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allegorical oracle

(6,624 posts)
Wed Jun 3, 2026, 06:46 AM Yesterday

Trump threatens to keep the UFC construction up permanently -- like the Eiffel Tower.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday compared the structure being built on the South Lawn of the White House for this month’s UFC fight to the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

And he thinks it might have a similar fate.

Speaking in a TikTok video, the president said the Eiffel Tower was a temporary structure set up for the 1889 Paris Exposition.
“It was supposed to be taken down immediately after the world’s fair,” he said. “Well, they never took it down.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-now-says-this-bizarre-white-house-addition-might-never-ever-go-away/ar-AA24HZtW

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Trump threatens to keep the UFC construction up permanently -- like the Eiffel Tower. (Original Post) allegorical oracle Yesterday OP
Epstein Epstein Epstein gab13by13 Yesterday #1
The Epstein Thunderdome Intractable Yesterday #2
100% Blue Full Moon Yesterday #18
Every... 2naSalit Yesterday #3
Not just that. OldBaldy1701E Yesterday #14
So agree. It's taking a lot of time to install this monstrosity. He knows it's going to be allegorical oracle Yesterday #64
And when they cart it away, calimary 22 hrs ago #67
Add a couple junk cars Farmer-Rick 22 hrs ago #70
Many Frenchmen will come to see it, miniatures of the 'Trump UFC Cage' will be sold for $250 in the WH Gift Shop. sop Yesterday #4
Funny! rubbersole Yesterday #15
;-{)...... Goonch Yesterday #5
More and more PatSeg Yesterday #41
Biff Tannen's Pleasure Paradise from 'Back to the Future' sop 8 hrs ago #76
The world has become one big satirical movie PatSeg 6 hrs ago #80
I fully expect Trump will climb into the ring for a carefully staged beatdown of one of the UFC fighters. sop 6 hrs ago #81
And you just know PatSeg 5 hrs ago #82
Read that djt said the venue will seat more than 4,500. Seems like somebody will be allegorical oracle 5 hrs ago #84
It's not his effin property malaise Yesterday #6
I've got a great idea for my sign for the next protest: Initech Yesterday #60
Great idea malaise Yesterday #61
Trump should set up his UFC Cage Claw on the front lawn at Mar-a-Lago, let his paying guests enjoy the spectacle. sop 4 hrs ago #87
Nailed it malaise 4 hrs ago #88
Baby man says what? littlemissmartypants Yesterday #7
Someone MUST teach Donald to use GOOGLE! homegirl Yesterday #62
Orrex knows how this nightmare ends IronLionZion Yesterday #8
anything he does is schlok. it can all be undone, some easy some expensive, but all undone. nt Javaman Yesterday #9
Except for the damage to our international reputation. I'm not sure that will ever be completely undone. (n/t) thesquanderer Yesterday #31
I was talk about the purely aesthetic. Javaman 8 hrs ago #75
Oh my... GiqueCee Yesterday #10
For all his supposed wealth... Trueblue Texan Yesterday #11
There are plenty of super wealthy people who prove that just because you have money, doesn't mean you have style mwmisses4289 Yesterday #12
Class. rubbersole Yesterday #16
Heard! Dem_in_Nebr. Yesterday #24
Nailed it malaise Yesterday #34
I think I saw where the Presidential Limousine Seinan Sensei Yesterday #44
white trash to the bone. pansypoo53219 Yesterday #58
Sounds like squatting to me purr-rat beauty Yesterday #13
Charge him for cleaning up his crap. chowder66 Yesterday #17
My town would charge him with code violations... Trueblue Texan 22 hrs ago #66
Maybe the next president can dismantle it ... JustABozoOnThisBus Yesterday #19
New York City wouldn't let Trump build this bullshit Dave Id Yesterday #20
The Donald J Trump Dave Id Yesterday #21
Are they going to add something like the Madame Brasserie restaurant and... Ol Janx Spirit Yesterday #22
He'll have a Madam Brassiere restaurant, colloquially known as the Stormy Daniels. (n/t) thesquanderer Yesterday #30
Ha! Ol Janx Spirit Yesterday #38
Markwayne Mullen was an MMA fighter Seinan Sensei Yesterday #53
Oh yeah! It was childish for a congressional hearing, but would fit right in... Ol Janx Spirit 17 hrs ago #72
It can easily be converted to a funeral tent. twodogsbarking Yesterday #23
I like positive thinking 🤔 MustLoveBeagles Yesterday #54
Boo Hiss - no Snedley Whiplash you don't get to keep that desecration lark Yesterday #25
Another tRump eyesore bif Yesterday #26
Arrest the President Blues Heron Yesterday #27
Imagine have to fly Marine 1 around the flag poles and then this. Historic NY Yesterday #28
If karma exists it will rain so hard the reflecting pool actually fills up.... n/t Ol Janx Spirit Yesterday #39
It'll need a marquee commensurate with Rump's sophistication and taste. Buns_of_Fire Yesterday #29
Every single day we awake to another Trump atrocity Grim Chieftain Yesterday #32
In other words mercuryblues Yesterday #33
Called it. NT Happy Hoosier Yesterday #35
The demented geezer has given up on Iran and the economy. Now he's just trolling the citizenry and exacting revenge on Martin68 Yesterday #36
The Russians he so admires have a word for someone as classless... 3catwoman3 Yesterday #37
Ah, TY... also... electric_blue68 14 hrs ago #73
My own alliterative favorite string of adjectives... 3catwoman3 10 hrs ago #74
Heh. Good set of words. electric_blue68 5 hrs ago #83
He's obsessed with enshittifying everything he can get his stubby fingers on Rob H. Yesterday #40
"Enshittifying"!!! PatSeg Yesterday #42
I wish I could claim credit for that word Rob H. Yesterday #43
It is getting so hard to find good words PatSeg Yesterday #50
Cory Doctorow coined the term. NT Happy Hoosier Yesterday #52
Cory Doctorow I believe whopis01 Yesterday #56
Like Rick Wilson said..."Everything he touches turns to shit," eh? Our WH, now. nt allegorical oracle Yesterday #65
Eiffel Tower? More like one of those popup gypsy amusement rides Bluetus Yesterday #45
Well Then, Mr.Bee Yesterday #46
I've been predicting this. Liberal In Texas Yesterday #47
I hope it gets demolished by a wrecking ball named Dark Brandon. Crowman2009 Yesterday #48
It gets blown up as soon as you die or leave office, you jackass. paleotn Yesterday #49
It will probably fall down on its own long before that. GoCubsGo 7 hrs ago #79
For the Trump Administration MissouriDem47 Yesterday #51
Keep it up, A$$HOLE; your comeuppance is coming. Martin Eden Yesterday #55
Nope. He can't. Just more Trump Bluster Raven123 Yesterday #57
The next administration must restore the White House to its' former glory! Initech Yesterday #59
Hope so. The view of the WH south portico is one of the nicest and now it's allegorical oracle 5 hrs ago #86
"Piggy threatens..." MorbidButterflyTat Yesterday #63
Classy PJMcK 22 hrs ago #68
See; this is how he consistently maintains media dominance... EarthFirst 22 hrs ago #69
He'll likely retrofit it for some other spectator sport .... eppur_se_muova 21 hrs ago #71
More like The Colleseum no_hypocrisy 8 hrs ago #77
How long does he think permanently is. I make it two years or less. Walleye 8 hrs ago #78
I can think of one itty-bitty problem jmowreader 5 hrs ago #85

