zang
Senior Member
Nixon had a similar cult-like following amongst Republicans until he didn't. Nixon did however, have enough shame to know when to call it quits.
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afransen
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If Trump leaves before the end of his term, it will be in a pine box.
Richard White
Senior Member
Hopefully from BC
adma
Superstar
Either that, or he'll erect a mausoleum on the WH grounds, ensuring that he'll never leave.
thettctransitfanatic
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Huge ‘8647’ etched into grass on the National Mall, aerial images show
The numbers “8647” — a phrase generally used to signal opposition to President Donald Trump — appeared etched into the grass on the National Mall on Thursday, days before massive crowds are expected in the area for a UFC match on Trump’s birthday on Sunday.
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Huge ‘8647’ etched into grass on the National Mall, aerial images show
The numbers “8647” — a phrase generally used to signal opposition to U.S. President Donald Trump — appeared etched into the grass on the National Mall on Thursday, days before massive crowds are expected in the area for a UFC match on Trump’s birthday on Sunday. Live webcam images from the top of the Washington Monument show the numbers appearing as dead grass along a large portion of the Mall, east of the World War II Memorial. It’s not clear when the markings first appeared. The numbers were not visible in photos from Getty Images of the National Mall taken on June 5. The markings did not appear to be easily distinguishable from the ground level Thursday afternoon. Witnesses said several emergency vehicles blocked off the area around 1 p.m., while the US Army Golden Knights parachute team landed on the Mall. White House spokesman Davis Ingle told CNN “anyone who engages in or endorses political violence or assassination culture must be condemned in the harshest terms possible.” The Secret Service and FBI deferred comment to the US Park Police, who the agencies said was handling the investigation into the markings. A law enforcement source told CNN the Secret Service will partner with the Park Police when officials locate a suspect. A spokesperson for the Park Police said the cause of the discoloration of the grass has not been determined. Samples were collected for testing, the spokesperson said.EarthCam captures the phrase “8647” gradually appear on the National Mall
Footage from EarthCam shows the numbers “8647” slowly emerging over the course of a few days on the National Mall. A spokesperson for the Department of Interior, which manages the National Mall, described the markings as “deranged vandalism” which “will not be tolerated” in a statement. “Any threat against the President is taken very seriously by the Department, and our U.S. Park Police will investigate this incident and hold those responsible accountable,” the spokesperson said. The numbers have been used to signal opposition to Trump, though his administration has interpreted them as a threat against the president. In April, former FBI Director James Comey was indicted by the Department of Justice on charges of threatening the president for posting an image on Instagram showing the numbers spelled out in sea shells. The number “86” is often used as a code in the restaurant industry meaning to get rid of or remove an order or patron, while Trump is the 47th president.
thettctransitfanatic
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Trump's arch construction to run 20 hours a day for 2 to 3 years, documents show
To complete Trump's "Triumphal Arch" by the time he leaves office, construction would run 20 hours a day over the next two to three years, according to planning docs.
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Trump's arch construction to run 20 hours a day for 2 to 3 years, documents show
Plans show construction will require multiple cranes up to 320 feet tall.To complete Donald Trump's "Triumphal Arch" by the time he leaves office, the National Park Service plans to have construction take place 20 hours per day over the next two to three years, according to planning documents released by the Department of the Interior. The National Park Service last week released designs, renderings and reports related to the planned arch as it seeks public comment about the controversial addition to the D.C. skyline. "Because the Arch is intended to celebrate 250 years of American independence. ... smaller heights were not considered representative of this milestone, unlike the 250-foot Arch proposed in the undertaking," one of the reports said about the size of the project. The project is being challenged in federal court, though lawsuits challenging the arch, and other projects like Trump's White House Ballroom, planned golf course renovations and the repainting and sealing of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool have so far been unsuccessful in stopping work. Current designs call for the massive arch to be constructed out of concrete and clad with U.S.-sourced granite -- a departure from some of the older D.C. monuments which are constructed from marble or limestone.
