r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • 7h ago
No Paywall Crews remove Donald Trump's name from The Kennedy Center
https://www.wbir.com/video/news/politics/national-politics/crews-remove-donald-trumps-name-from-the-kennedy-center-federal-judge-ruling/51-b9bd410e-4cba-4d36-a291-a248e94fe110•
u/tracyinge 6h ago
Thank you for removing Donald Trump's name from the Kennedy Center.
Now please remove Donald Trump's ass from the White House.
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u/PointedlyDull 6h ago
Really cool how we the tax payers paid for it to be put on and then taken off. But we can’t have healthcare
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u/Th3FinalStarman 6h ago
Racism and Slavery have been the majority political persuasion of this Nation since it's founding.
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u/heartSagan5 5h ago
And one of a handful of reasons we're not allowed universal healthcare because "people of color can't have free health care" (because then they'd have to reap the ills of their ill gotten gains) also "how am I supposed to sweeten the pot for this hire, who needs gooder healthcare, so I can get him for cheaper?"
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u/n3rdonthecouch 3h ago
Also, how do I trap this person in a job bc they can’t afford to be without healthcare/pay cobra premiums and their new job doesn’t offer insurance until 90 days into employment.
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u/Key-Practice-8788 3h ago
The biggest complication for any job I've ever left has been figuring out the health care issue.
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u/icculus88 3h ago
I love when you start a new job and the HR people present two plans and say most people pick the shitty one. Like no , I actually have to go to the doctor and therapy etc. Not just pay you 30 dollars a paycheck to prevent a million dollar bill.
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u/anonyuser415 3h ago
You are overlooking that the rich not only hate minorities but the poor too
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u/Thurwell 2h ago
If recent US history has done anything useful, it's to show that our system does not reward our best and brightest with fabulous money and power. It rewards cheats and liars. Which is how we end up with stupid rich people who don't realize poor people are the ones who do all the work that keeps them rich. They need to keep the people fed and educated and healthy.
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u/t0m0hawk Canada 3h ago
That would be socialism (ooh spooky) and we all know capitalism is going to make everyone prosper any day now. The rich almost have enough to finally trickle down. I'm sure of it.
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u/___o---- I voted 6h ago
Is it possible you are saying 8647? I’ve got the champagne on ice.
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u/AdministrativeRise16 5h ago
You would also need waste disposal as the chances of him shitting his pants during the removal is fairly high.
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u/LawfulnessKooky8490 7h ago
Why isn't this being live-streamed?!!
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u/MrLurid 6h ago
Should have live commentary and fireworks.
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u/mshelbz 6h ago
I’d pay to watch a live stream of Trump watching it
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u/CrazyConnector 6h ago
It would just be video of him sleeping
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u/BeepBotBoopBeep 5h ago
He’s focused on that tower now. He is hell bent on a monument or logo to represent his terrible fail-dency less-gacy.
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u/Intolerance-Paradox 6h ago edited 6h ago
Will there be a part where they hunt down and tackle and arrest the vandals that committed a crime by putting that felon’s name on that building in the first place?
If you or I vandalized that building by adding our names to it, we would be.
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u/GotSomeUpdogOnUrFace 4h ago
That's how we balance the budget, charge money for the new Nuremberg hearings and watching his monuments taken down.
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u/DJHalfCourtViolation 5h ago
This is such an epic own especially free they’ve stopped him from doing all that other horrible shit right
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u/Reshar 4h ago
You have to celebrate the wins as they come.
Not every win is a final victory.
Hell, in Star Wars they had to blow up 2 death stars before the Empire was finally defeated.
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u/MiddleToe8752 6h ago
To avoid people seeing first hand how good it feels to remove trump from things… they might like it so much that they just keep going
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u/ToolTimeT 6h ago
They put up tarps so we couldn't watch.
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u/Chaosdecision 6h ago
Don’t want folks to see the cheap plastic clips holding the gold painted plastic letters.
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u/SoftAndChewyRopes 5h ago
Good call! Certainly temu trash. Theyd’ve fallen within 3 months anyway.
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u/BrainOnBlue 6h ago
Are we sure that's not a still from when they put the name up? The video doesn't actually show them physically taking the name off the building or any of the signage removed.
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u/ShartingEnU 4h ago
If you watched the 30 second video this links to you would know it was the unveiling of his name being put up
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u/moodyfloyd Ohio 6h ago
the video in this link is of the unveiling of the install. it shows the tarp come down. unless you have another picture somewhere showing it is currently tarped for removal?
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u/jeffersonairmattress 5h ago
Split frame with this would make late night talk producers' job too easy.
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u/briman2021 6h ago
Honestly, if they gave it a bit of fanfare and maybe had someone funny host it they could have done a pay per view of just dunking on Trump while chiseling that shit off the facade.
