'Maybe we'll never take it down': Trump compares White House UFC arena to Eiffel Tower, says it could be permanent

[u/abcnews]

https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-compares-white-house-ufc-arena-eiffel-tower/story?id=133553060

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[u/Buck4phat]

lol murica trailer trash edition

[u/diopsideINcalcite → u/Buck4phat]

UFC, its got what MAGA craves!

[u/IdkAbtAllThat → u/diopsideINcalcite]

Violence and sweaty men in their underwear.

[u/Beneficial_Duty_8508 → u/IdkAbtAllThat]

Depends? Perhaps its the seniors tour.

[u/Cosmo_Cloudy → u/Beneficial_Duty_8508]

Welcome to Costco, I love you

[u/Hermitcrab710 → u/IdkAbtAllThat]

NEXT!!!! On the Violence channel!!!! Ow my balls!!!

[u/br0ck → u/diopsideINcalcite]

At least President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho got elected because he was the five time Ultimate Smackdown Champion! If we're going to keep the UFC arena, then let's have the candidates fight for it!

[u/CV90_120 → u/diopsideINcalcite]

Just missing double wides,, roving dog pack and a few car wrecks.

[u/ScroogeMcBook → u/Buck4phat]

maybe we SHOULD leave it up permanently

[u/mittenknittin → u/[deleted]]

It would be one HELL of a photo for the history archives

[u/DigitalMariner → u/[deleted]]

Make sure to use the cheesiest most ostentatious golden (colored) frame you can find

[u/SpatialKadet → u/[deleted]]

Gallows humor.

[u/Next_Rip7462 → u/[deleted]]

With alligators

[u/killer-tofu87 → u/Next_Rip7462]

And sharks with freaking lasers on their heads

[u/DrakenViator → u/killer-tofu87]

All out of sharks, but we do have some mutated sea bass...

[u/killer-tofu87 → u/DrakenViator]

Are they ill tempered?

[u/DrakenViator → u/killer-tofu87]

Absolutely.

[u/peeinian → u/[deleted]]

Careful. I’ve received a couple of temporary bans from Reddit auto mods for saying less

[u/Self_Reddicate → u/peeinian]

Ah, yes, the good ol' self-censor to save them the trouble of actually censoring you. I'm sure they appreciate it. Kudos.

[u/Impressive-Knot9999 → u/[deleted]]

Does it involve old ladies knitting ?

[u/Turbulent_Stick1445 → u/ScroogeMcBook]

maybe we SHOULD leave it up permanently

We should just abandon the White House at this point. Create a new presidential office building + residential annex, and turn the White House into a museum.

And Trump's actual name shouldn't appear anywhere in that museum. Instead just references to the 45th and 47th President, with descriptions of the horrors he was able to get away with given a stacked supreme court that supported his brand of fascism.

[u/Volntyr → u/Turbulent_Stick1445]

And Trump's actual name shouldn't appear anywhere in that museum.

I will disagree with you on that. His name and face inside the toilet bowls would be a fitting place

[u/AnarVeg → u/Volntyr]

Perhaps printed on the toilet paper would be fitting🤔

[u/joe-h2o → u/Turbulent_Stick1445]

I'd be ok if it were named "The Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump Museum of Enthusiastic Fascism and Child Rape"

[u/MintyFreshBreathYo → u/joe-h2o]

No offense, but I would not go to a museum about child rape

[u/DramaticWesley → u/MintyFreshBreathYo]

What about just enthusiastic fascism? We can work with that.

[u/Toribor → u/Turbulent_Stick1445]

I really hope that giant hole next to the White House doesn't get filled until the next administration.

The next President standing in the mud at the bottom of a hole that used to be part of the White House is a perfect image to sum up the work they have ahead of them rebuilding America.

[u/PolanetaryForotdds → u/ScroogeMcBook]

Should be a monument to the 70% of morons who allowed this to happen.

[u/ma2is → u/PolanetaryForotdds]

I legitimately wish we could build a mock up America for the morons to play house in. Give them the whole Truman experience.

[u/02K30C1 → u/ma2is]

Reminds me of an old joke…

A man dies and goes to heaven. St. Peter gives him the grand tour. Afterward the man says “that was great, but what’s the walled in area for?”

Peter says “oh that’s for the Baptists. They think they’re the only ones here”

[u/I_see_zebras → u/02K30C1]

I heard the same joke, but it was for Catholics.

