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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump threatens to keep the UFC construction up permanently -- like the Eiffel Tower.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday compared the structure being built on the South Lawn of the White House for this months UFC fight to the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
And he thinks it might have a similar fate.
Speaking in a TikTok video, the president said the Eiffel Tower was a temporary structure set up for the 1889 Paris Exposition.
It was supposed to be taken down immediately after the worlds fair, he said. Well, they never took it down.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-now-says-this-bizarre-white-house-addition-might-never-ever-go-away/ar-AA24HZtW
gab13by13
(33,059 posts)I support Democrats
Intractable
(2,564 posts)Blue Full Moon
(3,778 posts)2naSalit
(104,740 posts)Fucking eyesore piece of shit he disgraces the capitol city with shall be dismantled immediately upon his leaving. And he WILL leave one way or another. Apparently he prefers the hard way every time.
OldBaldy1701E
(11,788 posts)As far as I am concerned, we need to force him and his companies to clean it all up. Any one who was in on the deals that this regime has made should also be held accountable for insider business practices and illegal manipulations of the markets. (Hey, they love to complain about this all the time anyway, so use it against them.)
Also, we need to let him know that everything has to be put back just like it was, or even more time will be added to his life sentence. (He won't understand what that means, but adding any kind of punishment will just set him off even more.) If there is no 'means' for his companies to do it, then he himself has to get out there with a crowbar and a sledge. He made the mess, he can clean it up.
Just like my mother told me every time I made one.
allegorical oracle
(6,680 posts)costly to tear it down and cart it away.
calimary
(91,427 posts)It could go to Mar-a-Lago, and dumped right in front.
(That way, he gets to keep it!)
Farmer-Rick
(12,847 posts)And a few rusted trailer homes and you got pedo Trump's perfect environment. But only if it's all painted gold.
sop
(19,828 posts)Goonch
(5,932 posts)
Trump's White House is looking like President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho's White House, except Camacho wasn't a raging narcissist bent on destroying the world.
sop
(19,828 posts)PatSeg
(54,001 posts)Biff was supposed to be an exaggeration, but Trump has become an exaggeration of both Biff and Camacho.
sop
(19,828 posts)Idiocracy indeed.
PatSeg
(54,001 posts)that he'd love to do it if he was physically able.
Thunderbeast
(3,841 posts)PatSeg
(54,001 posts)Sounds like something he would do.
allegorical oracle
(6,680 posts)conducting a slew of background checks. Afterall, a potential assassin even showed up at the WH Correspondents' Dinner -- a room full of journalists, not UFC fans.
malaise
(299,528 posts)That is all
Initech
(109,602 posts)"DONALD TRUMP DID TO THE WHITE HOUSE WHAT OSAMA BIN LADEN ONLY TRIED TO"
And show the before and after pictures.
Rec
sop
(19,828 posts)He won't because that's his property, and he doesn't want to trash it. He's turned the White House into a tacky shit hole, much like he has the rest of the country. His goal is to destroy America.
In his twisted mind, he is the only consequential ruler in history.
Im not sure megalomaniac quite described this self absorbed buffoon.
littlemissmartypants
(35,416 posts)FDT
homegirl
(2,030 posts)The Eiffel Tower was built for the 1889 Exposition Universelle to celebrate the centennial of the French Revolution. Designed by Maurice Koechlin and Émile Nouguier and spearheaded by Gustave Eiffel, it was initially intended to stand for 20 years before being dismantled. It was saved from demolition after proving its value as a massive radio telegraph station.
IronLionZion
(51,701 posts)Javaman
(66,026 posts)thesquanderer
(13,169 posts)Javaman
(66,026 posts)regarding our position in the world? naaa, we're fucked for the long term
GiqueCee
(5,042 posts)... the Orange Gargoyle actually uttered something true.
The Eiffel Tower was scheduled for demolition in 1910, but it was proven to be too valuable a resource, both for science and critical military functions. A claim that Trump's repulsive abortion cannot make. May it collapse and fall on his head.