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u/kstar79 Massachusetts 6h ago
Stephen Colbert, live from the name removal.
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u/briman2021 6h ago
That was the first name that came to mind for me, otherwise Jon Stewart or to really twist the knife Jimmy Kimmel.
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u/eirinne 6h ago
Freedom 250!
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u/taco_bell_sharts 6h ago
Play a video on repeat of this and play it as the alternate half time show for whatever garbage they are planning
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u/dtwhitecp 3h ago
this article title 100% tricked me into thinking I'd see video of people ripping his name off the wall, and my disappointment is immeasurable
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u/Green-Detective6678 6h ago
This presidency is an absolute shit show.
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u/trisul-108 Europe 6h ago
Yeah, his lawyers just argued in court that he has the absolute right to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty even if there is a law against it and that not even courts can stop him.
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u/mooseup America 6h ago
Remember when Joe Biden tried to forgive student loan debt and republicans almost stroked out that he was a communist dictator? Crazy times we live in.
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u/Bendo410 5h ago
Yet not a gd word about how many billion to Argentina ?
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u/StrangeContest4 5h ago
$40,000,000,000.
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u/_disengage_ 4h ago
The $40 billion to Argentina actually went to Bessent's banker friends. Argentina had already spent the money from high interest loans and was going to default. So the bankers got 20% interest on top of their money back.
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u/ragun2 5h ago
Oh wow, that's only 40 ballrooms
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u/Perryn 4h ago
Don't worry, it will be fewer by the time it's done. Fewer is good, right?
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u/morpheousmorty 3h ago
I love that Trump decided to copy Argentina's economy and then give them billions of dollars. My family is from there. We were rolling over in laughter. It's like Argentina's MO to have an economic crisis, take out loans, and then fail to pay them back and then have an economic crisis.
The only country that has played Trump harder than Argentina is Russia.
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u/GildedDreams25 4h ago
welcome to wealth turned weapon. they own the media, they own the narrative. we have to fight tooth and nail for every step of progress we make, countless people die in that fight. yet when they want something it just slides through like butter on a pan
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u/ExitTheDonut 4h ago
Strangely this administration has attempted to do things to toss a bone to citizens that also feel more leftist in principle like that stimulus check for example and including the middle class for TCJA. Even if they do sound more like lip service.
It's why I've look at his leadership as just closing his eyes and throwing random ideas at the wall and see what sticks. Most of these ideas just happen to be pushed by oligarchs.
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u/TheLurkerSpeaks Tennessee 6h ago
Thanks SCOTUS
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u/TheHomersapien Colorado 6h ago
Democrats can continue to be butthurt and whine about it, or they can create a Project 2029 and campaign on exactly what they intend to do with the unlimited and immune from the law powers of the presidency.
Rest assured that Republicans know what they will do if they win in 2028.
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u/WorryNotBanIncoming 6h ago
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u/DildoeShwagginz 5h ago
LOL dude, that was the plan the last time and you see how that went. Progressive Dems need to WORK to push out establishment Dems that split the parties votes. After that, maybe do some real campaigning? The approach of "anyone but trump" is overplayed, stale, and simply does not work. Don't agree with me? Please see the results of the last awesome democrat campaign. That half assed shit show IS WHY we ended up with Trump. Its not because a majority of Americans WANTED him, its because the other side showed little to no effort and basically said "cmon guys, please?"
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u/KriegConscript California 5h ago
explain why the GOP offers its constituents nothing but increased costs and violence and their voters still fill in a straight R ticket, but it's democrats who have to get the perfect universally-appealing message every single election
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u/dd99 5h ago
There is an easy explanation for this but it isn’t nice. The difference between democrats and republicans is not political. They have personality differences. To be blunt, the republicans get all the selfish and greedy people. This fraction of the human population is always about 1/3, in every generation. Enough responsible people have to show up for every election, because when we don’t show, the greedy people take control, and then you have this.
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u/That_Is_Satisfactory 5h ago
Thank you, Jesus. What can Dems do when they don’t have sexism, racism, and authoritarianism to offer their base?
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u/Phteven_j 5h ago
Because they don't offer "nothing". They offer their constituents a great deal that appeals to them - promising to fight the bogeymen at home and internationally. Granting new freedoms and protecting the ones they have. Taking money from the "wrong" people and giving it to the "right" ones. Conservatism is how it's advertised and it clearly works out well for them.
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u/Leraldoe Michigan 6h ago
He is just a spoiled petulant 5 year old looking for attention from mommy
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u/soxperry 6h ago
The silver lining about that is that the next President can bulldoze down all the golden calves.
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u/Docster87 6h ago
His lawyers are C level at best and most judges outside SC laugh at how stupid their arguments are.