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UtakataNoAnnex
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...not sure if Albert Speer could of spit them out faster. /bleh
zang
Senior Member
Huge ‘8647’ etched into grass on the National Mall, aerial images show
The numbers “8647” — a phrase generally used to signal opposition to President Donald Trump — appeared etched into the grass on the National Mall on Thursday, days before massive crowds are expected in the area for a UFC match on Trump’s birthday on Sunday.Huge ‘8647’ etched into grass on the National Mall, aerial images show
Assassinating what? Grass?
I really hope it's Diet Coke.
afransen
Senior Member
No one should be hoping for his assassination. That would cause a political conflagration and likely delay MAGA being swept away. He doesn't deserve to be a martyr.
Monarch Butterfly
Superstar
The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. With the USA having allegedly the largest prison population in the so-called democracies, Trump may have a source of cheap labour to do the construction.
UtakataNoAnnex
Superstar
There’s also a difference between meeting his end and meeting his assassin. That is, it’s okay to celebrate the former and less okay for the latter.
thettctransitfanatic
Senior Member
Judge rules Trump can stage UFC fights at White House | AP News
A federal judge ruled on Friday that the White House is allowed to stage a UFC show this weekend in an elaborate ring already built on the South Lawn to celebrate the nation’s 250th anniversary — on President Donald Trump’s 80th birthday.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta rejected a legal advocacy group’s request to block organizers from using the White House lawn as the venue for Sunday’s planned UFC mixed martial arts event.
Mehta concluded that the plaintiffs likely don’t have legal standing to challenge the event and have failed to prove that they would suffer irreparable harm by the event going forward as planned. The judge also cited the plaintiffs’ “unreasonable delay” in suing to challenge an event that’s been in the works for months.
“In the context of an emergency application — and coupled with the fact that the UFC fight date was long ago known — it is fair to say Plaintiffs unreasonably delayed bringing suit, undercutting their claims of irreparable harm,” Mehta wrote.
Attorneys from the nonprofit Public Integrity Project sued to challenge Trump’s “UFC Freedom 250” event on behalf of an activist and a Vietnam War veteran. The two plaintiffs also asked the court to block organizers from building anything for the event on White House grounds, including a 92-foot-tall, 600-ton steel structure called The Claw.
The plaintiffs’ alleged “aesthetic harms,” the judge noted, are temporary since The Claw will be disassembled starting Monday morning and staging equipment at the Lincoln Memorial must be removed before then. “The President’s musings about permanency of the Claw does not move the dial in the face of a White House official’s clear representation,” the judge wrote.
The White House called the lawsuit a baseless attempt to prevent Trump from hosting an event that’s no different from many others routinely hosted at public forums in the nation’s capital.
Trump’s administration can’t issue permits for sporting events on the South Lawn or at the Lincoln Memorial, where UFC fighters planned to hold a press conference in front of fans on Friday, according to plaintiffs’ attorneys. They noted that the event is a privately organized, for-profit business venture, with VIP packages costing millions of dollars.
“The President’s administration is granting the UFC an extraordinary business opportunity it may not lawfully grant, and in exchange the UFC is throwing an event at which its leadership, fighters, advertisers, and various celebrities will all pay tribute to the President on his birthday,” plaintiffs’ attorneys wrote.
Public Integrity Project attorney Brendan Ballou said the plaintiffs were disappointed in the judge’s decision but respect it and intend to “keep bringing cases to raise the cost of corruption in America.”
“This isn’t a case about a sporting event, it’s about corruption, as a handful of people and companies stand to profit from our public monuments,” Ballou said in a statement.
The National Park Service and the Interior Department are named as defendants in the lawsuit.
In 2019, during his first term in office, Trump became the first sitting president to attend a UFC show. Trump, a Republican, is a friend of UFC president and CEO Dana White.
Mehta was nominated to the bench by President Barack Obama, a Democrat. Mehta has presided over other Trump-related cases, including civil litigation accusing Trump of inciting a mob of his supporters to attack the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, after he lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden, a Democrat.
Judge rules Trump can stage UFC fights on the White House’s South Lawn this weekend
A federal judge ruled on Friday that the White House is allowed to stage a UFC show this weekend in an elaborate ring already built on the South Lawn to celebrate the nation’s 250th anniversary — on President Donald Trump’s 80th birthday.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta rejected a legal advocacy group’s request to block organizers from using the White House lawn as the venue for Sunday’s planned UFC mixed martial arts event.
