In Donald Trump’s eagerness to leave his mark on the nation’s Capitol, he has launched numerous renovations and new projects. His gaudy ballroom is his heart’s desire, but he also loves his triumphal arch towering over the District.
And then there’s his plan for a “national garden of heroes.”
Present plans include about 250 statues. Here is his list of honorees.
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He does seem to think that all his demands will be completed this year in time for the 250th birthday. I see his own statue is not included in the list. How long before he adds it?
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Once this statue of heroes is underway, his will be there. Count on it.
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Interesting. Inclusion of people of color considering all that have been removed from honor in the history of the military by our fake Secretary of Defense. Also note, mostly conservatives. Liberals do not rate as heroes.
In passing, I lived through Reagan. I do not consider him a hero. He was the start of all the problems we are having today. Not as bad as Nixon or Trump but right up there close.
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The list of heroes includes: Alex Trebek, former Jeopardy host; Billy Graham, televangelist; Milton Friedman, libertarian economist; and Barry Goldwater, president not. That is quite the list right there. What heroes. A game show host.
I’ll take Irksome Idolatry for 200, Alex.
This exhibition in a nation’s capital is predicted by theological experts to signal the end of the world.
What is a statue of Billy Graham right alongside Eleanor Roosevelt in the Garden of Heroes?
That’s right. That takes you to 200.
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TRUMP IS SUFFERING FROM “DEATH ANXIETY” — People are wondering why Trump is scrambling to put his name on everything. Well, it’s because he wants to be remembered after he dies. Trump has also been making remarks about if he will get into heaven. “I don’t think that there’s anything going to get me into heaven…I really don’t,” he said during a TV interview on Fox News with Fox’s Peter Doocy.
Psychiatrists know that people begin to think about their chances of getting into heaven when they know that their death is near. In psychiatry, it’s known as “DEATH ANXIETY”.
People with Death Anxiety can’t sleep at night (Trump texts throughout most nights) so they are drowsy during the day (Trump falls asleep even in high level cabinet meetings), they become mentally confused when giving talks (Trump wanders off-topic constantly), and they frequently rage at others the way that Trump again and again rages at reporters and even at the leaders of our allied nations.
People with Death Anxiety are also preoccupied with being remembered after they’re dead: That’s why Trump is plastering America with his name and picture.
HEART FAILURE: Trump’s swollen legs and ankles are a classic indication of congestive heart failure, a diagnosis supported by the constant bruises in the backs of his hands which are typical of frequent IVs to drain excessive fluids from his body to delay inevitable heart failure as long as possible. Death could come at any minute and Trump’s realization of that fact is most likely the cause of Trump’s Death Anxiety. The reason why Trump is building a medical center beneath his White House ballroom is because Trump needs to be close to immediate medical treatment.
FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA — Clinical psychiatrists observing Trump’s erratic behavior, his memory lapses, his confusion, and his unsteady gait, diagnose him as having frontotemporal dementia.
ANGRY, CURSE-WORD-FILLED outbursts are one of the characteristic behaviors of someone who has frontotemporal dementia. Trump’s outbursts even include public use of the F-word in speeches which is an embarrassment to America and something that no President has ever done in public in front of the entire world.
DELUSIONS are another behavior someone with frontotemporal dementia shows, such as Trump’s delusional insistence that Iran was building nuclear weapons, while at the same time he was saying that, Trump’s own White House officials were telling Congress under oath that Iran was not building nuclear weapons and was no threat to the United States.
WHAT HAPPENS TO ALL OF US if during one of Trump’s 3 a.m. rants on social media, Trump is struck with the delusional dementia belief that China is about to launch missiles at us and so Trump orders a pre-emptive nuclear missile strike? All the sensible Pentagon generals with actual war experience have been fired by Hegseth and replaced with Hegseth’s “warriors” who are only too eager to push that red Launch button. There is no place for us to hide from China’s missile response to that dementia delusion. Nuclear missiles will fly in both directions, the atmosphere of the entire planet will become toxic…Earth dies…we all die.
God, help us.
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Dolley Madison is not the person who saved the Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington. It was a slave in the White House. This is one of most repeated and commonly believed untrue statements in US History. According to the memoir of a man raised as a slave at Montpelier who was still in the possession of Dolley Madison after the death of her husband and who later was bought by an abolitionist who made him work for 15 months to pay off his purchase price, Mrs. Madison had already fled the White House when the painting was removed. Much later, when she was impoverished he would periodically buy her food so she would not starve.
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Ken, can you cite a source?
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Memoir of Paul Jennings, published 1865, who was enslaved in both Montpelier and Washington DC. White House Historical site gives Dolley credit for direction the removal, but she had left before it was removed. He was in service to the Madisons for 48 years. You can find some information on him here https://www.nps.gov/people/paul-jennings.htm#:~:text=A%20slave%20in%20the%20service,slave%20in%20the%20White%20House. The bit about haveing to repay Webster over 15 months I think I got from his memoir, but I might have gotten it from elsewhere.
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Thank you!
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