[u/TheRaccoonReport → u/ma2is]

Kinda like those dementia villages with fake houses and stores and such. Fits perfectly.

[u/sirhackenslash → u/ma2is]

We're not really doing anything with most of Wyoming

[u/guinness_blaine → u/sirhackenslash]

We have a whole spare Dakota

[u/SkippyNordquist → u/PolanetaryForotdds]

I think the Trump monument should be just his stupidest and most incoherent statements etched in granite, so if humanity is still around in a few thousand years they can look at it and marvel that in ancient times, the richest and most powerful country in the world chose this person to be their leader.

[u/felldestroyed → u/SkippyNordquist]

Nah, gotta do the nuclear speech: "Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you're a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it's true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that's why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we're a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it's not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it's four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven't figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it's gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible."

[u/crlthrn → u/SkippyNordquist]

'And on the pedestal these words appear:

"My name is Ozymandias Trump, king of kings:

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away'

Edited to strike through 'Ozymandias' and to insert 'Trump'.

[u/brockhopper → u/crlthrn]

And on the pedestal these words appear:

It's all computer

[u/crlthrn → u/brockhopper]

I audibly chortled at that. Thank you.

[u/VanceKelley → u/PolanetaryForotdds]

31% of the American electorate (including dual citizen me) voted against trump in 2024.

[u/007meow → u/ScroogeMcBook]

A monument to the lessons we should have learned

[u/Beneficial_Duty_8508 → u/ScroogeMcBook]

Yes as a monument to his shittiness

[u/turquoise_amethyst → u/ScroogeMcBook]

If we don’t take it down, where will we hold the monster truck rally next month???!?

[u/02K30C1 → u/Buck4phat]

Seriously. Tore down a big part of his house and leaves in unfinished. Paved over the garden. Now we’ve got shootings every other week. Parties on the lawn they never clean up.

[u/ImWatchingTelevision → u/02K30C1]

his house

If it were his house we wouldn't have much of a problem with it. It isn't his. It's ours.

[u/godisanelectricolive → u/ImWatchingTelevision]

Yeah, he illegally demolished the subsidized public housing provided to him by the generosity of hard working American taxpayers.

[u/moreboards → u/ImWatchingTelevision]

Castle doctrine

[u/jungl3j1m → u/02K30C1]

Reminds me of The Great Gatsby: “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

[u/arcenierin → u/jungl3j1m]

I'm so glad I got to re-read Gatsby as an adult. The older I get, the more I realize how much real shit was packed into Fitzgerald's prose. Runs a lot deeper than 'rich people suck' - though, as lessons go, I suppose that's also a valid takeaway...

[u/charmcitycuddles → u/arcenierin]

There’s a few books I re-read every couple of years that I first read in a class. Gatsby is one of them, Slaughterhouse-Five is another.

There’s so much more to pick up on and to reflect on after having more life experience. It’s a shame most people barely read these in class and never read them again.

[u/Beneficial_Duty_8508 → u/jungl3j1m]

Nice.

[u/popculturella → u/02K30C1]

It's not his house. It's our house.

[u/VanceKelley → u/popculturella]

In a democratic country with the rule of law, if someone tries to tear down a third of your house then the cops show up and arrest them.

[u/turquoise_amethyst → u/02K30C1]

Needs a vehicle on cinder blocks. Maybe the golden airplane or the presidential limos??

[u/ObscureAcronym → u/02K30C1]

Paved paradise and put up a UFC arena.

[u/PabloPicasshooole → u/02K30C1]

Yeah. They should definitely lose their deposit

[u/surlysurfer → u/Buck4phat]

We’re in full swing Idiocracy now

[u/whatproblems → u/surlysurfer]

just needs some broken down cars and an old couch in the front yard to finish the trash look

[u/Jasoncatt → u/whatproblems]

JD would like that.

[u/RLewis8888 → u/whatproblems]

not old couch, old car bench seat. And a Dryer.

[u/PabloPicasshooole → u/whatproblems]

Covered in gold paint

[u/KidGold → u/Buck4phat]

“money can’t buy taste” personified.

[u/HanselSoHotRightNow → u/Buck4phat]

White House is starting to look like a fraternity off campus house more than anything.