Mehta concluded that the plaintiffs likely don’t have legal standing to challenge the event and have failed to prove that they would suffer irreparable harm by the event going forward as planned. The judge also cited the plaintiffs’ “unreasonable delay” in suing to challenge an event that’s been in the works for months.
“In the context of an emergency application — and coupled with the fact that the UFC fight date was long ago known — it is fair to say Plaintiffs unreasonably delayed bringing suit, undercutting their claims of irreparable harm,” Mehta wrote.
Attorneys from the nonprofit Public Integrity Project sued to challenge Trump’s “UFC Freedom 250” event on behalf of an activist and a Vietnam War veteran. The two plaintiffs also asked the court to block organizers from building anything for the event on White House grounds, including a 92-foot-tall, 600-ton steel structure called The Claw.
The plaintiffs’ alleged “aesthetic harms,” the judge noted, are temporary since The Claw will be disassembled starting Monday morning and staging equipment at the Lincoln Memorial must be removed before then. “The President’s musings about permanency of the Claw does not move the dial in the face of a White House official’s clear representation,” the judge wrote.
The White House called the lawsuit a baseless attempt to prevent Trump from hosting an event that’s no different from many others routinely hosted at public forums in the nation’s capital.
Trump’s administration can’t issue permits for sporting events on the South Lawn or at the Lincoln Memorial, where UFC fighters planned to hold a press conference in front of fans on Friday, according to plaintiffs’ attorneys. They noted that the event is a privately organized, for-profit business venture, with VIP packages costing millions of dollars.
“The President’s administration is granting the UFC an extraordinary business opportunity it may not lawfully grant, and in exchange the UFC is throwing an event at which its leadership, fighters, advertisers, and various celebrities will all pay tribute to the President on his birthday,” plaintiffs’ attorneys wrote.
Public Integrity Project attorney Brendan Ballou said the plaintiffs were disappointed in the judge’s decision but respect it and intend to “keep bringing cases to raise the cost of corruption in America.”
“This isn’t a case about a sporting event, it’s about corruption, as a handful of people and companies stand to profit from our public monuments,” Ballou said in a statement.
The National Park Service and the Interior Department are named as defendants in the lawsuit.
In 2019, during his first term in office, Trump became the first sitting president to attend a UFC show. Trump, a Republican, is a friend of UFC president and CEO Dana White.
Mehta was nominated to the bench by President Barack Obama, a Democrat. Mehta has presided over other Trump-related cases, including civil litigation accusing Trump of inciting a mob of his supporters to attack the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, after he lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden, a Democrat.
thettctransitfanatic
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Construction crew set to strip Trump’s name from Kennedy Center after president loses another legal battle | The Independent
The “Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts” is no more. Construction crews in hard hats and neon green high-vis vests erected scaffolding after a federal judge denied the administration’s 11th-hour. Last month, Washington, D.C. District Judge Christopher Cooper prevented the administration from changing the name of the iconic performing arts center, noting that Congress made it “crystal clear” that the building is to only be named after former President Kennedy, “and it cannot bear any other formal name or public memorial” based on a “unilateral say-so.” “Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it,” Cooper wrote May 29. The Trump administration is appealing that ruling and asked Cooper to pause his decision during the legal fight. That request was rejected Friday afternoon. The government failed to demonstrate that it would be likely to win on appeal or suffer “irreparable harm” if Trump’s name was taken off the building while a legal challenge continues, Cooper wrote Friday. A crowd chanted “take if off” as construction workers erected scaffolding to begin removing the president’s name from the building later that afternoon. Workers left the building after an afternoon downpour. On June 5, Kennedy Center officials ordered staff to “immediately” change email signatures, letterhead and other documents back to The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts” or “Kennedy Center” no later than June 12, according to an internal memo. The Kennedy Center also removed the president’s name from the website. Images of construction crews stripping the president’s name in metal letters from the building’s exterior are another embarrassing blow in the mountain of legal challenges against the administration. The president’s latest loss follows a lawsuit from Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty, who is also an ex officio trustee of the center. Last year, she challenged the Kennedy Center board’s decision to permanently add the president’s name to the building, which is set to close on July 4 to “begin Construction of the new and spectacular Entertainment Complex,” according to Trump. Beatty labelled Trump’s rebranding a “personal vanity project.”
