Did he forget about the arch at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn. You know, the one celebrating the Union Army victory over the traitorous scum of the CSA?
Then there is an Arch in Manhattan's Washington Square memorializing Washington's inauguration 100 years later.
He’s claiming it’s a nat sec issue, and it will be used to store munitions, I think?
Fuck him.
They won’t even need to pay to rip it all down. People will show up in droves to do it with their bare hands. Hell, they could turn it into a fundraiser. $100 to swing a sledge hammer.
Although it can be used as a trick question because arguably neither of them is actually buried, they are both in above-ground sarcophagi inside the monument that is Grant's Tomb.
To split some hairs: the sarcophagi are not “buried” in the sense of being encased in earth, you can walk around them, but they are below street level.
Oh, okay. Thata really cool. I've never been. I just remembered a report someone gave in school about Grant and tge fact his tomb had his wife and tgey were in sarcophagi.
It's also notorious as a trick question from the original Trivial Pursuit board game, as the obvious answer to the question "Who is buried in Grant's Tomb" would seem to be "President Grant" but that's incorrect.
He’s pulled 493 out this year. Can you believe it 493 some people are saying even 600 who knows they could even go to 1200 or maybe 60,000 it’s incredible.
I don't think I've ever heard him state a number that is accurate or relevant. Not once. Even to brag about his net worth, he would spit out wildly different figures every time.
He regularly displays that he doesn't understand how percentages work. I don't think the fundamental concept of numeracy ever clicked for him.
I think it's kind of like the cargo cults phenomenon, where Melanesian islanders would build air strips and wooden radios, mimicking their use to summon the planes.
To Trump, numbers are things you say when you're a business guy. He says numbers, and people tell him he's great at business and presidenting, and throw money at him, so he must be doing it right.
He may honestly think that that's how many countries are in the world. Or, conversely, he had absolutely no idea how many countries there are, and spat out a random number on the spot, because he knows his staff and supporters will go on to insist that there are indeed only 59 countries in thy world.
I'm sure Megyn Kelly will be explaining how that's the case in the next 24-48 hours...
"Well you see, there's 59 countries that [meet extremely specific criteria], so obviously those are the only ones worth comparing the USA to, and that's what the President was referring to. It's not his fault the Dumbocrats don't know about the 'Golden 59' he was *obviously* referring to."
This is fully what I expect. "There are 59 countries with a GDP over XXXX, and those are the ones he was referring to, because those are the only countries that matter - they're first world countries" or some dumb shit
I have a cousin that told me Megyn Kelly was her favorite news reporter because she “hates politics and is just providing facts in a relatable and understandable way.” I died a little bit inside.
Within 36 hours Megan Kelly will be screeching about how the deep state will claim there are more than 59 but anyone who says that should be investigated for terrorism and their hatred of America.
I googled how many countries have trumphial arches and Google says it's somewhere between 50 and 70, depending on definition for the arch.
My best guess is that's what he was trying to reference and messed it up because he's stupid like that, but I will not be at all surprised to find out he genuinely believes there's only 59 countries lol.
According to the table posted above, 35 countries have triumphal arches, so the 59 refers to countries without one.
His "only one country" I believe refers to being the only one with a egotistical shit-for-brains spoiled nepo baby paedophile as president, but he forgot the middle part of the sentence because he also has dementia.
trump proposed a 250-foot-tall triumphal arch—often nicknamed the "Arc de Trump" or Independence Arch—to be built in Washington, D.C., at Memorial Circle near the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery.
Most insulting, it's placement would block the view of Arlington National Cemetery, the cemetery where many of our troops are laid to rest.
Let's not forget St Louis is home to the Gateway Arch, so saying the country doesn't have an "arch" is both stupid and insulting to residents, regardless of whether he means a militaristic arch.
Also, please make sure that he doesn't find out the Gateway Arch is over 600 feet tall. He might get arch envy and decide that the one he want's to build should be 700 feet tall.
He's doing most this shit without the usual permissions, permits, oversight.. nada. We just wake up one morning and the East Wing of our White House was literally rubble. Woke up again to our preserved-by-law historical trees cut down. With the man doing everything against the laws, literally the only thing to stop him is his lifespan.
It would also affect flight paths of planes taking off and landing at DCA. They're also talking about making it some military complex with snipers nests, drones, and the necessary gear to support.
So a monument to a child rapist draft dodger would block the view of Arlington National Cemetery ? , I can’t see republicans having a problem with that
Also not an American. But is that cemetery close to important things?
As in other buildings like the government and such ( I know it's an important cemetery where he wants it built)?
I mean. What good would snipers nest be unless it's a t a location that covers where you'd expect people to attack or something?
Good point. That spot is useless for snipers. Trump falsely justifies many of his illegal projects by claiming that they are necessary due to national security. He did the same for the ballroom and fencing off Lafayette Square/park.
"wah wah wah let me build by stupid gold arch to myself and let me put drones in it and snipers on it to get anyone who says bad things about me because of you're only saying bad things about me that's not freedom of speech wah wah wah"
Trump has been pushing that the US needs an arch built and that the US doesn’t have one and how “his” arch will be great, however there is a very large and beloved arch already in St. Louis, Missouri called Gateway Arch that the commenter pointed out to him.
