All Things Trump: Is it over yet?

[Seabass]

[laklak]

You'd have to pay me to watch it.

And not fucking cheap, either. Couple large at a minimum.

[Brian Peacock]

The Emperor must have his palaces...

Trump wants to 'Make Federal Buildings Beautiful Again' with neoclassical order

Donald Trump wants to “make federal buildings beautiful again” by mandating a return to “the classical architectural style”, according to a draft executive order obtained by Architectural Record on Tuesday.

The Record reported that it had obtained “what appears to be a preliminary draft of the order”.

Under the order, it said, the White House would require a rewrite of the Guiding Principles for Federal Architecture, issued in 1962, “to ensure that ‘the classical architectural style shall be the preferred and default style’ for new and upgraded federal buildings”.

Confirming to the Guardian that the Record was reporting a genuine draft document, the Pulitzer prize-winning architectural critic Paul Goldberger said the problem with the order was “not with classical architecture per se”.

It was, he said, that “the mandating of an official style is not fully compatible with 21st-century liberal democracy”.

The Guiding Principles were written for John F Kennedy by the New York senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who died in 2003. They explicitly say “an official style must be avoided” and that new buildings should reflect their own time.

“Design must flow from the architectural profession to the government and not vice-versa,” Moynihan writes. “The government should be willing to pay some additional cost to avoid excessive uniformity in design of federal buildings.”...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ical-order

[JimC]

Trump clearly favours the royal wee...

[Tero]

Where will the swastikas go?

[Seabass]

video: https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1223068056575971329

[Tero]

All the co-conspirators there to applaud trump, except Bolton

And Trump used his national platform to present the Presidential Medal of Freedom to a man loathed by the left — conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, who just announced that he is battling lung cancer.

“If I wanted to attend a MAGA rally, I would attend a MAGA rally,” fumed Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), a former House member and close Pelosi ally. “The president never misses an opportunity to further divide the country. It was a disgraceful performance.

Democrats sat on their hands for most of the night, and when they couldn’t restrain themselves, they groaned and yelled “no” and shook their heads.

Several, including Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.), stormed out midway through the speech in disgust.

All the president’s men were seated on the House floor as well: Acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and budget chief Russell Vought – members of the administration who all played a role in the impeachment inquiry but never testified before the House or the Senate.

The Hill

[Tero]

Rebuttal in Spanish was better than the one in English
https://www.vox.com/2020/2/4/21123667/v ... tate-union

[Tero]

Trump still beating school voucher dead horse, which he put Betsy DeVoss in to promote:
The president invited Janiyah Davis, a fourth-grader from Philadelphia, and her mother, Stephanie, to be among the guests in Melania Trump's box in the House chamber.

Introducing them, the president explained that Stephanie Davis was a single mom who was unable to send her daughter to the school she wanted to attend because Pennsylvania's Democratic governor vetoed a bill focused on school choice.

[Tero]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/02/opinions ... index.html

[Tero]

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[Seabass]

Rush Limbaugh's years of racism, misogyny, and bigotry lead to the Presidential Medal of Freedom

[pErvinalia]

Trump isn't a conservative. He's a liberal. The most liberal president ever.

[Tero]

He is back to Obama, Romney and read thevtranscript
https://mobile.twitter.com/P_Lepinkaine ... 4614093824

[Tero]

Trump is at national prayer breakfast. He of course worships only Trump. So does not qualify as atheist. So let us celebrate another atheist at one of these events. My son could run for president, but only as a Unitarian. They take atheists.