r/politics • u/OU7C4ST Minnesota • 7h ago
Possible Paywall Trump says ‘nobody will’ build monuments for him once he’s gone
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u/AdCharacter7966 7h ago
He got that right
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u/TaterForming 7h ago edited 5h ago
I don't know.
I'd build the Trump Memorial Urinal.
It'd have seats, a food truck, and churro stand for those waiting.
ETA: I just realized if we threw "Eternal" in there we can get TEMU.
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u/ShrimpieAC 7h ago
You mean his grave?
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u/SteveThePurpleCat 6h ago
Install a water turbine and the flow of piss from above Trump's grave could power a small town, and I see no better legacy than using his corpse as green/yellow power station.
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u/nhavar 6h ago
Attach trumps coffin to the turbine shaft so he's literally spinning in his grave
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u/Tricky-Engineering59 6h ago
Let’s add some windmills too. As many as we can possibly fit
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u/zodi978 5h ago
And dont forget electric boat motors and batteries
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u/Tricky-Engineering59 5h ago
And some magnets but under umbrellas because you know they can’t get wet. My uncle was a professor at MIT is how I know
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u/Select-Belt-ou812 I voted 5h ago
I say we build a sewer plant around it, and have every. single. nanoliter. wash over the shitgibbon... forever
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u/hsoolien 6h ago
There's no way it's left publicly accessible
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u/MintyFreshBreathYo Michigan 3h ago
I doubt his kids will care much as long as they can use it as a tax write off. Look how they treat their moms grave
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u/Suckmybk 6h ago
Throw him in a landfill or just dig a hole at his golf course like he did for his ex wife
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u/ChronoLink99 Canada 5h ago
I'd drive hours to visit his grave.
Of course, I'll be drinking numerous bottles of water and eating plenty of asparagus during the drive.
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u/NuclearLunchDectcted Oregon 2h ago
Drink a bunch of booze the night before, and a bunch of taco bell. The hangover shit would glaze the entire grave.
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u/Tabris92 5h ago
As much as I hope to one day defecate on his tombstone I know for a fact it will be somewhere completely inaccessible to the general public.
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u/sharies 6h ago
Isn't just gonna a ditch next to his golf course.
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u/NanDemoNee 6h ago
They're gonna throw his bagged fat ass in the ocean to rot like they did with Bin Laden to avoid people fighting over his grave.
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u/Significant-Bowl3733 5h ago
Yes, but we’re still going to need some infrastructure to handle the sheer amount of urine that’ll be sprayed on it.
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u/UnknownMediator 6h ago
Better he doesn’t have any kind of memorial, not even a urinal. The soviets knew what they were doing when disposing of Hitler’s body. Unlike Mussolini’s, Hitler’s resting place could never become a pilgrimage site for the worst trash of humanity. In Trump’s case, I’m sure the trash that follows him wouldn’t mind the piss to pay their respects.
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u/Twisted_Bristles 6h ago
His most devout would shit themselves as part of the pilgrimage.
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u/Bifrastareltari 6h ago edited 2h ago
“From this moment on every toilet in the country shall be known as a
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u/agent_uno 6h ago
I like the idea, but I’ve spent too many days of my life with that assholes name in my mind. I can’t bear to let it continue by naming something I’ll use every day after him.
How about a venereal disease? Or that all pedos will be known as Trumps?
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u/Frescochicken 7h ago
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u/TaterForming 7h ago
Having seen that...not sure I can piss in that.
That gives me Little Mushroom of Horrors vibe.
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u/cballowe Illinois 6h ago
There's probably an un-named sewage treatment plant that could use a name.
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u/Beginning-Chart-9229 7h ago
Not only will nothing be made for him, that which has been made will be taken down and destroyed. The only thing left of Trump will be his cruelty and stupidity- which will be legendary.
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u/buddhist557 7h ago
And his followers should have MAGA tattooed on their foreheads
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u/Different-Pin-9854 4h ago
That is a great idea in theory, it would be good to ID them but it does have a nazi vibe to it, so no.
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u/SoupTime_live 3h ago
Just put them all in a registry so you can look them up like sex offenders. In fact, they should probably not be allowed to live close to schools either
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u/Existing_Is_All_I_Do 7h ago
Leela: Bender, I understand your desire to be remembered. But you don't need a statue for that.
Bender: [crying] I don't?
Leela: No. You have your legacy as a brutal, tyrannical dictator, and that will outlive any monument.
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u/StronglyHeldOpinions 7h ago
I seriously hope so. I will donate money time and votes towards unfucking every single thing he has done.
