'Maybe we'll never take it down': Trump compares White House UFC arena to Eiffel Tower, says it could be permanent
https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-compares-white-house-ufc-arena-eiffel-tower/story?id=133553060
https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-compares-white-house-ufc-arena-eiffel-tower/story?id=133553060
105 Comments
Sequentialsilence@lemmy.world · 205 pts · 63d
I work in events. That is a very temporary structure. The frame is aluminum trussing, and although it would hold up fairly well, all of the fabric will start bleaching within 3-4 weeks, the metal chains holding everything up will start rusting pretty quickly being exposed to the elements. The lights themselves aren’t IP rated and are relying on the fabric for protection so those will fail pretty quickly. Finally the stage itself has a wood underlayment that will rot within a single season if left outside.
Lastly it’s all rented and the rental company will continue to charge the client until it’s returned.
Lydia_K@lemmy.world · 178 pts · 63d
The ideal Trump monument.
fake_meows@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 62d
Never forget.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 48 pts · 62d
It'll be like a toilet in the front yard and he plants flowers in it. White trash is his style.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 62d
Ah, but the toilet is gold!
fartographer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 62d
And the flowers are potted in night soil
fake_meows@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 62d
And they are fake flowers.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social · 47 pts · 62d
Can't wait to find out that this somehow cost us taxpayers like a hundred million dollars.
Asafum@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 62d
And the rental company is DefinitelyNotTrumpJr LLC.
YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca · 37 pts · 62d
They’re expecting trump to pay the rental fee? How quaint.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 62d
It's not Donald paying. It's those of us who actually pay taxes.
bus_factor@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 62d
You just know Trump will try to screw them and pocket the money instead.
Cethin@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 62d
Knowing Trump, this is run by some friend, family, or donor. Him paying with tax money is pocketing it. That's how you make public wealth private.
herrvogel@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 63d
I bet the last point is one of the major reasons why Trump would want it to stay. Guy seems to have a weird fetish for not paying what he owes.
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 17 pts · 62d
Probably a power trip, one of the few he gets away with. "Smart men don't pay taxes or bills!"
Furbag@pawb.social · 8 pts · 62d
That's just another line item for the American taxpayer. Hardly Trump's problem.
Tja@programming.dev · 3 pts · 62d
Or he just won't pay. That's not a problem for him.
PacMan@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 62d
It’s like the parked car on cinder blocks in someone’s yard.Eventually the grass will grow tall enough that you won’t see it
Typotyper@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 62d
Funny story about temporary rental equipment.
My old company, big (as in billions $$) defence control actor. They refused to buy permanent sites, instead they would lease or rent buildings or structures. Sea cans counted as structures. They rented 3 sea cans for 15 years. Spent almost 100k each over that period. Never once did they accept the financial argument that one years lease would almost buy a sea can outright.
Starik@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 62d
Probably the only consideration is what is cheapest for the current quarter.
Auli@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 62d
They don't want it on their books. Renting looks better.
hateisreality@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 62d
How to spending 15 times as much money look better for a business
Jhex@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 62d
yes, but do you really think the orange pedo rapist would know about … (check notes) … anything?
Iusedtobeanalien@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 62d
When he claims to know about everything it's just a cover for his lack of knowledge about anything
He's suxh a cringeworthy moron
dave@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 62d
I’m curious—can you tell the lighting isn’t rated from these images, or just because of the number / cost?
Also curious about the chains—does that means they can’t be reused for long if they’ve been outdoors? I assume there’s plenty of regulation around that kind of thing.
Sequentialsilence@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 62d
I saw some other pictures of it being assembled and the lights were wrapped until the fabric was on. It’s also relatively rare for moving heads to be IP rated because they move, and in order to maintain IP rating on something that moves it requires significantly more maintenance and with that, higher cost. The lights that are on the outside are IP rated for instance, as they didn’t have the fabric to protect them. But from prior experience that means those lights cost about 3 times as much to rent.
The chains are protected by a coating of oil, the oil is in a reservoir inside the motor so if the chains aren’t getting ran on a regular basis they aren’t getting a fresh coat of oil. As soon as any sort of weathering happens, the chains become exposed and will start rusting. You can get stainless steel chains that won’t rust, but the price on those is so astronomical, that it’s special order only, and only used for permanent installs. The only way this has stainless steel chains is if it was designed as a permanent install from the beginning.
mech@feddit.org · 4 pts · 62d
Let's hope it outlasts Trump
azimir@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 62d
Is it the US version of the Liz Truss head of lettuce?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Truss_lettuce
reddit_sux@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 62d
Just like America
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 63 pts · 63d
I'm calling it now. Some attack will happen at these events. Trump will play the role of "oh no, I've been shot..." and then 2 hours later will brag that he's the healthiest guy the doctors ever saw.
