White House Recasts Trump Arch As Military Tribute, In An Attempt To Rebrand
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The arch and Trump’s other signature projects have drawn significant political and legal opposition.

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.

  • cruseo@piefed.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    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.

    • bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish
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      2 days ago

      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!

      • cruseo@piefed.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        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.