Trump says ‘nobody will’ build monuments for him once he’s gone

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/04/politics/trump-monuments-ballroom-arch

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kukukese@lemmy.world · 305 pts · 1d (19 replies)

Sounds like a big indicator that he probably shouldn’t have monuments

one_old_coder@piefed.social · 144 pts · 1d (17 replies)

But he is right for the first time in his life, that's an achievement.

dhork@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 1d (6 replies)

A broken clock is right twice a day

boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 23 pts · 1d (2 replies)

Only a stopped clock is guaranteed to be right twice a day. A clock could run just a little bit slow or fast and it'll rarely be right.

TaterTot@piefed.social · 13 pts · 1d (1 reply)

Could just be so fucked that the hands are completely gone too.

richardwonka@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 1d

Even if they’re really tiny?

SillyMe@piefed.social · 11 pts · 1d

doesn't make it useful

CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social · 6 pts · 1d

Not the one in my car. It slowed about 1 minute per 2 months.

I stopped changing it for daylight savings to see how far off it would get, driven rarely as it was, and the answer is that it seems to be internally maintained even when the car is off because even months I didn't drive contributed to the lag.

AmyAye@nord.pub · 3 pts · 1d

Not if its a digital clock.

karaiman@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 1d (5 replies)

he's so narcissistic that he'll just make one for himself. just to prove himself wrong. right after he kissess Neteynahoo on the lips once again.

OwOarchist@pawb.social · 8 pts · 1d (4 replies)

And then we'll tear it down as soon as he's out of office.

karaiman@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d

he can have his monument of cocksucker for Israel. he owned it hard. cocksucking all day.. speedrunning it.

PapaStevesy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 21h (2 replies)

Why wait that long?

OwOarchist@pawb.social · 1 pts · 13h (1 reply)

Cops.

PapaStevesy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 10h

They'll still be there once he's gone.

kukukese@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d

Haha

ElChinchilla@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d (1 reply)

Should memorialize it with a statue.

Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1d

A golden turd on a tin plate is as close as I'd be willing to put up in his memory.

violetmirage26@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 1d

Agree, this will be the first thing he’s right about.

karaiman@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d

monument of monumental shtupidity .. that would be worth it.

monument of cocksucker of Israel.

imsure@lemmy.world · 127 pts · 1d (6 replies)

that's actually unexpected awareness of reality

treadful@lemmy.zip · 35 pts · 1d (2 replies)

I honestly didn't think he was at all self-aware.

lemmyng@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 1d (1 reply)

He's not. He's doing it because he thinks nobody will literally build monuments to him. Not because they think he's an asshole, but because he thinks no one BUT HIM will be able to do it.

He's a narcissist through and through. Taking things into his own hands because it's the only way he'll maintain power and control.

a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 19h

Yup. He doesn't believe others will but is rather firm in his convictions that he is deserving.

andallthat@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1d (1 reply)

I don't know, but my 2 yaers old does this too: "you NEVER let me have chocolate!"

So in my head I see Trump also saying "NOBODY will ever build me a monument" while pouting, crossing his arms and wiggling his shoulders back and forth for emphasis.

schmups@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1d

Your kid shimmies for chocolate and you still don't succumb?

teawrecks@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 19h

My partner is a clinical psychologist. She says this is one of those lines that gives away a patient's narcissistic personality disorder diagnosis. Because a narcissist never feels about themselves how they need others to feel about them.

blastosist@lemmy.zip · 94 pts · 1d (1 reply)

I build one for him after my first cup of coffee and before I go to work, every day.

richardwonka@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 1d

Thank you for your service 😄

usernameofthisaccount@piefed.social · 73 pts · 1d (5 replies)

Yeah, but there will be fireworks and celebration when the end comes.

human@slrpnk.net · 28 pts · 1d (2 replies)

I definitely won't be building any monuments. Effigies maybe.

burido@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d (1 reply)

The only monument I'll be building is his coffin, taking a crap in it and putting it on my lawn.

human@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 1d

I can see a market for some headstone themed urinal cakes to encourage better aim.

Vandals_handle@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d

I will need a flagpole extender to fly at double staff instead of half staff.

hash@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 1d

Pots and pans. When it's for sure I'll be banging pots and pans as loud as I can regardless what time it is.

