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highplainsdem

(48,910 posts)
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 01:25 AM Jul 2020

Trump's EO not only creates garden of statues but statues of former presidents outside public bldgs

and in places where statues have been torn down.

So this could be Trump's way of trying to get statues of himself set up wherever statues were torn down recently.











Link to my OP about the part of this EO on the "Garden of American Heroes" that should specifically include a state of Scalia:


https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213696936


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RockRaven

(14,899 posts)
1. The EO giveth, and the EO taketh away...
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 01:44 AM
Jul 2020

Biden ought to completely obviate this on day 1, as with so many others....

pecosbob

(7,533 posts)
3. This reminds me of the films of Hitler brooding over his model of Berlin with Speer
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 01:50 AM
Jul 2020

Planning public works that would never even be begun, much less finished. Nothing but lame duck toilet tissue.

misanthrope

(7,408 posts)
4. It reminds me of public "art" in authoritarian regimes
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 01:57 AM
Jul 2020

Most of these figures end up not being very artistic.

Retrograde

(10,129 posts)
7. Where's he going to put John Tyler?
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 03:08 AM
Jul 2020

10th president, and the first to assume office on the death of an elected president. Tyler was known during his term as "His Accidency"; he was later elected to the Confederate congress. He also married a much younger trophy wife - sounds like Donald's kind of guy.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
8. Good try, Trump. He doesn't realize it, but statues to a disordered,
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 03:17 AM
Jul 2020

openly racist, and traitorous president would not stand for long.

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