Trump mulling over yet another big architectural addition to Washington

[allegorical oracle]

President Donald Trump appears ready to leave yet another mark on the nation’s capital with a triumphal arch that could rival the Lincoln Memorial in scale.

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AFP White House Correspondent Danny Kemp shared a photo of the Resolute desk in the Oval Office with a satellite map of D.C. spread across it, complete with a miniature model of the Lincoln Memorial—and, across the water, a model of an arch that does not yet exist.

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The arch, which is topped by a winged golden angel, appears to be planned for the traffic circle at the terminus of the Arlington Memorial Bridge—echoing Paris’ Arc de Triomphe, which was commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte.

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In his second term, the commander-in-chief has devoted himself to renovating the White House—mostly by covering it in gold, but also by paving over the historic Rose Garden and building a $200 million ballroom larger than the White House itself.

(Photos of renderings of both the ballroom and the arch are at the link. The ballroom is so huge that it makes the WH look tiny.)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/trump-plotting-even-bigger-architectural-project-for-d-c/ar-AA1ObfUL

[Champp]

1. How much more food aid will the Republicans need to cut for this?

Probably a lot.

Paying for Trump's fabulous golf parties for rich republicans has put a dent in the national piggy bank.

P.S. on the bright side, at least it's not a giant mushroom phallus.
But I'll bet it will have one attached somehow, in the end

[CincyDem]

2. Albert Speer would be so proud. n/t

[mdbl]

3. He just keeps finding ways of wasting colossal amounts of taxpayer money

The Fart of the Deal.

[UTUSN]

11. Well, spending other people's money.

[greatauntoftriplets]

4. And what will it be called?

The Trump Triumphal Arch?

[werdna]

5. Losers love huge monuments to-

- overshadow the historical legacy of their unpopularity and failure.

[Emrys]

6. Photo showing architectural models of the proposed arch:

I'd have thought it would have much more bling.

Either that, or a less boring design:

[KPN]

7. I hope all of us "antifascists" will get behind the objective that anything that this narcissist builds

with public or donated funds on public lands anywhere for the sake of his own grandiosity gets demolished immediately upon his and his fascist goons' exit. Furthermore, that the public expense for the construction and demolition of these insults to
America is recovered fully with interest via levies/liens against him -- if his fat ass still exists -- and his heirs.

..... There, I feel better now.

[NameAlreadyTaken]

8. A McDonald's?

[Retrograde]

9. "Across the water"?

Like, in Virginia? And who is paying for this?

No money to pay federal employees but plenty to build up Donnie's ego.

[clevergrrrl]

12. Its still in DC

I looked at Google maps. It's on an island called Columbia Island that is a part of DC. There are a bunch of monuments there that they really didn't know what to do with. The most well known is the LBJ monument, which they were trying to hide from anti-war protesters.

[Uncle Joe]

10. "A ballroom larger than the White House," is grotesque.

The White House is an office and residence for the highest servant to the nation, not a gilded palace designed for vainglorious wannabe leaders.

Thanks for the thread allegorical oracle