I love SF writer John Scalzi's take on Trump's horrendous plans for a "triumphal arch"

[highplainsdem]

If ever actually constructed, look for it to be the first DC monument gleefully destroyed in every future disaster movie

— John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) 2026-04-10T20:41:01.153Z

Some of the replies on Bluesky:

That gold is getting stripped off by patriotic thieves the second a guard's back is turned.
Of course it's going to turn out to be spray-painted plaster, but still.

Odds are strong once he gets his skim, it gets half finished and abandoned. Like his wall and ballroom and …

Let's put a 200' eyesore right in the (already extremely constrained) approach pattern for National Airport. I cannot think of one single thing that could go wrong here.

It will be destroyed in every possible movie whether or not it’s constructed. It will be the Easter Egg that the director slips in to let you know they’re filming in the ‘there but for the grace of God’ timeline.

It's like a stupid bad copy of something you'd see in Las Vegas.
Probably is going to have a website where you can book weddings.

[vapor2]

1. Still looting our treasury

[leftstreet]

2. LOL

Old Man's Folly

[Solly Mack]

3. That's funny.

It should be destroyed asap for real.

[electric_blue68]

4. Omg! Laughed Out Loud! TY!!!!!

[calimary]

5. Maybe it should be relocated to the Donald's future "presidential" library.

Somewhere in Florida maybe?

Or how ‘bout making a gift of it to Mother Nature? When it’s completed, move it offshore, sink it, and let it become a reef!

[electric_blue68]

7. Hahaha! Me likey!

😄😄😄

[Ilsa]

6. It will be a three foot prop in the next "This is Spinal Tap" movie. nt

[eppur_se_muova]

8. That site needs to be aggressively occupied by the homeless and/or their advocates ...

or any other group who wants to remind Americans about all those million$$$$ not being spent to solve America's problems.

[Qutzupalotl]

9. You know, from that height, a guilloutine blade would pick up incredible speed.

Let’s line up the billionaires.