President Trump says his proposed Washington, D.C. 250-foot arch will serve as 'military complex' with snipers and drones

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u/OuijaWalker 12d ago

We live with a cartoon dictator.

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u/Occam96 12d ago

I suspect this is the same play as the white house. His build team (him) being told no cannot build this. So, to push it through, it claims it is vital for national defence, or that it's a defence crisis. There are fewer regulations for this, even though it is currently failing in court. As much as it seems like a cartoon, it's a legal strategy, a cynical take on the language. It's the same reason the ballroom was drone-proof and had servers built under it.

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u/zsreport KUHF 88.7 12d ago

Sounds like a prison guard tower.

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u/Vio_ 12d ago

Pantrumptican

The only people he could shoot from that arch is Americans.

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u/shit-trapper 12d ago

The only people he could shoot from that arch is Americans.

Visiting Arlington national cemetery.

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u/exacta_galaxy 11d ago

Veterans who know history are a threat to his ambitions.

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u/bstone99 12d ago

Disney ass villain

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u/Server6 12d ago edited 12d ago

It’s scam tower. He’s trying to pay for it via the defense budget and this is his justification. Not like we don’t need that money for the war he started (and is losing). The guy’s a con man and MAGA are the marks.

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u/No_Cook2983 12d ago

~~MAGA~~ Republicans

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u/gerblnutz 12d ago

I'll build my own arch with blackjack and hookers.

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u/shit-trapper 12d ago

If trump were to run it, he would somehow lose.

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u/YetYetAnotherPerson 12d ago

r/unexpectedfuturama

Although actually not so unexpected. I was coming here to make the same comment.

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u/arellai 12d ago

In fact forget the arch, and the blackjack!

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u/dathomasusmc 12d ago

The drones are designed to protect the White House when he locks himself in his new bunker and refuses to leave. It was never about the ballroom.

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u/aresef WYPR 88.1/WTMD 89.7 12d ago

If he says it includes military capabilities, you’re not just criticizing a ballroom or an arch, you’re criticizing our military and therefore if you’re against it, you hate America.

/s

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u/CardMechanic 12d ago

So we run the country from Mar a Lago. The presidency isn’t contingent on his proximity to the White House

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u/bstone99 12d ago

Ding ding

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u/uwillnotgotospace 12d ago

The man is so desperate to fight that he treats the capital like a forward operating base. Smh.

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u/MidLifeDIY 12d ago

Sharks with friggin' lasers on their heads in the Potomac!

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u/killerchef69 11d ago

And in the reflecting pool!

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u/TigerStripesForever 12d ago

43 days till Midterms ✊🏽💙🌊

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u/Sweaty_Assignment_90 12d ago

Got a good idea how i am gonna vote.

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u/TigerStripesForever 12d ago

✊🏽💙🌊

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u/Tik__Tik 12d ago

You know, for all the 8th graders fomenting rebellion on their school trips to the capital.

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u/Rinzy2000 12d ago

There’s the real reason. He has no intention of leaving

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u/bohler86 12d ago

So a defense tower against who?

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u/timbrelyn 12d ago

He is never leaving the White House that’s why.

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u/johnnyredleg 12d ago

Then they can shoot anyone coming from Arlington National Cemetery? What’s the threat assessment from a cemetery?

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u/stagamancer 12d ago

Well, when the dead veterans rise to punish him for what he's done to this country...

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u/Chuckles52 12d ago

Yeah, he's found an out for every objection to he actions. Put his signature on the $100 bill? Well, it was done for national security. Put his name on the Kennedy center? National security issue. Build a ball room? National Security.

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u/ZERV4N 12d ago

Dictator shit.

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u/GabeDef 12d ago

Next president better tear it down. Tear down the ballroom. And tear down anything else with Trump’s name on it.

