• TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
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    I want every putative 2028 candidate to pledge that on January 20, 2029 he or she will sign an executive order to tear down this monstrosity

    And get rid of dept of war and secretary of war titles, and revert back to lake Ontario and Gulf of Mexico, and just erase any evidence that he ever existed, honestly.

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      What’s crazy is he was able to secure all the corporate donations for this thing, yet the poor Kennedy Center needs to be demolished because he cannot secure donations to keep it alive.

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        For people who don’t know, the Kennedy Center had a large team of people whose job it was to get enough donations to keep it running… IIRC something around 100 people, and under Trump’s direction, that team was more or less completely dismantled.

        The previous director of the Kennedy Center was a very rich man, I think a billionaire, who had personally donated millions to the Kennedy Center, and Trump got rid of him.

        Trump did everything he could to sabotage all existing sources of funding for the Kennedy Center.

        It’s hard to describe in words what a pathetic loser Trump is. He can’t stand to have somebody whose name is in any way elevated above his own. He’ll destroy any cultural institution and anybody else’s happiness just to get the tiniest bit of honor for himself.

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          It’s hard to describe in words what a pathetic loser Trump is.

          It must be done by performance art that includes horrendous odors and the kind of flashing lights that cause seizures.

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            I’ve got a proposal for Disney for what to do with the former Stitch’s Great Escape/ Alien Encounter attraction and the Trump animatronic from the Hall of Presidents.

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            And every audience member must wear a cilice belt locked on to each thigh during the performance and for two additional days after.

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          And now Trump owns a Kennedy so I guess he showed them not to look down on his tacky ass. I’m surprised he doesn’t dig up JFK and RFK and have them to tea in his precious ballroom. Another captive audience forced to listen to him ramble while Natalie giggles in the background.

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        As far as I know, the Kennedy Center’s donation problems didn’t really start until after a judge told him they couldn’t put Donald Trump’s name on the building.

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          Not quite, the Kennedy Center’s problems started when he first put his name on it and replaced the board with sycophants.

          The large amount of existing donors stopped providing funds, and the team responsible for getting donors was replaced by idiots trying to use Trump’s disastrous name.

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            Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul all spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn’t but has always been arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism, stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as toughness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshiped like gospel. It is America’s shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power, and spite, it doesn’t just lose its soul it shits out this bloated obscenity and calls it a leader.

            Oliver Kornetzke

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        Well he didn’t, congress decided we should all help pay for it to the tune of a $billion IIRC. If you’re from the US you’re paying for it.

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      The Department of War doesn’t really exist though. Only Congress can rename it and Trump didn’t pass it through Congress. They keep calling it the Department of War but it is still the Department of Defense.

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          I’m so sick of the fuckin clown show dude. We’re the department of war now! But we aren’t starting any wars, these are purely defensive international bombing campaigns!

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        It’s gonna take a long time to fix what trump has done,

        It really will. Decades, at minimum.

        My worry is that the american people won’t have the conviction or persistence to do the work, and will elect another shitty republican government 4 years later because whoever follows Trump “isn’t fixing things fast enough”.

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      Nonsense, thats wasteful. Offer it to every queer group in the nation as a free event center. Weddings, furry cons, drag shows every day.

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      I disagree with this tweet.

      A lot of our tax payer dollars have funded this thing. Finish it. Take a poll for it’s use. Office space? Community support venue? Rehab? Let the public decide what the next president serves next to so they always remember.