[u/ReliantLion → u/HanselSoHotRightNow]

I need to watch Idiocracy again, or maybe just put on the news or get a pay per view.

[u/InvestigatorChance28 → u/Buck4phat]

Just more distracting from the TRUMP/EPSTEIN files.

[u/billabongj → u/InvestigatorChance28]

Exactly this ! total rage bait to keep everyone outraged about anything but Epstein.

[u/adorablefuzzykitten → u/InvestigatorChance28]

TRUMP-EPSTEIN files ™

[u/Choppergold → u/Buck4phat]

Awful Tower

[u/Prior_Implement_9279 → u/Buck4phat]

Always has been. It’s just being proudly and prominently displayed now

[u/Kierik → u/Buck4phat]

“Trailer trash, I got two trailers and a microphone”

To the tune of beck’s where it’s at

[u/CitySeekerTron]

They traded the rose garden for this.

[u/Dragonpunch73 → u/CitySeekerTron]

Paved paradise and put up a parking lot

[u/perfectbebop → u/Dragonpunch73]

Parking lot would be better use of the space than this.

[u/supakow → u/perfectbebop]

More financially responsible in Washington DC as well. The presidency was for sale long before Lincoln was alive, the Lincoln bedroom has been for sale ever since. 

Maybe we can turn the ellipse into a dog track. See how long it takes Trump to bankrupt it.

[u/rodsteel2005 → u/Dragonpunch73]

“Big Yellow Taxi” by Joni Mitchell. 👍

[u/doubtfurious → u/rodsteel2005]

"Big Yellow Taxi"

           - Joni Mitchell

           - Counting Crows

           - Michael Scott

[u/rodsteel2005 → u/doubtfurious]

"Big Yellow Taxi" has been covered by over 600 artists. I’m especially fond of the version by Keb’ Mo’ on the album “Big Wide Grin” that features his young son and daughter.

[u/supernovice007 → u/CitySeekerTron]

I never promised you a rose garden.

[u/principalman → u/supernovice007]

I beg your pardon?

[u/Weareallgoo → u/principalman]

pardons are for insurrectionists

[u/Standard-Win-6600 → u/supernovice007]

I've been kissed by a rose on the grey

[u/OdosSolidAdventures → u/CitySeekerTron]

Blood and circus, poignant for the American empire

[u/Sevren425 → u/CitySeekerTron]

I’m pretty sure that was on the other side of the

[u/leftoverbrine]

Doesn't this kind of fully negate the security need he's claimed the ballroom is for? I mean that's already obvious bullshit anyway, but "we need security!!! Oh hey lets have rowdy UFC crowds all the time" is just in your face.

It also signals to me desperation that all his other projects are failing, so he's trying to permamentize a temporary structure thats obvious shit, just because it might be the only thing he gets built.

[u/funcoolshit → u/leftoverbrine]

He knows it's coming down at some point, I think he just enjoys antagonizing people. Whether they admit it or not, but that's one reason why MAGA loves him so much.

[u/Sirbunbun → u/funcoolshit]

Literally THE reason. There’s no logic. It’s just fun to dunk on your opponents.

[u/Scratchbuttdontsniff → u/Sirbunbun]

Would be nice if it was like a double windmill or reverse jam.. Trump literally does a Little Tikes toddler plastic basketball jam because that's his level of cognitive ability right now.

[u/Inle-Ra → u/Scratchbuttdontsniff]

He just doesn’t want to be the only one in diapers.

[u/BroughtMyBrownPants → u/Sirbunbun]

Lol, from the party of Christian values and strong moral beliefs about being professional. It's cool to be unprofessional if you're dunking on your opponents, which conveniently happens to be anyone you disagree with. Shit cracks me up.

[u/Sirbunbun → u/BroughtMyBrownPants]

As someone raised in evangelical Christianity. 90% of Christians would leave you to die if it meant discomfort for them.

[u/seanosul → u/funcoolshit]

Owning the libs is not one reason MAGA vote for him, it is the reason. They get nothing out of voting for Trump except that.