2naSalit

(104,072 posts)
3. Every...
Wed Jun 3, 2026, 07:03 AM
Yesterday

Fucking eyesore piece of shit he disgraces the capitol city with shall be dismantled immediately upon his leaving. And he WILL leave one way or another. Apparently he prefers the hard way every time.

OldBaldy1701E

(11,670 posts)
14. Not just that.
Wed Jun 3, 2026, 08:07 AM
Yesterday

As far as I am concerned, we need to force him and his companies to clean it all up. Any one who was in on the deals that this regime has made should also be held accountable for insider business practices and illegal manipulations of the markets. (Hey, they love to complain about this all the time anyway, so use it against them.)

Also, we need to let him know that everything has to be put back just like it was, or even more time will be added to his life sentence. (He won't understand what that means, but adding any kind of punishment will just set him off even more.) If there is no 'means' for his companies to do it, then he himself has to get out there with a crowbar and a sledge. He made the mess, he can clean it up.

Just like my mother told me every time I made one.

allegorical oracle

(6,624 posts)
64. So agree. It's taking a lot of time to install this monstrosity. He knows it's going to be
Wed Jun 3, 2026, 03:36 PM
Yesterday

costly to tear it down and cart it away.

calimary

(91,061 posts)
67. And when they cart it away,
Wed Jun 3, 2026, 05:24 PM
22 hrs ago

It could go to Mar-a-Lago, and dumped right in front.