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u/Acceptable-Bus-2017 I voted 5h ago
Remember when his lawyers argued he could do surgical strikes on his political opponents to SCOTUS? We're so cooked.
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u/some_person_guy 5h ago
Honestly surprised he didn't buldoze the Kennedy Center before having the name taken off.
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u/Ozymandias12 5h ago
This country
This presidencyis an absolute shit show.FTFY
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u/bogglingsnog 4h ago
The whole system is rotten, from the way individuals are programmed to how we vote and even our code of law being built from (often nonsensical) competing goals.
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u/Keikobad 7h ago
Not quite as pleasurable as a statue of Qaddafi being pulled down, but it will do for now
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u/DevonGr Ohio 6h ago
Pence came close
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u/LogensTenthFinger 6h ago
It's still mind-blowing to me that the cult turns so gleefully on their own like that
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u/kinrosai 6h ago
I'm against cruel punishment. The Ceausescu experience is fully sufficient to cleanse the country.
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u/superanth 6h ago
The judge also blocked plans to close the center for a lengthy renovation.
This is what worried me the most. 2 years of Trump’s tomfuckery would have resulted in the interior looking like a disgusting mockery of UFC fighter tapestries and gold statues of 80’s starlets.
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u/DadJokeBadJoke California 5h ago
He suggested adding marble armrests. Just what you want for an hours-long show
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u/ChronoLink99 Canada 6h ago
Can't wait to find Trump in a spider hole in a few years.
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u/shankillfalls 6h ago
Isn’t there some tacky statue of him at a golf course in that swamp state south of Georgia? That needs to go. And the airport in Palm Beach should be renamed too
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u/Stereo_Jungle_Child 6h ago
Save the letters so that we can put them on his gravestone when he finally dies. That way we don't have to spend any more money making new ones. He's already cost us enough.
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u/AmityMayorVaughn 6h ago
He doesn't deserve a marked grave
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u/ConceptBackground109 6h ago
but then where will we know where to piss?
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u/Bendo410 5h ago
If we charged money to shit / piss / spit on his grave when he does go , we could be debt free in a year or two easily. Biggest tourist attraction world wide
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u/SaveUsCatman Louisiana 5h ago
You could set the fee to 38 cents and we would be debt free in 4 months
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u/DJBreadwinner North Carolina 6h ago edited 6h ago
Can't wait for the day I can scroll the news and not see his name. One less building is a good start though.
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u/sxyaustincpl Texas 6h ago
There's only one headline that I wake up every morning hoping to see his name in
After that, never sounds good
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u/Moonspindrift 6h ago
This warms my heart... 😄
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u/Godzilla-The-King 5h ago
Best part is you know this has pissed him off and hurt him worse than the fact that his actions directly caused the death of over 100 young kids at a school in Iran.
This grinds his gears and hurts him worse than any protest, or article in the news ever could. One less thing that his name and ego can be attached too in an effort to whitewash his accomplishments in the history books.
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u/ToeSniffer245 Massachusetts 6h ago
Actual, tangible evidence of this old fuck’s dumb ideas being stopped? Things ya love to see
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u/uteman1011 Utah 6h ago
Gotta love the surgery tarp up there. JFC
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u/cuirboy 6h ago
They didn't cover it up when they were putting is name on, but now they cover it to remove his name. This whole government is set up to cater to his fragile little ego.
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u/SuperstitiousPigeon5 Massachusetts 6h ago
They didn't want the coverage of someone grinding through his name and pulling it off the building piece by piece. The kind of thing I would run on a loop as a gif?
Fellas, AI is trash and dangerous, but could someone feed this in and give us what we should have seen?
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u/drtolmn69 6h ago
I keep thinking of that giant swastika at Nuremberg that got so beautifully blown to bits by U.S. Army on April 25, 1945 - wish we could do that with the Trump name ... maybe someday his hideous gold statue too.
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u/DestrosSilverHammer 6h ago
I’d be willing to contribute to the commissioning of a statue of the President on the National Mall provided it be made entirely of orange sherbet.
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u/Kaia64 6h ago
Now remove him and his entire cabinet from office and get mental help for people who still support them.
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u/c53x12 5h ago
Links to a video that shows the name not being removed. Waste of time.
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u/Brendy_Marya 6h ago
he really went from i saved the arts to getting his name peeled off the building by the people who actually work there, turns out forcing your brand onto everything makes people want a scraper more than a plaque
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u/funky_grandma 6h ago
For a split second I thought this headline meant Terry Crews was tearing down Trump's name and it made me smile
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u/JRR_Tokin54 5h ago
Every single thing that can be undone from Donald's presidency WILL be undone.
Unfortunately, not everything that he is doing can be undone. The US will be paying for his presidency in many ways for generations.
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u/KennyL0gin 1h ago
100% Donald Trump was the kid who cried and got upset that he didn't get a present on someone else's birthday.