Lydon_Feen@lemmy.world · 58 pts · 1d (5 replies)

Not only nobody will build monuments for him, I genuinely hope the Dems have the balls to tear down every stupid little shit he did. And seizing Trump tower and turning it into rent controlled housing would be the cherry on top. Also, turn Mar-a-Lago into a public park and name it Biden Park

VeryVito@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 1d (2 replies)

E. Jean Carol Park, to keep it non-political.

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 1d

That’s genuinely way better.

Frankly, Biden should not be memorialized either. He and the idiot fucking brain trust that is the DNC/DCCC were the ones who gave away the Republic to these kleptocratic fascists. My fury at him and Harris and the rest of the party establishment that enabled the second orange regime to win a second stint is, shall we say, not small. They did like, what, 20-30% of things reasonably well, and then just didn’t fucking pay attention to anyone but their fucking consultants for everything else, and that entire class of MBA fuckwits is famously sycophantic and Duning-Kruger-esque.

Lydon_Feen@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d

Beautiful

DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1d

I'd like to see him live just long enough to watch everything he did get undone.

Sadly, I don't I'll even live that long.,

lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d

Any of his properties should be seized, any of those named after him should be get rid of and renamed.

Including this building.

TheGiantKorean@lemmy.today · 45 pts · 1d (1 reply)

But but oh my fuck there will be parties

Zaktor@sopuli.xyz · 14 pts · 1d

Do effigies count as monuments?

brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 36 pts · 1d (8 replies)

I say we built mommets of him every year after his death and burn them as a reminder to never let a shitty fuck like him ever rise again.

Buffalox@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1d (3 replies)

I'm 100% with you, problem is that in 4-8 years after Trump is gone, and with a Democrat as President, half the American population will have forgotten. Just like they did after Bush, and just like they did after 4 years of Trump's first term.

It's like half the American population is insane and never learn!?

Archer@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d

You can just say Republicans

UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 20h (1 reply)

When you artificially restrict your options in the voting booth (big shout out to First-past-the-post voting), solutions are few and far between.

Elections become who can be the 2nd worst, not the best. That's why the democrats wanted Trump to be free to run again. I am sure democrats couldnt stop thinking about how bad they could be and still force people to vote for them if they could run against Trump again.

Buffalox@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 18h

It is true that FPTP is contrary to a well functioning democracy, but in USA it has become down to an insane option of intolerance and recklessness that since Trump was elected the first time has decidedly turned to fascism, against the less insane option.
But it is not only FPTP, it is also the whole concept of a President with extreme powers for a democracy.
A president like in USA will always boil down to 1 man, ultimately making it a binary option, and that man has way more power than any single person should have in a democracy.

There is absolutely no 2nd worst about Republicans. There is no way you can reasonably argue the Democrats are worse than the Republicans.
Republicans are the result of a feedback loop on insane rhetoric where psychopathy is interpreted as a symbol of freedom. And a government and media normalizing that psychopathic mindset.

In many cases that side of politics and media have completely lost contact with reality. That is textbook insane!

USSEthernet@piefed.social · 3 pts · 1d (2 replies)

That's a waste of money, just throw yearly parties like new years

brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1d (1 reply)

I just like fire. Everything is better with fire.

watson387@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 1d

Especially red hats.

watson387@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1d

I'd love to see a red hat bonfire.

dermanus@lemmy.ca · 29 pts · 1d (2 replies)

That's more perceptive than I'd give him credit for.

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 1d (1 reply)

There should be a monument to Trump. USA needs a constant reminder of the danger of populists and Fascists. I suggest a huge public toilet.

777Prawn@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 23h

Ask around salt the civil war statues.

Tango@piefed.ca · 27 pts · 1d (9 replies)

The sad thing is that that's probably not true.

takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 20h

Def China, Russia I think Iran probably too.

melsaskca@lemmy.ca · -6 pts · 1d (7 replies)

That makes me happy, not sad.

ddplf@szmer.info · 6 pts · 1d (6 replies)

Are you sure about that?

melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1d (5 replies)

Of course I'm sure. Unless I misunderstood the question.

weariedfae@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1d (1 reply)

So you're saying you hope people build monuments to the Cheeto when he's gone? Your post history suggests otherwise.

melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2h

We should help the population, not worship trump.

monotremata@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 11h (1 reply)

Tango was saying that it's sad that people probably will, in fact, build monuments to trump after he's gone. You said that makes you happy rather than sad. ddplf was asking if you meant what that sounded like, i.e., that you were happy some people would still be sincerely celebrating trump after his death.

melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2h

Misunderstood the question or sentence structure. I mostly skim. To reiterate, trump bad There should be no glorifying of the degenerate pervert.

tetris11@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 1d

I'm not not unsure of anything in the present past

WesternInfidels@feddit.online · 26 pts · 1d (4 replies)

A generation after the Civil War, the Daughters of the Confederacy blanketed the country, and especially the South, with monuments to the traitors who fought and died for slavery.