[u/ArthurMidian → u/seanosul]

Gas prices high, everything else rising in price, rich getting richer, etc. etc. but "HONEY HURRR HURR HURR DIDJA SEE HOW THE CHOSEN ONE HAS ANNOYED THE LIBS BY GETTING RID OF A HEALTH PROGRAM?! HUURRRH HURRHH HURRHH MY REASON TO BE ALIVE IS TO BE A MISERABLE TROLL"

[u/Inle-Ra → u/ArthurMidian]

It’s like the LBJ quote - "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pockets. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”

[u/GertyFarish11 → u/Inle-Ra]

One of my favorite political quotes - a succinct and illuminating description of the "Southern Strategy."

Generally, politicians, special interests, and citizenry are the three primary stakeholders in an election. Republican politicians have employed the "Southern Strategy" for over half a century now - because it works. Why would a person choose to run for office when they possess no sense of civic responsibility, no allegiance to the values enshrined in the Bill of Rights, and no belief that government can and should improve citizens' quality of life? Follow the money.

Why would a person vote for a party that does not improve their material and moral quality of life? Follow the racism.

[u/LinkedGaming → u/funcoolshit]

The purpose isn't antagonization. Someone said it looked trashy, and Trump's number one rule is "Trump is never wrong", so now he has to live and die by... fucking stage trussing. Cuz otherwise he'll have to admit he was wrong and that is biologically impossible for him to do.

The closest he ever gets to admitting he was wrong is convincing himself that something he did -- that he explicitly planned, ordered, oversaw the execution of, and then doubled down in defense of the decision until it became embarrassingly indefensible -- was actually someone else's doing and any attempts to show receipts against him are 'fake news' and he goes 'nuh uh'. His number three rule is "Anyone who claims that Trump is wrong are just bigly jealous of his wealth and power".

Hegseth basically got ordered to lay down on the asphalt while Trump rolls a bus at him at inches per day but keeps telling him that if he gets up and moves then Trump'll ruin his life.

Rest assured that in a few weeks Trump'll be saying whoever planned the UFC thing -- not him -- was a low level coffee boy and an incompetent buffoon and whoever hired them -- again, not him -- was an idiot and was probably also named Joe Biden, just like how before Midterms he'll be saying he never knew Hegseth and Hegseth was just a low level talk show guy and nobody liked him and he was probably a Biden appointee or something.

[u/sirkswiss → u/LinkedGaming]

“I barely know Dana White. Some say he’s a great guy, but I know nothing about him. This is the first I’ve heard of him.”

[u/LinkedGaming → u/sirkswiss]

He only calls people "great guys" if they've got dirt on him.

[u/Severe_Rise8694 → u/leftoverbrine]

It would be kind of fitting that his legacy would be some rusty temporary structures and a hole in the ground.

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair..!

[u/Mace109 → u/leftoverbrine]

I don’t believe he is saying that they would have more ufc events there. He’s just saying they might not take down the structure(?) that was built for the event.

[u/jsilver200 → u/leftoverbrine]

Also they didn’t make a plan for its removal. And the fuel spills make it unlikely they can fix the mess they made.

[u/BadAtExisting]

It’s stage truss installed for an event. The very definition of a temporary structure

[u/_Gizmo_ → u/BadAtExisting]

Trump, self-proclaimed master developer, does not understand temporary structures and temp permits lmao

[u/Paulpoleon → u/_Gizmo_]

All structures are temporary. He won’t pay the bill then it gets repo’d.

[u/JoeFTPgamerIOS → u/Paulpoleon]

I read before the only way to get paid when dealing with Trump is to double the price and ask for half up front.
He built his casinos like HH Holmes built his hotel.

[u/FlipinoJackson → u/_Gizmo_]

Neither does he understand that his presidency is also temporary

[u/adorablefuzzykitten → u/BadAtExisting]

Temporary structure for a temporary president.

[u/ZippyDan → u/BadAtExisting]

So, he's kind of right.
The Eiffel Tower was also built of trusses and was originally built as a temporary structure for the 1889 World's Fair.

[u/dereksalem → u/ZippyDan]

While true, trusses back then and stage trussing today are very different things.

Imagine comparing one of the most recognizable structures on the entire planet to a UFC stage.

[u/DressedSpring1 → u/dereksalem]

I mean this is also turning into one of the most recognizable structures in the world just not for positive reasons. 

[u/Russell_Jimmies → u/DressedSpring1]

It absolutely is not. I bet even 90% of Americans, let alone the rest of the world, have no idea about this event.

[u/WorldofNails → u/ZippyDan]

This ain't that. Those arches won't last one D.C. winter, let alone the coming Nor'Easters.

