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AverageOldGuy

(4,197 posts)
Sun May 24, 2026, 09:30 AM Yesterday

OH, THIS IS GONNA STING!!!

Heather Cox Richardson minces no words.

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-23-2026


President Donald J. Trump’s proposed triumphal arch would sit at a rotary on the Virginia side of the Arlington Memorial Bridge between Arlington National Cemetery and the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

The proposed arch obscures the Lincoln Memorial, built to honor the president who steered the country safely through the Civil War, but perfectly frames Arlington House, the mansion built by enslaved Americans and once owned by Confederate General Robert E. Lee. The arch does not frame the nation’s honored dead, but frames instead the home of the man who led the armies of the Confederacy that killed them.
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OH, THIS IS GONNA STING!!! (Original Post) AverageOldGuy Yesterday OP
Kick dalton99a Yesterday #1
;-{)........ Goonch Yesterday #2
Just ask DJTJ ChicagoTeamster 22 hrs ago #12
Goonch, you're amazing Totally Tunsie 20 hrs ago #26
A thoughtful leader... kentuck Yesterday #3
Gee. I thought Trump was proposing a McDonald's Raven123 23 hrs ago #4
"hamburders" CTyankee 22 hrs ago #15
Thank you for the correction! Raven123 20 hrs ago #22
Not a coincidence. /nt bucolic_frolic 23 hrs ago #5
Ding ding malaise 23 hrs ago #6
Apropos for this regime liberal N proud 23 hrs ago #7
Yep, the Biggest Chickenhawk keep throwing red meat to the 'South Will Rise Again' insurrectionists Attilatheblond 23 hrs ago #8
The GOP needs to change its name to the Neo-Confederate Party. sop 23 hrs ago #9
Those observations are very interesting. karynnj 23 hrs ago #10
Good question. paleotn 22 hrs ago #13
Trump didn't come up with these ideas on his own. He's being directed by Putin along with other American sellouts who ChicagoTeamster 22 hrs ago #11
And not only that... paleotn 22 hrs ago #14
"coincidences" indeed relogic 21 hrs ago #17
This message was self-deleted by its author AllaN01Bear 22 hrs ago #16
We may be able to fund part of the cleanup... TygrBright 21 hrs ago #18
Oh you mean the "Arch... Pesky1 18 hrs ago #27
Free hammer with air and hotel discount packages. mjvpi 15 hrs ago #28
I've said it before, here. And I still mean it. calimary 7 hrs ago #32
We need to put up monuments to Gen. Grant multigraincracker 21 hrs ago #19
I like this idea! liberalla 20 hrs ago #23
Yup. Sherman, too. Wednesdays 20 hrs ago #25
Trump also wants to restore a statue honoring Confederate soldiers to the Arlington Cemetery. Martin68 20 hrs ago #20
Lee did nothing to stop slave hunts bmichaelh 20 hrs ago #21
HCR is wonderful at connecting dots and putting things in perspective liberalla 20 hrs ago #24
I hope someone sues DonOLD Rump over this. Trueblue1968 14 hrs ago #29
Burn it Down and deliver the remains to Merd-a-lago! Ford_Prefect 14 hrs ago #30
I've got your triumphal arches RIGHT HERE. usonian 9 hrs ago #31

Raven123

(7,909 posts)
4. Gee. I thought Trump was proposing a McDonald's
Sun May 24, 2026, 09:53 AM
23 hrs ago

I assumed that was what he meant when he talked about arches. After all they are known as “Golden Arches” and McDonald’s sells hamburgers. The perfect Trumpian motife.Thought it was a two-fer.

Attilatheblond

(9,277 posts)
8. Yep, the Biggest Chickenhawk keep throwing red meat to the 'South Will Rise Again' insurrectionists
Sun May 24, 2026, 10:17 AM
23 hrs ago

And we KNOW somebody else came up with this one because Trump doesn't know squat about history or symbolism.

karynnj

(61,113 posts)
10. Those observations are very interesting.
Sun May 24, 2026, 10:30 AM
23 hrs ago

One question I have is if Virginia could stop it as it is in Virginia.

paleotn

(22,788 posts)
13. Good question.
Sun May 24, 2026, 11:16 AM
22 hrs ago

Unfortunately, the round about in question is on Columbia Island in the Potomac and technically in DC. Virginia doesn't start until you cross the Boundary Channel from Columbia Island.