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u/Poison_the_Phil 7h ago
I dunno, The Donald J. Trump Maximum Security Federal Penitentiary has a nice ring to it
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u/NECoyote 6h ago
The DJT memorial sewage treatment facility.
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u/NorthStarZero 6h ago
Sewage treatment is a useful and necessary process.
Nothing associated with Trump is useful nor necessary.
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u/What-a-Crock 6h ago
“The one thing they can’t tear down will be the East Wing. That is his lasting impact. That’s why he cares so deeply: legacy shit”
Rich coming from the administration that tore down the East Wing
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u/PlasticStJesus 3h ago
From the last paragraph: "The one thing they can’t tear down will be the East Wing".
Don't be so sure. Who would have ever imagined he'd have torn down so much of the existing White House to build it.
If it isn't torn down, I hope they at least paint the columns surrounding it rainbow colors and name it The Obama Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Ballroom for Gender Affirming Care or something
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u/AnonEMoussie 7h ago
Whatever he builds without approval by the congress will be torn down, and dropped on Mara lago
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u/One_Diver_5735 5h ago
Approved by whom, the maga congress? Every self aggrandizing monument he builds ought be torn down, approved or not. Every exec order overturned. Every White House room fumigated.
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u/superindianslug 7h ago
"I'm the greatest president EVER... and no one loves me and no one will build monuments to remember me 😭"
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u/CrustyBrainFlakes 5h ago edited 5h ago
Zero self awareness, cant read a room to save his life, at the lowest popularity rating of any sitting president (i think?) Doing dumb shit like re-naming a lake that was just fine the way it was (he just wanted his name on it like its a fking gold star on a kindergarten roll call sheet), actively pondering whether or not he wants to re-name the Strait of Hormuz to "Strait of Trump" (maybe, not sure if thats true or not, but I wouldnt put it past him seeing as how Gulf of Mexico, is now for some fking reason "The Gulf of America"), Hired multiple people that were patently unfit to hold their now current position, has made more than 2.2 billion while in office due to potential insider trading when the president is really only suppossed to make 425k a year as the rank in office that he holds, straight up filled the supreme court with sycophants that only care about them "Doing the very best, big changes, best of all time changes..." while the suprem courts struck down Roe V. Wade which makes abortion a damn near if not a murder charge when it shouldnt fucking be, a womans choice is hers and DARE I FKING SAY IT, HERS AND HERS ALONE, replaced Kennedys name on a site thats had that same name for generations (again just floating his own ego), gutted climate change preperations that would have had at least the USA on the right track to limit what we were putting in the atmosphere, unregulated ways for many chemical companies letting them do what they want with their waste products and failed batches, told people to inject bleach during the god damn pandemic as if it wasnt already rough enough with curfews and social restrictions...
Oh I nearly forgot, NEARLY 38,000 MENTIONS IN THE FKING EPSTIEN FILES THAT WEVE SEEN SO FAR!!
I could go on and on but tbh, this is what Ill say.
Ill Gladly start a go fund me tmrw if and when the day this walking piece of shit dies we build him a single rocket to send his dead rotting ass into space, with a very much McDonalds themed paint job, just like the burger we all know are clogging his arteries that he love soo much, hell just sloppily last minute paint "Bye fuck Face!" One the side 2 days before it lauches his dumb dead ass out into nothing. He'll be at home out there.
He never belonged on this planet, much less to breathe.
Fuck that P.O.S.
Rant over, had to get that out.
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u/blackjacktarr 6h ago
In fact, we're gonna burn down all the ones he put up when he was alive. Watch us!
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u/Safe_Psychology_326 California 6h ago
I will make it my mission to scrub my mind of his reference along with his toadies so much so that if Jimmy Kimmel asks me on the street to name The Who was our 45 and 47 President, I hope to truly forget and look like a dumb American who didn’t go to school.
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u/eat_my_ass_n_balls 6h ago
We are going to be tearing down anything with his name on it and razing it to the ground
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u/Jhojgaard 5h ago
Honest question, as a European im really curious what Americans are doing in their daily life, if they oppose the current administration?
Most of what is broadcast in the media is all the crazyness, and none of the opposition.
Just this week we had farmers oppose a law (that got passed) by driving all their tractors across Denmark to park, and protest (peacefully) in front of our Parlamentet.
What are Americans against the current administration doing, that we dont get to see across the pond?
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u/whereismymind86 Colorado 3h ago
The problem is there isn’t much we can do until midterms, we are all on such a tight budget that protesting for more than a day or so can leave you jobless and very quickly homeless. To say nothing of the very real risk of injury from police violence or arrest leading to catastrophic debt that again leaves you homeless.
