‘People Can’t Afford Rent,’ Critics Say as White House Boasts of Trump’s Plan for Gold-Covered Arch: “While Americans worry about skyrocketing costs and another endless war, President Trump is focused on a taxpayer-funded vanity project,” said Rep. Don Beyer.
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Is that image from the plans since it looks like they copy pasted the 1930’s plans for Berlin.
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>*On the same day that the US Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that inflation spiked at its fastest monthly rate in four years, the Trump administration unveiled renderings of President Donald Trump’s proposed gold-covered 250-foot-tall arch to be built at Memorial Circle in Washington, DC.*
>The renderings, which were produced by architecture firm Harrison Design and posted on social media by the White House’s rapid response account, show a gigantic arch that would be flanked on its corners by four gold lions and topped by a 60-foot-tall gold statue of what appears to be an angel.
>On the same day that the US Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that inflation spiked at its fastest monthly rate in four years, the Trump administration unveiled renderings of President Donald Trump’s proposed gold-covered 250-foot-tall arch to be built at Memorial Circle in Washington, DC.
>The renderings, which were produced by architecture firm Harrison Design and posted on social media by the White House’s rapid response account, show a gigantic arch that would be flanked on its corners by four gold lions and topped by a 60-foot-tall gold statue of what appears to be an angel.
* According to a Friday report in The Washington Post, some preservationists have expressed concerns that the arch, which would be more than twice the height of the Lincoln Monument, would disproportionately tower over the DC skyline, and would block views of Arlington National Cemetery.
* Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) slammed the president for pushing construction of a gaudy gold-covered arch at a time when Americans are struggling due to the cost-of-living crisis worsened by his war in Iran.
>***“While Americans worry about skyrocketing costs and another endless war,”*** *he wrote in a social media post, “President Trump is focused on a taxpayer-funded vanity project that would choke traffic, block our skyline, and tower over sacred ground where those who served our nation are buried, including my own parents and sister.”*
The amount of blatant mocking of the electorate he is doing is making me really concerned that he isn’t concerned about election outcomes.
The King builds lavish architecture, while the mass starve and impoverish everyday
Ark of Humiliation.
Is this 2026 America or 1789 France? It’s getting really hard to tell…
Fucking gross, tacky, obscene and useless, just like the child rapist Trump.
He’s the most cruel and despicable person on this planet. He is quite happy to flaunt all the ways he’s throwing our money away and then claiming we have no money for health care or child care in this country.
He’s telling the entire country to get bent. Why anyone would still support him who isn’t part of the Epstein class is completely beyond me. Dumbasses.
Don’t worry, we will erase this monstrosity when he’s gone.
Of course it says “one nation under god” and not E Pluribus Unum.
Matthew 7:**^(21)** “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. **^(22)** Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ **^(23)** And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’
If this country ever has regime change they need to destroy these monuments to the fascist era.
His entire presidency is a taxpayer funded vanity project.
Apropos of nothing someone tried to burn down Sam Altmans house.
How else is Trump supposed to emulate his hero if he doesn’t have an arch to march his army past?
The wannabe king is building temples to honor himself
Trump is a product of the billionaire culture that looks down on the rest of society and views them as nothing more than disposable commodities to benefit and enrich them.
Next president just needs to charge a fee for tourists to use it like a giant rage room. Use the proceeds to build something tasteful
The Republican Party running for everything in a nutshell; GOP is a cancer to our democracy and country.
Trump has been posting about “Arches” for months now. But, one fantastic way to begin controlling a malignant narcissist is to appeal to their ego with lavish designs or monuments to their glory. The question we should be asking is this:
> Who stands to gain from this design, placement and construction?
Because we’re still learning about who was behind the Ballroom, and all that would have entailed.
Well he manipulated the stock market and did the crypto scam.
He also been pillaging the U.S. tax payer at Mar-a-Lago. Both terms.
Wasting money on the ballroom.
But then, this is a typical Republican thing. They cater to the rich and their own pockets while claiming it helps the poor and middle class. So it is ok with his voting base.
How’s the ballroom going?
To celebrate our humiliating defeat at the hands of a state we have been sanctioning and waging a cold war against for decades we shall build an Arch of Triumph!
I look forward to pissing on the stack of blocks!
legit… didnt he just say a week ago that we couldnt afford to pay for child care?
Great timing for this article. My rent went up today.
Knocking all this shit down can be a jobs program.
Trump is fucking NERO
*Yet another* vanity project. Just pissing money away on wars and gold plating his own shit.
Like every third world despot moron.
Fuck. Can we at least blow the science money on something cool?
These are all just bribes to his shitty construction and architect friends
America knew who Trump was when they reelected him so I can only assume that they are down with this.