ChicagoTeamster

(1,275 posts)
11. Trump didn't come up with these ideas on his own. He's being directed by Putin along with other American sellouts who
Sun May 24, 2026, 11:01 AM
22 hrs ago

see Putin and Trump as white Christian saviors. The Heritage Foundation is among them. Funny thing is if Xi or MBS offered Trump enough money he would sell the rest of them out.

paleotn

(22,788 posts)
14. And not only that...
Sun May 24, 2026, 11:24 AM
22 hrs ago

The straight line from the Lincoln Memorial, across the Arlington Memorial Bridge, leads straight to the Military Women's Memorial at Arlington. The arch monstrosity is interposed between it and DC. That might not be a coincidence.



relogic

(261 posts)
17. "coincidences" indeed
Sun May 24, 2026, 12:05 PM
21 hrs ago

They are getting too frequent to ignore and seamlessly meld into whatever narcissistic notion enters the empty soul that sits in Washington on a orangish, gold throne only he may squat upon. It’s no secret the globulous jelly inside that ☠️ is only useful to him.

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TygrBright

(21,394 posts)
18. We may be able to fund part of the cleanup...
Sun May 24, 2026, 12:06 PM
21 hrs ago

...by investing in a number of sledgehammers, and charging people $20 a blow on the abomination.

I'm quite positive that while sledgehammers are relatively ineffective as demolition tools, like water wearing away a stone there would be enough blows to bring it down, and pound it into dust.

And the cash generated could go into restoring the damage at the reflecting pool, the Rose Garden, etc.

It's an idea, anyway...

creatively,
Bright

calimary

(90,901 posts)
32. I've said it before, here. And I still mean it.
Mon May 25, 2026, 01:56 AM
7 hrs ago

I would love to see Jackie Kennedy’s Rose Garden restored, and celebrated yet again. The public thought she was IT when it came to good and elegant taste.

And one other thing:
She was IT when it came to the handling of JFK’s assassination coverage and aftermath. Jackie had it her way. She was responsible for his state funeral being classy, memorable, historic, and deeply moving for an America in shock that pretty much shut down, that weekend. And so tasteful! So understated. The coverage was BEYOND compelling.

I watched it all weekend. I think I was 10. I was transfixed. I remember the statement she made with her black skirted suit. Lots of admiring commentary about that. AND how well-behaved little Caroline and John-John were, standing with all the grownups, dressed in their Sunday best. That made such a huge impression on my mom, who watched a lot of it with me. Even as a little kid, I knew this was something pretty doggone earth-shaking in U.S. history. This was the biggest big deal I’d ever seen in the news. I knew every detail mattered, excruciatingly.

liberalla

(11,234 posts)
23. I like this idea!
Sun May 24, 2026, 01:01 PM
20 hrs ago

Let them learn some accurate history! and get kicked in their butts with REALITY!

Martin68

(28,091 posts)
20. Trump also wants to restore a statue honoring Confederate soldiers to the Arlington Cemetery.
Sun May 24, 2026, 12:54 PM
20 hrs ago

bmichaelh

(1,272 posts)
21. Lee did nothing to stop slave hunts
Sun May 24, 2026, 12:59 PM
20 hrs ago

Lee did nothing to stop slave hunts during the Civil War.

When Confederate troops went north of the Mason-Dixon line, they would send Black men, women and children back into slavery; some had never been slaves.

Also, Lee was given the opportunity by Lincoln to be head of the Union army but he refused.

liberalla

(11,234 posts)
24. HCR is wonderful at connecting dots and putting things in perspective
Sun May 24, 2026, 01:05 PM
20 hrs ago

between our American history and the current day circus events.

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