The planned “Independence Arch”🙄 is intended to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary. Built to Trump’s specifications, it would transform a small plot of land between the Lincoln Memorial & Arlington National Cemetery into a dominant new monument, reshaping the relationship between the two memorials & obstructing pedestrians’ views.
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He probably hears it in his addled, demented mind as "Ark dee Tr*mp"
Das kommt dann gleich nach dem Ballsaal dran.
@Nonilex would it be gold?
@Nonilex We need to tear down anything Trump builds and de-trumpify the federal government after he’s gone, hopefully after he spends the rest of his miserable life in prison.
Just watch somebody, they will try to claim it’s a jobs program
@Nonilex We can tear down all this garbage after he’s dead.
He’ll be dead sooner than later.
@Nonilex he’s trolling the world before he dies. But also he’s a traitor, and the fashion police alone are laying down on the job, much less our own police. We’ll have to burn the White House down for the nails because it’s been so orangified, that it’s beyond salvaging.
Shouldn’t it possible to make a citizens arrest on the president? Just asking, for a friend.
@Nonilex I just can't with this pos
@Nonilex What he wants and what he gets may just be two different things.
He's real weak at grasping the memorial component of most monuments
It's truly embarrassing though to have his narcissistic psychopath on full display, again
(East wing, Kennedy Center, FIFA-thing).
Is it just me, or is he getting more out of control?
@Nonilex he has SAID he'd enjoy shitting on us all
@Nonilex
He's going to call it the Arc de Trump.
He wants to make his mark all over DC so we can't erase him after his death.
Unfortunately for Trump, monuments to fascism can absolutely be erased as soon as the fascists are out of power.
(More info on this particular example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party_rally_grounds#Zeppelinfeld )
@FediThing @Nonilex
And yet the big buildings remain absent the Nazi symbols.
That's a fair point, though in this particular case apparently the entire site is a now memorial to the victims of the Nazis.
On a slight tangent, is there really time for anyone to build these things Trump orders before he either leaves office or enters clearly-a-dictator-third-term territory or dies?
The Arc de Triomphe apparently took 30 years to build (though it had a ten year break in the middle), and more recently the much smaller Lincoln Memorial took eight years to build.
The White House stands about 70 feet tall. The Lincoln Memorial, roughly 100 feet. The triumphal #arch Trump wants to build would eclipse both if he gets his wish.
#Trump has grown attached to the idea of a 250-foot-tall structure overlooking the Potomac River, acc/to 2 people who spoke anonymously to describe his comments, a scale that has alarmed some architectural experts who initially supported the idea of an arch but expected a far smaller one.
@Nonilex Das Ding sollen se ruhig bauen, solange Sozialwohnungen reinkommen.
The magnificent Arc de Tyran, bigger than that little French thing, of course.
The planned “Independence Arch”🙄 is intended to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary. Built to Trump’s specifications, it would transform a small plot of land between the Lincoln Memorial & Arlington National Cemetery into a dominant new monument, reshaping the relationship between the two memorials & obstructing pedestrians’ views.
@Nonilex thank you for posting your beautiful photos. A breath of fresh air in difficult times.
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Looks like it will cast a giant shadow over the US Marine Corps Iwo Jima Memorial.
@Nonilex well, at least on the way to his burial site at Arlington he could accidentally be dropped in the filthy Potomac
@Nonilex and, don't tell us, it will be a gaudy golden roccoco swirl fest
#Trump has considered smaller versions of the #arch, including 165-foot-high and 123-foot-high designs he shared at a dinner last year. But he has favored the largest option, arguing that its sheer size would impress visitors to Washington, & that “250 for 250”🙄 makes the most sense, the people said.
@Nonilex What visitors to Washington? Tourism in the US has nosedived.
@Nonilex I don't want to be "that guy", but…
#Trump told Politico in December that he hoped to begin construction of the arch within two months. Memorial Circle, the plot of land that the president has eyed, is controlled by the National Park Service.
“The one that people know mostly is the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France. And we’re gonna top it by, I think, a lot,” Trump said at a White House Christmas reception in December.
Local historians & architectural experts have said that a large #arch could change the relationship between several historic sites, including Memorial Bridge itself, which was intended as a bridge between North & South in the wake of the Civil War, & memorials for Lincoln & Confederate general Robert E. Lee.
“It’s a very somber corridor,” said John Haigh, the chair of Benedictine College’s architecture program….
The structure as planned could obstruct views of Arlington House, the fmr Lee estate that sits on a hill in #ArlingtonNationalCemetery.
“I would be very concerned about the scale,” said Calder Loth, a retired Senior Architectural Historian for the Virginia Dept of #Historic Resources, warning that a 250' #arch would alter pedestrians’ views as they approach Arlington Cemetery from Washington. “It would make Arlington House just look like a dollhouse—or you couldn’t see it all…”
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Trump will spend OUR money on ANYTHING other than actually helping the US Taxpayer. #MoneyLaunderers