Anybody ever see the movie Groundhog Day?
........no reason.
Dragomus@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 63d
It is quite on the nose that they plan/hope to execute another "attack" at one of his events, be it the birthday bash or the 250 celebration.
There is no other solid reason to have these events outdoors.
They need to keep the pressure on his safety so they get to build more surveillance bunkers etc. and another miraculous recovery comes in handy to whip his followers into more of a righteous frenzy.
All to keep him locked in for a 3rd term.
Perhaps he'll lose a toe this time? Shot in the butt?
lectricleopard@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 63d
Trump actually cant book indoor event spaces anymore. They've stuffed so many for his campaigns, they aren't interested in getting stiffed again. Thats how the butler pa event ended up outside.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 4 pts · 62d
Sooner or later one of these fake assassins is going to accidentally hit him.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 62d
Went to an MMA tournament and a fight broke out
Nindelofocho@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 62d
Was it in the arena? I think thats supposed to happen. /s
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 63d
prenatal_confusion@feddit.org · 61 pts · 62d
Please note that this is the guy that hates the sight of wind turbines out in the distance. They ugly.
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 62d
Wind turbines look freaking bad ass!
prenatal_confusion@feddit.org · 11 pts · 62d
I absolutely agree
x00z@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 62d
There's a lot of wind turbines where I live and driving past them feels extremely blissful. Just looking at them gives me hope.
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 62d
And unlike him, wind turbines serve a useful purpose
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 62d
Even Don Quixote had a better reason for hating windmills.
Nindelofocho@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 62d
moondoggie@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 62d
WHO THE FUCK TOLD HIM ABOUT THE EIFFEL TOWER?
smeenz@lemmy.nz · 30 pts · 62d
Just what I was thinking. There's no way orange hitler knew that it was originally a temporary structure that became permanent.
MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 62d
I swear there was a popular meme template years ago of him typing on his phone, and another panel of a search browser saying "what does a president do?". Can't find it now. But I imagine that template with a wiki page or the tower
bcgm3@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 62d
"I wanted a tower, so I built one. France has a tower, and it's so bad, they call it The Awful Tower. My tower won't be awful, it'll be the best. It'll be so great that people will fight over it. And on it. Anyway, I gotta go take a shit."
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 62d
The one in Las Vegas
Eternal192@anarchist.nexus · 35 pts · 62d
There is nothing Trump has done that should be permanent.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 12 pts · 62d
He better permanently stay dead once he dies. When I would wish for the world to be more like a disney movie as a kid, I didn't mean Star Wars. I don't want to see headlines saying "Somehow, Trump has returned."
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 3 pts · 62d
Is it illegal to kill someone who's already legally dead?
Asking for a friend...
Eternal192@anarchist.nexus · 1 pts · 60d
He really is Palpatine isn't he, i guess Lucas needed to base the character on someone.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 62d
Except his prison time and number
Eternal192@anarchist.nexus · 1 pts · 60d
Even that shouldn't be permanent, gives the bastard too much time to worm his way out of it
stumu415@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 62d
Actually the realization around the world, especially in Europe, that the US is not a trustworthy ally, should be permanent.
TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz · 31 pts · 62d
It's probably been mentioned many times already, but here it goes anyway:
"If you put a clown onto the throne, the clown will not turn into a king. The palace will turn into a circus."
amniote@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 62d
Wrong. Look at Ukrain's Zelenski : TV show comedian. Now the stature of Churchill.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 62d
He did appoint his TV Producer business partner as head of the intelligence service, who then missed the Russian invasion.
Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 62d
Started
now we here
stretch2m@infosec.pub · 26 pts · 62d
Oh please let him live long enough to watch us tear all his tacky shit to the ground!
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 62d
as cathartic as that sounds, he doesn't care.
the only thing that he cares about is himself. the best punishment for him would be to be locked in a room with read only Internet to watch the world move on and him die not being able to be the center of attention.
the best way to win a game against a narcissist is to play a different game with impossible to follow rules for them.
smeenz@lemmy.nz · 6 pts · 62d
Give him a twitter account but have a script change whatever he types into BLAH BLAH BLAH
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 62d
Stick him into a mental hospital and make him play cooperative board games with the other inmates until he understands the concept.
He'll die first.
Toz@fedia.io · 6 pts · 62d
Bring back damnatio memoriae (probably spelled wrong)
smeenz@lemmy.nz · 14 pts · 62d
I want to see them light the det cord that demolishes mar a lago
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 62d
With Trump in it... Right?
