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Redditsux@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 7 months ago

Trump Says Construction of His ‘Triumphal Arch’ Will Begin ‘Sometime in the Next Two Months’

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Trump Says Construction of His ‘Triumphal Arch’ Will Begin ‘Sometime in the Next Two Months’

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President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he expects construction of the "Triumphal Arch" he wants to build in Washington, D.C. to begin "sometime in the next two months."
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  • WatDabney@sopuli.xyz
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    Reminder that the President of the United States is profoundly mentally ill

    • Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io
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      That reminder is daily, if not more frequently. So let’s start talking about the people who are ‘pulling the puppet’s strings’.

      • Rhaedas@fedia.io
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        String pullers, and those going along with it because they think they’ll get something out of it at the cost of the country’s decline.

        We’re going to need a wall. A long one.

        • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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          We’ll use whatever wall’s available and they can be put up against it in shifts.

        • Triumph@fedia.io
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          Nah, we need a lot of tiny walls, made of brass, lead, and smokeless powder.

    • FreshParsnip
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      Isn’t there some kind of protocol for if the president is unable to perform his duties due to insanity?

      • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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        The 25th was written to be used for incapacity, and an insane but active president can defeat it. If his cabinet members declare him incapable, all he has to do is write a letter saying “Nuh-huh, I’m fine” and that’s the end of it. The amendment wasn’t intended to deal with mental illness. More like “POTUS in a coma.”

        If they want him out, they should impeach him.

      • INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone
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        They take em round back of the shed and… Kpow.

      • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world
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        Maybe. Nobody ever seems to know exactly what the laws are in this place, for some reason.

    • Asidonhopo@lemmy.world
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      Not to quibble but maybe he’s developmentally disabled? He just ain’t grow right. In the head.

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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        As the philosopher Hank Hill said…

    • Zier@fedia.io
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      And always has been.

      • KingOfSleep
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        (He’s getting even worse…)

  • redlemace@lemmy.world
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    Yes to this but veto to block a freshwater pipeline for 50,000 residents

    (official reason: waste of taxpayer money, real reason: govnor hurt his fragile ego)

    • NOT_RICK_SANCHEZ@lemmy.world
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      Call me petty, but it was going to red areas of Colorado which voted for him so no real loss at the end of the day.

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      GOP: “We save you money by negligently & maliciously depriving the citizens & residents of the USA of basic necessities for health (while making a hefty little profit for ourselves!)”

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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      Taco is such an asshole. And of course the “waste of taxpayer money” was something that provides clean water to humans and passed with overwhelming support.

      That this absolute DICKHEAD would try to use that as a cover speaks to just how terrible Republicans are - like good little parrots they were repeating the mantra “waste, fraud and abuse. waste, fraud and abuse” when “doge” was busy doing things to steal data and kill human beings.

      They are programmed to believe lies like Taco’s.

      I’ve said this for decades and I’ll say it again: no Republican should be allowed into any office.

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    DC needs protected bike lanes not an arch

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      Hey, I’ve been reading where a couple 5 pound bags of sugar in a concrete mixer will greatly delay setting, and may or may not significantly compromise the strength. A few liters of cola may be even worse.

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      How do those make Trump’s ego feel better though?

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        We could just name them after him, call them the Trump lane.

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          Shit if that works, get him to create single payer universal Trumpcare.

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    Thought at first this was an Onion article.

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      We’re in The Onion Timeline. Nuttier than a fruitcake, and just as stale, dense, and sickly sweet.

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    First the military parades, now this. He thinks he’s giving Napoleon energy when he’s really giving kim family energy, who have their own arch which is :

    The structure is modeled after the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, but is 10 metres (33 ft) taller.

    So you know this arch de trump will be 10 meters higher than Kim’s.

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      The parade was a joke and he will never have any arch, don’t stress. He couldn’t even build one wall.

      If I was American, I would be more worried about filling the enormous concrete slab a few years from now.

      The one left where the east wing was.

