Originally Posted By BFskinner:


I will let the rest of the room judge if they believe the bolded part.

Originally Posted By Kilroytheknifesnob:
Sounds like something a 7 year old would come up with. Give it a week and there will be a golden robot that launches Patriot missiles incorporated into the design.

Originally Posted By Alpinist:
This sounds like it was written by a child or someone with a learning disability

Originally Posted By PhuzzyGnu:
https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/69748/10665_jpg-3830299.JPG

It's tacky and unnecessary.  There's a reason is hasn't been built since the 1800s.

Originally Posted By kpacman:


If this were any other president, Congress would be convening and exploring ways to oust this clearly not well President.

Snipers on the Arch? Who will they be sniping, all those liberals commuting in from Virginia????

Trump is clearly not mentally well, and with all that's going on in the world, I can't believe he is spending his time on this crap. What a buffoon.

Is Trump planning on presenting Xi coloring books and draw explody things around Taiwan?

I wish a camera crew could follow Trump for an entire day. I suspect many of us would be alarmed at what we would see.

Originally Posted By Glock031:
Nutjob left wing communist paid agitators.

About to get their asses handed to them in the midterms.

Originally Posted By 15fanatic:


I hope congress drags hegseth in and ask him if the military actually asked for a sniper tower there lmao. unless you're planning for a zombie apocalypse where the dead rise out of their grave, why exactly does the 'military' need a sniper tower there? and i thought the ball room was going to be the 'drone base' hegseth must've cringed when he saw that tweet.

This is just a dumb, childish loophole to get funding for a vanity project because trump is convinced people are going to be worshipping him for thousands of years.

Originally Posted By country_boy87:
And yet I remember when the other side wanted to force the jab on me, shutdown fracking, cancel the pipeline, and ah oh yes lbj threw my grand dad under the bus back in the day. Yes he actually did in 1967.
Fuck the democrats.

Originally Posted By RLR350:
Memorial Circle is not a part of Arlington National Cemetery.  There are three primary roads between the entrance to ANC and the circle.

Memorial Circle is located in the area commonly called the National Mall and Memorial Parks, which is managed by the National Parks Service.  It is not technically on the National Mall or in DC.  It is in Virginia, just like ANC.

There are over 100 monuments, memorials, statues and historic sites in the surrounding area.

Memorial Circle is neither hallowed or sacred ground.  It is a traffic circle.

Memorial Circle has had plans for some type of monument since 1925, shortly after the Lincoln Memorial was finished.  The original plan was for two 166’ columns, one representing the North and one representing the South, that would frame the view of the Lincoln Memorial. This symbolized the reunification of the country after the Civil  War. The “framed view” of the columns and the Lincoln Memorial would be from Arlington House.

I think it is reasonable to disagree with the particular structure or design, but arguing a monument should not be there and creating false reasons like it being in ANC, it is hallowed ground or there shouldn’t be monuments in the area is disingenuous.

As someone that visits the area quite frequently and enjoys learning about the symbolism designed into the Mall and the individual memorials, I would rather see the original columns built.  I don’t oppose Independence Arch, but maybe it is not right for that area. However, that doesn’t mean it should remain an empty space void of any important memorial.

Originally Posted By thesquidliest:
(Sigh) We don't need to copy the faggy frogs by building a stupid arch.

Originally Posted By Bigger_Hammer:


A very reasoned & rational post.  

Thank You for your positive contribution to this thread.

It is not unfitting for a Memorial to be built in Memorial Circle.

But perhaps something less gaudy (and lacking weaponry to be used against Americans) would be a more 'unifying' symbol.

Bigger_Hammer

Originally Posted By mousehunter:
Honestly, I already assumed a lot of taller federal buildings already had missile launchers on them.  Drone base and sniper hides seems like a downgrade.

Originally Posted By ceetee:

Please let the golden robot also transform into a giant 747 with the presidential seal on the side  and as many rocket pods under the wings as will fit...

Originally Posted By Bigger_Hammer:


Against whom do you believe a sniper  on top of "Trump Arch" would be effective?  

Hitting Communist Cuban leadership or the Iranian Ayatollah from a shot fired with a rifle from the top of the "Arch De' Trump" would certainly quality in the record books as "Worlds Longest Sniper Shot".

But using logic - based on weapon range. It would seem highly likely that someone(s) in D.C. would be the likely intended target(s) of short range weapons.  The population in D.C. is very heavily US Citizens.  

Protection (A.A. missiles & security teams & snipers) are already at locations such as the Whitehouse, Congress & Pentagon due to key people & function of Government.

What is the "key function" of Goverment ... for the "Arch De' Trump"?

If Trump wants to build defensive towers that the Military feels necessary for the protection of D.C. then feel free to say & do so, ...

...  but don't keep pissing down everyone's backs and tell us it is raining (that this boondoggle will be now become a "national defense military asset" just to try to skip his own Congress.)

Bigger_Hammer

Originally Posted By Manduck:
I would rather see my $ go towards something championing America instead of funding LBGTQRXWZ studies on future Mars colinies.

Originally Posted By RLR350:

None of that is worth a legitimate response.