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 62d
No, too fast and painless. Not that it'd be painless, just not painful enough for him.
smeenz@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 62d
Ideally, yes.
reddit_sux@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 62d
If you want to treat something down, treat the Golden Dick monument in Florida, the giant T on every Trump tower.
Zephorah@discuss.online · 23 pts · 62d
This whole term in the White House feels like the worst Airbnb trashing story and then some.
And, like a UFC event venue, will likely require fire hoses to wash out a good portion of the trash and stank.
Dantpool@kbin.melroy.org · 22 pts · 62d
Slaps top of arena This thing can hold so many guillotines
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 62d
Literally Idiocracy.
Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 62d
We blew past that shit, long ago!
Decq@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 62d
Name me one person in the world less tasteful than trump. Go on, I'll wait.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · -3 pts · 62d
Weird Al?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq7Eki5EZ8o
spacesatan@lazysoci.al · 20 pts · 62d
Honestly I think this is great. Some tacky bloodsport arena is a refreshingly honest reflection of the true national character of this country.
Much more fitting than the weird civil religion stuff going on in the rest of the national mall. This country does not deserve dignity until it stops being a global force for evil.
ViceroTempus@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 62d
Was mad, but yeah, honestly true. It's like when he renamed the Department of Defense back to the Department of War. A far more accurate reflection.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 62d
Not surprising - Bonespurs thinks he's permanent too.
corbindallas@fedinsfw.app · 16 pts · 63d
only talk about this. FUCK
STOP FALLING FOR IT
FOCUS ON NAZI ISSUES
PLURAL
ISSUES
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 62d
Everything is a distraction from everything else
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 62d
Is the Nazi shit a distraction from the pedo shit? Or vice-versa? ¿O por que no los dos?
bampop@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 62d
I can see the logic. Build a colosseum and stage gladiatorial contests, distract the masses and get made emperor for life. But what a pathetic attempt at a colosseum this is.
Stern@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 62d
NO BREAD. ONLY CIRCUS.
ThanksObama@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 62d
No room for chariot races, fierce wild animals, or simulated naval battles. Pathetic indeed.
YerLam@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 62d
AI will fix it! It will be all computer!
Tja@programming.dev · 2 pts · 62d
Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen.
jenings@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 62d
This comment right here is what his cult will suck the shit from his asshole for. He loves to troll libs so goddamn much and his unwavering fan base will let him literally rape children for it
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 12 pts · 63d
Jesus is just a name to them. Any chance of them actually following things taught is long gone. Jesus, like Trump, is a tool they use. Nothing more.
Sabin10@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 62d
Belief is salvation. That's American Christianity. The rest of it doesn't matter.
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space · 11 pts · 62d
Relevant quote from Carl Sagan's "The Demon-Haunted World":
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 62d
Make it into a trailer park.
FE80@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 62d
Trump really puts out high quality, world class, dumb. Multi layered, hints of farce; I really feel like I'm becoming a sommelier of sorts.
Iusedtobeanalien@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 62d
I hope the rain absolutely hammers down
Ibuthyr@feddit.org · 6 pts · 62d
Lol, president Komancho
Auli@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 62d
Not even close. Komancho was a very good president.
Bahnd@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 62d
Correct, he hired the most qualified people and listened to them (eventually). Much less can be said about darth cheeto.
Ibuthyr@feddit.org · 1 pts · 59d
Well, I meant the whole being crushed by a monster truck part. That's eerily similar, vibe-wise.
Other than that, Komancho is a way better, and smarter president.
amniote@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 62d
The 2014 invasion? Nah bro, nobody missed that over there.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 62d
What's his cut of the Brawndo sales?
NickwithaC@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 62d
It'll come down next week then.
TACO
testaccount789@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 62d
I think Trump's imagining himself like this:
grue@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 62d
Man, I wish he had that much self-awareness of his lack of faculties!
smeenz@lemmy.nz · 3 pts · 62d
It's a picture from idiocracy of President Camacho sitting in his office.
But as has been pointed out many times, Camacho surrounded himself with the smartest people around, not with sycophants like little donnie two-scoops does.
joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 62d
Ya keep it around, maybe we can see if he wants to wrestle a grizzly bear sometime.
Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 62d
Trump is showing why Flordia needs to be cut off. Next month, we are adding plastic flamingos and a 2005 Dodge Ram with 3 rims, on blocks.
switcheroo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 62d
The whole WH needs to be bulldozed now. You are never getting the stench out.