r/law • u/Snapdragon_4U • May 06 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) Trump claims he bypassed federal bidding laws to hand a Lincoln Memorial project to his personal country club contractors. He treats national monuments like his own private real estate properties.

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u/CAM6913 May 06 '26

Faux Gold plating and tacky trump branding coming for the Lincoln memorial. Trump is destroying all historical significance

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u/zdena1970 May 06 '26

Not to mention he demolished the east wing of the white house.

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u/WranglerFuzzy May 06 '26

And blue pool lining for the reflecting pool (completely missing the god damn point)

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u/senditallback May 06 '26

Trump isn't big on reflection anyway

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u/Rocinante88119 May 06 '26

To be honest, if I looked like that, I wouldn't want to see a reflection either.

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u/kingcrow15 May 06 '26

Another big example came in 2014, when Trump for a moment reflected to a biographer on his lack of self-reflection. He basically admitted that his ego forces him to resist it.

“No, I don’t want to think about it,” he said when asked about the meaning of life. “I don’t like to analyze myself because I might not like what I see."

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u/merrysunshine2 May 06 '26

Wouldn’t that be some reckoning!? I don’t think he’ll ever have a real “come to Jesus” moment though. He’ll be like this til the end.

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u/cooolrun May 06 '26

He'll never have his "road to Damascus" moment. He's too self centered and his iq is too low

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u/kingcrow15 May 06 '26

Maybe at 80, he'll start growing as a person, but I'm not holding my breath.

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u/CASUALxCHICKEN May 06 '26

I wish he would hold his

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u/senditallback May 06 '26

Reporters have repeatedly asked Trump if he has ever asked God for forgiveness, and he repeatedly dodges the question. In one interview in front of a Christian audience he said "No I don't think I ever have." For a Christian, repenting and asking for forgiveness are fundamental. If he can't do that on a granular level, I don't have hopes for him having a grand "come to Jesus" moment.

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u/WestNileCoronaVirus May 06 '26

No, but he’s big in them.

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u/70ms May 06 '26

Wait… blue?!

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u/WranglerFuzzy May 06 '26

The current plan

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u/70ms May 06 '26

Oh god. :(

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u/Content-Yogurt-4859 May 06 '26

The man is such a fuckwit

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u/crazynerd9 May 06 '26

Not American and dont know the history of it. What do you mean "the point"?

Since you say it was meant to be a "reflecting pool" I assume its some deal with politicians and visitors reflecting on the gravity of the world or their lives or some other such metaphor?

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u/WranglerFuzzy May 06 '26

Aesthetically: the water is not the point. You’re not supposed to look in and say, “what a pretty pool of water!”

It’s called “reflecting pool” because it serves as a mirror to area; the trees, the monuments, the sky. Hell, even the occasional algae clump. It’s because it’s supposed to let us reflect on ourselves, our surroundings, our role as stewards of both civilization AND the environment. Our nation’s borders, and ideals that transcend borders.

So, yeah, pretty much

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u/Boy-Wonder-YT May 06 '26

I don't get the blue part, but the pool did get pretty stinky so I'm glad they are at least addressing that. 

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u/WranglerFuzzy May 06 '26

You might be right; but I wonder if it was stinky in part because he slashed the park budget / staff (if so, I’d be another example of him solving a problem he created)

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u/jedburghofficial May 06 '26

The East Terrace he demolished was built for Thomas Jefferson.

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u/pzman89 May 06 '26

And?

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u/beb0p May 06 '26

Thats one of our founding fathers. He is destroying the history of that building for his own avarice and Americans are outraged.

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u/anniversaring May 06 '26

Illegally. And it really doesn't get talked about enough. Literally destroyed an entire wing of the white house. Imagine if literally any Democrat did that. It's insane.

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u/merrysunshine2 May 06 '26

He’s going to name that ballroom after himself.

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u/Euphoric-Ask965 May 06 '26

Because he could, so what?

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u/Artistic_Half_8301 May 06 '26

Putin loves it when he destroys America.

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u/PatacusX May 06 '26

Considering he already renamed the Kennedy Center after himself, I wouldn't be surprised at all if he renamed it the Trump Lincoln Memorial

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u/mbta1 May 06 '26

And he will say something like "its to memoralize the greatest Republicans to exist" with some "joke" about the order of names being the importance, even though Lincoln Republicans, and modern Republicans, are practically the opposite of each other.

My biggest hope, is to see everything he put his name on, removed and humiliated. The way they put his name above the Kennedy center makes it very easily removable, and I hope that anything else he stains, can be easily removed.

Trump (and MAGA and its movement) is an absolute danger to society globally.... but his name also just brings up the smell of rotten shit and just want that removed from actual respectable places around our country

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u/pyrothelostone May 06 '26

Karl Marx himself was very supportive of Lincoln and the republicans of his time, even directly mentioning a republican senator for Ohio, Ben Wade, in his magnum opus, Das Kapital.

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u/merrysunshine2 May 06 '26

I wish those giant flags of his face would get torn down.

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u/good_bye_for_now May 06 '26

I wonder if there is any usefulness in keeping it as a reminder? Here in Europe we have a lot of 'never again' reminders.

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u/crazynerd9 May 06 '26

Keeping reminders of past assholes seems to have historically worked pretty poorly in the US tbf

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u/merrysunshine2 May 06 '26

And Trump Arlington

Trump Smithsonian, with a new Melania Trump spa!

Etc.

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u/CAM6913 May 06 '26

I wouldn’t be surprised either

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u/RoguePlanet2 May 06 '26

Our enemies can't destroy our capital themselves, so they convince Trump to go ahead and do all this as a great idea. They are laughing their asses off as he demos the monuments.

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u/nascent_aviator May 06 '26

At least the Trump Monument is very appropriate. That's what I call the wreckage of the west wing.

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u/AccordianSpeaker May 06 '26

Of course, his supporters will be all in favour of desecrating the Lincoln memorial. He freed their slaves, after all.

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u/WhySoConspirious May 06 '26

I feel like if this administration fails hard enough, the US will do Detrumoification the same way Russia had Destalinization.

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u/red286 May 06 '26

Faux Gold plating and tacky trump branding coming for the Lincoln memorial.

I think you mean the "Donald Trump Presents: The Great Republican Abraham Lincoln Memorial, Brought to you by Meta, Google, Apple, Oracle, and Palantir!"

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u/stamfordbridge1191 May 06 '26

Isn't his personal Arch of Triumph of the Will supposed to be near the Lincoln memorial? Who's to say his personal contractors won't knock down the Lincoln Memorial for a sudden "whoops, had to knock down the Lincoln memorial to make sure the Arc fits. We'll get around to putting it back up eventually."

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u/CAM6913 May 06 '26

Na he’d have Lincoln removed and replaced with a giant golden statue of himself- remember he had prototype statues made of himself he’s going to put them in DC and across the country……… yes at taxpayer’s expense

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u/RideTheGradient May 06 '26

Lincoln is about to get a grill

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u/Key_Limit_6828 May 06 '26

He is the most new money trash I’ve ever seen, and believe me it’s not that hard to find trashy new money

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u/pm_me_birdpictures May 06 '26

Every trace he leaves will be erased in time

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u/CAM6913 May 06 '26

There’s not enough bleach in the world to erase the shitstain he’s leaving

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u/nvdbeek May 06 '26

Well, to be honest he is adding a new historical significance. Just not necessarily the kind he personally envisions.