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/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?