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highplainsdem

(48,917 posts)
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 12:46 AM Jul 2020

Trump's planned "Garden of American Heroes" is certainly intended to include a statue of himself,

probably at the entry.

Maybe gold-plated.

The American heroes whose statues will adorn the "garden" will included Antonin Scalia:






The text of of Trump's executive order creating the National Garden of American Heroes specifies a number of statues that must be included. They range from George Washington to MLK and Antonin Scalia









Editing to add that Trump's executive order refers to "former presidents" so he's guaranteed himself a statue in a "garden of herois":




Thought I still think it's most likely that he was sold on this idea by someone telling him his statue would be the first people would see, since he proposed this monument.

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Trump's planned "Garden of American Heroes" is certainly intended to include a statue of himself, (Original Post) highplainsdem Jul 2020 OP
Billy Fucking Graham? n/t blitzen Jul 2020 #1
Yea, wth? cayugafalls Jul 2020 #3
How's it going to be funded? gratuitous Jul 2020 #2
Audie Murphy? C_U_L8R Jul 2020 #4
Wasn't he accused of assaulting someone? nolabear Jul 2020 #11
He had PTSD and issues LeftInTX Jul 2020 #21
Antonin Fucking Scalia? That was the token Catholic to balance out Billy Fucking Graham. n/t blitzen Jul 2020 #5
The sad fact of the matter is that he is the president. cayugafalls Jul 2020 #6
On the contrary, I don't think he'll have a statue anywhere but Disgrace Land. greyl Jul 2020 #12
Surprise, surprise... cayugafalls Jul 2020 #13
Lol, right, but I mean in 2021. greyl Jul 2020 #14
You're right. That is one ugly looking statue as well. cayugafalls Jul 2020 #16
Thanks, maybe. Current statue is a traditional obligation, but next year - bad statement. nt greyl Jul 2020 #18
He'll have one at Ripley's Believe It or Not. kskiska Jul 2020 #46
I don't care about Disney World cuz every president is there LeftInTX Jul 2020 #22
Unfortunately, America is going to have to own this shitshow forever maxrandb Jul 2020 #26
tickets ... get yer tickets here dweller Jul 2020 #7
FDR? denem Jul 2020 #8
He gets in under the Former President thing jmowreader Jul 2020 #39
Please make sure... flotsam Jul 2020 #9
I would be honored to stand you a round, or three, of your favourite beverage to properly niyad Jul 2020 #10
Heck, between the 3 of us, we could give them all a proper hosing... cayugafalls Jul 2020 #17
Iummmmm, would be a tad difficult if one does not possess the necessary equipment. niyad Jul 2020 #29
Google "female urination device" jmowreader Jul 2020 #40
That is a most excellent plan! .thank you. niyad Jul 2020 #42
What! ornotna Jul 2020 #15
Wow! He forgot a whole lot of people. Where's Dragging Canoe or Tecumseh? struggle4progress Jul 2020 #19
of course biden will be able to cancel it next year usajumpedtheshark Jul 2020 #20
More likely amend whatever would be offensive to erect now. Hortensis Jul 2020 #24
More like "Idoltry Park" LeftInTX Jul 2020 #23
Scalia? He wasn't even outstanding in the Supreme Court he was a member of muriel_volestrangler Jul 2020 #25
can this be cancelled or at least amended by the next president? eShirl Jul 2020 #27
Lunatic Sunsky Jul 2020 #28
Who is the scultpor that buggered up the statue of Lucile Ball? chriscan64 Jul 2020 #30
No Roy Cohn? Al Capone? Bonny Parker and Clyde Barrow? yellowcanine Jul 2020 #31
Fuck Billy Graham. Fuck Antonin Scalia. Fuck Ronald Reagan. Goodheart Jul 2020 #32
Thurgood Marshall, Earl Warren? yellowcanine Jul 2020 #33
Jimmy Hoffa? Nixon liked him. yellowcanine Jul 2020 #34
Maybe he can find some old plans from Albert Speer lying around. yellowcanine Jul 2020 #35
Oh, I assume Donnie's would be the first to be installed. tanyev Jul 2020 #36
The only modern President is edhopper Jul 2020 #37
Will Rush be there? Danmel Jul 2020 #38
The first and most significant question... jmowreader Jul 2020 #41
Surprised that Jon Voight and Kanye West didn't make the cut lanlady Jul 2020 #43
I can't think of anything more "socialist" lanlady Jul 2020 #44
Yes, it is rather Stalinist. highplainsdem Jul 2020 #45
I hear he's going to start on it BlueIdaho Jul 2020 #47
Straight outta Schitt's Creek. Kid Berwyn Jul 2020 #48

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
2. How's it going to be funded?
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 12:48 AM
Jul 2020

Obviously not out of Trump's pocket. Will this be as historically accurate as the river of blood plaque Trump put on one of his golf courses?

cayugafalls

(5,639 posts)
6. The sad fact of the matter is that he is the president.
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 01:07 AM
Jul 2020

He will be remembered. There will be an animatronic statue of him at Disney world, probably already is...

Now he has this statue garden to preserve his ugly fat fucking face for the foreseeable future. Plus we are going to be blessed with a library. The stain of all this is almost unbearable.

Can we please somehow erase the last 3.5 years?

greyl

(22,990 posts)
12. On the contrary, I don't think he'll have a statue anywhere but Disgrace Land.
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 01:49 AM
Jul 2020

No way in hell will Disney honor him with a statue under their brand.

cayugafalls

(5,639 posts)
16. You're right. That is one ugly looking statue as well.
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 02:02 AM
Jul 2020

Maybe they did it on purpose, evil, bloated, walking grease ball.

