WATCH: How Trump is Turning DC into Pyongyang

[highplainsdem]

https://zeteo.com/p/donald-trump-pyongyang

For decades, Trump has been obsessed with how other nations – including ones run by extraordinarily repressive regimes – honor their leaders with lavish, expensive public celebrations. In private conversations, per sources who’ve been in the room with him, he can go on and on about how much (in Trump’s words) “respect” and “love” these countries shower on their rulers, and how supposedly great it is for the people’s national morale. He does not seem to understand or care that many of these societies he cites – whether in North Korea or in certain Arab monarchies – do those things under the constant threat of arrest, torture, or execution.

Since the start of his new presidency, Trump has privately asked multiple times about how to get his face up there on Mt. Rushmore, crowing to close allies how he is a more accomplished president than some of those faces on the memorial, according to people familiar with the matter. Sources close to the president have told Zeteo that on separate occasions over the past year, Trump has talked to longtime advisers about what it would take to officially make his birthday a national, federal holiday. Similarly, he has already repeatedly inquired about getting a Donald Trump-shaped monument built in our nation’s capital, and mentioned that he wants final approval on the size, look, location, content, and design of the statue and memorial.

It’s tax season – so if you want to know where your hard-earned money is going, here’s one thing to keep in mind. At Zeteo, we ran the numbers, and during his first few months back in office, the Trump administration and the Republican Party marshaled upwards of $1 billion in public funds towards projects and initiatives specifically designed to make Donald Trump feel good about himself. That’s right: that’s a Billion with a “B” – in US tax dollars.

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Sources inside and close to the Trump-Vance administration tell Zeteo that the president repeatedly asks about myriad different things in and outside of DC that his allies could work to get his name or face on. Buildings, parks, airports, military bases, US battleships, highways, and city streets and squares – you name it, President Trump has likely schemed to slap his face and name all over it. He does this often enough that in some corners of the federal government, it has become a running “joke” in private conversations to just start adding his name to, well, everything: The Donald J. Trump National Portrait Gallery. The Donald Trump Washington Union Station. The Donald Trump Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center. I’m headed down to the Donald J. Trump Whole Foods Market, they’d quip.

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More at the link, plus video.

[Buns_of_Fire]

1. I shudder to think what a "Donald Trump-shaped monument" would look like. nt

[flying rabbit]

2. A mushroom?

[jls4561]

3. If you've seen South Park's depiction of Drumph below the waist, you can picture what a fitting monument would be.

[House of Roberts]

5. I don't know what the rest of it would look like,

but its face would be uglier than the CBS crew's talking basketball.

[House of Roberts]

4. We're going to make the day of his death a national celebration,

for a number of years forward.

[EarthFirst]

6. I will personally donate to whatever fund is collecting to remove these effigies on Jan 21 2029...

[IcyPeas]

7. As the country is removing Cesar Chavez' name and likeness

All trumps shit has to go too. It is shameful what he (they) have done to this country

FFS how has this all become normalized

[wnylib]

12. Remove his name and face from public places.

Restore Jackie's rose garden.

Get rid of the tacky gold crap in the Oval office.

Tear down the ballroom and rebuild the East Wing.

Leave his portrait on the wall, but turn it backwards or drape it in black.

Establish a national holiday to celebrate by burning him in efigy.

[gfarber]

8. Naming

There once was a man full of cheer,
Who envied grand praise far and near,
“Such love!” he would say,
For rulers at play—
Ignoring the fear drawing near.

He dreamed of his face carved in stone,
On Rushmore to call it his own,
“More great than the rest!”
Trump loudly confessed,
And schemed for a statue full-grown.

He mused of a holiday grand,
With banners and cheers ‘cross the land,
“My birthday,” said he,
“Should federal be!”
With parades that he’d personally command.

When taxes came due in the spring,
There surfaced a curious thing:
A billion, they say,
Was spent in a way
To bolster one ego like a king.

And naming? Oh, that was his game,
No surface too small for his name,
From highways to marts,
To stations and parks—
All whispered the same boastful claim.

Disclaimer: Yes, an AI helped write this—because if you’re looking for pure, hand-crafted literary suffering, you’re welcome to go produce some yourself. If you like my attempts, consider clicking the link.

https://buymeacoffee.com/gfarber

[ColoringFool]

10. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[highplainsdem]

11. The following was NOT written with AI, as yours was:

There once was a world sans AI,
and standards were set truly high.
To write from the heart,
and do your own art,
and not let your talent just die.

For muscles not used turn to mush,
and no one needs chatbots to rush
what they want to say.
Thought requires delay.
AI gives you slop you should flush.

The problem is asking a bot.
Ideas are easily caught,
You make them your own.
Your own skills you hone.
It's easy. Just give it a shot!

Still hoping you'll write limericks yourself instead of using AI...

I have an English teacher in the family and have had lots of English-teacher friends. I think writing should be encouraged. It's too important an ability to turn over to a bot. What a bot produces from datasets of other people's stolen work can never be yours.

[SheltieLover]

16. Well stated!

[Intractable]

15. Oh! This is so clever.

The compliment is to the AI, not you.

[IronLionZion]

9. USA will need de-MAGA-fication like Germany after WW2.

No Hitler statues anywhere except in the imaginations of MAGA's dumbest voters.

[RainCaster]

13. His face belongs on every gas pump

"I did that" stickers

[Figarosmom]

14. He's gotta know that when he's gone it's gonna

Be like when Saddam's statue came down. EVERYTHING WILL BE REMOVED. All that gawdy gold will be melted down, all those trump banners will be torn down. Everything he put his name on will be changed back to what it was ( except maybe that airport in Florida). But he's just the laughing stock right now. He's also defaming the White House. It wasn't supposed to be a house of excessive wealth, he doesn't understand that.