Thought you needed a triumph before building a triumphal arch

[bigtree]

...silly me.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/01/31/trump-arch-memorial-circle/

Everyone's just going to call it a folly.

[Turbineguy]

1. Every day he stays in office is a triumph for him.

[bigtree]

2. so, Failure arch for the rest of us

Traitor arch

Debacle arch

Putz arch

[2naSalit]

3. He deserves a pit...

Into which we can bulldoze him and his entire entourage of enablers, then cover them over with a new monument to the Constitution.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Caligula had his army collect seashells, to be shown in his triumph

Combining the accounts of Suetonius and Dio, the story is briefly told. Having over-wintered in Gaul and engaged in some allegedly farcical operations on the German frontier, Caligula drew up his forces with their equipment on the shores of the Ocean. Briefly putting to sea, he returned to land and mounted a platform from which he ordered the signal for battle to be given. He then commanded the soldiers to gather sea-shells to be carried in his triumph in Rome. Finally, he ordered the construction of a lighthouse and promised the army a donative of one hundred denarii per man. Before departing for Rome, he determined to punish two legions, identifiable as I and XX, ostensibly for their role in the mutiny following the death of Augustus in AD14, although there could have been few, if any, of the men involved in that incident still serving. His first inclination was to slaughter them wholesale but he then decided upon decimation. However, when they showed signs of resistance, he fled. His triumph, at which the triremes involved in the escapade, as well as the shells, were to be displayed, was to be of unprecedented grandeur but ultimately he settled for an ovation, which took place on his birthday, 31st August 40.

https://www.ad43.org.uk/blog/caligula-and-the-sea-shells/

[bigtree]

5. On Lake Nemi, south of Rome, Caligula built a floating palace

... with five keels, 140 oak frames, two decks with on an onboard temple that included fluted columns, gilded roof tiles, terra-cotta roof ornaments, marble and ivory decorations and a sculptured terra-cotta frieze with blue, green and yellow paint. In order to exceed the luxuries of Lucullus —a rich politician from the late Roman Republican era — he spent the equivalent of several million dollars on a single meal.

https://europe.factsanddetails.com/article/entry-349.html

“He gave several gladiatorial shows, some in the amphitheater of Taurus and some in the Saepta, in which he introduced pairs of African and Campanian boxers, the pick of both regions. He did not always preside at the games in person, but sometimes assigned the honor to the magistrates or to friends. He exhibited stage-plays continually, of various kinds and in many different places, sometimes even by night, lighting up the whole city. He also threw about gift-tokens of various kinds, and gave each man a basket of victuals. During the feasting he sent his share to a Roman eques opposite him, who was eating with evident relish and appetite, while to a senator for the same reason he gave a commission naming him praetor out of the regular order. He also gave many games in the Circus, lasting from early morning until evening, introducing between the races now a baiting of panthers and now the manoeuvres of the game called Troy; some, too, of special splendor, in which the Circus was strewn with red and green, while the charioteers were all men of senatorial rank. He also started some games off-hand, when a few people called for them from the neighboring balconies as he was inspecting the outfit of the Circus from the Gelotian house. [Source: Suetonius (c.69-after 122 A.D.) “De Vita Caesarum: Caius Caligula” (“The Lives of the Caesars: Caius Caligula”) written in A.D. 110, 2 Vols., translated by J. C. Rolfe, (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, and London: William Henemann, 1920), Vol. I, pp. 405-497, modernized by J. S. Arkenberg, Dept. of History, Cal. State Fullerton]

According to President of the United States, Donald Trump, the upcoming UFC card will feature a stadium in front of the White House that will hold up to 100,000 people.
https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/president-trump-reveals-plan-build-001500914.html