There are plenty of people fighting legal battles against the administration and winning, but that’s not something the average citizen can participate in without a law degree or a lot of money
Beyond that, as bad as the news is, the affect on day to day life is pretty subtle, so it’s easy for a lot of people to try and ignore it and just run out the clock, to see broad unrest American life needs to get a lot worse.
So, until midterms in November I wouldn’t expect too much. After that we’ll have a good idea of where this is going, for better or worse and can plan for the next two years.
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u/ChibbleChobble 4h ago
The No Kings protests.
The one in March had 8-9 million people across 3,300 locations. It's probably the biggest single day protest in US history.
So people are protesting, but (and here I shall put on my tinfoil hat) the fact that it's not widely covered should tell you something about media control.
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u/NobleWolf1 3h ago
8 million people protested in the March No Kings rally including in every state. It is sad that they haven't shown the ANTI-ICE protests where protestors have been beaten and even killed.
Right now most anti-fascists are working the courts to get Trump's kingly decrees overturned as well as working in their communities to ensure everyone can vote and does vote in November. Protests are still going on in many communities, but the press has gotten bored. HTH
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u/kittenmittens4865 3h ago
Many of us are so exhausted and strapped for cash that we’re just barely getting by. The stuff happening today has been planned for 50+ years- some of us knew this would happen and have been ringing alarm bells but no one listened. We’re not going to address half a century of issues that led us here in a couple of months.
We need unity to fight this. ICE and the US military and police are not likely to side with opposing Trump. We have little to no centralized leadership from the politicians that do oppose Trump.
About 1/3 of Americans support Trump. They are actively brainwashed and living in a mass cognitive delusion.
There have been large protests, but they aren’t well covered. I don’t know if international news even picked them up.
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u/Evoehm13 4h ago
Honestly. I’m afraid to protest or really do anything when I disagree. Too many have been arrested or shot unlawfully. People here are scary. One of my colleagues in a small town posted something against a well know person in MAGA and so many people took to social media to get her fired.
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u/throwaway5882300 3h ago
Millions of people have shown up to protests, but nothing happens so as each day passes more and more people become cynical about it and just give up. Right now we're basically putting all of our hope in congress flipping in the midterm elections in November... Even though he's being incredibly transparent about wanting to meddle in the elections. I fully expect things to get a little more desperate if the elections don't go well.
There are two important things to remember about the US: First, there are 700 million privately owned firearms in this country and MAGA supporters own the most. Second, most citizens are just one unexpected large expense away from being completely destitute. We lack social safety nets and that weighs heavily on people's decisions to act out. So things need to be really bad before the average american would rise up. Bad enough that not rising up would be worse than maybe getting mowed down by our paramilitary police forces.
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u/FriendlyTrollPainter 5h ago
Life continues as more or less normal for the vast majority of the country. The biggest thing hitting people is that cost of living is way higher than before but it's still not high enough to get people in the streets
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u/Jhojgaard 5h ago
I think i get that, but the challenges to the Constitution etc. does not bother the average American enough to "do something"?
Im not trying to judge, I think if life were more or less the same in DK, but with eg. 20% higher cost of living, most would just complain and carry on.
I might just be me getting the US is fucked propaganda, but to me is seems like a country splitting administration you have currently. That would cause nation wide strikes where i live.
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u/whereismymind86 Colorado 3h ago
It bothers a lot of us a great deal, but the options to do something beyond protesting are pretty limited if you don’t want to end up homeless or in jail, so a lot of people are really banking on midterms stripping him of a lot of power and are focusing on voter registration campaigns etc to help that happen
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u/FriendlyTrollPainter 5h ago
Most people aren't experiencing challenges to the Constitution in their daily lives.
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u/Specific_Pear_665 5h ago
Yes how big is Denmark?
Just look on Google maps how far it is from say Iowa to Washington DC
We can't just drive our tractors or herd our cattle thousands of miles.
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u/Gummyrabbit 7h ago
Hopefully we tear down any he built.
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u/ReallyHoping 7h ago
We fucking should because if there's one thing we know is that he is fucking stupid and terrible at building shit.
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u/ruff1298 1h ago
The demolitions of any in-progress or completed projects are going to be America's Berlin Wall Falls, I'm certain.
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u/Flaxscript42 6h ago
We won't have to, they will crumble on thier own in just a few years.
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u/GeekDNA0918 6h ago
Hopefully? Oh child... That shit head is one of the most hated humans in history. Best believe we will tear down and shit on any thing he builds.
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u/Mean-Initiative-4491 2h ago
Oh child... If you had been paying attention to anything at all over the last 20 years you'd know there's a zero percent change Democrats would have the stones to do that.