Yes, I expect we'll find both the money and the will to build monuments to this abrasive corrupt man, this shrill soulless void of ego and need, this vile abuser of women and children, this screeching embodiment of our worst qualities.

Duamerthrax@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1d

If they do, I hope it's the same caliber as other confederate monuments.

notabot@piefed.social · 8 pts · 1d (1 reply)

I've heard that sometimes monuments are a bit like flock cameras, and they just fall over for no obvious reason. It's a real shame, but there you go.

SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 1d

Trump tippin’?

GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d

Need to treat all Trump/MAGA memorabilia like Germans treat Nazi memorabilia- completely outlawed, with stiff penalties for possession.

Murse@slrpnk.net · 25 pts · 1d (4 replies)

...do piñatas count?

Treczoks@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d (3 replies)

You can already build now! No need to wait until the creep to croak.

cammoblammo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d (2 replies)

You mean the Mussolini approach?

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 21h

Yeah, a nice gas station mobile that can also be a pinata.

Treczoks@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 19h

Any usable hooks at the White House or the Washington Monument to hang him upside down?

human@slrpnk.net · 25 pts · 1d (22 replies)

“The one thing they can’t tear down will be the East Wing. That is his lasting impact. That’s why he cares so deeply: legacy sh*t,” the source said.

Yeah, because this asshole already did it.

dhork@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d (19 replies)

If tearing down that ballroom is the very first thing President Newsom does, I'll be overjoyed.

FerretyFever0@fedia.io · 23 pts · 1d (3 replies)

If President Newsom becomes a real thing, I will end my life.

dhork@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1d (1 reply)

Please dont let any neoliberal have that much power over you.

IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 1d

You shouldn't let any politician have that kind of power over you.

You could put literally any of the worst people in history in charge, and I won't be killing myself. I may not survive, but it won't be me killing myself.

ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world · 2 pts · 1d

Please don't harm yourself

SnoopSqueak@lemmy.today · 17 pts · 1d (8 replies)

I don't want president Newsom. I want food and healthcare for all. I want taxes for billionaires. I want sustainable energy, not more fucking oil.

Newsom is a corporate shill. He will make things worse for the people of the United States just like he makes things worse for the people of California.

takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 20h (1 reply)

He isn't perfect, but I wouldn't say he makes things worse for us, Californians.

But if we get out from this we need another FDR not another corporate Democrat.

dhork@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 1d (5 replies)

I don't want him either, but we may have to vote for him anyway. He's the Next One Up

SnoopSqueak@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 1d (4 replies)

we may have to vote for him anyway.

Speak for yourself.

He's the Next One Up

It's not a foregone conclusion. Fight a little harder for your life, please, you're taking us down with you.

dhork@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1d (3 replies)

They're going to guarantee Gavin just like they always do: run a bunch of other candidates who are going to pretend to want the job, only to throw it and all endorse the Next One Up at the last possible moment before Super Tuesday. (I call that "pulling a Klobuchar").

I hope I'm wrong. But I've seen a few of these now. That's how I think it will all go down.

CardboardDecoy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d

It's the pre-pre-pre-defeatism here that's the problem. Please go outside.

SnoopSqueak@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 1d (1 reply)

Honestly, you may be right. But treating it like a certainty only makes it easier for them. We should be highlighting better alternatives.

Harris, Newsom, Shapiro are out for me, they're pro-Israel. Ossof has accepted contributions from Israel. Pritzker was an AIPAC board member.

It is very difficult to find candidates without ties to Israel: https://www.trackaipac.com/2028

AOC would be my pick if she runs. Khanna would be my second choice.

dhork@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d

Go ahead and make your list by whatever metric you want. Use the Primary as your platform. But don't be one of those people who disengages if someone who doesn't meet your standards gets nominated.

If those other folks are too pro-Israel for you in the Primary, that's fine. But if it goes to the General, and it's Newsom or Shapiro or Ossoff vs. Some MAGA loser, don't use it as an excuse to sit out. Because if a bunch of people who found excuses to not vote for Harris has shown up instead in the right zip codes, and Harris was President right now, everyone would be much better off, including the folks in Gaza.

