‘Cuz He’s Bored
You know, since there’s nothing going the hell on in the country,Trump decided to work on a vital mission.
And they all have to have small doorknobs to fit tiny little hands.
They say they want no modern architecture but they list Art Deco. Am I confused? Why don’t they just say that all government documents must be written on parchment paper and signed with a pen and one of those ink well things?
And remind yourself this is a man who thinks this is architecture —
My guess is that his staff is trying to find things for him to do to distract him.
Art Deco?!! Google the Bonwit Teller building in NYC and discover his love of Art Deco. 30 days. 30 days. 30 days.
1Why not just say it? He wants classic Dictator Style.
2The fu king moron wants his name on them perhaps? Forget it loser. Word is out that Donnie is also in the wondering phase of what airport should be named after him. Forget that, too, loser. Although Twitter had one good suggestion: lawhawk #maskingforafriend
@lawhawk
Replying to @samstein and @swin24
None in the US. There is one in Russia though that is appropriate:
Russia’s Bolshoye Savino Airport – IATA code: PEE
3If he even knows what those are, I’d be very surprised.
4So basically we have to spend excess dollars for fancy shmancy. However Federal buildings can’t “trump” local building ordinances as far as I know. This should be one of the executive orders add to the list of “Things that Biden should reverse”
and what I would really love is that when he reverses Trumps executive orders he has a televised ceremony and calls em like I see em – “I am reversing this order as this is the STUPIDEST thing I have ever seen”
5Sharon Grieff,
6I agree. Executive Order? Now? May as well write it with invisible ink on paper that biodegrades in air.
On the day where the country set another record for new coronavirus cases, he’s dreaming of staying in power and building the gaudiest government buildings so that anywhere he goes to empty his diapers, he’ll be sitting on gold toilet seats.
7Actually, I’m surprised he didn’t include southern confederate style buildings, too.
His last 2 biggest accomplishments this year, this executive order and space force. Make that his 2 accomplishments, period.
Don’t let him see the original Smithsonian Institution.
8I think his handlers are just trying to get him to concentrate on dopey projects that won’t kill us all. I hope.
9Does he want Bloody Stupid Johnson to design them too?
101. A Greek Revival border wall with Mexico?
2. Is he authorized to do this unless there’s a national architecture emergency?
11We had a few gracious buildings in my home town that were torn down and replaced with ugly blocks, so I have a fondness for some of the older classic styles (NOT Art Deco. Art Nouveau was charming with its graceful curve and naturalistic forms, but Art Deco is angular and pushy.) The post office and one of the banks had columns in front (the post office columns, made of wonderful fossil-heavy limestone, fascinated me, and the tile floor was lovely, cool, and colorful.) The high school had a columned front portico and a high-ceilinged first floor entrance, and some molded (I think) classical sculptural elements over a back entrance. They tore it down after our class graduated and replaced it with an ugly box, windowless and gray inside and out. I visited it once, and my reaction was to drive immediately to a drugstore, buy a box of chocolates, go home and eat the lot–the only time in my life I’ve done that. I was down to the last two chocolates when I realized the connection–it was so negative.
BUT…Trump’s gilded cage effect makes me want to order a dozen chocolate babkas from a New York bakery and consume one a day, to get that disgusting French Empire look out of my brain. Little Fake Napoleon I hope will spend time in the prison equivalent of the “new” high school (it’s not new now; it’s probably not even there.)
12‘Why don’t they just say that all government documents must be written on parchment paper and signed with a pen and one of those ink well things?’
Because those documents are being shredded, burned and scattered over the Potomac late at night.
13Rick @#6
14May as well write it with invisible ink on paper that biodegrades in air.
Maybe that’s what they did!
What happened was that when few people could go to high school, towns took pride in their high schools and spent money to make them impressive.
Later, when low-rent people started going to high school, the social eclat disappeared and also the reason for making the buildings more than factories.
How few went to hs? Well, Harding, who grew up in a prosperous town of 10,000, was one of 10 graduates in 1890.
You should see those old diplomas. Sheets of parchment the size of a card table engrossed and beautified with something called pen-flourishing (an extinct art).
15Pen-flourishing isn’t extinct … one high school classmate made a pretty solid business out of calligraphy for a variety of occasions.
There is a White House chief calligrapher (and a couple of others in the office) — your tax dollars at work to the tune of $104,200 in 2018, and about another $250,000 for the two assistants and office supplies. The chief calligrapher recently retired — and of course, set up a business for private commissions and teaching: https://www.patblaircalligraphy.com/about
16That’s pretty — and I didn’t know about it — but it’s nothing like as elaborate as what I’ve seen from my great grandfather’s time
17@Mike, #10: Trump IS Bloody Stupid Johnson, without the talent.
18OMG! Architecture? Have you ever seen the lobby of the Trump Hotel in D.C.? Its so bad it can’t even be classified. Its, shall we say for the lack of other words, a nightmare. I think he came up with the idea for that decor during one of his nights when he was phantasizing on the Twitter wire.
19Federal Buildings, like a new federal prison perhaps?
Honestly, I think Trump just wants to create nuisance people and nuisance orders in that spoil sport kind of way. These are all meant to tie up Biden’s administration from getting real work done–and provide that photo op/narrative for Right-wingers about how Biden took a hacksaw to all the good Trump had done the moment he got in office.
Similar to many of the comments that it seemed most of Trumps efforts were aimed at erasing any action Obama got done.
But I like thinking it is to make sure that the new Trump Federal Pen is gilded gloriously for him, his family, and his cronies.
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