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Miles Archer

(23,629 posts)
Thu Apr 16, 2026, 10:51 AM 3 hrs ago

Trump's chair of the Commission of Fine Arts wants THREE arches built in the adjudicated rapist's "honor," not just one

Trump’s chair of the Commission of Fine Arts wants the president to dramatically expand his plans to build tacky monuments to himself across the nation’s capital.

“I think the president should do three,” Rodney Mims Cook Jr. told the Washington Post of the White House’s existing plans to build a 250-foot “Arch de Trump”—modeled loosely on France’s Arc de Triomphe—near Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C.

Cook says he’s already picked out two other prospective locations in the southeast of the city, near the John Philip Sousa Bridge and the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge, even though the commission has not yet approved plans for the first.

The panel convenes Thursday to review proposals for the monument, on which the White House is aiming to begin construction later this year to mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/president-donald-trumps-suck-up-arts-chief-rodney-mims-cook-jr-says-one-supersized-dc-arch-isnt-enough/

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Trump's chair of the Commission of Fine Arts wants THREE arches built in the adjudicated rapist's "honor," not just one (Original Post) Miles Archer 3 hrs ago OP
Does this mean he has 2 more wars to lose? Johonny 3 hrs ago #1
Please don't post articles from "The Onion" as if they were ... wait, what? NT mahatmakanejeeves 3 hrs ago #2
Trump is acting more and more manic and grandiose. Irish_Dem 3 hrs ago #3
As are the people who work for him. Three arches? One was disgusting enough. Biophilic 3 hrs ago #8
If we are able to actually get a D POTUS Cosmocat 3 hrs ago #4
To truly honor the great man, make it 1000 ft. And build 10 of them dalton99a 3 hrs ago #5
To be named Donald the Father, the Son @ the Holy Spirit delisen 3 hrs ago #6
Huh. I wonder who told him to think that? tanyev 3 hrs ago #7
That's a strong possibility MustLoveBeagles 3 hrs ago #11
Cheaper solution: A flashing neon sign at the White House entrance dalton99a 3 hrs ago #9
Seven is more appropriate...one for each Hill of Rome PCIntern 3 hrs ago #10
Three is really overkill ITAL 3 hrs ago #12
Maybe it's in honor of his Dark Triad personality. tanyev 1 hr ago #13

Irish_Dem

(81,730 posts)
3. Trump is acting more and more manic and grandiose.
Thu Apr 16, 2026, 10:54 AM
3 hrs ago

He is totally out of control and dangerous.

Cosmocat

(15,439 posts)
4. If we are able to actually get a D POTUS
Thu Apr 16, 2026, 11:00 AM
3 hrs ago

He or she has to seriously look at undoing a lot of this vanity bullshit.

tanyev

(49,398 posts)
7. Huh. I wonder who told him to think that?
Thu Apr 16, 2026, 11:11 AM
3 hrs ago

🤨

ETA: Was that what Donny’s Easter Sunday drive around D.C. was about?

PCIntern

(28,447 posts)
10. Seven is more appropriate...one for each Hill of Rome
Thu Apr 16, 2026, 11:23 AM
3 hrs ago

Tiberius Trump shall not be overlooked! All Hail Caesar !

It’s like being in a horror movie which just keeps getting worse and worse as well as more and more absurdist and surrealistic. It’s like Cocteau meets Stephen King.

ITAL

(1,349 posts)
12. Three is really overkill
Thu Apr 16, 2026, 11:41 AM
3 hrs ago

Even for Trump. Especially it's they're all as huge as the first one.

I'm not against classical arches in principle (the planned one for Salt Lake City that's supposed be finished in about seven to ten years is kinda cool looking), but he needs a better reason other than "I just want one...or three....or ten of them."

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