The extremely offensive photograph "Pi** Christ," which launched the culture wars in the late 1980s, will re-emerge in Trump's America. The "artist" behind it, Andres Serrano, will display this offensive work, along with pictures of volunteers in "torture" settings and the artist's portrait of Donald Trump, at a museum in Houston, Texas.

On Thursday, The Art Newspaper reported that Serrano's art would be shown in an exhibition running from June 3 to October 8 at the Station Museum of Contemporary Art in Houston, Texas. The exhibition will include "Pi** Christ" (1987), "Black Supper" (1990), a portrait of Donald Trump (2004), and Serrano's "Torture" series (2015), which depicts volunteers being shacked and degraded.

Most controversial by far is the "Pi** Christ," a photograph of a crucifix plunged into a vat of human urine. The image sparked the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s, after the work was shown at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in 1989.

"The Republican senators Alphonse D'Amato and Jesse Helms... led the ensuing fight to try to defund the NEA [National Endowment for the Arts] —a seemingly perennial effort renewed by Capitol Hill Republicans since the Reagan years," Serrano explained in 2015, according to The Art Newspaper. "It marked the beginning of what has since become known in the United States as the culture wars."

Many liberals defended Serrano and others in the 1990s, despite such highly offensive art, arguing that these artists had the free speech right to present whatever they wished. Conservatives responded by arguing that public tax dollars should not go to support such art.

But the exhibit featuring both "Pi** Christ" and the Trump portrait is particularly relevant to current events. President Trump's proposed budget would defund the NEA, getting the government out of the art business. This would prevent tax dollars — much of them raised from Christians offended by art like "Pi** Christ" — from going to support this kind of art.

Either federal funding should not support this kind of art, or the people incensed at their tax dollars going to prop up "Pi** Christ" will push to defund the NEA. The liberals who are terrified Trump might destroy art in America made their bed by defending the public funding of Serrano's "art."

As for Trump, Serrano defended his portrait of the businessman in 2004, thirteen years before he would become president. "He represented the American Dream," the artist said, according to Claire Voon. Here is a photo of Serrano in front of his Trump portrait.