Sometimes, there are just no good choices, but not choosing is worse.

zbyte64@awful.systems · 10 pts · 1d

I would be willing to bet my house that he would never do it. Once trump is out the establishment dems will trip over themselves (and dead kids in Gaza) to restore decorum

NuanceDemon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 1d (2 replies)

Misspelled Ocasio-Cortez.

bufalo1973@piefed.social · 5 pts · 1d (1 reply)

Ocasio-Cortez.

NuanceDemon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 1d

Thanks, I misspelled Ocasio-Cortez.

originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com · 7 pts · 1d

the White House East Wing Restoration Project, headed to a presidential race near you!

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d

Yep. Imagine how many corks will be popping if/when that happens. :)

Even better will be watching the people who at that point will probably be pretending they didn't vote for donnie and never really liked the guy trying not to say anything. :)

imminent_nebula@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1d (1 reply)

I'd imagine that will be the first thing to be torn down if the US ever gets their govt back. There's no way of knowing how many listening devices/spyware has been built into that thing.

SnoopSqueak@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 12h

"Ballroom and military base."

Like... What the fuck.

Part of me genuinely thinks it's some kind of phallic metaphor.

GolfFoxtrotLima@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 21h (3 replies)

Good, tear down the monuments already built for him when he dies

ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 20h (2 replies)

We should tear them down now and make him watch.

AbidanYre@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 19h (1 reply)

He should have to pay to restore everything he's destroyed.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 10h

His entire family should. Up to and including Barron's kids if he ever has them.

cley_faye@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1d (2 replies)

A public urinal, maybe.

bhamlin@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d

For solids too. Equity in waste, of course.

ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 21h

Trump Memorial Septic Field has a nice ring to it.

stumu415@lemmy.zip · 19 pts · 1d (1 reply)

A urinal on his grave

BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 1d

They will have to bury him at sea or hide where he's buried for this very reason. The man is so reviled by so many that destruction and defilement would be daily.

dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net · 18 pts · 1d (1 reply)

His one yearly moment of self awareness.

Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d

When the meds kick in and he's mildly lucid

Uranus_Hz@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 14h (4 replies)

The Donald J Trump Sewage Treatment Facility

nieminen@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 14h (3 replies)

Naaa, that facility is necessary and performs a useful service.

T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 12h (2 replies)

The Donald j trump memorial cesspool

SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 11h (1 reply)

Not smelly and toxic enough

T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2h

The Donald j trump Latrine pit mixed with gasoline and set on fire?

Leviathan@fedinsfw.app · 16 pts · 1d (4 replies)

As a matter of fact people will immediately tear down any he builds for himself when he's gone.

Nalivai@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d (3 replies)

Confederate statues still exist, so I doubt it. America is addicted to worshiping people who dedicate their lives to destroying it.

Squirrelknight@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1d (2 replies)

Confederate generals didn't build those. The Jim Crow South did a hundred years later to piss on the civil rights movement.

Nalivai@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 20h

That's worse. You do realise how it's worse, right?

3abas@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d

What's your point? If they built it in their time, the Jim Crow south would have destroyed them a hundred years earlier?

D_C@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 1d

Fucking die, and then we will see what happens next.

The world needs to take that disgusting name off of buildings, burn that horrible name from history.
Not build more pieces of shit monuments to put an even bigger piece of shit name on it. FUCK.

Dr_Fetus_Jackson@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1d

An amazing display of astuteness from a person I believed was singularly a dumbfuck narcissist.

hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 15 pts · 1d

here I am agreeing with Trump, what a day!

godsammitdam@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 5h (1 reply)

Instead, we'll ensure that we tear down the ones you tried to build and we'll prosecute your friends and family for the countless crimes they've committed.

JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 4h

Narrator in 2028: they didnt.

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 14 pts · 22h (2 replies)

When he's out of office, Congress should pass a law that it's illegal to name anything after Trump, EXCEPT: Sewage Treatment Plants.

Then people who live near the plants can say things like "WOW, Trump is especially stinky today. Trump stinks much worse than usual."