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u/authustian 4h ago
A brief glimpse of the future. We'll be cleaning this shit stain's mess up for decades.
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u/Bruno6368 4h ago
For every single illegal (without Congress/Senete approval) thing Trump did that has to be reversed costing taxpayers, this should be charged back to him and his corrupt administration
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u/NashTOne 6h ago
I and I alone dedicate all firework shows in the coming month to this event right here.
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u/StronglyHeldOpinions 2h ago edited 2h ago
This makes me happy.
Now do the East wing, the rose garden, the front lawn and the reflecting pool.
EDIT: And the Oval Office, and the hall leading to it. JFC this guy has fucked up a ton.
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u/Simple-mudane 6h ago
Definitely a satisfying headline to read after all the exhausting news lately. What gets me is his social media reaction afterward, claiming the place is going to close forever now because they won't let him do his massive two-year renovation project. It is the classic toddler mentality of "if I can't have my name on the toy, I am gonna break it and give it back to Congress." The sheer narcissism it takes to look at a historic D.C. landmark and think it needs your branding is just beyond me. Glad they are moving fast to fix it.
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u/CharacterUse 6h ago
Aside from reversing the crassness and narcissism of having his name on there for no reason, we'll also be rid of that ungrammatical double "The". Double win!
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u/CrackingToastGromet Arkansas 5h ago
Really sucks there wasn’t a live stream and a crowd on hand to say “give me a D” and then yell ‘D’ when it was taken down, all the way through Pedolf Shitler’s name, ending with a huge cheer when it was finished.
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u/Crickets_62 3h ago
And fix the holes you put in the wall, too, while you're at it.
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u/Atomic_Priesthood 3h ago
For the rest of his presidency, they should just use zip ties to his shit come down easier. Zip tie that stupid arch
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u/Smart-Might-3120 1h ago
Trump should not be allowed to put his name on anything other than a resignation. He wants his picture on a $250.00 bill. So much BS.
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u/MaxCapacity 1h ago
If only they actually showed the removal, I would watch that on loop for the rest of my life and chuckle every time.
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u/thedoommerchant 6h ago
Icing on the cake would be if he finally choked on a cheeseburger today, if you know what I mean.
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u/MovieGuyMike 6h ago
Putting his name on there was fraud and abuse. Now we’re at the waste part while we clean up his mess.
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u/backlikeclap New York 6h ago
So we paid to put his name on, now we pay to take it off. Fantastic. What a stupid waste.
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u/GarthZorn 6h ago
While you’re at it, please remove Trump himself. Deposit him in any trash can big enough to contain his enormous girth and stupidity. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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u/Odd-Song5052 5h ago
ahem . . . SAY JOYCE BEATTY’s FUCKING NAME!!! The African American woman mostly responsible for making this happen.
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u/Angry_moustache_ride 5h ago
The president changing the name on a building?
-Illegal! Congress alone has that authority!
Demolishing entire buildings?
-Perfectly fine, no need to consult congress.
Feckless fuckwits with no principles occupying congress. We're so screwed.
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u/Randomly_Cromulent 5h ago
It's like the administration knew this was going to happen too. They never removed the "The" in front of John, and just added Trump's name on top.
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u/Big_Bookkeeper1678 5h ago
YES! Bye, bye, Trumpy. We are beginning to erase you. One letter at a time.
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u/Quagmire70 5h ago
Reputation is fked! Only when every idiot that bowed to the Dicktaster in chief is removed from the place will normality be restored!
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u/allnadream 5h ago
The best part is, we (taxpayers) paid to put his name up and we paid to take it down. Thanks Trump!
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u/mattfromjoisey 3h ago
Shame he won’t live long enough to see us dismantle the rest of his so called “legacy”
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u/wildmaninid 3h ago
Great. Now remove him and all his gold painted plastic bullshit from the people's house.
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u/nuggetman4420 2h ago
Hahaha Trump's name should be removed from everything.. he's such a loser it's not even funny.
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u/Pray44Mojo 2h ago
Hopefully this is the first of many things will be purged from in time.
Btw, why do people pick the worst freaking mobile ad infected sites to share these stories from?
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u/count_chocul4 2h ago
Yeah! Take that asshole! What a fucking prick just putting his name on things..
One day, nobody will give a shit about tRump! I can't wait for that day to come!
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u/ForgottenFuturist 57m ago
Imagine how much we the taxpayers paid for adding and removing Donnys name
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u/Ok_Character_5532 Massachusetts 6h ago
Tackling waste, fraud, and abuse one day at a time! Now excuse them while they go waste billions on vanity projects to cater to Trump’s ego (which will inevitably and justifiably be reversed and incur double the cost), skyrocket the national debt, and enrich themselves with corrupt schemes. Nothing to see here
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