(That way, he gets to keep it!)

Farmer-Rick

(12,802 posts)
70. Add a couple junk cars
Wed Jun 3, 2026, 05:59 PM
22 hrs ago

And a few rusted trailer homes and you got pedo Trump's perfect environment. But only if it's all painted gold.

sop

(19,566 posts)
4. Many Frenchmen will come to see it, miniatures of the 'Trump UFC Cage' will be sold for $250 in the WH Gift Shop.
Wed Jun 3, 2026, 07:06 AM
Yesterday

PatSeg

(53,729 posts)
41. More and more
Wed Jun 3, 2026, 11:23 AM
Yesterday

Trump's White House is looking like President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho's White House, except Camacho wasn't a raging narcissist bent on destroying the world.

PatSeg

(53,729 posts)
80. The world has become one big satirical movie
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 09:43 AM
6 hrs ago

Biff was supposed to be an exaggeration, but Trump has become an exaggeration of both Biff and Camacho.

sop

(19,566 posts)
81. I fully expect Trump will climb into the ring for a carefully staged beatdown of one of the UFC fighters.
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 10:01 AM
6 hrs ago

Idiocracy indeed.

allegorical oracle

(6,624 posts)
84. Read that djt said the venue will seat more than 4,500. Seems like somebody will be
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 10:31 AM
5 hrs ago

conducting a slew of background checks. Afterall, a potential assassin even showed up at the WH Correspondents' Dinner -- a room full of journalists, not UFC fans.

Initech

(109,401 posts)
60. I've got a great idea for my sign for the next protest:
Wed Jun 3, 2026, 03:01 PM
Yesterday

"DONALD TRUMP DID TO THE WHITE HOUSE WHAT OSAMA BIN LADEN ONLY TRIED TO"

And show the before and after pictures.

sop

(19,566 posts)
87. Trump should set up his UFC Cage Claw on the front lawn at Mar-a-Lago, let his paying guests enjoy the spectacle.
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 11:19 AM
4 hrs ago

He won't because that's his property, and he doesn't want to trash it. He's turned the White House into a tacky shit hole, much like he has the rest of the country. His goal is to destroy America.

malaise

(298,524 posts)
88. Nailed it
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 11:26 AM
4 hrs ago

In his twisted mind, he is the only consequential ruler in history.
I’m not sure megalomaniac quite described this self absorbed buffoon.

homegirl

(2,008 posts)
62. Someone MUST teach Donald to use GOOGLE!
Wed Jun 3, 2026, 03:19 PM
Yesterday

The Eiffel Tower was built for the 1889 Exposition Universelle to celebrate the centennial of the French Revolution. Designed by Maurice Koechlin and Émile Nouguier and spearheaded by Gustave Eiffel, it was initially intended to stand for 20 years before being dismantled. It was saved from demolition after proving its value as a massive radio telegraph station.

thesquanderer

(13,141 posts)
31. Except for the damage to our international reputation. I'm not sure that will ever be completely undone. (n/t)
Wed Jun 3, 2026, 09:08 AM
Yesterday

Javaman

(66,007 posts)
75. I was talk about the purely aesthetic.
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 07:16 AM
8 hrs ago

regarding our position in the world? naaa, we're fucked for the long term

GiqueCee

(4,903 posts)
10. Oh my...
Wed Jun 3, 2026, 07:42 AM
Yesterday

... the Orange Gargoyle actually uttered something true.
The Eiffel Tower was scheduled for demolition in 1910, but it was proven to be too valuable a resource, both for science and critical military functions. A claim that Trump's repulsive abortion cannot make. May it collapse and fall on his head.

Trueblue Texan

(4,670 posts)
11. For all his supposed wealth...
Wed Jun 3, 2026, 07:43 AM
Yesterday

...he is the trashiest, tackiest tenant ever! He doesn't pay his bills; his yard looks like a dump; he takes classic interior and exterior decor and cheapens them with flashy, fake, CHEAP crap. He starts deconstruction projects on the property before he has any idea about how to get clearance to proceed with construction--just tears shit up and leave it that way; Everywhere he goes, he leaves a huge mess. Cleaning up after him is impossible while he is still in residence. Who would want someone like that as a neighbor, much less a president? EVICT him! That may actually be more attainable than impeachment.

mwmisses4289

(4,876 posts)
12. There are plenty of super wealthy people who prove that just because you have money, doesn't mean you have style
Wed Jun 3, 2026, 08:01 AM
Yesterday

or taste or elegance or whatever you want to call it.

