Thanks so much for putting my blood at a rolling boil... I think the Rose Garden desecration was the worst for me. Which brings me to what Azza said:
"Though those projects were surely motivated by personal taste and an eye toward legacy, Trump’s are tainted by motivations of vanity, opulence, spectacle, and grift."
She forgot to add "deliberate trolling." He is rubbing it in our faces. He is bulldozing our most cherished physical representations of this country, and he wants us to hurt. He knew that destroying the Kennedys' rose garden would taint their legacy, just as he did when he called deceased John McCain a loser and a sucker. Speaking ill of the dead is one of his strongest weapons, and ruining the beautiful things created by people who came before him says so in an everlasting manner. How I hope that Joe Biden and the Clintons and the Obamas survive this regime. Mister has his guns loaded.
If he had good taste, much of what he's doing wouldn't be so bad. But his taste is atrocious and I'm convinced that most of the "building" he's doing is to get many more taxpayer billions into his own bank accounts.
And then, think of all the additional taxpayer billions that will have to be spent to destroy all these blights on the beauty of our nation's capital.
And there had better not be any hand-wringing over tearing his crap down. He never asked anyone, he doesn't follow any rules, and he admitted that it's all done for himself, with our money. This is actually worse than Confederate statues--at least those generals didn't put up statues of themselves.
Agree on his bad taste. While the article refers to what he did to the Oval Office as being in the style of "monarchies and fascist regimes", what it really reminds me of is a whore house.
As for that "builder-in-chief" crap that the administration keeps sprouting, I can't help but think of a particular volume builder that specializes in lots of fancy trim work and moulding that covers extremely shoddy workmanship.
Absolutely, agree on all points. Just look at his big whorehouse, er, residence in Florida. He just loves gold, red and huge chandeliers. Actually, Ivana got him started on that at the Plaza Hotel in NYC. He barely scraped by several bankruptcies with that one.
It would be nice, and perhaps useful to candidates, to get a total cost of all of these projects and convert that to per taxpayer. Then add in the cost of the Iran war and the cost to rebuild munitions. Finally estimate how much health care, nutrition, etc can be bought with that money
Donald Trump has one job, President of the United States, that should take all of his time, energy and attention. Frankly, he doesn't do that job very well. He has now taken a second job that he does not do very well: Unofficial "Architect and Engineer of the Federal District." The result is some the most "gawd awful", poorly planned, poorly built additions ever seen in Washington, DC. We don't deserve this!
The only thing drump and his minions will achieve with this "let us rewrite history" crusade is that they will be recorded in history as "that bunch that tried to rewrite history but failed".
And history will always grade the boss-child drump as the worst of the worst. No matter how much gold-painted paraphernalia he uses in his attempt to tart-up history.
"Though those projects were surely motivated by personal taste and an eye toward legacy, Trump’s are tainted by motivations of vanity, opulence, spectacle, and grift..."
One small quibble if I may: The word "opulence" has a positive connotation to it. Nothing Trump is doing to DC would be considered opulent. What he is doing is ostentatious, therefore,Trump is motivated by vanity, ostentation, spectacle, and grift.
No matter how you look at Donny’s disregard to tradition and the approval process, there is a vile pattern to the process he follow: first, he fires all the reviewers and decision makers, and then he appoints his supporters to replace them. These people have no clue about the legal process they must follow, ignoring existing laws passed by Congress. Example: no structure in federal section in Washington can be higher than the Indian atop of the dome over the rotunda. They just ignored it because Donny wants his way.
Thanks so much for putting my blood at a rolling boil... I think the Rose Garden desecration was the worst for me. Which brings me to what Azza said:
"Though those projects were surely motivated by personal taste and an eye toward legacy, Trump’s are tainted by motivations of vanity, opulence, spectacle, and grift."
She forgot to add "deliberate trolling." He is rubbing it in our faces. He is bulldozing our most cherished physical representations of this country, and he wants us to hurt. He knew that destroying the Kennedys' rose garden would taint their legacy, just as he did when he called deceased John McCain a loser and a sucker. Speaking ill of the dead is one of his strongest weapons, and ruining the beautiful things created by people who came before him says so in an everlasting manner. How I hope that Joe Biden and the Clintons and the Obamas survive this regime. Mister has his guns loaded.
"Speaking ill of the dead is one of his strongest weapons..."
That's because they can't fight back.
If he had good taste, much of what he's doing wouldn't be so bad. But his taste is atrocious and I'm convinced that most of the "building" he's doing is to get many more taxpayer billions into his own bank accounts.
And then, think of all the additional taxpayer billions that will have to be spent to destroy all these blights on the beauty of our nation's capital.
And there had better not be any hand-wringing over tearing his crap down. He never asked anyone, he doesn't follow any rules, and he admitted that it's all done for himself, with our money. This is actually worse than Confederate statues--at least those generals didn't put up statues of themselves.
Agree on his bad taste. While the article refers to what he did to the Oval Office as being in the style of "monarchies and fascist regimes", what it really reminds me of is a whore house.
As for that "builder-in-chief" crap that the administration keeps sprouting, I can't help but think of a particular volume builder that specializes in lots of fancy trim work and moulding that covers extremely shoddy workmanship.
Absolutely, agree on all points. Just look at his big whorehouse, er, residence in Florida. He just loves gold, red and huge chandeliers. Actually, Ivana got him started on that at the Plaza Hotel in NYC. He barely scraped by several bankruptcies with that one.
It would be nice, and perhaps useful to candidates, to get a total cost of all of these projects and convert that to per taxpayer. Then add in the cost of the Iran war and the cost to rebuild munitions. Finally estimate how much health care, nutrition, etc can be bought with that money
Donald Trump has one job, President of the United States, that should take all of his time, energy and attention. Frankly, he doesn't do that job very well. He has now taken a second job that he does not do very well: Unofficial "Architect and Engineer of the Federal District." The result is some the most "gawd awful", poorly planned, poorly built additions ever seen in Washington, DC. We don't deserve this!
"I should be able to do what I'm best at," he said of the remodels. I think he meant cheating and lying, so he's already doing that.
Money doesn’t equate to good taste. Things are getting to look gaudy, tacky and cheap with all
the “ Home Depot” gold dodads
The only thing drump and his minions will achieve with this "let us rewrite history" crusade is that they will be recorded in history as "that bunch that tried to rewrite history but failed".
And history will always grade the boss-child drump as the worst of the worst. No matter how much gold-painted paraphernalia he uses in his attempt to tart-up history.
"Though those projects were surely motivated by personal taste and an eye toward legacy, Trump’s are tainted by motivations of vanity, opulence, spectacle, and grift..."
One small quibble if I may: The word "opulence" has a positive connotation to it. Nothing Trump is doing to DC would be considered opulent. What he is doing is ostentatious, therefore,Trump is motivated by vanity, ostentation, spectacle, and grift.
He must be stopped. My question: how is this happening? What can one do?
No matter how you look at Donny’s disregard to tradition and the approval process, there is a vile pattern to the process he follow: first, he fires all the reviewers and decision makers, and then he appoints his supporters to replace them. These people have no clue about the legal process they must follow, ignoring existing laws passed by Congress. Example: no structure in federal section in Washington can be higher than the Indian atop of the dome over the rotunda. They just ignored it because Donny wants his way.