Nothing says “working towards the need of the working stiffs” like grandiose pointless architecture.
Fun fact: all dictators like architectural megaprojects. This is what Hitler had in mind for Berlin for instance. Or this monstrosity built by Ceaucescu. The Arc de Epstein and the Epstein ballroom should tell you something about Trump.
At least those were useful buildings.
The American government and their supporters hate modern day Europe, and yet they’re so obsessed with gaudy replication of old European stuff. You see it also with all the kitchy Roman-like pillars and replicas of the statue of David randomly plonked in some room. It’s just so… weird. I guess they like the idea of “old” Europe, the good old days when they still spent half their time killing each other, and the other half killing people in far-away places. They probably see it as their own origin story, so they resent that the modern versions of these countries, after all the devastating wars, have evolved into modern, peaceful countries. Maybe they see themselves as defenders against modern debauchery like freedom, peace and happiness?
From my perspective it just seems kind of hollow and desperate, can’t think of your own stuff to do so you decide to copy the megalomania of dysfunctional old empires that got crushed by their own ego and inability to peacefully coexist in prosperity. There’s a reason they’re not around anymore, and copying them, aside from being vaguely pitiful, just means you’re headed to the same end. Let’s hope it won’t take two world wars for America to catch on.
I can’t wait to spray paint “Trump Rapes Kids” on this piece of shit.
Better delete this comment first! I ain’t see nothing…
More like “one nation under gold”.
Exclusive footage of Trump and his architect planing the new Triumphal Arch.
A pointless gilded arch!? People are trying to survive in Trump’s disastrous economy. I have a hard time imagining anything he could do that would be more out-of-touch…
He’ll want to call it the Trump Arch, but let’s just call it the “Let Them Eat Cake” Arch.
The best thing about it is that he’ll hate it, but he won’t know why. I GUARANTEE that he’s never heard of Marie Antoinette, and doesn’t know what Let Them Eat Cake means, and that just makes it better.
Wait until he hears about the French Revolution.
I’m not convinced that Americans have the same appetite for revolution as the French….
Good to see the things this admin doesn’t consider “waste fraud and abuse”
Trump would build the Tower of Babel in his name if he could.
Would anyone understand it? (Couldn’t resist)
Clearly the man has priorities.
Finally, a place to hang all the trump traitors in public. Or should we borrow a guillotine from France?
No, hang them from the Let Them Eat Cake Arch, then destroy it, and weigh down their bodies with the rubble, and drop them in the ocean.
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.
The American taxpayer will “help” fund the project? Where are the other funds coming from? Seems like the NEH, a federal agency funded by… the taxpayer?
Or is this going to be Ballroom 2.0, another billionaire bribe monument to oligarchy?
You only get a Triumph if you conquered enough enemies and gathered enough wealth to appease the senators of Rome.
This arch is a sham! Triumphal, my ass.
Suck some more Bill Clinton dick, President Donald “the rapist pedophile” Trump.
Or if you are Prussian or Napoleon, but I don’t anyone is questioning the Brandenburg Gate or the Arche de Triumph. Also I feel like Bolivar built one but I can’t source that right now, just kinda a vibe about him in particular.
I was 100% sure this is an onion article