Seinan Sensei

(1,671 posts)
44. I think I saw where the Presidential Limousine
Wed Jun 3, 2026, 11:42 AM
Yesterday

… is up on concrete blocks in the backyard of the White House

Trueblue Texan

(4,670 posts)
66. My town would charge him with code violations...
Wed Jun 3, 2026, 05:16 PM
22 hrs ago

...which is a nice way of saying, "mow your damn grass and clean the place up!"

JustABozoOnThisBus

(24,742 posts)
19. Maybe the next president can dismantle it ...
Wed Jun 3, 2026, 08:34 AM
Yesterday

... and send the pieces to the Trump Presidential Lie-berry.

It'll look good next to an inoperable jumbo jet.

Dave Id

(345 posts)
20. New York City wouldn't let Trump build this bullshit
Wed Jun 3, 2026, 08:41 AM
Yesterday

so that now he's 'king of America', he can destroy and or build anything he wants to. He seems believe he own the White House and surrounding property. He's MAGAts do also.

Ol Janx Spirit

(1,101 posts)
22. Are they going to add something like the Madame Brasserie restaurant and...
Wed Jun 3, 2026, 08:46 AM
Yesterday

...The Champagne Bar on the arched monstrosity so we can at least savor a flute of champagne as we take in the views of the Fuhrerbunker and the Arc de Shitforbrains from its lofty perch above our once beloved Whitetrashington?

Or, are we descending into something more like Roman times with a permanent fight cage to entertain the people?

Will there be a Vance vs. Rubio pay-per-view slap fight? I might watch that.



I wonder how much they will charge for people to get married under its soon-to-be iconic profile?

Seinan Sensei

(1,671 posts)
53. Markwayne Mullen was an MMA fighter
Wed Jun 3, 2026, 12:04 PM
Yesterday

Well sort of.
MW had three MMA matches.
Two of them against the same guy.

I think Markwayne should get in the Octagon with Sean O’Brien, President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
You remember Sean O’Brien.
Markwayne went full-blown Poser (“stand your butt up!”) on Sean during a congressional hearing.

Which is to say, that if they ever did put on the gloves, I’d have all my money on the Teamster.

Ol Janx Spirit

(1,101 posts)
72. Oh yeah! It was childish for a congressional hearing, but would fit right in...
Wed Jun 3, 2026, 10:29 PM
17 hrs ago

...with whatever the fresh hell is that we are living through with this "fight" on the White House lawn.

I would watch that fight though. Even if MW won the fight there might be some bad things happening to him later on....

Historic NY

(40,162 posts)
28. Imagine have to fly Marine 1 around the flag poles and then this.
Wed Jun 3, 2026, 09:02 AM
Yesterday

I hear the participants are having second thoughts about this outside arena

Buns_of_Fire

(19,238 posts)
29. It'll need a marquee commensurate with Rump's sophistication and taste.
Wed Jun 3, 2026, 09:03 AM
Yesterday

Something like

THIS SUNDAY: ALL-AMERICAN MONSTER TRUCK RACES!

Mud Wrassiln' Every Tuesday and Friday

Grim Chieftain

(2,146 posts)
32. Every single day we awake to another Trump atrocity
Wed Jun 3, 2026, 09:14 AM
Yesterday

He is destroying everything he touches and everything we hold dear. For the love of all sanity, will this ever end?

Martin68

(28,129 posts)
36. The demented geezer has given up on Iran and the economy. Now he's just trolling the citizenry and exacting revenge on
Wed Jun 3, 2026, 09:56 AM
Yesterday

all his enemies, both perceived and real.

3catwoman3

(29,907 posts)
37. The Russians he so admires have a word for someone as classless...
Wed Jun 3, 2026, 10:54 AM
Yesterday

...as Trump - nekulturny. It means uncultured or uncivilized, and from various sources I've read, is considered a serious insult and conveys great disdain.

electric_blue68

(27,484 posts)
73. Ah, TY... also...
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 02:00 AM
14 hrs ago

Accordding to google:

rude, boorish, discourteous, unmannered, ignorant, uncultured.

