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Miles Archer

(21,547 posts)
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 11:19 PM 18 hrs ago

Trump BOLDLY TACKLES the AFFORDABILITY CRISIS with "potential marble armrests for Kennedy Center seating"

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-threatens-kennedy-center-with-a-tacky-marble-makeover/

Not content with completing his takeover of the Kennedy Center by slapping his own name on the building, President Donald Trump has revealed the next phase of his current redesign obsession.

The 79-year-old president hinted on Truth Social that the ’60s modernist building in Washington, D.C., would be getting the Mar-a-Lago special with a gold and marble interior refit, starting, of course, with the theater’s armrests.

“Potential Marble armrests for the seating at The Trump Kennedy Center. Unlike anything ever done or seen before!” Trump announced on Friday evening.

Accompanying images show the hard-stone armrest examples that Trump apparently wants to install in the chairs of the center’s three main theaters.
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Trump BOLDLY TACKLES the AFFORDABILITY CRISIS with "potential marble armrests for Kennedy Center seating" (Original Post) Miles Archer 18 hrs ago OP
Sounds very uncomfortable - hard surface to accidentally whack an elbow. Marie Marie 18 hrs ago #1
JFC... buzzycrumbhunger 18 hrs ago #2
Marble armrests? Who wants those? Ocelot II 18 hrs ago #3
Why is he so obsessed with Marble? montanacowboy 18 hrs ago #4
I thought this was going to be Borowitz. Coventina 16 hrs ago #5
I can't think of anything more uncomfortable except making the whole seat marble. sinkingfeeling 11 hrs ago #6
Oh, that should help the attendance. Liberal In Texas 11 hrs ago #7
Why on earth would anyone want seating with marble armrests? He has to "tackify" everything. Vinca 10 hrs ago #8
Yes, cold, hard stone is the perfact surface for resting one's arms. GoCubsGo 10 hrs ago #9
Marble armrests with divots blogslug 10 hrs ago #10
not only stupid, they wont last. mopinko 7 hrs ago #11
Uh oh .. next time Rudy visits dweller 7 hrs ago #12
Even better seats for the more loyal adherents. Ping Tung 7 hrs ago #13

buzzycrumbhunger

(1,616 posts)
2. JFC...
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 11:26 PM
18 hrs ago

Someone needs to corral this miserable POS lunatic. Are they waiting for him to “cross” some line? I think he passed that months… YEARS ago.

Anyone got a backbone to spare? *eyeroll*

montanacowboy

(6,669 posts)
4. Why is he so obsessed with Marble?
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 11:54 PM
18 hrs ago

what sicko psychological bent has made this monster wanting to turn everything into marble? How long will they enable him? just as long as there is another buck to be grifted, until they empty the entire treasury of the USA.

Coventina

(29,083 posts)
5. I thought this was going to be Borowitz.
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 01:21 AM
16 hrs ago

Good lord, this man is so insane.
I have no words.....

sinkingfeeling

(57,091 posts)
6. I can't think of anything more uncomfortable except making the whole seat marble.
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 07:06 AM
11 hrs ago

Leather padded armrests would be a 1000 times better.

Liberal In Texas

(15,949 posts)
7. Oh, that should help the attendance.
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 07:13 AM
11 hrs ago

You know, people are just clamoring for hard uncomfortable armrests.

Vinca

(53,250 posts)
8. Why on earth would anyone want seating with marble armrests? He has to "tackify" everything.
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 07:59 AM
10 hrs ago

GoCubsGo

(34,643 posts)
9. Yes, cold, hard stone is the perfact surface for resting one's arms.
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 08:12 AM
10 hrs ago

Said no one ever. The pudding that is his brain is starting to dry up into a hard, caked-up mass. I shudder to think of how much it's going to cost to repair just the physical damage this fucking sack of shit is doing to this country, alone. May those funds come out of the hides of those who could stop this shit, but are standing by letting it happen.

blogslug

(39,079 posts)
10. Marble armrests with divots
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 08:12 AM
10 hrs ago

I'm assuming they're for a brass inserts he will swear are 14k gold and they will say Trump.

mopinko

(73,262 posts)
11. not only stupid, they wont last.
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 10:54 AM
7 hrs ago

marble is SOFT. putting holes and screws in it, then having ppl lean on it, is a recipe for failure.
pics at the link show a lot of machining. half of them r gonna crack right then.
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