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        Is that ballroom even finished yet?

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    Fiscal responsibility, right here people.

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    Trump doesn’t seem to understand that the existing presidential monuments were built posthumously and by popular opinion in order to honor exceptional leaders. His desperate attempts to plaster his name on random bullshit is pathetic. I hope once he finally kicks the bucket that we quickly rename these monuments to honor his victims. I wish he could be alive to see it.

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      I wish he could be alive to see it.

      Same here. I imagine he’s sundowning most days, but has times of lucidity. I want him to still have that lucidity while he fumes about all his stupid shit getting destroyed, and his name taken off of everything of value. Maybe rename Four Seasons Landscaping in “honor” of him, LOL.

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      Just knock them down. DC doesn’t need this bullshit eyesore.

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    Donald j Trump, current president of the United States of America and best friend of Jeffrey r Epstein rapes children and wants to build a monument to his deeds.

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      “The Donald Trump Rape Cave” didn’t quite have the same ring to it.

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    What is he tearing down this time?

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      The USA.

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        That’s why Putin put him in. Even if Trump isn’t knowingly a saboteur, his brainlessness, weakness and incompetence still get the job done.

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      Well, there was an article the other day about 13 government buildings he wanted to tear down and preservationists were fighting back, but I thought he wanted to build the arch on the Mall

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    Alternately, they could impeach Trump, then start the long process of restoring everything that he vandalized.

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    Trump’s Triumphal arch is a joke, it has no symbolism of any value, where for instance the French “Arc de triomphe de l’Étoile” has double significance as praising the success of the Napoleon army, and as a symbolic memorial place for the unknown soldier, and today it has become a historic landmark.

    What Trump is doing is putting up a huge piece of garbage of no value and slab his own name on it.
    It’s a cheap copy of “the original” in Paris, both in concept and design. Much like a cheap Chinese copy of a Vuitton designer piece.
    Trump has no style and no class, only someone completely without any sense of either could think such a project is cool.

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      For a non-American it really is pretty hilarious.

      Someone building things to honor themselves is just shameless, it really is. Anyone who supports him in any way, even passively or tacitly, is also shameless.

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      Triumphal arches go back to at least the Romans, so the one in Paris is nothing close to the original. It’s a copy, as well.

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      Guess who else wanted to build a”triumphal arch”…

      https://thebunkergirl.com/hitler-wanted-to-build-a-triumphal-arch/

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerbelastungskörper

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      He’s probably dimly aware that his time on this earth is coming to an end, so he wants to leave a turd on the coffee table before exiting the party.

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    Cai reached Trump by phone at Mar-a-Lago and asked when he expected work to begin.

    “It hasn’t started yet. It starts sometime in the next two months. It’ll be great. Everyone loves it,” replied Trump. “They love the ballroom too. But they love the Triumphal Arch.”

    Super demented

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    Spray painted gold!

    With a second right next to it!

    And free hamberders below for everyone! But we’ll also promise them ice cream, and when they ask for it, we’ll always tell them the machines broke.

    Haha, welcome to Hell.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpiP_Iz1XGM

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      If there are any free bugers, they’ll be riddled with e. coli.

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    Is he just going to keep picking other country’s monuments he likes and make his own bootleg version of it in Washington?

    Looking forward to the Trump Mahal, Sizeable Bob, Christopher the Coupon Redeemer, DC Tower and the Slanted Tower of Pizza.

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      Slanted Tower of Pizza.

      Made with real pizza.

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      It will be the new Las Vegas, bankrupt casinos coming soon.

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    What’s he got to be triumphant about?

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      He raped all those children and was never brought to justice for it.

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        He also actually might be net positive and a real billionaire now that he has grifted with his crypto so hard.

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        I also forgot about conning a lot of people out of a lot of money with crypto scams.

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      Successfully destroyed a lot of unarmed boats?

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        It’s the USA we’re talking about here. That’s really not unique to him.

        Killing unarmed civs is their god given right or some shit they’re quite proud of.

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