'Maybe we'll never take it down': Trump compares White House UFC arena to Eiffel Tower, says it could be permanent
19 days ago by return2ozma to c/nottheonion
Never forget.
It'll be like a toilet in the front yard and he plants flowers in it. White trash is his style.
Ah, but the toilet is gold!
And the flowers are potted in night soil
And they are fake flowers.
Can't wait to find out that this somehow cost us taxpayers like a hundred million dollars.
They’re expecting trump to pay the rental fee? How quaint.
It's not Donald paying. It's those of us who actually pay taxes.
You just know Trump will try to screw them and pocket the money instead.
Funny story about temporary rental equipment.
My old company, big (as in billions $$) defence control actor. They refused to buy permanent sites, instead they would lease or rent buildings or structures. Sea cans counted as structures. They rented 3 sea cans for 15 years. Spent almost 100k each over that period. Never once did they accept the financial argument that one years lease would almost buy a sea can outright.
How to spending 15 times as much money look better for a business
I’m curious—can you tell the lighting isn’t rated from these images, or just because of the number / cost?
Also curious about the chains—does that means they can’t be reused for long if they’ve been outdoors? I assume there’s plenty of regulation around that kind of thing.
I saw some other pictures of it being assembled and the lights were wrapped until the fabric was on. It’s also relatively rare for moving heads to be IP rated because they move, and in order to maintain IP rating on something that moves it requires significantly more maintenance and with that, higher cost. The lights that are on the outside are IP rated for instance, as they didn’t have the fabric to protect them. But from prior experience that means those lights cost about 3 times as much to rent.
The chains are protected by a coating of oil, the oil is in a reservoir inside the motor so if the chains aren’t getting ran on a regular basis they aren’t getting a fresh coat of oil. As soon as any sort of weathering happens, the chains become exposed and will start rusting. You can get stainless steel chains that won’t rust, but the price on those is so astronomical, that it’s special order only, and only used for permanent installs. The only way this has stainless steel chains is if it was designed as a permanent install from the beginning.
When he claims to know about everything it's just a cover for his lack of knowledge about anything
He's suxh a cringeworthy moron
Is it the US version of the Liz Truss head of lettuce?
Just like America
I'm calling it now. Some attack will happen at these events. Trump will play the role of "oh no, I've been shot..." and then 2 hours later will brag that he's the healthiest guy the doctors ever saw.
Anybody ever see the movie Groundhog Day?
........no reason.
It is quite on the nose that they plan/hope to execute another "attack" at one of his events, be it the birthday bash or the 250 celebration.
There is no other solid reason to have these events outdoors.
They need to keep the pressure on his safety so they get to build more surveillance bunkers etc. and another miraculous recovery comes in handy to whip his followers into more of a righteous frenzy.
All to keep him locked in for a 3rd term.
Perhaps he'll lose a toe this time? Shot in the butt?
Trump actually cant book indoor event spaces anymore. They've stuffed so many for his campaigns, they aren't interested in getting stiffed again. Thats how the butler pa event ended up outside.
Sooner or later one of these fake assassins is going to accidentally hit him.
Some attack will happen at these events.
Went to an MMA tournament and a fight broke out
Was it in the arena? I think thats supposed to happen. /s
Please note that this is the guy that hates the sight of wind turbines out in the distance. They ugly.
Wind turbines look freaking bad ass!
I absolutely agree
And unlike him, wind turbines serve a useful purpose
Even Don Quixote had a better reason for hating windmills.
WHO THE FUCK TOLD HIM ABOUT THE EIFFEL TOWER?
I swear there was a popular meme template years ago of him typing on his phone, and another panel of a search browser saying "what does a president do?". Can't find it now. But I imagine that template with a wiki page or the tower
"I wanted a tower, so I built one. France has a tower, and it's so bad, they call it The Awful Tower. My tower won't be awful, it'll be the best. It'll be so great that people will fight over it. And on it. Anyway, I gotta go take a shit."
