WaPo Interviews a Guy Dressed As a Toe Mocking Trump's Bone Spurs

If you were with me on Halloween night, you might remember a VIP post I published about how The Washington Post always seems to have a reporter and a camera crew handy to report on things that aren't actually news. As an editor myself, I understand that you don't have to write about everything. On October 31, WaPo published an interview with Anne Jaegerman, a 69-year-old retired preschool teacher, who has stood at the site of President Trump’s proposed 250-foot-tall triumphal arch every weekday since mid-September, holding an American flag and a homemade sign with the words “NO ARCH." As I noted, this was after they'd had their graphic design team mock up an interactive 3D model of where exactly the arch would cast a shadow on Arlington National Cemetery over the course of a day. The trees in Arlington also cast shadows on the graves, but as I've reported, judges go apes**t whenever a tree is cut down in D.C. under the Trump administration.

Again, one retired preschool teacher with a sign gets an entire article devoted to her.

As I've reported before, I marvel at the way WaPo is always there to catch things like the dance troupe reenacting the shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in front of the Kennedy Center, or another troupe of dancers in front of the Kennedy Center wearing blindfolds and leotards with different passages from the Epstein files printed on them. A reporter and video crew obviously just happened by and found it newsworthy to publish it on the paper's social media accounts.

On Monday, WaPo was back at it, looking into a "mysterious group of artists" erecting statues ridiculing Trump's bone spurs. Who are these artists? Who's paying them to do this? Where are they getting the money for the materials? Will a reporter find the answer to any of these questions, or did WaPo just think this was newsworthy?

The anonymous artists who have taunted President Trump and his administration with more than a dozen statues and installations around D.C. struck again Monday, this time with a statue mocking Trump for avoiding military service because of bone spurs. https://t.co/nVMTJSMpTq https://t.co/U2flXJ0wru
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 9, 2026

OK, so ace journalist Liam Scott talked to "Toey," a guy in a toe costume who hangs out next to the statue.

Someone dressed in a big-toe costume stood beside the statue in the morning and said: “Draft dodger? I hardly know her.” The costume was complete with nine hairs and the name “TOEY” emblazoned across the chest.
“I’m the biggest toe. The hugest toe. Huge. Hugest toe. Largest toe that anyone’s ever seen,” Toey said. The person in the Toey costume declined to share their real name, citing concerns over retaliation and a desire to preserve the mystery of the art project.
The bone spurs statue is the latest erected by a group of anonymous artists who go by the name The Secret Handshake. Their real identities are unknown to The Washington Post. They use a go-between to obtain permits for the installations from the National Park Service.

"Trump received five deferments during the Vietnam War: four for his studies in college, and one for bone spurs in his feet," Scott reports.

@washingtonpost Joe Biden and Bill Cilnton were also draft dodgers. It is depressing that 4 of our last 5 Presidents have been old enough to even be a draft dodger.
— Everybody is Insane (@colorblindk1d) November 9, 2026

@washingtonpost fun fact, despite his claims of being a top level athelete, Joe Biden had more deferrements than trump.
— frankdoooooks (@frankdoooooks) November 9, 2026

@washingtonpost Trump has a sense of humor. He probably wouldn't mention the proud military careers of Bill and Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama or Joe Biden. Or he might.
— Milo Stone (@GeniusMilo) November 9, 2026

@washingtonpost Trump is POTUS ...the artist is anonymous i understand where the jealousy comes in
— M (@coressel_m) November 9, 2026

@washingtonpost Just like in Nazi Germany and the Handmaid's Tale!
— Everybody is Insane (@colorblindk1d) November 9, 2026

@washingtonpost Typical left-wing retards with no jobs and nothing better to do! Go back to your Mommy and Daddy's basement.
— Mr Obvious (@JRoddy58899574) November 9, 2026

@washingtonpost Democrats have the minds of retarded children.
— Red Bone (@BambBeeker) November 9, 2026

@washingtonpost You people are gay retards. 🤦‍♂️
— Mick In RI🇺🇸 (@MickInTheIsland) November 9, 2026

So, WaPo will send out a reporter and a camera crew to interview a guy dressed up as a toe and let him say whatever he wants anonymously, and that's news. The only thing newsworthy was finding out that they use a go-between to obtain permits for the installations from the National Park Service. The Park Service issues them permits!