As if the ballroom wasn't bad enough. He's building a monument to himself ?? And it will block view of Arlington

[tulipsandroses]

Cemetary.
Was just listening to a podcast that had an architect discussing how this arch could ruin the view of so many things. He talked about how the placement of some of the buildings were intentional. trump is about to ruin that.

Gee where are all the people that cried about their history being torn down, ALA confederate statues??

The president's plans to put his own architectural design stamp on Washington has extended beyond the White House, and in a more permanent way, too.

Last Wednesday, during a dinner with the ballroom donors, Trump showed the donors his plans to build a ceremonial arch -- similar to the Arc de Triomphe in Paris -- that would be located just outside Washington in a roundabout at one end of the Arlington Memorial Bridge adjacent to Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
"It's going to be really beautiful," Trump said of the arch. "I think it's going to be fantastic."

The president claimed that the arch would be funded with money leftover from the ballroom project and be created in time for the country's 250th anniversary next summer.
When a reporter asked Trump who the arch was for, he pointed at himself and said, "me."

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-putting-stamp-washington/story?id=126727714

[wcmagumba]

1. We'll tear all that shit down...

[RockRaven]

2. Getting to the point that my primary vote may hinge on willingness to tear all his shit down.

He's doing it to everyone else, turnabout it not merely fair play but necessary.

[Crunchy Frog]

13. Yes!

[MiHale]

3. He'll never see it finished...and if he does...I hope...

He stays with us to see it torn down right after the Epstein Ballroom is removed.

Love to see the very bitter tears he’d shed.

[vapor2]

4. With his failing health............

but then the repugs will live to see it torn down

[C_U_L8R]

5. The Arc de Triomphe has purpose and meaning

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Apparently Little Lord Trump doesn’t need that froofy stuff. Fortunately it’s easy to tear down his tacky self-admiring edifices as soon as he’s gone.

[2MuchNoise]

6. Let the asshole build it.

It will be good place to string him up when this shit's all over with.

[Volaris]

14. Now youre talkin lol. After, we can use it as a public art canvas,

All the kinds of people trump hates, can throw whatever spraypaint they want on it.
Beatnik, hippie lesbian poetry night on Tuesdays.
Shakespeare Saturday afternoons (Julius Ceaser once a month MANDATORY).

Shit like that.

[Diamond_Dog]

7. Maybe some plane could fly over it

And drop some raw sewage all over it.

[oberle]

8. Arc de Trump

[ThoughtCriminal]

9. A time will come for these monuments to get the remodeling too

Since they have established that a President does not need Congressional authorization, permission, funding to demolish Federal property. The next President can erase any monstrosities that Trump leaves behind.

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[tanyev]

10. Trumpery. All trumpery.

trumpery
noun
trum·​pery
Synonyms of trumpery
1
a
: worthless nonsense
b
: trivial or useless articles : JUNK
a wagon loaded with household trumpery
—Washington Irving
2
archaic : tawdry finery
trumpery adjective

Trumpery derives from the Middle English trompery and ultimately from the Middle French tromper, meaning "to deceive." (You can see the meaning of this root reflected in the French phrase trompe-l'oeil-literally, "deceives the eye"-which in English refers to a style of painting with photographically realistic detail.) Trumpery first appeared in English in the mid-15th century with the meanings "deceit or fraud" (a sense that is now obsolete) and "worthless nonsense." Less than 100 years later, it was being applied to material objects of little or no value. The verb phrase trump up means "to concoct with the intent to deceive," but there is most likely no etymological connection between this phrase and trumpery.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trumpery

[maxsolomon]

11. If they're going to have it done by July 2026

They'd better start yesterday. It doesn't seem feasible, frankly.

"L'Etat, c'est moi".

[Crunchy Frog]

12. The next Dem president will need to move it to a different location.

They will need to act decisively on this and not give in to the hesitancy and timidity that they tend towards.

They can't clutch their pearls over things like "legality". We've moved way past that point.