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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump threatens to keep the UFC construction up permanently -- like the Eiffel Tower.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday compared the structure being built on the South Lawn of the White House for this months UFC fight to the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
And he thinks it might have a similar fate.
Speaking in a TikTok video, the president said the Eiffel Tower was a temporary structure set up for the 1889 Paris Exposition.
It was supposed to be taken down immediately after the worlds fair, he said. Well, they never took it down.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-now-says-this-bizarre-white-house-addition-might-never-ever-go-away/ar-AA24HZtW
gab13by13
(32,894 posts)I support Democrats
Intractable
(2,447 posts)Blue Full Moon
(3,703 posts)2naSalit
(104,046 posts)Fucking eyesore piece of shit he disgraces the capitol city with shall be dismantled immediately upon his leaving. And he WILL leave one way or another. Apparently he prefers the hard way every time.
OldBaldy1701E
(11,669 posts)As far as I am concerned, we need to force him and his companies to clean it all up. Any one who was in on the deals that this regime has made should also be held accountable for insider business practices and illegal manipulations of the markets. (Hey, they love to complain about this all the time anyway, so use it against them.)
Also, we need to let him know that everything has to be put back just like it was, or even more time will be added to his life sentence. (He won't understand what that means, but adding any kind of punishment will just set him off even more.) If there is no 'means' for his companies to do it, then he himself has to get out there with a crowbar and a sledge. He made the mess, he can clean it up.
Just like my mother told me every time I made one.
allegorical oracle
(6,620 posts)costly to tear it down and cart it away.
calimary
(91,058 posts)It could go to Mar-a-Lago, and dumped right in front.
(That way, he gets to keep it!)
Farmer-Rick
(12,799 posts)And a few rusted trailer homes and you got pedo Trump's perfect environment. But only if it's all painted gold.
sop
(19,546 posts)Goonch
(5,704 posts)
PatSeg
(53,722 posts)Trump's White House is looking like President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho's White House, except Camacho wasn't a raging narcissist bent on destroying the world.
malaise
(298,491 posts)That is all
Initech
(109,397 posts)"DONALD TRUMP DID TO THE WHITE HOUSE WHAT OSAMA BIN LADEN ONLY TRIED TO"
And show the before and after pictures.
malaise
(298,491 posts)Rec
littlemissmartypants
(34,796 posts)FDT
homegirl
(2,008 posts)The Eiffel Tower was built for the 1889 Exposition Universelle to celebrate the centennial of the French Revolution. Designed by Maurice Koechlin and Émile Nouguier and spearheaded by Gustave Eiffel, it was initially intended to stand for 20 years before being dismantled. It was saved from demolition after proving its value as a massive radio telegraph station.
IronLionZion
(51,615 posts)Javaman
(66,006 posts)thesquanderer
(13,140 posts)GiqueCee
(4,899 posts)... the Orange Gargoyle actually uttered something true.
The Eiffel Tower was scheduled for demolition in 1910, but it was proven to be too valuable a resource, both for science and critical military functions. A claim that Trump's repulsive abortion cannot make. May it collapse and fall on his head.
Trueblue Texan
(4,668 posts)...he is the trashiest, tackiest tenant ever! He doesn't pay his bills; his yard looks like a dump; he takes classic interior and exterior decor and cheapens them with flashy, fake, CHEAP crap. He starts deconstruction projects on the property before he has any idea about how to get clearance to proceed with construction--just tears shit up and leave it that way; Everywhere he goes, he leaves a huge mess. Cleaning up after him is impossible while he is still in residence. Who would want someone like that as a neighbor, much less a president? EVICT him! That may actually be more attainable than impeachment.
mwmisses4289
(4,860 posts)or taste or elegance or whatever you want to call it.
rubbersole
(11,298 posts)tsf has class. Third.
Dem_in_Nebr.
(358 posts)malaise
(298,491 posts)Rec
Seinan Sensei
(1,667 posts)is up on concrete blocks in the backyard of the White House
pansypoo53219
(23,213 posts)purr-rat beauty
(1,511 posts)And damage to a Federal building
What did he say....10 years?
chowder66
(12,577 posts)Trueblue Texan
(4,668 posts)...which is a nice way of saying, "mow your damn grass and clean the place up!"
JustABozoOnThisBus
(24,742 posts)... and send the pieces to the Trump Presidential Lie-berry.
It'll look good next to an inoperable jumbo jet.
Dave Id
(345 posts)so that now he's 'king of America', he can destroy and or build anything he wants to. He seems believe he own the White House and surrounding property. He's MAGAts do also.
