month, taking measurements and studying security.
Earlier in the week, they spent their evenings in much grimier environs, setting up rat traps amid garbage piles in Brooklyn.
“They’d roll into those traps and were kept nice and safe,” the Indecline spokesman said.
The artists and crew worked around the clock to set up the room, sleeping just a few hours on Thursday night. They had no close calls with staff — and even upped the ante by calling housekeeping to send up scissors.
By the time they checked out early Saturday, the room was returned to its original form, not a picture frame out of place or spare rat roaming the carpeted floor.
“It was spotless,” the spokesman said.
It wasn’t the first time Indecline targeted Trump.
The group unveiled an unflattering statue of a nude Donald Trump in Union Square last August.
In January, they set up a “Trump Cemetery” at his New Jersey golf club.
But the hotel stunt was far more costly than the earlier installations.
The group paid $800 a night for the suite, nabbing a 30% discount by lingering on the reservations website for several minutes.
“It’s a little pricey but it’s what you come to expect from that piece of s---,” the spokesman said.