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[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Oh you poor soul, it's not only that, they are likely going to tear down any monuments or rename them when you are gone as well.

I see no route where regardless of party who gets in in 2028 is going to keep any of the names either, like "Lake America" and "Gulf of America", it's such an insult to the rest of the world anyone running would decide against it and without any real opposition against tearing down the existing monuments made, I don't see any real blockers.

I do think that they are likely right that the ballroom or whatever it ends up actually being will stay, but everything else? I firmly expect won't be.

[–] JohnnyMac@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I met a traveller from an antique land

Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand,

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:

And on the pedestal these words appear:

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.

- Percy Shelley, "Ozymandias"

[–] kenjen@feddit.online 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

We'll build monuments to his assassin.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 hours ago

Cholesterol?

[–] GolfFoxtrotLima@sh.itjust.works 17 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Good, tear down the monuments already built for him when he dies

[–] ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

We should tear them down now and make him watch.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

He should have to pay to restore everything he's destroyed.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

Thanks for leaving us the bill to tear all that shit down.

If you need to build a monument to yourself, you don't deserve a monument. Building a monument to yourself is like giving yourself a plaque for a lifetime achievement award. It means a lot if you receive it from an organization representing your profession. It means nothing if you just have a plaque made and put it in your wall.

[–] jrTug_2T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

To paraphrase a great skit by a comedian I later lost a lot of respect for:

♪ Yo' plot-ty… ♪ Yo' plot-ty… ♪ Is a Port-A-Potty

[–] Alexfire@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago

We hope his name will vanish asap but many will have shrines to him, indoctrinated.


Misinformation,

Childlike common clay masses,

Like free heroin

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 12 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

When he's out of office, Congress should pass a law that it's illegal to name anything after Trump, EXCEPT: Sewage Treatment Plants.

Then people who live near the plants can say things like "WOW, Trump is especially stinky today. Trump stinks much worse than usual."

[–] GardenGeek@europe.pub 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That way you insult sewage plants which are important to keep out environment clean for everyone and actually clean things up instead of making a mess... both things do not really fit Trumps behavior.

[–] girthero@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Plus John Oliver already did that

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I'd gladly donate to a trump memorial provided he puts it to use immediately. Big ol gaudy headstone, gold leaf, Jesus statue, the works.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Gilded marble toilet

[–] dermanus@lemmy.ca 27 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

That's more perceptive than I'd give him credit for.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

There should be a monument to Trump. USA needs a constant reminder of the danger of populists and Fascists. I suggest a huge public toilet.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

"Why does that monument look like a gallows?"

[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

So he agrees he's a terrible president.

[–] sportsjorts@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Do it in the winter, he might get an ice sculpture. I’d be fine with this one.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Oh, come on. We need something to piss and defecate on.

Well, actually... His grave will suffice. But like, imagine the lines everyone.

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

"Only those evil live to see their own likeness in stone"

  • Yoni Wolf's brother
[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 17 points 10 hours ago (2 children)
[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

For solids too. Equity in waste, of course.

[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Trump Memorial Septic Field has a nice ring to it.

[–] UpAndAtThem@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

A nice faux-golden toilet on the national mall, complete with a Vichy France styled triumphal outhouse.

[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

His death will be pretty monumental.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

The MAGAs are going to be all pissed off when we celebrate! I can't wait to laugh in their sobbing faces.

Then they'll all start screaming at the Pope to make him a saint. I can't wait to see the pope's reaction to that.

[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

We should find a sewer somewhere and name it after trump and put a statue of him there.

[–] Tango@piefed.ca 25 points 11 hours ago (6 children)

The sad thing is that that's probably not true.

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago

Def China, Russia I think Iran probably too.

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[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Quite a few name re-changes and monument reardowns though. I hope the former east wing gets turned into a skate park

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 hours ago

Damnatio memoriae would be more apt.

gee, i wonder why

[–] modus@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Dried, crusted santorum found caked around glory holes shall be referred to as Trump.

[–] Leviathan@fedinsfw.app 15 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

As a matter of fact people will immediately tear down any he builds for himself when he's gone.

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