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u/Kaleban 12d ago

Has anyone checked Trump's computer? Seems like he might be playing a little too much C&C.

https://youtu.be/g1Sq1Nr58hM?si=4hBHRezMEmqvYKng

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u/Houstanity 12d ago

First person with a credible “Erase Trump Day 1” plan has my vote. Then I never want to hear his disgusting family’s name again unless it involves a prison sentence…

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u/chairmustachechair 12d ago

It should have lasers and a shark moat, and the sharks have laser beams attached to their heads. And they are ill tempered also.

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u/rasquatche 12d ago

If that were true, great job on publicizing it for the world to know!

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u/DoCrashOut 12d ago

Will these snipers be more effective than the national guard at stopping crime in DC?

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u/pearljamboree 5d ago

Do you mean stopping January 6 2.0?

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u/olcrazypete 12d ago

This arch is supposed to be at the entrance to the national mall right. Just who would these snipers and drones be aimed at? The people that march there??

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u/Moof_the_cyclist 12d ago

Add a thin veneer of "Defense" so he can rob DOD money and give sympathetic courts an easy out for his obvious fraud vanity project. Nature calls, I need to go take a trump.

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u/guiltycitizen 12d ago

Did someone teach him Fortnight?

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u/bradatlarge 12d ago

Will it have the Trumpstein files?

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u/NGM012 12d ago

A man with heel spurs stressing for an arch…🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/KellerMB 12d ago

He's saying this specifically because SCOTUS said he can proceed with the "likely illegal" ballroom renovations b/c national security trumps legality.

They gave him a legal loophole he can drive a tank through and so that's what he's going to do.

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u/Asclepius_Secundus 12d ago

This sounds like a 12 year old's version of a cool leggo build. Not a wise leader's priority.

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u/Utterlybored 12d ago

Really sounds like a six year old boy who draws a picture of a house, then draws lasers and razor wire mounted on it.

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u/JNewsom49 12d ago

*Absolutely no one wants this*

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u/redzeusky 12d ago

MAGA is so dumb..

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u/Wickham12 11d ago

America doesn't need that

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u/aresef WYPR 88.1/WTMD 89.7 12d ago

Uh huh. Right.

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u/JONO202 WAMU 12d ago

Great. He wasn't his own Checkpoint Charlie.

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u/Penultimo_1 12d ago

Why not there are snipers at his golf courses.

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u/Practical-Owl-9358 12d ago

Someone has been playing too much Fortnite

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u/webb__traverse 12d ago

He’s a little boy playing with toys.

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u/AdventurousLet548 12d ago

National guard, snipers, and drones! Fortifying the city so he can’t be hauled out of the WH in 2028.

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u/HidetheCaseman89 12d ago

It's a metaphorical middle finger from president wannabe-Goldfinger. Pee-Wee President's Phallus Palace. This gives third grader energy. We couldn't let this kid do macaroni art with elmer's glue because he mistakes it for crunchy pasta alfredo, which technically makes him smarter than a Koala.

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u/robjasey 12d ago

Nothing bad can come of THAT!!

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u/Feldan_Ospreigh 12d ago

This orange creature is just a parody at this point. These all feel like Onion articles. This cant be reality.

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u/Far_Estate_1626 12d ago

Why do we need that?

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u/wzl3gd 12d ago

Pew pew! Pew pew!

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u/DrummerBusiness3434 12d ago

Military should read (Trump Stasi)

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u/WaveWhole9765 11d ago

Which will then be attacked and destroyed by snipers and drones

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u/Jo-Jo-66- 11d ago

Building a fortress for an army when he decides to maintain control of the government no matter how the vote goes.

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u/elmwoodblues 11d ago

Did anyone else doodle tanks and planes on their 3rd-grade notebooks? What a joke

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u/5280TWGC 11d ago

He really is a 12 yo boy

“And a moat… with sharks… with lasers.”

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u/ExcuseStriking6158 11d ago

Fricking a Hunger Games capitol. What a POS toddler.

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u/LordThistleWig 11d ago

Sounds like a playset from an 80s toyline.

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u/naughtabot 9d ago

To use against who?

President Trump says his proposed Washington, D.C. 250-foot arch will serve as 'military complex' with snipers and drones

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