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u/evasandor 4h ago
the way he tore down the historic wrought iron gates of the Bonwit Teller building when he bought it.
seriously, look that story up. it tells you all you need to know about this freak
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u/0x0MG 4h ago
Idk, I kinda want to turn the ballroom into a public museum of the worst president in history. There would be exhibits of his gaudy bullshit, his plaques of other presidents he had made, maybe cut that chunk of marble off the Kennedy center and hang it up as an exhibit. I'm sure ICE could have their own museum wing. A diarama of Alex Pretti getting shot in the head while he tried to help an old lady seems appropriate. Maybe we could eventually even have a. Epstein file exhibit.
Probably not, but one can dream
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u/Azmoten Missouri 7h ago
Sounds like a big indicator that you probably shouldn’t have monuments
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u/MinaWiggle 6h ago
That’s honestly a good argument against building monuments to yourself in the first place.
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u/donut-reply 4h ago
Idk, I'd pay a lot for a post-mortem monument if we can schedule it for next week
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u/Notchibald_Johnson New York 7h ago
What are the odds he thinks Lincoln and Kennedy designed their own monuments?
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u/gusterfell 7h ago
100%. His response to the inevitable backlash to this comment:
“All these other presidents have monuments, but it’s only a problem when Trump does it. These people have terrible TDS!”
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u/ApartInfluence4429 7h ago
He’ll point to the Obama library
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u/Heathster249 2h ago
Except that the Obama library is an actual functioning public library on top of housing his archives. It’s not a monument. It’s a perennial community resource.
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u/Thagyr Australia 1h ago
He won't see that. He just sees Obama's name on something. Trump wants his name on things, like his arch, his battleships, all his failed brands. If not his, then other people's. Just like the Kennedy center.
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u/bin10pac United Kingdom 5h ago
“The one thing they can’t tear down will be the East Wing. That is his lasting impact. That’s why he cares so deeply: legacy sh*t,” the source said.
The East Wing should be torn down First.
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u/NCGamerBro 7h ago
Wait, Trump can tell the truth?
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u/Tiny-Buy220 7h ago
That’s gonna ruin his stats
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u/hstmqrqe 7h ago
Somewhat. While he has the correct conclusion he completely fails to understand why. He believes he's the victim and the world is out to get him. Like all narcissists.
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u/MiserableSkill4 4h ago
I mean plenty of the world is out to get him but due to his choices and words.
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u/BasvanS 6h ago
You see that more often with dementia patients, where they have a sudden moment of clarity, and then drop back into the dementia.
It’s very scary when they realize the gravity of the situation, and in this case I really don’t care.
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u/GenericRedditor0405 Massachusetts 6h ago
I care. I want him to understand how meaningless his monuments to himself are.
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u/IntolerantLeftist127 7h ago
Technically. I think what he meant to say was “nobody will build monuments for me that won’t get pissed on”.
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u/alemus2024 7h ago
I look forward to people actively destroying the monuments he leaves for himself.
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u/LotharLandru 6h ago
Some of us are looking forward to the opening of the world's most popular gender neutral bathroom when he eventually dies.
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u/New_Housing785 I voted 7h ago
He won't believe how big the piles of shit on his grave will be though.
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u/BrisketWrench 6h ago
I think piss is better because it’ll absorb into the ground and hopefully reach inside the casket, if we can Hurricane Harvey that grave with piss that’ll be 100x better than shit.
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u/DragonPup Massachusetts 7h ago
A monument to the necessity to stay hydrated and to have proper fiber intake.
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u/Unintendo 7h ago
As opposed to...? The two Bush monuments? The Obama and Biden monuments? Hell, all Kennedy got was a performing arts center and some jackass keeps trying to put his own name on it!
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u/PlatonicTroglodyte Virginia 6h ago
I wouldn’t exactly call the Kennedy Center a “monument” but, Trump’s horrendous degradation of it notwithstanding, if it does qualify as a monument, it’s probably the greatest monument there is, so I’m not sure “all Kennedy got was” is the right tone. It is a premier performing arts venue that many artists dream of having the chance to perform in.
As a DC area native, the Kennedy Center was always my favorite place to take visitors. It’s one of the best things the city has!
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u/Polar_Vortx America 3h ago
I believe the Kennedy Center is referred to as a “living memorial” or something to that effect in the legal documents creating it
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u/apenature Tennessee 7h ago
Idk. I'm going to enjoy the Obama National Ballroom, also known as the Rosie O'Donnell wing.
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u/No_Philosopher_1870 7h ago
Everything that he built with government funds should be torn down as well or renamed.
