Building a triumphal arch overlooking Arlington Cemetery is not enough of an abomination. Our President has not surprisingly found a way to make it worse.
Snipers??? It will house snipers????
Drones?????
Ammunition stockpiles???
What the Hell has prompted him to turn his arch celebrating military triumphs into a mini-fortress or, as he has put it, “a top grade Military Complex.”
He says it’s being done as a matter of national security (which is his excuse for a lot of stuff, isn’t it?) and after a “strong request” from the military. Could we know who in the military made this strong request?
Will he have ICE snipers up there picking off suspected illegal immigrants as they cross the Arlington Memorial Bridge? Will drones launched from his arch blend harmoniously into the routes of airliners on their final landing approach to Reagan International Airport?
We wonder when his demented mind will realize the arch would be a good checkpoint to make sure only American citizens of at least three generations are allowed in or out of Washington. Additionally, officers could block anyone crossing the bridge into the city if there are signs in the back seat or trunk protesting his ongoing fevered dream of defiling the Kennedy Center by putting his name on it. That number might even be much larger these days than the number of dead legal or illegal immigrants.
If it also is to serve as Fortress Trump, perhaps it would be better located at Outpost Hegseth, the Pentagon, and where appropriately the new Hegseth Boulevard could pass through it.
The National Park Service, which one might suspect in normal times would object strongly to this idiocy, instead is equivocating. It says the arch would affect several historic sites near Arlington National Cemetery including the cemetery’s historic district, the Washington and Lincoln monuments, the Jefferson Memorial the Capitol Mall, and others.
But NPS says it’s okay to go ahead with the arch as long as there are “mitigations,” such as an archaeological investigation before any digging is done. vibration monitoring near the bridge, and a plan so that funerals and wreath-laying ceremonies will not be disrupted—and some new interpretive web pages would help, including one that discusses “the history and significance of triumphal arches.”
We heard last week the digging had started. Forget any archaeological investigations.
There goes the idea of putting it at Outpost Hegseth.
The arch is to have three golden statutes on top of it. A big statue of Lady Liberty will be flanked by two gold eagles that are to represent national pride and strength.
At least the big statue is not of himself.
I really hope these entries are never read to him by anybody. I hate to think I would give him the idea.
The urge to suggest the eagles be replaced by Loons is something I am repressing.
Oops.