It’s another example of how out of touch Trump is with the American people and how he continues to glorify himself at the cost of the American people.
Translate for you: Trump knows nothing about America, from its constitution to its geography.
He is utterly free of education.
But he loves television, and it shows.
Fuck him and his half ass construction projects. His ass can’t even get a pool refinished correctly. How in the actual fuck is he going to build anything? So absolutely sick of this shit show. Again fuck him and fuck you if you voted for this moron.
Remember when we had a president who wasn't a complete moron and didn't embarrass us in front of the entire world?
Remember when you could go days - just living your life - and NOT have to think about what stupid, cringey, insensitive, selfish, racist, misogynist, divisive thing our president did or said?
Remember when the president focused on helping Americans and its allies instead of Russia?
In New Orleans, there's a WWI victory arch with the names of all the 9th ward veterans served during the Great war. They include "Colored" folks and first aid nurses as well. A small piece of history that sits in the middle of a New Orleans neighborhood behind a school. I'm not surprised he wouldn't know it exists but holy shit it's almost funny how wrong he is about everything, it's not even our only arch 😭.
There's a cost of living crisis happening in real time caused by a fuel crisis, the government is deficit spending just to keep the lights on, and there's a spiraling war in the middle east that he caused and this dipshit is talking about arches.
Triumphal arches around the world (documented minimums)
Country
Number of arches (at least)
Afghanistan
1
Algeria
4
Australia
1
Austria
1
Belgium
1
Canada
3
Chile
1
Croatia
1
France
15
The Gambia
1
Germany
2
Greece
2
Hungary
1
India
3
Iraq
1
Ireland
1
Italy
20
Jordan
1
Kazakhstan
1
Laos
1
Libya
2
Malta
2
Moldova
1
North Korea
1
North Macedonia
1
Portugal
4
Romania
1
Russia
3
South Korea
1
Spain
3
Syria
1
Tunisia
3
Turkey
2
United Kingdom
3
United States
3
Important: These are conservative documented minimums, not exhaustive national totals. The definition includes surviving Roman honorific/triumphal arches and later permanent commemorative arches. The worldwide total remains uncertain.
Where's the number coming from also? Like, even if we didn't have an arch, are there 59 other countries with arches and he's comparing us against them? Depending on who you ask, there's something like 178-207 countries.
Some campaign donating “contractor” will get a $100 million from some Trump-appointed “Secretary of kowtowing to POTUS every whim” department to build said arch. It will magically appear one day made of chicken-wire, paper-mache and gold spray paint and nobody will do or say shit about it until Trump is out of office. The dude who “built” it will never be investigated, much less charged. And it will at least be easy to tear down and be forgotten along with almost everything Trump ever touches.
I'm reminded of this scene from The Manchurian Candidate where the guy is trying to remember the amount of communists he should say in his speech. He wanted a number he could remember... so they gave him 57... for Heinz 57...
It's a safe bet that Donald doesn't even remember his presidential oath. It's also quite possible that he's a functional illiterate. So I'm not surprised he isn't aware of the Gateway Arch.
My best guess is that he’s talking about triumphal arches…but I still don’t know what that number is referencing (as I’m sure he doesn’t either).
Worse though is that the braindead crowd listening to him is probably cheering for yet another taxpayer-funded vanity project that’s totally useless and unnecessary. I swear he’s just trying to speed run monuments to himself before he’s out of office
There are arches all over the country. We probably have more than any other country in the world. If we're just talking Roman triumphal arches, you've got New York (the city he used to live in) has at least four, DC has two, Atlanta, New Orleans, and on and on. Hell, even Omaha has one. They are literally everywhere.
I'm reminded of this scene from The Manchurian Candidate where the guy is trying to remember the amount of communists he should say in his speech. He wanted a number he could remember... so they gave him 57... for Heinz 57...
We're the only country out of 59 without universal healthcare. The only one with over 700 military bases on foreign soil. The only one without guaranteed paternity leave.
Any day now time will take him but he's not willing to go on without scaring the face of history as much as possible before then. Sadly many want to help him
So he desperately needs to make the case why this administrations policies and decisions are worth of getting your vote and to map out the endgame to a war, energy crisis, inflation crisis, and the advent of AI and what that means for a nervous workforce.
And he chooses to pitch getting an arch built in DC?
I’ve said it before - he has the worst leadership qualities of anyone I’ve ever seen.
The inconsequential tripe one pisses & moans about when one doesn't know how to do one's actual job of being the steward of the United States Government.
In fairness to the expired Cheeto, it’s fairly obvious that he was referring to Triumphal arches, rather than just any example of an arch. The man is grandiose and moronic; you can’t expect him to remember the proper name for the gold-leaf monstrosity he wants to build.
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u/Last_Cod_998 2d ago
Did he forget about the arch at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn. You know, the one celebrating the Union Army victory over the traitorous scum of the CSA?
Then there is an Arch in Manhattan's Washington Square memorializing Washington's inauguration 100 years later.
He lived in NYC. He's losing it.