Reduced traffic through Straits of Hormuz, Bab al Mandeb, front month Brent futures at $103 with dated European Brent having reached a high of $130, US diesel at record high, and a threat of expanding Mideast conflict as US stockpiles of precision munitions and interceptors depleted. With a PARTIAL cost reckoning of Iran war costs at $43 bn, here is today’s priority:
So he is telling the terrorists what building to obliterate in their first 100,000 drone wave. It must be some kind of brilliant 16 dimensional chess – or he is the most clueless clown ever elected as President.
In fact, this “arch” is going to prove to be highly entertaining, as the orange creature is apt to do the vendor/contracting process the same way he did the Lincoln Reflecting Pool. It’s going to look chintzy, gaudy, tacky and something similar to this:
https://www.autoevolution.com/news/brand-new-cybertruck-with-very-strange-damage-sits-in-an-auction-yard-with-a-salvage-title-243102.html
The situation changes if shipping lanes are blocked entirely. A different set of economic factors affects the outcome.
That’s a little vague. Care to spill a few more words?
Nothing says security like putting a critical defense facility in the middle of a traffic circle surrounded by 70,000 zooming public vehicles a day — cars, trucks (and truck bombs). It would take a vehicle traveling 30 mph about 3 seconds to traverse the distance to the center of the circle and barely a second to the edge of his arch.
Or is he going to build a concrete wall and moat around the thing. He could get that Reflecting Pool guy he knows to do it.
“Large number of drones and snipers on the roof”. And why not sharks with frickin’ laser beams on their heads ala Dr. Evil. Last I heard he planned an observation deck for the public on top. Are tourists just going to be milling around among the drones and snipers?
This military thing is just a gimmick to get Supreme Court approval, but someone should get Joint Chief Caine under oath and find out if anyone in the military made a “strong request” for this — or is Trump just a liar. (We all know the answer to that). And Hegseth doesn’t count because he’s an idiot civilian.
And what is up with the Receptive Circle? It’s always been called the Memorial Circle — or is Trump letting AI slop write his tweets now.
Poked a browser:
No results found for “receptive circle”
It’s just the dementia talking.
I presume he meant reception circle. This is the type speaking mistake if a Black Democrat makes it we harangue them for the next two years. But our private military academy/ Wharton School of Biz/ New York snob socializer makes and Republicans are like “I didn’t hear any blunders, did you hear any blunders?? NO, I didn’t hear any blunders.”
Of course, snipers and drones are the sort of things one would want in the capitol city if one were planning a coup, the same as one would want to have a military force patrolling the streets. DC is the only jurisdiction in the U.S. where the National Guard is answerable only to the President, and they have become a permanent fixture.
As to the claim that all the great cities except DC have triumphal arches, that’s not strictly true, in the sense that they often don’t celebrate a triumph. In architectural parlance, arches modeled on Roman triumphal arches may be called “triumphal”, but many of the arches in great cities do not celebrate military triumphs, nor triumphs of any kind. For instance:
The Washington Square Arch is not a triiumphal arch. It commemorates our first president.
India Gate is not a triumphal arch. It’s a memorial, commemmorating India’s war dead.
The Tua Augusta Arch us not a triumohal arch. It commemorates the reconstruction of Lisbon after an earthquake.
The Brandenburg Gate is not a triumphal arch. It is a “gate”, on the location of a gate in Berlin’s city wall.
The Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang is a triumphal arch, build by the most repressive regime on the planet. I guess that’s where the felon-in-chief got the idea.