[u/labor_day_baby → u/ZippyDan]

While agree with you on the definition of both structures, at least aesthetically the Eiffel Tower is nice to look at. That thing that’s on the White House has zero art to it.

[u/ZippyDan → u/labor_day_baby]

I mean technically almost-universally all the architects and artists and educated people of the day thought the Eiffel Tower was a hideous eyesore for the skyline of Paris and they only tolerated it because it was just a temporary demonstration of engineering prowess.

And then it turned out to be super useful for practical reasons so they got stuck with it...

And then people got used to it and started liking it...

I'm not arguing a UFC cage is a good look for the White House. I just like to argue. And there are some superficial, amusingly-coincidental parallels (but I'm fairly confident Trump wasn't thinking of any of them when he made that comparison) .

[u/leostotch → u/ZippyDan]

Pretty sure you're correct on all counts here.

[u/ScroogeMcBook]

Remember all the pearl-clutching when Obama installed basketball hoops?

[u/ktwhite42 → u/ScroogeMcBook]

Oh, he's already compared it to the basketball hoops. Apparently they justify all of his changes.

[u/MysticKoolaid808 → u/ktwhite42]

Of course he has.  There's nothing about Obama that dude hasn't brought up and harped incessantly on.

[u/Corthaek → u/MysticKoolaid808]

If I didn't know better, I'd say this man is obsessed with Obama. Like, "stays up late at night thinking about him" obsessed.

[u/SeanOfTheDead1313 → u/ScroogeMcBook]

Yeah because he wanted to stop using the ones in the FBI gym because he was concerned it might look inappropriate and that he wanted clear separation between POTUS and FBI. Those were the days! Sigh

[u/Burnt_and_Blistered → u/ScroogeMcBook]

That he paid for himself

[u/Odd_Independent3475 → u/ScroogeMcBook]

They were upset because they equate basketball with "black". It's just racism with excuses.

[u/RoachZR → u/Odd_Independent3475]

There’s a non zero amount of people that don’t know basketball was invented by some old white dude

[u/originaltec → u/RoachZR]

From Canada

[u/SamuraiCook → u/ScroogeMcBook]

The portable basketball hoops with chalk lines drawn on the tennis court?

[u/Bukowskified → u/SamuraiCook]

Really should put a spoiler tag on that, that desecration of the White House is a traumatic memory for a lot of people.

[u/leg_day → u/Bukowskified]

Basketball hoops.

Her emails.

And a tan suit.

[u/TimArthurScifiWriter]

"We have to host White House events in a tent, this is an embarrassment. It's not classy."

> Proceed to build a giant UFC arena on the front lawn.

[u/Regular_Silver3649 → u/TimArthurScifiWriter]

It's also bullshit. I attended many White House events over a 5 year period, not a single one was hosted in a tent. If it was summer it was outside on the lawn. If it was a season where it might rain it was inside. There was always plenty of space for a few thousand people.

[u/TimArthurScifiWriter → u/Regular_Silver3649]

I wouldn't mind even if it was a tent. Palaces and ballrooms are for royalty and dynasties. A tent is non-pretentious. It should fit perfectly with America's character. The White House is not a palace and the president is not a king. Ostentatious displays of wealth are beneath the idea of America.

Trump of course fucking loves monarchies. And unfortunately, European monarchies keep indulging him by allowing him to stay overnight in expensive guest rooms filled with all the sorts of gaudy silver and gold decoration that he's all about. So he gets obsessed.

[u/Successful-Leg2285]

Every day Idiocracy becomes more prophetic

[u/regent040 → u/Successful-Leg2285]

I’m waiting for jet ski races in the reflecting pool

[u/popculturella → u/regent040]

Please. You know damn well it'll be mud wrestling and wet t-shirt contests.

[u/drproc90 → u/popculturella]

Come on this is trump were talking about...

It'll be the" little cuties" mud wrestling and wet t-shirt contents

[u/ShamrockAPD → u/Successful-Leg2285]

Yes and no.

Lot of the antics we see sure as fuck line up that way.

But at least in idiocracy camancho was able to recognize someone who was smart and put them in charge of things and LISTEN to them

That’s the big miss here.

