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Miles Archer

(24,328 posts)
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 09:31 AM Oct 2025

Kim Jong Don wants to build "a massive triumphal arch" across the Lincoln Memorial. WHERE ARE THE EPSTEIN FILES?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-unveils-another-project-to-billionaire-donors/

Trump unveiled his latest gilded D.C. vanity project at Wednesday’s lavish White House dinner for his billionaire backers.

The 79-year-old ex-real estate developer used the dinner to showcase multiple proposed versions of a massive triumphal arch he hopes to erect across from the Lincoln Memorial, awkwardly holding up miniature models for his guests to inspect.

At the glitzy dinner, which Trump hosted while more than half a million federal workers are furloughed amid the government shutdown, the president claimed that “every time” people drive across the bridge towards the currently undeveloped traffic circle, “They literally say, ‘Something is supposed be here!’”

The arch, which is topped by a winged golden angel he introduced as “Lady Liberty,” appears to borrow from Paris’ Arc de Triomphe, Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, and the Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang—monuments commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte, Frederick the Great, and the state to celebrate late Supreme Leader Kim Il Sung, respectively.
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Irish_Dem

(82,336 posts)
3. Where is all the money coming from? I thought the US was broke.
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 09:33 AM
Oct 2025

No money for services to the people.
No money for science, education, SS, Medicare, etc.

Is this just another money laundering project?
Trump gets all the funds for the project to put in his pocket?

Irish_Dem

(82,336 posts)
6. Yes Trump meant that he was going to become a trillionaire.
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 09:43 AM
Oct 2025

Which is his goal.

Biggest heist in US history.

Miles Archer

(24,328 posts)
5. He "claimed" he is paying for the "ballroom" PERSONALLY, with "donor help."
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 09:39 AM
Oct 2025

And, that becomes a true statement if HE "chips in" ANY AMOUNT, starting with ONE CENT.

My guess is that it will be taxpayer funds, and yes, he'll re-direct some unknown amount of them BACK INTO HIS OWN POCKETS.

This is ALL HE"S DOING. This, the former Rose Garden, the "ballroom"...he's doing this, playing golf, and watching TV while Stephen Miller and Russell Vought run the country.

Miles Archer

(24,328 posts)
9. Nor will there be. Let's look at this realistically.
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 09:57 AM
Oct 2025

As I said, a "cash contribution" from Trump of ONE CENT or more would make "he's paying for it" a TRUE STATEMENT.

He never said "I am paying for all of it." He said "I'm paying with help from donors."

He also didn't make THAT statement all-inclusive, so the NON-DISCLOSURE of TAXPAYER FUNDS is legit in a very ROY COHN KIND OF WAY.

Trump could pay ONE CENT. Trump could receive HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS from his "donors." HE COULD POCKET EVERY PENNY of that, use TAXPAYER funds (minus his one cent "contribution" ) and U.S. Taxpayers will never know the truth.

Not that he's actually do that, of course, because gee, he SEEMS so HONEST.

greatauntoftriplets

(179,347 posts)
10. How many monuments to himself is he planning to build?
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 10:07 AM
Oct 2025

Between this excess and the ballroom, it's adding up to real money.

Miles Archer

(24,328 posts)
11. Yeah, and don't forget those bigly yuge banners of his scowling face hanging from government buildings
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 10:18 AM
Oct 2025

The cost estimate for those was $50,000 in taxpayer funds.

hlthe2b

(114,683 posts)
13. Honestly, he makes many of us welcome "the great beyond" if it means we don't have to see him desecrate
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 12:26 PM
Oct 2025

the White House, the DC Memorials, and everything else that has ever been sacred in this country. When he digs up those in Arlington Cemetery that he feels to be unworthy--just to plant notable Confederates-- we will know it is permanently OVER.

Miles Archer

(24,328 posts)
15. I saw an interview with Eric Trump yesterday...
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 02:17 PM
Oct 2025

...he got positively giddy when the person interviewing him asked if Daddy was turning the White House into Mar-a-Lago (SPOILER: "YES" ).

HERE'S THE DEAL (and I think we all know this)...

...if a DEMCRAT wins the White House in 2028, they will be under pressure...and reasonably so...to take down the gold, the scowling face banners on Federal buildings, to restore the Rose Garden, and to convert the "ballroom"...if it actually gets built...into something to benefit the American people.

BUT IF A REPUBLICAN WINS, they will be TERRIFIED to touch ANY PLACE OR OBJECT where Trump has lifted his leg and sprayed his scent for as LONG AS TRUMP IS STILL BREATHING.

I really believe that. All of that crap will stand as long ass Trump slithers among us, and as long as Republicans are in power.

The game-changers will be a Democrat in power and/or America's favorite rapin' grampy heading off to his dirt nap.

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