GardenGeek@europe.pub · 6 pts · 22h (1 reply)

That way you insult sewage plants which are important to keep out environment clean for everyone and actually clean things up instead of making a mess... both things do not really fit Trumps behavior.

girthero@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 21h

Plus John Oliver already did that

BillyClark@piefed.social · 14 pts · 1d

Here's two scenarios: One, the fascists are completely defeated and lose all power. That's actually the situation where Trump will definitely get monuments. Just like the losers of the Civil War made a point to build a bunch of monuments celebrating what huge losers they were, similar losers will do the same for Trump.

A second scenario is that the fascists win. A dictator takes over and we lose all of our freedoms. If this happens, it won't be Trump, or at least it won't be Trump for long because he's so fucking old. He likely wouldn't be able to put one of his loser sons in charge, since they simply don't have whatever it is that Trump has. Even if they tried, I suspect some other Republican would easily seize power from him.

So that first real dictator Republican will want to glorify himself. He'll want to pretend like he seized power legally. As a result, it's quite likely that he'll blame everything on Trump. He'll point at Trump's insurrection in 2021 as proof that Trump was a bad guy. And everything that he says about Trump will be the sincere truth, because Trump really is one of the biggest villains in American history.

So anyways, my prediction is that if Trump "wins" and starts true fascism in America, just like he said, nobody will build monuments for him. Trump will be an easy scapegoat because all you have to do is say exactly what he actually did.

ItJustDonn@slrpnk.net · 13 pts · 1d (1 reply)

we could build another flimsy fake gold statue of him and epstein holding hands to commemorate exactly who he was

cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d

It can be wonderful new public urinal!

kenjen@feddit.online · 12 pts · 20h (1 reply)

We'll build monuments to his assassin.

ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 19h

Cholesterol?

tostane@thelemmy.club · 12 pts · 11h

I hope everyone rallys and destroys all things with trum on it for what he did to all of us.

groucho@retrolemmy.com · 12 pts · 1d (1 reply)

I'd be fine with a small monument of him blowing Bill Clinton.

EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d

The whole reason Clinton’s whole scandal was such a big deal is he got jealous. Hilary was begrudgingly fine but that was a stroke too many.

ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.net · 12 pts · 1d

And were going to tear down anything he builds himself.

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1d (1 reply)

Yeah, no shit. We know that's why you are singularly obsessed with doing that right now vs. doing the actual job for the American people.

Also: we cannot wait to tear down anything associated with you.

The_v@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1d

I support the long standing tradition of damnatio memoriae. It's very fitting in this instance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae

Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1d (2 replies)

His death will be pretty monumental.

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 22h (1 reply)

The MAGAs are going to be all pissed off when we celebrate! I can't wait to laugh in their sobbing faces.

Then they'll all start screaming at the Pope to make him a saint. I can't wait to see the pope's reaction to that.

Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 21h

We should find a sewer somewhere and name it after trump and put a statue of him there.

green_link@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1d

so he admits he's not as great as he makes himself out to be, and that he is such a large piece of shit, and isn't worthy of monuments being made for him or praising/celebrating him? wouldn't that be an indicator that he's not doing anything or has done anything that is monument worthy? if we wouldn't build them now, why would be build them in the future?

kaotic@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 7h

That’s because he’s a shining example of the worst humanity has to offer.

Pika@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 19h (1 reply)

Oh you poor soul, it's not only that, they are likely going to tear down any monuments or rename them when you are gone as well.

I see no route where regardless of party who gets in in 2028 is going to keep any of the names either, like "Lake America" and "Gulf of America", it's such an insult to the rest of the world anyone running would decide against it and without any real opposition against tearing down the existing monuments made, I don't see any real blockers.

I do think that they are likely right that the ballroom or whatever it ends up actually being will stay, but everything else? I firmly expect won't be.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 10h

Putting it out there that I'll pay my way to DC and help tear down any of Trump's pet projects for no cost whatsoever.

JohnnyMac@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 18h (5 replies)

I met a traveller from an antique land

Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand,

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:

And on the pedestal these words appear:

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.

- Percy Shelley, "Ozymandias"

captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 14h (2 replies)

I'm more hoping to give him the Akhenaten treatment

TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 11h (1 reply)

the Lucius Crassius treatment is more apropos...

captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 8h

Why not both

underscores@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 3h (1 reply)

I might be stupid as f but what does this mean:

" Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear:"

"well those passions read", wat?

"the hand that mocked them and the heart that fed" wat ?

PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 44m

The statue's features "tell" that the sculptor read those "passions" (the cold sneer, etc.) in the monarch's face, his general mood and way of treating the world. And in doing, those passions survive and appear in this statue.