He will be relegated to the back behind Taft or some other corpulent fellow in order to hide his chubby ass.

LeftInTX

(25,140 posts)
22. I don't care about Disney World cuz every president is there
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 03:56 AM
Jul 2020

This statue park is picking and choosing.

maxrandb

(15,298 posts)
26. Unfortunately, America is going to have to own this shitshow forever
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 06:36 AM
Jul 2020

1,000 years from now, when anyone sees our flag, there's going to be a giant orange shitstain smeared right accross the front of it.

Be proud Murika. You've made us a laughing stock of the world, and have so permanently stained our reputation that we will never get it back.

For as long as our country exists, when America walks into a room, it's going to come with the smell of a skunk with an perianal abcess.

We CAN'T erase this history.

That's why I will never forget, or forgive anyone who voted for this racist, evil, ignorant piece of amphibian shit.

flotsam

(3,268 posts)
9. Please make sure...
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 01:17 AM
Jul 2020

Billy Graham, Ronald Reagan, and Fat Tony Scalia are next to each other-I have arthritis and I would rather just unzip my pants once.

niyad

(113,074 posts)
10. I would be honored to stand you a round, or three, of your favourite beverage to properly
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 01:45 AM
Jul 2020

Observe the occasion.

cayugafalls

(5,639 posts)
17. Heck, between the 3 of us, we could give them all a proper hosing...
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 02:05 AM
Jul 2020

Just saying, I wouldn't mind contributing a little pittle to the party...

niyad

(113,074 posts)
29. Iummmmm, would be a tad difficult if one does not possess the necessary equipment.
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 08:58 AM
Jul 2020

But one can figure out some contribution.

jmowreader

(50,529 posts)
40. Google "female urination device"
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 12:31 PM
Jul 2020

My recommendation is to get a 25-gallon tank, a Milwaukee cordless transfer pump, two 10-foot garden hoses and several of these devices, then throw a beer-and-asparagus party for 50 of your closest friends. When the tank is full, head on over to Trump’s fantasy park.

struggle4progress

(118,236 posts)
19. Wow! He forgot a whole lot of people. Where's Dragging Canoe or Tecumseh?
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 03:44 AM
Jul 2020

Where's Nat Turner or Denmark Vesey? Where's Joe Hill or Mother Jones? Where's George Lee or Lamar Smith?

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
24. More likely amend whatever would be offensive to erect now.
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 04:14 AM
Jul 2020

And no doubt delay. Delay's easy since these things always take years while studies, legal procedures, design, etc., are carried out.

Of course statues that won't go up should include Trump's, but denying the president who just stepped down would offend also. Whatever. We all know that any statue of Trump will have to be protected from vandalism until it's officially removed, possibly to a museum with explanations posted, for the same reason so many others are being taken down now.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,271 posts)
25. Scalia? He wasn't even outstanding in the Supreme Court he was a member of
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 04:39 AM
Jul 2020

It's not as if they thought enough of him to make him Chief Justice.

Sunsky

(1,737 posts)
28. Lunatic
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 08:52 AM
Jul 2020

The more he doubles down on this, the more he's infuriating African-Americans. We will now walk over hot coal to get this racist out of the White House. I am now to the point where I will stand in a line for 24 hrs in the middle of a pandemic to vote Trump out.

Biden wasn't my first choice and honestly, I do believe before the last two weeks his campaign lackluster. I am upset that my tv is being bombarded with Trump ads to no Biden advertisement (Hillary made the same mistake). However, Trump is Biden's enthusiasm booster. Trump's words and actions will help GOTV for Biden.

I dislike the man with passion. I can't wait for the general election. I know of numerous first-time voters who signed up recently because of Trump's war on BLM. The lunatic does not understand that if he rages war on the ideology of black equity, he will turn out black people in numbers never seen before. He's more upset about the removal of symbols of hate than Putin's bounty on our soldiers. Damn traitor.

chriscan64

(1,789 posts)
30. Who is the scultpor that buggered up the statue of Lucile Ball?
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 09:01 AM
Jul 2020

Must be out of work. If there is going to be a Trump statue, your long workless drought is over at long last.

yellowcanine

(35,694 posts)
35. Maybe he can find some old plans from Albert Speer lying around.
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 09:41 AM
Jul 2020
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Speer


Albert Speer, March 19, 1905 – September 1, 1981 served as the Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during most of World War II. A close ally of Adolf Hitler, he was convicted at the Nuremberg trials and sentenced to 20 years in prison.

An architect by training, Speer joined the Nazi Party in 1931. His architectural skills made him increasingly prominent within the Party, and he became a member of Hitler's inner circle. Hitler instructed him to design and construct structures including the Reich Chancellery and the Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg.

jmowreader

(50,529 posts)
41. The first and most significant question...
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 12:38 PM
Jul 2020

How, exactly, can Mr. Trump appropriate the millions of dollars and repurpose the land it will take to build this without congressional approval? He exploited the “emergency declaration” thing to build his fucken wall, but “there is no statue of Billy Graham in Washington, D.C.” is not an emergency, and most correctly-thinking people think that’s a good thing.

lanlady

(7,133 posts)
43. Surprised that Jon Voight and Kanye West didn't make the cut
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 10:18 AM
Jul 2020

Or Nazi sympathizer Charles Lindbergh.

Maybe their statues will go into some sort of Secret Garden that only the deplorables will have access to.

lanlady

(7,133 posts)
44. I can't think of anything more "socialist"
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 10:34 AM
Jul 2020

--than using public funds to erect statues of state-approved historical figures.

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