Hours after a US judge paused construction on Donald Trump’s proposed 250-foot (76.2-meter) arch in Washington, the White House on Friday shared new depictions portraying the project as a tribute to the nation’s military heritage, the latest attempt to rebrand it amid mounting opposition.
Trump has increasingly turned his attention to a series of major projects in Washington, both before and after his Republican Party suffered massive losses in Tuesday’s midterm elections that cost the party control of Congress.
Oh, it’s a military tribute is it? That explains why so many veterans groups are suing to stop it. Because they feel too “honored”.
These are the only triumphal arches I’ve ever seen (in person), and they were certainly well earned:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldiers'_and_Sailors'_Arch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Square_Arch
The one at Washington Square Park is almost 74 feet high, and the one at Grand Army Plaza is 80 feet high. The one that Trump wants to build is more than three times the size. That’s fucking bananas, especially since he did abso-fucking-loutly nothing to earn it.
Edit: for reference: the Arc de Triomphe in Paris is 167 feet, and the Arch of Triumph Pyongyang, North Korea is 197 feet.
The Iraqi one on Airport road is pretty cool, not quite an arch, but giant like scimitars crossed. To commemorate the deaths of over a million people in a war that achieved nothing.
Even that was more deserved than our president getting a triumphal arch. For beating the two most unpopular woman candidates the dems could force on us. What a victory!
I have seen that arch. Pictures of it anyway. And, from an architectural and design standpoint, it is pretty cool. I’m not particularly into Middle Eastern art styles myself, but it is a pretty cool… Memorial Gateway? It’s not quite an arch, but Kinda. It’s definitely very representative of the culture in Iraq, though.
And what a fucking waste that war was. And the one that followed. And the one that followed that one. If nothing else, it should be commemorated… For the lives lost.
It’s not just a rebrand. It’s an attempt to invoke National Security Concerns ™ in the arch lawsuit. And then they’ll say the the judicial branch should not scrutinize the National Security determinations of the Executive branch.
The Arc de pedo.
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Conservatives not embracing change is literally the act of actively fighting against change. Their measure of progress is how far they do not budge “despite the other side’s attempts to move them!”
For the poor i honestly sympathize because all they have ever seen is things get worse (be it through reality or propaganda) so any change is understandably always going to seem bad.
The rich? It’s always gotten better for them since well forever. And they want more and more and actively harm progress of society.
How much harm do we allow them (the rich) to inflict before the literal death of them becomes the only real way to save ourselves?
Let him build it, then change the name to Obama, just like he did to the JFK Center.
Oh, and remove all the golden shit he puts there.
ObamArch
Not to be confused with the ObaMarch protests
Obama doesn’t deserve a goddamned triumph either, none of them do in our livetimes, or our parents’ lifetimes.
It’s in the way of the airport, it’s dangerous
They already named a beach in Normandy after that guy.
/Kenm
Gotta honor the dead by casting an enormous shadow over their graves. They could make it less grandiose, but its purpose is to fluff Trump’s ego, so they can’t alter it in any way that would fix the main problems people have with it.
A military tribute that people in the military are protesting? Hm.
Also, The Professional Left read off part of this excellent piece about the message Democrats should send to these criminals:
Speaking directly to Trump, Democrats can declare the end of the line for his vanity projects, which will be litigated, defunded, and investigated. If you’re a contractor building the ballroom, prepare to stop work. If you’re a contractor hoping to land a vanity project, think twice.
A tribute to draft-dodgers.
No, as I said in my comment on the proposal, it’s a monument to trump’s ego.
When asked who the arch was for, he literally responded with “me”.