I don't really understand "the hand that mocked them and the heart that fed".

isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 20h (1 reply)

If you need to build a monument to yourself, you don't deserve a monument. Building a monument to yourself is like giving yourself a plaque for a lifetime achievement award. It means a lot if you receive it from an organization representing your profession. It means nothing if you just have a plaque made and put it in your wall.

Wispy2891@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3h

he lives in a house where in every wall here are dozens of such tags, look how happy he was after he got "his" nobel prize

qarbone@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 10h

Wow, he said something factual.

Is this terminal lucidity? Is he actually dying soon?

nandeEbisu@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1d

Does building an effigy to burn count?

SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 1d

If someone makes an Trump Outhouse, people will build log cabins to appropriately memorialize him.

sportsjorts@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 21h (1 reply)

I’ll piss on his grave.

partofthevoice@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 20h

Do it in the winter, he might get an ice sculpture. I’d be fine with this one.

grumpo_potamus@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1d

He'll get one, crudely built by a local, off of the side of the road in my county I'm sure. It will sit where the litter from passing trucks collects. It will become decrepit in the blazing sun and the cold winter wind. It will be constructed by a person Trump wouldn't have given a second's worth of attention to and whose life he would loathe. He would hate this monument dedicated to him. And for that, I am content.

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1d

He's absolutely wrong

Trump's fully primed to be at the center of a Messianic Cult once he's kicked it. People are going to be talking about the Second Coming of Trump for the next fifty years.

Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip · 8 pts · 1d (1 reply)

Let's be real we still have monuments to the biggest assholes in history who led a coup because they wanted to own other humans as property. If they get a statue, he'll get a few

TachyonTele_Esq@piefed.social · 10 pts · 1d

He already has a statue. It's gold too. He's just crying for more attention

njm1314@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d (2 replies)

Unmarked grave. Just a ditch somewhere hopefully in a junkyard. Undisclosed.

SomeRandomNoob@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 1d

Just send his corpse to iran

MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 1d

Dump in the ocean like that other famous terrorist.

Alexfire@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 21h

We hope his name will vanish asap but many will have shrines to him, indoctrinated.


Misinformation,

Childlike common clay masses,

Like free heroin

Evrala@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 11h (1 reply)

I for one am in favor of keeping his stupid ballroom. It just needs a little tweak. It can be "The Donald J Trump Museum of Corruption."

yakko@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 4h

We need more monuments to human fallibility. Stay humble, fools.

Monument@piefed.world · 7 pts · 1d

Let’s test that.

ButtermilkBiscuit@feddit.nl · 6 pts · 1d

The Jeff Epstein and Donald Trump national monument to pedophiles and fucking morons who lost wars.

Clayhopper@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 21h
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TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 11h (1 reply)

that's not true. Germany has holocaust museums. Similar idea.

T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2h

True, but Saxony just voted and showed that there are quite a few people who love the idea of the holocaust

betanumerus@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 21h

So he agrees he's a terrible president.

lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d (2 replies)

Instead, he and his goddamn wrecking crew of sycophants and foreign disruptors have managed to leave a massive scar of political polarization that would likely to be very difficult to remove from America, even decades to come.

MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 1d (1 reply)

I mean heck, we still have a scar of polarization from the Civil War for some pathetically stupid reason.

If anything I feel like our current wreckage just capitalized on those same divisions and made them deeper.

It really sucks, because this country can be really cool, when it wants to be...

BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 1d

That's capitalism. It requires to have a class of people that are bound by law but not protected who are easily exploitable. It was at first black people who were enslaved, Chinese migrants, and the Native population.

5in1k@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 1h

We’re going to actively destroy them.

dreksob@feddit.online · 6 pts · 1d

Nazis will

hrafnagud@infosec.pub · 5 pts · 1d

He might be right from a logical point of view but, unfortunately, there are enough similar lunatics left anyway that will carry on his weird agenda… 🤷🏼‍♂️

NABDad@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d

If the world were in any way just, we'd tear down the ones he is building.

ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org · 5 pts · 1d

weird when these flashes of awareness shine through.

theand@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 4h

I build one every morning after my coffee.

Looks just like him.

.....smells like him too.

OwOarchist@pawb.social · 4 pts · 1d

And whatever he does build will be torn down as soon as he's gone. Huge waste of time and money for everybody.

Gerudo@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1d

Holy shit did Trump just spout an actual truth for once?

Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d

This is known as "a moment of clarity".

arctanthrope@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d (2 replies)

they're gonna have to hide his grave to keep people from forming a queue to piss on it

Rentlar@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1d

I don't think anybody will actually care where in the ground he decomposes...

Trump Memorial Urinals will pop up probably in multiple locations.

Zahille7@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d

Nah, sword fights/crossing the streams all day every day

karaiman@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d (3 replies)

yeah, he's such a loser that not even Satan will.. maybe Netenyahoo will get some from Satan, Trump won't.

biggest loser of a president, biggest traitor. said that he will bring peace and that the world with Iraq was a mistake. 3 seconds after he got president he started a war with Iraq. can't make this shit up.

and his followers can't even put it together. Now war is peace for them.

btw, they should love the flock cameras the most. you gotta love state surveilence.

LilB0kChoy@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 1d (2 replies)

He started a war with Iran. It was the Republican president before him, Bush, who started a war with Iraq.

karaiman@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1d (1 reply)

yeah, I mean the middle east.. he was against these wars and then he started them for Netenyahoo.

LilB0kChoy@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 1d

Trump was never against war in Iran or the Middle East and he’s not for it now.

Trump’s only interest and allegiance is to Trump and always has been. Donald J. Trump is what NPD would be if it came to life off the pages of a psychology textbook.

a4ng3l@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d

Maybe something like the stones in rivers that indicate droughts and famine but with stupidity for Americans ? Trump will eventually be something to remember and watch out for.

Steve@startrek.website · 4 pts · 1d

A rare moment of clarity.

bobbyfiend@retrolemmy.com · 4 pts · 9h

And if they do, some of us will take national tours for the express purpose of pissing on every one of them.

Malica@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1d (1 reply)

But then what will we piss on?

weariedfae@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1d

His grave

tidderuuf@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d

I will proudly build a monument for our dear and fearless leader. It shall rest at the head of his gravesite where only the most patriotic and virulent of Americans can stand and give him a shower of praise that he is oh so known for wanting.

Yes a golden shower shall forever rain down on him so he may forever rest in the Greatest way possible.

kokesh@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d (1 reply)

Treat is the first truth that orange fuck ever said in his life.

PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d

Only because he thinks it's further proof of "persecution" against him. What a chud

SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 19h

Thanks for leaving us the bill to tear all that shit down.

rogsson@piefed.social · 4 pts · 1d

I’ll make a monument with me taking a piss on his grave

Arancello@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1d

Start building monuments to Vance. Now.

MintyFresh@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 19h (1 reply)

I'd gladly donate to a trump memorial provided he puts it to use immediately. Big ol gaudy headstone, gold leaf, Jesus statue, the works.

SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 19h

Gilded marble toilet

GraniteM@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d

Okay, how about a compromise: I'll agree to build a monument to him after he's gone, but he has to go AS SOON AS IS PHYSICALLY POSSIBLE.

Snapz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d

Tell me more about this... when you're gone.

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 1d

Good. Let's start that phase as soon as possible

Avicenna@programming.dev · 3 pts · 1d

you got that right

piskertariot@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d

Did you know there are still no monuments to me on Bajor! The disrespect.

JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 4h

'Dont vote. Just yell at the screen for the next 4 years.' - sitouts

CalemitousVariantK@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d

Not only will we not build them, if he builds them for himself or vandalizes current monuments, we'll tear them down and recycle the material or sell it to provide free gender affirming care for trans people. Then we'll start public fundraisers for rebuilding the trump monuments so that the magat cult volunteers MORE money for--You guessed it!--the cycle to repeat until nobody would give a dime for a trump product as it should have been for all time.

finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d (2 replies)

From https://www.youngpioneertours.com/the-surreal-grave-of-pol-pot/

Upon his death, his body and possessions were transferred to a site in Anlong Veng where they were put into a pyre and burnt along Buddhist principles. Quite ironic when you consider the treatment given to the buddhists by the government of Democratic Kampuchea. There is a video of the aftermath of his funeral on YouTube. It is quite surreal to see one of the most notorious killers of the 20th century being burned with his toilet …

Trump has a gold toilet. Just sayin' ...

ace_garp@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d

Diggin' in the crates of dictator deaths.

Thanks for this rabbit hole.

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 21h

Melt it down and make him drink it.

nanometer1625@thelemmy.club · 3 pts · 10h

This is a rare moment of self-awareness from a creature that lives in an imaginary world.