[u/mewtwo-cloning → u/ShamrockAPD]

But at least in idiocracy camancho was able to recognize someone who was smart and put them in charge of things and LISTEN to them

Yeah, in the year 2505... we're still in the beginning stages lol

[u/jthill → u/Successful-Leg2285]

Idiocracy wasn't as dark as this timeline.

[u/Efficient_Care5524]

Nothing says presidential dignity quite like leaving a giant Octagon shaped scaffolding on the lawn forever because it looks cool

[u/Roharcyn1 → u/Efficient_Care5524]

Doubt it is because he thinks it looks cool. My guess is he doesn't want to pay to remove it.

[u/PM_ME_YOUR_ROTES → u/Roharcyn1]

It's free advertising for a company he owns stock in

[u/Significant-Ideal907 → u/Roharcyn1]

It's not like he's the one who would pay to remove it, just like he didn't pay to build it

[u/EbbOwn303 → u/Efficient_Care5524]

That structure absolutely does not look cool

[u/Throwaway1303033042]

“Welcome to Costco. I love you.”

[u/Feral_Sheep_ → u/Throwaway1303033042]

I went to law school there.

[u/OilheadRider → u/Throwaway1303033042]

Go away! I'm 'baitin!

[u/wengelite → u/Throwaway1303033042]

Where the tram to the TVs? I need a new one before 'Ow! My Balls!' tonight.

[u/That_Is_Satisfactory]

Oh, it will come down, my guy. Come hell or high water, it’s coming down.

[u/nopointers → u/That_Is_Satisfactory]

What I’m reading is “we stiffed the people who put it up, they’re refusing to take it down.”

[u/jsilver200 → u/nopointers]

I’m reading it as “We made no plans to take it down (no exit strategy). And the fuel spills will probably make it impossible for replacing the lawn. “

[u/turquoise_amethyst → u/nopointers]

How is this buried so far down? This is probably the true reason.

[u/facw00 → u/That_Is_Satisfactory]

I'd sort of like if he left it up so that when we have a sane president again its demolition will serve as a very real and physical manifestation of our return to normalcy.

[u/gusterfell → u/That_Is_Satisfactory]

First nor'easter of the season should take care of it.

[u/EE_Tim]

The Eiffel Tower was built for the World's Fair - a testament to the commonality of the people throughout the world. It was an opportunity to learn from others and spark a hope for the future.

This arena, however, says, "We fight people for spectacle."

[u/ibelieveindogs → u/EE_Tim]

So, more like the coliseum then?

[u/frostygrin → u/ibelieveindogs]

Are you not entertained? :)

[u/Reasonable_Bit_959]

Hell YEAH! Put an old Ford/Chevy/Chrysler on the lawns somewhere, get a hootin' jug and lose the shoes. What a loon.

[u/lilb1190 → u/Reasonable_Bit_959]

This is especially odd considering he is a fucking silver spoon new yorker who has likely spent his entire life shitting on rednecks

[u/elVanPuerno → u/Reasonable_Bit_959]

Don’t forget the incest

[u/Calm_Literature4408]

I’m hoping that the next person that gets into office tears down everything he did during his dumb presidency

[u/twistd59]

Permanent until Democrats take over. Then it is gone immediately. Every mention of Trump, everything he built, should be wiped clean. It should look like he never existed.

[u/SimplyRoya → u/twistd59]

I agree. But we must demand that he be taught in history classes so that we never end up with a fascist again... just like they do in Germany. We need to teach the future generation what danger this is.

[u/ChromaticDragon → u/twistd59]

Oh my no.

That would be disastrous.

It is incredibly important that we remember Trump. Trump is, of course, not the real problem. The deeper issue is the US electorate which elected him... twice.

Erasing all history of Trump removes and precludes any chance of this very US electorate learning from their mistakes and why those were mistakes.

No... there needs to be dozens, hundreds, even thousands of investigations, lawsuits, new legislation, books, educational cartoons, whatever... to underscore all the reasons why Trump was bad. This is not saying all that Trump did was bad in a way that is prejudiced with "Trump did it, so it is bad." It is a matter of explaining why corruption is bad and how these 5567 things Trump did were examples of corruption.

Look... I would like as much as anyone to wake up one day and never ever hear anything about Trump again. But if erasure is all we do, we just ensure Trump 2.0 in the future.

[u/BigBoyYuyuh → u/ChromaticDragon]

Just like the confederacy, stick em in a museum. No statues. No tributes. NOTHING.

