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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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    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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        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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    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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    Ah yes the golden arches right on the lawn of the white house.

    Just so if one wants a view of the WH you have to peek past the arch of annoyance.

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    Will there be a fake gold statue of Dear Leader? And every loyal American will be expected to make a pilgrimage to kiss its peen, just $99.99 admission.

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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