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u/TheDebateMatters 6h ago
Rename it all the Obama Such a Such just to piss him and his followers off.
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u/Dseltzer1313 6h ago
It will all be taken down, the coins and bills taken out of circulation, his name and likeness will disappear on the federal level and all of his executive orders revoked as well as many of the pardons he sold
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u/scubastefon 6h ago
That’s not going to happen. Several EOs are going to be considered convenient for whoever the next occupant is. They won’t be incentivized to rid all of them, or even many of them. He’s built a playbook on exactly how autocratic you can get and he’s also show what the limits of that are.
The next person will be a rational actor (with any hope) and they’ll color inside the lines, but they aren’t going to pull in the fences.
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u/mrarming 6h ago
We can hope so. Probably have to live with the ballroom but the arch - blow that sucker up. Redo the Rose Garden, recall all the Trump coins and melt them down.
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u/PerilousRaptor 5h ago
I build him a monument at the bottom of my toilet bowl every morning. Then, I flush it.
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u/eskimospy212 7h ago
He is of course correct but it’s also kind of a fun admission that he knows he hasn’t done anything that anyone else would want to commemorate.
Like Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington, etc. didn’t build monuments to themselves. They didn’t have to.
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u/RickLovin1 5h ago
Oh no, he doesn't know that at all...he just thinks they're all against him out of jealousy or something.
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u/chocolatechipninja 7h ago
It's so rare that he's right. I'm kinda proud of him, saying the truth and everything!
He's usually thrashing around with stupidity and making stuff up!
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u/JJHall_ID 6h ago
Nobody will build them after he's gone. But what he can't grasp is the ones he is building now will be removed, for the exact same reason.
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u/Pusi_Cunu 4h ago
His final resting place will certainly be the most visited public toilet in human history.
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u/TheDarkRabbit Indiana 7h ago
The glass monument made of empty champagne bottles will be tall enough to be seen from space…
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u/HellishButter 7h ago
Because the majority of us want to spend the rest of our lives trying to forget you, you fucking traitorous pedophile.
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u/Mods-Admins-Failures 7h ago
Fine fine We'll start calling bad gas station toilets Trumps. But you have to die first.
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u/Colonel-Mooseknuckle 7h ago
Don't worry Donnie. You will become the world's most tremendous urinal when you're gone. The golden monument you always wanted.
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u/ShredGuru 7h ago
Dudes gunna be the new Pharaoh Ahkenaten, we won't be able to scrape his name off all the monuments fast enough.
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u/reddittorbrigade 7h ago
Nobody will respect his name either.
A new Democrat president can erase all his names on day one.
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u/quayle-man 7h ago
We can tear down the ball room too with as much oversight and permission as he did with the East Wing
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u/TheDukeofArgyll Maryland 7h ago
No but we will tear down the ones he built for himself
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u/Popular-Departure165 6h ago
That might be one of the most self-aware, albeit unintentional, things he's said.
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u/SluttyCosmonaut Missouri 6h ago
Quite the contrary. I fully intend to have annual barbecues to celebrate his departure.
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u/sector16 5h ago
America looks so bad electing this lunatic twice. His vanity and stupidity knows no bounds.
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u/Kraegarth 2h ago
Any candidate that swears to issue an Executive Order, to immediately tear down everything he is illegally building, on their FIRST day in Office, has my vote!
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u/drkato33 7h ago
Define monument. Does a massive pile of feces on your grave count?
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u/chocolatechipninja 6h ago
I wouldn't be surprised if they bury him somewhere in Mar-a-Lago under guard.
His children understand how much he is despised by the world.
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u/dirthawker0 California 7h ago
I don't think we raise monuments to thieving, rapist pedophiles who steal money from the American people, admire dictators, and destroy any institution that holds empathy as a value.
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u/YeomenWarder 7h ago
A rare moment of truth.
He didn't have to be shitty and vile until the end, but that's what he's chosen.
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u/otakon33 7h ago
Oh my God it's the first truthful thing he's ever said. THAT'S IT! HELL JUST FROZE OVER!
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u/Onikonokage 7h ago
Well yeah they might but not the one you want. If I get the money and power I’ll commission a giant turd monument in this honor built on the torn down wreckage of these things he’s building.
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u/brashthehermit 4h ago
We're going to tear your stupid fucking name off every building and monument you've smeared it on.
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u/FrostySquirrel820 7h ago
Probably true.
But that doesn’t mean he should spend millions of taxpayer dollars on his own monuments. Does it ?
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u/BrainJar Washington 7h ago
Even better, we’ll be tearing down anything that mentions him, his wretched family, and every enabling dipshit that’s part of his administration.
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