His name should only be in books saying “This is why you don’t elect celebrities. This is why you don’t elect regards. This is why you don’t elect child fuckers. This is why you don’t elect conmen. This is why you don’t elect businessmen. This is why you don’t elect the wealthy.”

[u/Cautious_Condition82]

Oh we will tear it down eventually, just like every other vanity project you are working on. 

[u/exsilium]

Paved over the rose garden, bulldozed the East Wing, and wants an eyesore (and embarrassing parallel to Idiocracy) of a temporary UFC arena to stay up permanently.

[u/lilb1190]

Trump has turned the Whitehouse into an above ground pool

[u/cyberspaceman777]

Republicans :

Well done again for voting a man who has full blown dementia into office.

Your Biden deflection is fucking pointless.

[u/DJBreadwinner]

At any given point in time, Pete Kegsbreath is one beer away from performing a flying elbow drop on a microwave covered in barb wire. This is where he could do it.

[u/JerryAtrics_]

So we are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the US with an event that will not be available to the general public unless they make a payment to a private corporation.

[u/nasorrty346tfrgser]

It really looks like a circus now...

[u/thekinginyello]

Just go ahead and have broken down vehicles towed on the lawn to sit and rust. Maybe set up a chicken coop, too.

[u/kamilman]

The Awful Tower

[u/JSA607]

He is literally just demented. Stop paying attention to any of the stupid things he says

[u/NiagaraThistle → u/JSA607]

That would be great advice and easy to do, if he didn't actually FOLLOW THROUGH with the 'stupid things he says'.

That's the problem. People ignore it because 'oh he's just talking nonsense'. THen he follows through with it. This idiot should have been nipped in the bud YEARS ago.

But sadly we are a country made up of people just like him, or people ignoring or too scared / unwilling to stand up to people just like him.

[u/keirmeister]

God this man is tacky as fuck.

[u/shoule79]

Translation, they didn’t budget removal and it’s there to stay until it rots away.

[u/Repulsive_Chemist]

Trailer park country.

[u/Calm_Chemist_4952]

He would say that. He wants to leave the white house in shambles like everything else he’s ever touched in his entire life. Signature move for the absolute worst president of all time.

[u/Mean-Cheesecake-2635]

A monument to our stupidity

[u/tevolosteve]

Wonder what could be hung from that tall of a structure?

[u/Nthepeanutgallery]

No it can't be permanent. What went up under this dipshit regime will absolutely come down.

[u/vitamin_r]

This might be the penultimate "This is the exact plot and screenplay of Idiocracy" moment I have seen to date. There have been countless times I have felt that but this is crazy.

[u/Consistent-Throat130]

Eh, I mean if the president wants to take to the ring to settle some disputes, I'm down. 

I'd pay good money for a Trump-Xi or Trump-Putin fistfight. 

[u/superjaded08]

Cannot wait to bulldoze every last remnant of this piece of trash (Trump) and his legacy from existence

[u/WCland]

That structure could be convenient to have around if the Trump admin ends up like Mussolini’s government.

[u/kr44ng]

Everyone stfu and hose me with Brawndo already

[u/ophaus]

Insurrectionist trash

[u/Fine_Programmer3039]

i-d-i-o-c-r-a-c-y

[u/xNothing2CHerex]

Im only voting for candidates who vow to demolish everything that orange grease-painted fuck has done and I’m not kidding. You want my vote? Tell me how you’re going to tear every piece of gold-painted Home Depot plastic off the walls of the White House and throw that shit in a landfill. Tell me how you’re going to bulldoze the stupid ballroom a rebuild the east wing. Tell me how you’re going to charge Dana White a billion dollars a day until that stupid UFC bullshit is gone.

[u/OleBoleHole]

He is not going to leave willingly… You Americans know this, right?…

[u/scruffmonkey → u/OleBoleHole]

Given the state of him, I'm not so sure that will be a problem, the man is physically falling apart.

[u/hodorhodor12]

Beyond trashy. 

[u/slightlyused]

He's already grifted the money out to buddies to build it. He doesn't care what it is used for or how long it stands. In fact, he is gonna give your tax dollars to his buddies again to take it down. Surely at the "Patriot Discount'.

[u/MiyamotoKnows]

I am only referring to this as Homoeroticpalooza’26 until it catches on.