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BumRushDaShow

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26. It is where his tower is in NYC

Reply to AverageOldGuy (Reply #23)

Fri Aug 29, 2025, 09:27 AM

Aug 2025

He completely razed the original Bonwitt-Teller building that was there.

https://envisioningtheamericandream.com/2024/04/15/the-travesty-of-trump-tower-and-bonwit-teller/

It's been publicized for over 40 years but no one seems to care (except maybe architecture and art officiandos), and notably of no interest to people who don't live in NYC (or even who live there). People didn't seem to care about the "Access Hollywood" tapes so...

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Trump order makes classical architecture default style for federal buildings [View all] BumRushDaShow Aug 2025 OP

I think he means neoclassical C_U_L8R Aug 2025 #1

No classical like Wolfgang Botany Aug 2025 #15

Not neoclassical... Trueblue Texan Aug 2025 #17

Don't rule out him wanting to build a Colosseum muriel_volestrangler Aug 2025 #29

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... speak easy Aug 2025 #16

Hitler died "young" by Chump's standards FakeNoose Aug 2025 #21

Exterior Designer in Chief. 🙄 a guy with no class and apparently nothing better to do underpants Aug 2025 #4

Ceasar has spoken LPBBEAR Aug 2025 #5

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Like religious fundamentalists and other reactionaries, what Turnip really hates is modernity itself. eppur_se_muova Aug 2025 #7

This is why he admires the Taliban Walleye Aug 2025 #28

President Tacky. enigmania Aug 2025 #9

Oh my God! He's so stupid! That's not how this works. He doesn't get to decide that. Scrivener7 Aug 2025 #10

Howard Roark would bitch-slap him . . . . . no_hypocrisy Aug 2025 #11

And I would stand in line... GiqueCee Aug 2025 #22

Calling Albert Speer! The Blue Flower Aug 2025 #12

This paragraph exemplifies MSM JMCKUSICK Aug 2025 #13

This is why no one pays attention to MSM johnnyfins Aug 2025 #19

A variant on Soviet-style Social Realism, version 2.1 (The America update and patch) Torchlight Aug 2025 #14

If he's dictating... GiqueCee Aug 2025 #18

The next Dem president will have to undo all this crap FakeNoose Aug 2025 #20

I don't recall the details . . . But . . . AverageOldGuy Aug 2025 #23

It is where his tower is in NYC BumRushDaShow Aug 2025 #26

The EPSTEIN files.....The EPSTEIN files........... Bengus81 Aug 2025 #24

Says the guy who tore down gorgeous mwmisses4289 Aug 2025 #25

Megalomania is a serious disorder Walleye Aug 2025 #27

Same shit he tried during his first term. Also see Reply #3. Eugene Aug 2025 #30