All, amongst other things describe drumphf perfectly!

3catwoman3

(29,907 posts)
74. My own alliterative favorite string of adjectives...
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 05:34 AM
10 hrs ago

…is - coarse, crass, common, crude, and contemptible.

Rob H.

(5,959 posts)
40. He's obsessed with enshittifying everything he can get his stubby fingers on
Wed Jun 3, 2026, 11:18 AM
Yesterday

It's enraging that he keeps doing these things to properties he doesn't own and won't have to pay anything to restore any of them.

Rob H.

(5,959 posts)
43. I wish I could claim credit for that word
Wed Jun 3, 2026, 11:40 AM
Yesterday

I don't remember where I first saw it, but it sums up what he's doing perfectly.

PatSeg

(53,729 posts)
50. It is getting so hard to find good words
Wed Jun 3, 2026, 11:58 AM
Yesterday

to describe him and his presidency these days, so we have to makeup new ones. I think the Scots take the prize for the absolute best though.

Bluetus

(3,172 posts)
45. Eiffel Tower? More like one of those popup gypsy amusement rides
Wed Jun 3, 2026, 11:49 AM
Yesterday

that sprout overnight in whatever dilapidated, abandoned 1970s shopping mall parking lot is available. We should be running a crowdfunding campaign taking pledges for tearing down each of Trump's edifices with the proceeds going to charity. Trump needs to see millions of dollars of pledges for each thing:

- every grand banner with his hideous orange mug. I'd pledge $25 to be in a raffle to be the one to tear down the banner at DoJ or the Pentagon.
- I'd pledge $100 to be in a lottery to be the one who pushes the button to bring toen the ballroon or the Great Gate of Trump

And so on. I'm 100% serious about this.if the DNC wants my money, THIS is the sort of aggressive messaging they should be pushing.

Liberal In Texas

(16,472 posts)
47. I've been predicting this.
Wed Jun 3, 2026, 11:52 AM
Yesterday

He's building his own little empire in DC.
Anybody think he will leave willingly at the end of his term?

paleotn

(22,870 posts)
49. It gets blown up as soon as you die or leave office, you jackass.
Wed Jun 3, 2026, 11:55 AM
Yesterday

Preferably with him strapped to it. Live or stinking carcass. Makes no difference. Go one better than what Charles II did to Oliver Cromwell. For similar reasons. Revenge can be so sweet!

GoCubsGo

(35,043 posts)
79. It will probably fall down on its own long before that.
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 08:04 AM
7 hrs ago

I'm sure that, like everything else Trump builds, this thing was poorly-constructed, using cheap materials. Just have to hope he and his bootlickers are underneath it when it collapses.

MissouriDem47

(447 posts)
51. For the Trump Administration
Wed Jun 3, 2026, 12:01 PM
Yesterday

Leaving that nonsense on the White House grounds would be appropriate as it is a true reflection of their priorities.

Martin Eden

(15,941 posts)
55. Keep it up, A$$HOLE; your comeuppance is coming.
Wed Jun 3, 2026, 12:10 PM
Yesterday

Perhaps not swiftly, but justice -- legal or cosmic -- will be done.

Initech

(109,401 posts)
59. The next administration must restore the White House to its' former glory!
Wed Jun 3, 2026, 03:00 PM
Yesterday

And make it so no jackass with a wrecking ball can do as much damage as the fucking asshole has done.

allegorical oracle

(6,624 posts)
86. Hope so. The view of the WH south portico is one of the nicest and now it's
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 10:39 AM
5 hrs ago

blocked off. So far, he's ruined the East side (rose garden/ballroom) and now the south side. He's got two more sides to go.

MorbidButterflyTat

(4,840 posts)
63. "Piggy threatens..."
Wed Jun 3, 2026, 03:31 PM
Yesterday

Ooooh! Scary!

He's barely coherent. A worm is more threatening than that slovenly sack of crap.

PJMcK

(25,159 posts)
68. Classy
Wed Jun 3, 2026, 05:24 PM
22 hrs ago

I heard Trump’s Oval Office re-decorating called Temu Bukake.

Trump is a low-life slob.

EarthFirst

(4,236 posts)
69. See; this is how he consistently maintains media dominance...
Wed Jun 3, 2026, 05:29 PM
22 hrs ago

…by just saying the most ridiculous outlandish things; and the media runs with it every time.

Just “Sure Jan…” and allow it fester in silent irrelevance.

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