Trump Goons Defile National Mall With Tacky Plywood Horror

[riversedge]

Source: daily beast


MONUMENT TO ME
Indignity upon indignity is being inflicted on one of our most historic spaces.

Farrah Tomazin Jun. 24 2026 5:09PM EDT



President Donald Trump’s dream of building a massive triumphal arch hasn’t become reality yet—so he settled for a tacky plywood version in Washington’s iconic National Mall.

The towering replica now sits opposite a giant Ferris wheel as a centerpiece of the Great American State Fair, a sprawling patriotic festival the president will kickstart with a rally on Wednesday night.



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Trump’s dream of building a massive triumphal arch hasn’t become reality yet—so he settled for a tacky plywood version in Washington’s iconic National Mall.

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast.bsky.social) 2026-06-24T21:40:01.749Z

The plywood arch replica sits on the National Mall ahead of the Great American State Fair.

[C_U_L8R]

1. What in balsa reichstag hell is that?

Trump sure does have the Tacky gene. That over gilt eyesore screams pathetic dictator.

[2naSalit]

4. We could use a few...

Of those Ukrainian drones right about now.

[FakeNoose]

12. Well it's hideous and it's made of plywood so...

... it would be a shame if somebody's 4th of July fireworks set this ugly thing on fire.

Whoops! Oh well ....

[2naSalit]

14. Cryin' shame...

Rolling on the floor laughing so hard!

[LudwigPastorius]

33. I am imagining a kind of...

Midsommar scenario, with Trump ensconced in one side and Stephen Miller in the other.

[Ocelot II]

5. Stonehenge by Spinal Tap.

[kairos12]

11. Balsa Reichstag. Perfect.

[Ocelot II]

13. Who is Trump's Albert Speer?

Speer's designs were oppressive but not nearly as silly-looking.

[wnylib]

17. It's Herr Drumpf himself.

[DBoon]

31. A Home Depot Speer

[popsdenver]

37. Seriously

it looks like the backdrop for countless Hitler speeches.............Not really a surprise, considering it is Trump's idea.........

[wcmagumba]

2. And no doubt, we are paying for this t-rump fantasy garbage...as Roy Kent would say, "F**k"...

[wnylib]

18. No doubt the balsa will be billed as a multi-million dollar cost.

[Raven123]

3. Perhaps the more people see it, the more likely they will reject the final product

One can only hope

[UpInArms]

6. I wonder if the builders of this

also did the gallows for January 6

[sop]

7. Where are the swastikas?

[wnylib]

19. Maybe putting them on it will be a grand ceremony on the 4th.

[BidenRocks]

8. All together now!

Push! Push! Push!

[Hope22]

16. Wait a bit...

And the wind will take care of it.

[wnylib]

21. Oh dear. That would cause a new round of arrests

of suspects for creating a vandalizing windstorm.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

9. Trump is addicted to monuments to himself

[popsdenver]

38. Exactly like every other

third world, banana republic DICKTATOR........(spelling okay for him)

[Blue Owl]

10. It would be a shame if someone spilled some alcohol next to it

And another person tossed a cigarette butt in the same general spot....

[Buddyzbuddy]

15. Better that than the actual arch de felon.

[RB77]

20. I hope the paint peels off -

In big chunks! 🤓

[purr-rat beauty]

22. His MO....Do stupid shit to spur action

And then respond disproportionately

Those epstein files need to be released any day now, if nothing is done soon then I will be irrevocably convinced our gov't is beyond our reach with lawful and democratic action.

[wnylib]

23. If the high winds of a thunderstorm knocked it down

or if it was struck by lightning and destroyed, Der Fuhrer would start arresting liberal clergy with the claim that they had prayed for the storm.

[WestMichRad]

24. Flaming arrows.

Just saying…

[popsdenver]

39. There are certain things

that shouldn't be joked about WMR..........Big brother is watching everything these days.....

[SirReal69]

25. I've got to assume that...

they plan to set off an overabundance of fireworks near it. I sure hope they used flame retardant paint on that balsa wood effigy.

[BeneteauBum]

26. You've got to be kidding me!

Every day another screwed up debacle…..it’s tough to wrap my head around. I was looking for The Onion.

Peace ☮️

[orangecrush]

27. He hates this country and it's people

[MustLoveBeagles]

28. Yes

[orleans]

36. that has become so blatantly obvious. i wonder if his cult has begun to notice it. finally. nt

[orangecrush]

46. Some of them have

[Joinfortmill]

29. WTF? Impeach this ass.

[jmowreader]

30. Why am I thinking this is an American Gvle Goat?

The City of Gävle, Sweden, celebrates the holiday season by building a huge goat from straw. They've done it 60 times and 43 of them have been set on fire. It would be...well, you know, totally awful if someone set the Trump Goat on fire.

[Bayard]

32. Egads that's ugly!

And the eagles remind me of this....

[SergeStorms]

34. Is plywood flammable?

Of course it is, especially with all that tacky gold paint all over it.

I'm not suggesting anything. Heaven forbid some vandal surreptitiously ignite it in the dead of night. That would be horrible!

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

35. Looks like some sort of hideous, two-legged crotch. Probably to satisfy Trump's epsteinian lust...

[Shipwack]

40. Fireball! nt

[progressoid]

41. This was predicted 42 years ago...

[madamesilverspurs]

42. Somebody should

come up with an official looking notice from the parks service, stating that it is illegal to litter on government property; it should contain a warning that if it isn't removed within 24 hours it will be dismantled and destroyed, and the perpetrator will face fines and possible jail time. Print it big enough to be seen from a distance and copies tacked on all sides.


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[0rganism]

43. "The time for honoring yourself will soon be at an end"

Like the man says,

[perdita9]

44. How much did this cost us?

It's a parade of Waste, Fraud, and Abuse from this administration.

[Tanuki]

45. Potemkin Village

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village

"A Potemkin village[a] (Russian: [pɐˈtʲɵmkʲɪn]) is a construction, literal or figurative, that provides a façade to a situation, to make people believe that the situation is better than it actually is.


The term comes from stories of a fake portable village built by Grigory Potemkin, a field marshal and former lover of Empress Catherine II, solely to impress the Empress during her journey to Crimea in 1787.[1] Modern historians agree that accounts of this portable village are exaggerated. The original story was that Potemkin erected phony portable settlements along the banks of the Dnieper River in order to impress the Russian Empress and foreign guests. The structures would be disassembled after she passed, and re-assembled farther along her route to be seen again."

[LymphocyteLover]

47. So fucking stupid, OMG

[peggysue2]

48. The true vandals have arrived to . . .

Once again deface the United States Capitol into a crass, vulgar tribute to the Man Who Would Be King.

Every speck of the insult will require removal once this abomination and his lackeys leave office.

Disgusting!

[TheFracturedLine]

49. Trump goons are now harassing polling workers

In January, Paige reposted a newspaper article naming the ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good, a U.S. citizen, on video.
This week, two ICE agents tracked down her old address, pulled her DMV photo, built a file on her, and showed up at the polling place where she was working to demand she delete it.
That's not doxxing. The Star Tribune printed his name the day after the shooting. That's the government punishing a citizen for repeating something it didn't like.
She told me the whole thing today.

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