https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwywre1e3kvoThe White House has unveiled plans for a gold-accented giant victory arch dubbed the "Arc de Trump", that Donald Trump wants built in the nation's capital.The 250ft (76m) monument, if approved, would be taller than the US Capitol building and the Lincoln Memorial, and feature a golden Lady Liberty-like torch and crown.It will be "the GREATEST and MOST BEAUTIFUL Triumphal Arch, anywhere in the World" Trump wrote on social media. "This will be a wonderful addition to the Washington DC area for all Americans to enjoy for many decades to come!"The arch is just one of Trump's controversial efforts to reshape Washington's landscape and faces legal hurdles similar to his new ballroom project.The administration said it has officially filed the plans with the Commission of Fine Arts, a panel made up of Trump allies, which will review the proposal next week.American taxpayers will help fund the project, according to a publicly available spending plan for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) released by the White House.As per the spending plan, the NEH will dedicate $2m (£1.5m) in special funds and $13m in matching funds to the project.Trump has previously said that since his ballroom project was "fully financed", some of the leftover money would be used to fund the arch.The renderings of the arch depict gold inscription that say "One Nation Under God", topped with two gold eagles, and guarded by statues of four gold lions.The arch will serve "as a visual reminder of the noble sacrifices borne by so many American heroes throughout our 250-year history so we can enjoy our freedoms today", White House spokesman Davis Ingle said in a statement.
When the president announced the project last year, he said he wanted the arch to be based on the Arc de Triomphe in France, and for it to welcome people into the nation's capital from Arlington National Cemetery as they cross the Memorial Bridge into the city."Every time somebody rides over that beautiful bridge to the Lincoln Memorial, they literally say something is supposed be here," Trump said last year when he first announced his plans for the arch.The arch is another example of the president's makeover efforts in the US capital.Besides the ballroom project and extensive interior design changes at the White House, the administration also plans to close the Kennedy Center for large scale renovations.The performing arts venue, which has been rechristened to include Trump's name, will close for two years in July. Historic preservation groups have filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the changes.Plans are also afoot for the construction of a new monument called the National Garden of American Heroes.A location in the Washington DC is being considered as the site for the monument, the Washington Post reported earlier this year.
will congress approve of the most expensive urinal ever
>>1505391>this is satire>no it’s a bbc article
>>1505393Actually, that will be my Victims of Liberalism Memorial. It will be a rainbow colored building-sized urinal. I already have the plans and the location. I'm working on the rest of the funding.
>>1505397AI posting and spamming? you are most definitely esl and a shill
>>1505403Yes, I do own a grill
I just want to say that this looks nothing like Napoleon's Arc of Triumph. That one is decorated with giant high relief panels and sculptures. This one looks like a barren and soulless imitation.
>>1505391It's just so ugly. Might as well have put a gigantic, golden statue facing downwards in the middle of the arch, to hammer home what the real purpose is. Also, there IS something that's there, welcoming them into the city as you cross the Memorial Bridge. It's called the fucking Lincoln Memorial. The rotary that the bridge empties into goes around the Lincoln Memorial. Come to think of it, the rendering shows a similar rotary... is this motherfucker planning to demolish the Lincoln Memorial and replace it with a monument to himself?
>>1505410Well, I was going to say it's awful and gaudy, but if it's making liggerals seethe it might be worth building the ugly abomination straight from a Vegas casino.Just image all the liggerals imprisoned for defacing it every year. It might solve the entirely unfuckable disgusting liggeral problem we seem to have in the US.
>>1505391why the F are people so obsessed with gold it looks like piss colored paint.platnium plated or silvery tin looks so much better
>>1505391It’s all so fucking ugly. At least the nazis had the fashion game down, this new round of fascists can’t even manage that.>>1505410Probably. He and his handlers hate this country and doing so would make his shriveled dick twitch, so why not?
Lol, a genuine Arc de tRumphe, just like those cowardly frogs have
I'm surprised Trump hasn't replaced the Lincoln memorial with himself yet.
>>1505391I'm hoping in the next few years we get over the hump of denial and conservatives can finally just say out loud "I want to be ruled by a king." Like, it cant have anything to do with feeling shame at this point. I honestly don't know what's stopping them from just putting their other foot across the threshold.
>>1505437It's genuinely amazing how Trump manages to make something so valuable look so fucking cheap.
>>1505470>it cant have anything to do with feeling shame at this pointSure it can. MAGAs are universally weak, fragile dipshits who absolutely cannot admit any kind of fault or mistake, and they also fancy themselves as true American patriots or whatever. They'll keep on bullshitting themselves until the day they die, because to not do so would be too painful.
>>1505470I'm OK with a king. Democracy obvious isn't working. No one's happy, and liggerals lie about everything to propagandize the populace so they can raise taxes.Give me a king that cares about the country and it's people and I'll be fine.
>>1505391What do you know, it looks like absolute shit. Fucking Saddam had more taste than this retard.
Y'all are missing the most important point: it looks European. Triumphal arches aren't a US thing, they're a European thing, and MAGA hates Europe so that's the observation that will sting the most.
Don't worry, it will never be built. The corrupt construction company that is contracted to build it will just pocket taxpayer money.
>>1505410Actually, he wants to put it at the other end of the bridge and block out the view from the national cemetery.
Ah yes, nothing says democracy like building vain projects like this on potentially taxpayer money
>>1505459>just like those cowardly frogs haveStop perpetuating these myths of French cowardice. Napoleon Bonaparte, Western front doing world war I where many French soldiers died. Hitler cheated during WW2, I just flew directly over the Maginot line.the Maginot Line, a massive, sophisticated system of bunkers, forts, and tank obstacles built in the 1930s along France’s borders with Germany and Italy.
>>1505557You could make a presidential platform to run on that's just cancelling all of trump's projects and leveling the ones that are completed or half completed while also seizing all of hismoney to pay for any repairs. Like restoring the east wing.
>>1505699That's what Democrats probably believe anyway.
>>1505391I typically support Trump in everything he does, and I support this, but it just doesn't look good. Where are the statues? The carvings? The engravings? America can do better than this, and on the eve of victory over the evil Iranian regime, the American people DESERVE better than this. Youve already accomplished enough to make history, President Trump, just make sure the monument to those accomplishments is worthy of your great deeds!
>>1505761Revenge has been shown to be a winning platform.Also trump has opened the door to lawfare, so watch out if you don't get another right wing democrat. Since Republicans have actually committed a fuckton of crimes.
>>1505811Same energy as the people trump suckered here.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7YgiUBUNlk
>>1505391What a fag
>>1505391How will this make gas prices cheaper?