Dave Id
(345 posts)Awful Tower
Ol Janx Spirit
(1,097 posts)...The Champagne Bar on the arched monstrosity so we can at least savor a flute of champagne as we take in the views of the Fuhrerbunker and the Arc de Shitforbrains from its lofty perch above our once beloved Whitetrashington?
Or, are we descending into something more like Roman times with a permanent fight cage to entertain the people?
Will there be a Vance vs. Rubio pay-per-view slap fight? I might watch that.
I wonder how much they will charge for people to get married under its soon-to-be iconic profile?
thesquanderer
(13,140 posts)Ol Janx Spirit
(1,097 posts)Seinan Sensei
(1,667 posts)Well sort of.
MW had three MMA matches.
Two of them against the same guy.
I think Markwayne should get in the Octagon with Sean OBrien, President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
You remember Sean OBrien.
Markwayne went full-blown Poser (stand your butt up!) on Sean during a congressional hearing.
Which is to say, that if they ever did put on the gloves, Id have all my money on the Teamster.
twodogsbarking
(19,506 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(17,716 posts)lark
(26,127 posts)No way in hell!!
bif
(27,317 posts)Just what we need.
Blues Heron
(9,080 posts)Historic NY
(40,160 posts)I hear the participants are having second thoughts about this outside arena
Ol Janx Spirit
(1,097 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(19,238 posts)Something like
THIS SUNDAY: ALL-AMERICAN MONSTER TRUCK RACES!
Mud Wrassiln' Every Tuesday and Friday
Grim Chieftain
(2,139 posts)He is destroying everything he touches and everything we hold dear. For the love of all sanity, will this ever end?
mercuryblues
(16,526 posts)He is building his own gallows. I'm OK with that
Happy Hoosier
(9,669 posts)Martin68
(28,129 posts)all his enemies, both perceived and real.
3catwoman3
(29,898 posts)...as Trump - nekulturny. It means uncultured or uncivilized, and from various sources I've read, is considered a serious insult and conveys great disdain.
Rob H.
(5,955 posts)It's enraging that he keeps doing these things to properties he doesn't own and won't have to pay anything to restore any of them.
PatSeg
(53,722 posts)Rob H.
(5,955 posts)I don't remember where I first saw it, but it sums up what he's doing perfectly.
PatSeg
(53,722 posts)to describe him and his presidency these days, so we have to makeup new ones. I think the Scots take the prize for the absolute best though.
Happy Hoosier
(9,669 posts)whopis01
(3,938 posts)allegorical oracle
(6,620 posts)Bluetus
(3,168 posts)that sprout overnight in whatever dilapidated, abandoned 1970s shopping mall parking lot is available. We should be running a crowdfunding campaign taking pledges for tearing down each of Trump's edifices with the proceeds going to charity. Trump needs to see millions of dollars of pledges for each thing:
- every grand banner with his hideous orange mug. I'd pledge $25 to be in a raffle to be the one to tear down the banner at DoJ or the Pentagon.
- I'd pledge $100 to be in a lottery to be the one who pushes the button to bring toen the ballroon or the Great Gate of Trump
And so on. I'm 100% serious about this.if the DNC wants my money, THIS is the sort of aggressive messaging they should be pushing.
Mr.Bee
(1,929 posts)Liberal In Texas
(16,471 posts)He's building his own little empire in DC.
Anybody think he will leave willingly at the end of his term?
Crowman2009
(3,613 posts)paleotn
(22,865 posts)Preferably with him strapped to it. Live or stinking carcass. Makes no difference. Go one better than what Charles II did to Oliver Cromwell. For similar reasons. Revenge can be so sweet!
MissouriDem47
(447 posts)Leaving that nonsense on the White House grounds would be appropriate as it is a true reflection of their priorities.
Martin Eden
(15,940 posts)Perhaps not swiftly, but justice -- legal or cosmic -- will be done.
Raven123
(7,948 posts)Initech
(109,397 posts)And make it so no jackass with a wrecking ball can do as much damage as the fucking asshole has done.
MorbidButterflyTat
(4,837 posts)Ooooh! Scary!
He's barely coherent. A worm is more threatening than that slovenly sack of crap.
PJMcK
(25,156 posts)I heard Trumps Oval Office re-decorating called Temu Bukake.
Trump is a low-life slob.
EarthFirst
(4,236 posts)
by just saying the most ridiculous outlandish things; and the media runs with it every time.
Just Sure Jan
and allow it fester in silent irrelevance.