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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's planned "Garden of American Heroes" is certainly intended to include a statue of himself,
probably at the entry.
Maybe gold-plated.
The American heroes whose statues will adorn the "garden" will included Antonin Scalia:
Link to tweet
Editing to add that Trump's executive order refers to "former presidents" so he's guaranteed himself a statue in a "garden of herois":
Link to tweet
Thought I still think it's most likely that he was sold on this idea by someone telling him his statue would be the first people would see, since he proposed this monument.
blitzen
(4,572 posts)cayugafalls
(5,641 posts)I sure hope someone has more say in these statues.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Obviously not out of Trump's pocket. Will this be as historically accurate as the river of blood plaque Trump put on one of his golf courses?
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)Well geewillikers. How about Walter Brennan too.
nolabear
(41,987 posts)Had something to do with a dog trainer.
LeftInTX
(25,398 posts)I believe I read he had a substance abuse problem.
blitzen
(4,572 posts)cayugafalls
(5,641 posts)He will be remembered. There will be an animatronic statue of him at Disney world, probably already is...
Now he has this statue garden to preserve his ugly fat fucking face for the foreseeable future. Plus we are going to be blessed with a library. The stain of all this is almost unbearable.
Can we please somehow erase the last 3.5 years?
greyl
(22,990 posts)No way in hell will Disney honor him with a statue under their brand.
cayugafalls
(5,641 posts)greyl
(22,990 posts)The Trump brand is so ruined, and it's only getting worse.
cayugafalls
(5,641 posts)Maybe they did it on purpose, evil, bloated, walking grease ball.
He will be relegated to the back behind Taft or some other corpulent fellow in order to hide his chubby ass.
greyl
(22,990 posts)kskiska
(27,045 posts)LeftInTX
(25,398 posts)This statue park is picking and choosing.
maxrandb
(15,335 posts)1,000 years from now, when anyone sees our flag, there's going to be a giant orange shitstain smeared right accross the front of it.
Be proud Murika. You've made us a laughing stock of the world, and have so permanently stained our reputation that we will never get it back.
For as long as our country exists, when America walks into a room, it's going to come with the smell of a skunk with an perianal abcess.
We CAN'T erase this history.
That's why I will never forget, or forgive anyone who voted for this racist, evil, ignorant piece of amphibian shit.
dweller
(23,643 posts)✌🏼
denem
(11,045 posts)Not enough of an opens of national socialism I guess.
jmowreader
(50,560 posts)As do Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
flotsam
(3,268 posts)Billy Graham, Ronald Reagan, and Fat Tony Scalia are next to each other-I have arthritis and I would rather just unzip my pants once.
niyad
(113,395 posts)Observe the occasion.
cayugafalls
(5,641 posts)Just saying, I wouldn't mind contributing a little pittle to the party...
niyad
(113,395 posts)But one can figure out some contribution.
jmowreader
(50,560 posts)My recommendation is to get a 25-gallon tank, a Milwaukee cordless transfer pump, two 10-foot garden hoses and several of these devices, then throw a beer-and-asparagus party for 50 of your closest friends. When the tank is full, head on over to Trumps fantasy park.
niyad
(113,395 posts)ornotna
(10,803 posts)No Paul Bunyan? Pff, you call that a garden of heroes.
struggle4progress
(118,299 posts)Where's Nat Turner or Denmark Vesey? Where's Joe Hill or Mother Jones? Where's George Lee or Lamar Smith?
usajumpedtheshark
(672 posts)what the eo giveth, the eo can take away
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)And no doubt delay. Delay's easy since these things always take years while studies, legal procedures, design, etc., are carried out.
Of course statues that won't go up should include Trump's, but denying the president who just stepped down would offend also. Whatever. We all know that any statue of Trump will have to be protected from vandalism until it's officially removed, possibly to a museum with explanations posted, for the same reason so many others are being taken down now.
LeftInTX
(25,398 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,322 posts)It's not as if they thought enough of him to make him Chief Justice.
eShirl
(18,494 posts)Sunsky
(1,737 posts)The more he doubles down on this, the more he's infuriating African-Americans. We will now walk over hot coal to get this racist out of the White House. I am now to the point where I will stand in a line for 24 hrs in the middle of a pandemic to vote Trump out.
Biden wasn't my first choice and honestly, I do believe before the last two weeks his campaign lackluster. I am upset that my tv is being bombarded with Trump ads to no Biden advertisement (Hillary made the same mistake). However, Trump is Biden's enthusiasm booster. Trump's words and actions will help GOTV for Biden.
I dislike the man with passion. I can't wait for the general election. I know of numerous first-time voters who signed up recently because of Trump's war on BLM. The lunatic does not understand that if he rages war on the ideology of black equity, he will turn out black people in numbers never seen before. He's more upset about the removal of symbols of hate than Putin's bounty on our soldiers. Damn traitor.
chriscan64
(1,789 posts)Must be out of work. If there is going to be a Trump statue, your long workless drought is over at long last.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)Goodheart
(5,334 posts)yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)Seriously.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)Albert Speer, March 19, 1905 September 1, 1981 served as the Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during most of World War II. A close ally of Adolf Hitler, he was convicted at the Nuremberg trials and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
An architect by training, Speer joined the Nazi Party in 1931. His architectural skills made him increasingly prominent within the Party, and he became a member of Hitler's inner circle. Hitler instructed him to design and construct structures including the Reich Chancellery and the Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg.
tanyev
(42,573 posts)Maybe the others would follow, probably not.
edhopper
(33,591 posts)Reagan. WTF!!!
Let's hope this is stopped before it is started.
Danmel
(4,917 posts)Alex Jones?
Jeffrey Epstein?
jmowreader
(50,560 posts)How, exactly, can Mr. Trump appropriate the millions of dollars and repurpose the land it will take to build this without congressional approval? He exploited the emergency declaration thing to build his fucken wall, but there is no statue of Billy Graham in Washington, D.C. is not an emergency, and most correctly-thinking people think thats a good thing.
lanlady
(7,134 posts)Or Nazi sympathizer Charles Lindbergh.
Maybe their statues will go into some sort of Secret Garden that only the deplorables will have access to.
lanlady
(7,134 posts)--than using public funds to erect statues of state-approved historical figures.
highplainsdem
(49,005 posts)BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Right after he finishes his wall...