The one in Las Vegas
There is nothing Trump has done that should be permanent.
He better permanently stay dead once he dies. When I would wish for the world to be more like a disney movie as a kid, I didn't mean Star Wars. I don't want to see headlines saying "Somehow, Trump has returned."
Is it illegal to kill someone who's already legally dead?
Asking for a friend...
He really is Palpatine isn't he, i guess Lucas needed to base the character on someone.
Except his prison time and number
Even that shouldn't be permanent, gives the bastard too much time to worm his way out of it
It's probably been mentioned many times already, but here it goes anyway:
"If you put a clown onto the throne, the clown will not turn into a king. The palace will turn into a circus."
He did appoint his TV Producer business partner as head of the intelligence service, who then missed the Russian invasion.
Started
now we here
as cathartic as that sounds, he doesn't care.
the only thing that he cares about is himself. the best punishment for him would be to be locked in a room with read only Internet to watch the world move on and him die not being able to be the center of attention.
the best way to win a game against a narcissist is to play a different game with impossible to follow rules for them.
Stick him into a mental hospital and make him play cooperative board games with the other inmates until he understands the concept.
He'll die first.
With Trump in it... Right?
No, too fast and painless. Not that it'd be painless, just not painful enough for him.
If you want to treat something down, treat the Golden Dick monument in Florida, the giant T on every Trump tower.
This whole term in the White House feels like the worst Airbnb trashing story and then some.
And, like a UFC event venue, will likely require fire hoses to wash out a good portion of the trash and stank.
Literally Idiocracy.
We blew past that shit, long ago!
Honestly I think this is great. Some tacky bloodsport arena is a refreshingly honest reflection of the true national character of this country.
Much more fitting than the weird civil religion stuff going on in the rest of the national mall. This country does not deserve dignity until it stops being a global force for evil.
Was mad, but yeah, honestly true. It's like when he renamed the Department of Defense back to the Department of War. A far more accurate reflection.
Weird Al?
Not surprising - Bonespurs thinks he's permanent too.
only talk about this. FUCK
STOP FALLING FOR IT
FOCUS ON NAZI ISSUES
PLURAL
ISSUES
STOP FALLING FOR IT
Everything is a distraction from everything else
No room for chariot races, fierce wild animals, or simulated naval battles. Pathetic indeed.
Relevant quote from Carl Sagan's "The Demon-Haunted World":
[The 1939 New York World's Fair's president] Grover Whalen - a former corporate executive, New York City police chief in a time of unprecedented police brutality, and public relations innovator [...] had convinced Stalin and Mussolini to build lavish national pavilions. (He later complained about how often he had been obliged to give the fascist salute.) The level of the exhibits, as one designer described it, was pitched to the mentality of a twelve-year-old.
Make it into a trailer park.
I hope the rain absolutely hammers down
What's his cut of the Brawndo sales?
It'll come down next week then.
TACO
I think Trump's imagining himself like this:
It's a picture from idiocracy of President Camacho sitting in his office.
But as has been pointed out many times, Camacho surrounded himself with the smartest people around, not with sycophants like little donnie two-scoops does.
Ya keep it around, maybe we can see if he wants to wrestle a grizzly bear sometime.
Trump is showing why Flordia needs to be cut off. Next month, we are adding plastic flamingos and a 2005 Dodge Ram with 3 rims, on blocks.
The whole WH needs to be bulldozed now. You are never getting the stench out.
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I work in events. That is a very temporary structure. The frame is aluminum trussing, and although it would hold up fairly well, all of the fabric will start bleaching within 3-4 weeks, the metal chains holding everything up will start rusting pretty quickly being exposed to the elements. The lights themselves aren’t IP rated and are relying on the fabric for protection so those will fail pretty quickly. Finally the stage itself has a wood underlayment that will rot within a single season if left outside.
Lastly it’s all rented and the rental company will continue to charge the client until it’s returned.
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