Trueblue Texan
(4,708 posts)...he is the trashiest, tackiest tenant ever! He doesn't pay his bills; his yard looks like a dump; he takes classic interior and exterior decor and cheapens them with flashy, fake, CHEAP crap. He starts deconstruction projects on the property before he has any idea about how to get clearance to proceed with construction--just tears shit up and leave it that way; Everywhere he goes, he leaves a huge mess. Cleaning up after him is impossible while he is still in residence. Who would want someone like that as a neighbor, much less a president? EVICT him! That may actually be more attainable than impeachment.
mwmisses4289
(5,139 posts)or taste or elegance or whatever you want to call it.
rubbersole
(11,343 posts)tsf has class. Third.
malaise
(299,528 posts)Rec
Seinan Sensei
(1,723 posts)is up on concrete blocks in the backyard of the White House
pansypoo53219
(23,257 posts)purr-rat beauty
(1,623 posts)And damage to a Federal building
What did he say....10 years?
chowder66
(12,687 posts)Trueblue Texan
(4,708 posts)...which is a nice way of saying, "mow your damn grass and clean the place up!"
JustABozoOnThisBus
(24,777 posts)... and send the pieces to the Trump Presidential Lie-berry.
It'll look good next to an inoperable jumbo jet.
Dave Id
(371 posts)so that now he's 'king of America', he can destroy and or build anything he wants to. He seems believe he own the White House and surrounding property. He's MAGAts do also.
Dave Id
(371 posts)Awful Tower
Ol Janx Spirit
(1,127 posts)...The Champagne Bar on the arched monstrosity so we can at least savor a flute of champagne as we take in the views of the Fuhrerbunker and the Arc de Shitforbrains from its lofty perch above our once beloved Whitetrashington?
Or, are we descending into something more like Roman times with a permanent fight cage to entertain the people?
Will there be a Vance vs. Rubio pay-per-view slap fight? I might watch that.
I wonder how much they will charge for people to get married under its soon-to-be iconic profile?
thesquanderer
(13,169 posts)Ol Janx Spirit
(1,127 posts)Seinan Sensei
(1,723 posts)Well sort of.
MW had three MMA matches.
Two of them against the same guy.
I think Markwayne should get in the Octagon with Sean OBrien, President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
You remember Sean OBrien.
Markwayne went full-blown Poser (stand your butt up!) on Sean during a congressional hearing.
Which is to say, that if they ever did put on the gloves, Id have all my money on the Teamster.
Ol Janx Spirit
(1,127 posts)...with whatever the fresh hell is that we are living through with this "fight" on the White House lawn.
I would watch that fight though. Even if MW won the fight there might be some bad things happening to him later on....
twodogsbarking
(19,809 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(18,279 posts)lark
(26,136 posts)No way in hell!!
bif
(27,396 posts)Just what we need.
Blues Heron
(9,128 posts)Historic NY
(40,197 posts)I hear the participants are having second thoughts about this outside arena
Ol Janx Spirit
(1,127 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(19,251 posts)Something like
THIS SUNDAY: ALL-AMERICAN MONSTER TRUCK RACES!
Mud Wrassiln' Every Tuesday and Friday
Grim Chieftain
(2,298 posts)He is destroying everything he touches and everything we hold dear. For the love of all sanity, will this ever end?
mercuryblues
(16,562 posts)He is building his own gallows. I'm OK with that
Happy Hoosier
(9,718 posts)Martin68
(28,281 posts)all his enemies, both perceived and real.
3catwoman3
(30,146 posts)...as Trump - nekulturny. It means uncultured or uncivilized, and from various sources I've read, is considered a serious insult and conveys great disdain.
electric_blue68
(27,886 posts)Accordding to google:
rude, boorish, discourteous, unmannered, ignorant, uncultured.
All, amongst other things describe drumphf perfectly!
3catwoman3
(30,146 posts)is - coarse, crass, common, crude, and contemptible.
electric_blue68
(27,886 posts)Rob H.
(5,999 posts)It's enraging that he keeps doing these things to properties he doesn't own and won't have to pay anything to restore any of them.
PatSeg
(54,001 posts)Rob H.
(5,999 posts)I don't remember where I first saw it, but it sums up what he's doing perfectly.
PatSeg
(54,001 posts)to describe him and his presidency these days, so we have to makeup new ones. I think the Scots take the prize for the absolute best though.
