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Donald Trump wants to build himself a 250-foot triumphal arch in Washington. There's just one problem: triumphal arches are supposed to celebrate victories. My latest examines what happens when branding matters more than results. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

open.substack.comA Triumphal Arch For A President With No TriumphThe president is spending billions on a failing war—and may spend millions more on a gilded monument celebrating nothing.

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With Trump, it always has been about branding not about the result of whatever he is trying to accomplish. He never cares about the outcome because he declares victory no matter what.

Where the fuck is all this money coming from?? But Republicans tell us not enough money for healthcare, social security, SNAP, schools, housing. Trump and Republicans are spending our tax dollars like drunkin sailors! This is such bullshit.

He’s trying to build things like this in a similar vein all over DC. He must be figuring they won’t all be torn down. The guy wants a “Truman Balcony” of his own, so to speak. But on steroids. They should just shut all these projects down. It’s not his money, and DC does not belong to him.

They stormed the capital didn't they and all pardoned So therefore here's your victory Jesus Christ on a stick Usa ain't doing shit And I remember back in the days a crazy person at that level would be shot on target.

Upon his death, the Senate declared the megalomaniac Roman Emperor Commodus, who ushered in the end of the Pax Romano, a public enemy (a de facto damnatio memoriae) and restored the original name of the city of Rome and its institutions. Statues of Commodus were demolished.

Americans aren’t going to want this reminder of the failed Trump presidency whenever they visit D.C. so, if it gets built, the next president should dismantle it. Perhaps the Iranians will take it.

My dad is a Vietnam veteran who has earned and deserves to have his final resting place at Arlington Cemetery. NO WAY IN FKING HELL SHOULD THAT PIECE OF SH*T ARCH BE ANYWHERE NEAR MY FATHER‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️🤬🤬🤬

I think Trump has been personally victorious. No consequences for anything he’s done. The arch would just be a big “fuck all of you, I’ll do what I want to” to the rest of us.

Triumphal arches are built by emperors or kings. It has nothing to do with 'victory', and everything to do with ego. Trump's like a little dog going around the yard and peeing on all the bushes, so everyone knows they're HIS.

Our deficit is the highest it's ever been and he's added more to it than almost any other President in History and he is spending OUR Tax dollars on things that no one wants - If he can't focus on our economy and ending that stupid war he needs to GO!- IMMEDIATELY

He won't stop this ridiculous behavior until WE THE PEOPLE stop him with our votes. He's stealing our money, destroying our national monuments and breaking laws. We can stop him but we must stick together and vote in numbers so large, against all Rs, that they can't cheat.

Well, we all learned why he feels the need to compensate with "the biggest," "the tallest," and everything "the likes of which we've never seen before..." Reality check: no matter what he attempts to build, it won't change the fact that his insecurity stems from his teeny, tiny, toxic mushroom.

I'm sorry Adam. Didn't you see that wonderful and not at all AI photo of him standing next to generals 's Patton and MacArthur? He had far more medals and ribbons than those two losers put together. This proces that General Bone Spurs is the greatest military genius ever.

Yeah, but Trump’s an idiot and a narcissist so probably reads that as a “Trumphal Arch”. Aside from the waste of money and resources, it’ll bring a lot of joy to demolish it once he’s out of office.

Name a democratic country that has built a massive “triumphal arch” in the last century? A triumphal arch is a freestanding monumental structure built to commemorate military victories, honor leaders, and legitimize regimes. Trump thinks it’s to honor him, everyone knows it’s the last one.

I keep watching this malignant mango mussolini put his cheap goldplated $h!tstain on everything. I don't think I'm the only one who wants to grab their crowbar and clean house once he's gone. I'll never forgive the GOP.

A victory in his own mind... He's won the Iran war at least 15 times now. What a complete narcissist failure. Every "improvement" he's made needs to be torn down. #FDT #FGOP #FICE

It is going to be as tacky and "white trash-like" like everything else he touches. I remember the effort and how long it took to get the "Vietnam War Memorial and "Gulf War Memorial" approved and build. But for sure, Trump will get it done in no time because everybody is always rolling over for him

Triumphal arches are meant to represent the dead! As Trump is not dead, what’s the point of building it? It’s only to show that he was president of the USA, although the worst president of the USA, and it will be demolished as soon as he’s removed from office or dead

Trump has been victorious in completely taking over the Republican Party. He has accumulated a very large pile of spines as his trophies.