Treczoks@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 19h

"Why does that monument look like a gallows?"

WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d

Oh we will build monuments, but they will be in celebration of his death. Like a monument pile of maga trash then burned, or a monument pile of champagne bottles we will be popping.

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 21h

Damnatio memoriae would be more apt.

Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d

In memorial, I will get all my brown Legos together for the biggest...

modus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 21h

Dried, crusted santorum found caked around glory holes shall be referred to as Trump.

Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1d

I'll build him a grave for people to spit on.

alekwithak@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 20h

"Only those evil live to see their own likeness in stone"

  • Yoni Wolf's brother
el_twitto@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1d

Truer words were never spoken.

CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1d

There was literally a golden statue of him during CPAC a few years ago.

SomeRandomNoob@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 21h

gee, i wonder why

alpha1beta@piefed.social · 2 pts · 1d

He's gonna get exactly one: The Trump National Public Bathroom and Dog Washing Station

And a memory care ward named after him around the Villages.

raze2012@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 14h (1 reply)

Don't worry we'll museums for him. These days, instead of newspaper headlines and TV footage we'll have wall of unhinged tweets and AI propaganda posted on the official POTUS feed

bampop@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 4h

Nobody remembers that shit. We throw it in the memory hole because it's too embarrassing to think about. That's how it still keeps on happening when we should know better already.

TipRing@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d

I'd support the Trump Memorial Wind Farm as long as it was placed off the coast by one of his golf courses.

tehn00bi@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d

I’d build a monument to him being overthrown.

frongt@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1d

I will. I'll personally contribute to the construction of the Donald J. Trump Federal Penitentiary for Former Presidents and Other Fascists.

zuckey78@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1d

Yea. No shit.

yggstyle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 22h

That is absolutely not true. I'll personally be campaigning to see that he is entombed under Centralia, Pennsylvania... and then renaming the town to trumpsville. He always did like his name on things. It would only seem fitting to charge people to visit it... just like he would want.

Its the perfect monument. Poetic even. It only seems right to cast a demon into proverbial hell -in- earth... in a place where "corruption" destroyed society. Most yuuuuge monument ever. And honestly? Its win win. I figure eventually the fire will be put out from all the people coming to piss on his grave. The proceeds can benifit the homeless and starving... I call it "trickle" down economics. After all: aren't we due some winning?

Shit it'd probably be the closest he ever came to telling the truth.

anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d

Truth

Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 20h (1 reply)

Oh, come on. We need something to piss and defecate on.

Well, actually... His grave will suffice. But like, imagine the lines everyone.

73ms@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 5h

The dream still is that he will face some kind of justice before he dies however unlikely...

UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 20h

I guess I could setup a toilet over his grave.

betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d

I usually make him at least one monument daily but it disappears when I twist the lever controlling water flow into the bowl.

obvs@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d

Come on! I could imagine people building structures for him.

Bwaz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 20h

Quite a few name re-changes and monument reardowns though. I hope the former east wing gets turned into a skate park

Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d

Maybe we'll get a trump version of crazy-eyes nathan bedford forrest, but other than eyesores erected by bigots, he's not getting anything, no.

HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d

I build my own monument to Trump every time I've had Taco Bell the night before.

jrTug_2T@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 18h

To paraphrase a great skit by a comedian I later lost a lot of respect for:

♪ Yo' plot-ty… ♪ Yo' plot-ty… ♪ Is a Port-A-Potty

switcheroo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 13h

Someone will. A paid toilet with monuments to you, you worthless piece of shit child-rapist. There will be one that's a monument of how ugly and fat you are-- people can just freely wizz on that one. There'll be a monument of how gross your asshole mouth is-- people can shit in that one. See! Lots of monuments and some smart entrepreneur making bank.

UpAndAtThem@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 20h

A nice faux-golden toilet on the national mall, complete with a Vichy France styled triumphal outhouse.

MyOpinion@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 1d

I look forward to throwing him in jail and burning everything with his name on it.

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1d

No shit, fuckwit lmao

h_ramus@piefed.social · 0 pts · 1d (1 reply)

What? All those services to the Russian Federation and Israel will not be forgotten. Putin will build one with his bare hands.

SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 1d

Putin will be the boyfriend who rewrites history, ie, She was a dirty whore. He’ll say that to the next Republican mail order bride he picks—who will be stupid enough to not see that the same thing will be said of them.

auzy1@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1d

I agree