Happy Hoosier
(9,718 posts)whopis01
(3,944 posts)allegorical oracle
(6,680 posts)Bluetus
(3,275 posts)that sprout overnight in whatever dilapidated, abandoned 1970s shopping mall parking lot is available. We should be running a crowdfunding campaign taking pledges for tearing down each of Trump's edifices with the proceeds going to charity. Trump needs to see millions of dollars of pledges for each thing:
- every grand banner with his hideous orange mug. I'd pledge $25 to be in a raffle to be the one to tear down the banner at DoJ or the Pentagon.
- I'd pledge $100 to be in a lottery to be the one who pushes the button to bring toen the ballroon or the Great Gate of Trump
And so on. I'm 100% serious about this.if the DNC wants my money, THIS is the sort of aggressive messaging they should be pushing.
Mr.Bee
(1,967 posts)Liberal In Texas
(16,530 posts)He's building his own little empire in DC.
Anybody think he will leave willingly at the end of his term?
Crowman2009
(3,634 posts)paleotn
(23,054 posts)Preferably with him strapped to it. Live or stinking carcass. Makes no difference. Go one better than what Charles II did to Oliver Cromwell. For similar reasons. Revenge can be so sweet!
GoCubsGo
(35,076 posts)I'm sure that, like everything else Trump builds, this thing was poorly-constructed, using cheap materials. Just have to hope he and his bootlickers are underneath it when it collapses.
MissouriDem47
(453 posts)Leaving that nonsense on the White House grounds would be appropriate as it is a true reflection of their priorities.
Martin Eden
(16,037 posts)Perhaps not swiftly, but justice -- legal or cosmic -- will be done.
Raven123
(8,036 posts)Initech
(109,602 posts)And make it so no jackass with a wrecking ball can do as much damage as the fucking asshole has done.
allegorical oracle
(6,680 posts)blocked off. So far, he's ruined the East side (rose garden/ballroom) and now the south side. He's got two more sides to go.
MorbidButterflyTat
(4,951 posts)Ooooh! Scary!
He's barely coherent. A worm is more threatening than that slovenly sack of crap.
PJMcK
(25,219 posts)I heard Trumps Oval Office re-decorating called Temu Bukake.
Trump is a low-life slob.
EarthFirst
(4,263 posts)
by just saying the most ridiculous outlandish things; and the media runs with it every time.
Just Sure Jan
and allow it fester in silent irrelevance.
eppur_se_muova
(42,901 posts)
no_hypocrisy
(55,705 posts)Walleye
(45,812 posts)jmowreader
(53,541 posts)It belongs to UFC and they want it back after the event.
LetMyPeopleVote
(183,833 posts)For just under $12,000, you too can buy a coin, designed by the president, celebrating the UFC Freedom 250 event.
For just under ,000, you too can buy a Trump-branded gold âmedallion,â âdesignedâ by the president, celebrating the UFCâs White House event.
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-06-09T19:56:15.884Z
This is not to be confused with Trump-branded shoes, guitars, Bibles, watches, digital trading cards, or phones. #grift
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-branded-ufc-medallions-white-house-match
MS NOWs Jake Traylor and Soorin Kim reported Tuesday that there are Trump-branded medallions on sale, tied to this weekends UFC event on the White Houses South Lawn.
The souvenir gold and silver coins range in price from $249.99 to $11,999.99. Thats not a typo: A website called RealTrumpCoins.com is actually selling UFC Freedom 250 medallions that people can purchase for just under $12,000. (The website boasts that the coins were designed by the president himself.)
Donald Trump is selling UFC-branded coins for ,000 to promote the UFC fight on the White House lawn
— FactPost (@factpostnews.bsky.social) 2026-06-09T17:20:05.074565128Z
....To be sure, the scheduled UFC bout, set to coincide with the presidents 80th birthday, was already controversial, and not just because of the bizarre structure that continues to take shape at the White House. There have also been related questions about Trumps stock purchase in UFCs parent company before the upcoming match on the South Lawn.....
The $12,000 gold coins, however, take this mess to a new and unsettling level.
This week, a new lawsuit was filed alleging corruption in connection with the upcoming UFC event, with the hopes of derailing the plans for the gathering, and a judge is expecting a response by Tuesday. Watch this space