The “Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts” is no more. Construction crews in hard hats and neon green high-vis vests erected scaffolding after a federal judge denied the administration’s 11th-hour. Last month, Washington, D.C. District Judge Christopher Cooper prevented the administration from changing the name of the iconic performing arts center, noting that Congress made it “crystal clear” that the building is to only be named after former President Kennedy, “and it cannot bear any other formal name or public memorial” based on a “unilateral say-so.” “Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it,” Cooper wrote May 29. The Trump administration is appealing that ruling and asked Cooper to pause his decision during the legal fight. That request was rejected Friday afternoon. The government failed to demonstrate that it would be likely to win on appeal or suffer “irreparable harm” if Trump’s name was taken off the building while a legal challenge continues, Cooper wrote Friday. A crowd chanted “take if off” as construction workers erected scaffolding to begin removing the president’s name from the building later that afternoon. Workers left the building after an afternoon downpour. On June 5, Kennedy Center officials ordered staff to “immediately” change email signatures, letterhead and other documents back to The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts” or “Kennedy Center” no later than June 12, according to an internal memo. The Kennedy Center also removed the president’s name from the website. Images of construction crews stripping the president’s name in metal letters from the building’s exterior are another embarrassing blow in the mountain of legal challenges against the administration. The president’s latest loss follows a lawsuit from Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty, who is also an ex officio trustee of the center. Last year, she challenged the Kennedy Center board’s decision to permanently add the president’s name to the building, which is set to close on July 4 to “begin Construction of the new and spectacular Entertainment Complex,” according to Trump. Beatty labelled Trump’s rebranding a “personal vanity project.”
thettctransitfanatic
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Trump administration must restore history, science materials at parks, US judge rules
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to reinstall exhibits and signs touching on topics like slavery and climate change that it had removed from parks and monuments nationwide "that do not align with its preferred narrative." U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley in Boston issued a preliminary injunction at the behest of groups representing park conservationists, historians and scientists who argued that the U.S. Department of the Interior has been engaged in a "sustained campaign to erase history and undermine science."
thettctransitfanatic
Senior Member
Trump asking Congress for symbolic expunging of his two impeachments | Donald Trump | The Guardian
Donald Trump is pressing Congress to erase one of the darkest chapters of his political career, urging Republicans to pass a resolution that would symbolically nullify the two impeachments he suffered during his first term in office. The effort, first reported by the Wall Street Journal and confirmed by a White House official, would allow Trump to claim a symbolic victory on a key grievance from his first term. But experts say it would have little legal significance, since the constitution provides no procedure for undoing an impeachment. Trump is the first president in US history to be impeached twice. The first case, in 2019, centred on allegations that he abused his power by pressuring Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden, a political rival. He was acquitted by the Senate in February 2020. The second followed the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol, when members of Congress accused him of inciting an insurrection. He was again acquitted after leaving office. According to the Journal, Trump and his allies are seeking a congressional resolution that would effectively expunge the impeachments from the historical record. While such a measure would carry no legal force, supporters view it as a symbolic repudiation of what they regard as politically motivated proceedings. Any attempt to revisit the impeachments is likely to reopen some of the most contentious episodes of Trump’s political life at a moment when Republicans are preparing for November’s midterm elections. Critics argue that the strategy risks drawing renewed attention to the very allegations the president would prefer to consign to history. Speaking on CNN, the political commentator SE Cupp questioned the wisdom of the move. “What are you thinking?” she said. “He’s not thinking ahead. All the reasons he was impeached get dredged up again, and we’re all talking about it around a midterm election.” Democrats duly seized on this argument. Ted Lieu, a Democratic representative from California who served as one of the House impeachment managers during Trump’s second impeachment trial, wrote on social media: “As a former impeachment manager, I plead with you to please bring up Trump’s prior impeachments. “Let’s hold hearings, call witnesses and show videos to remind people what happened. And please make every Republican in a swing district vote on this. Thank you.” Adam Schiff, the California senator who was the lead impeachment manager in the first impeachment trial of Trump, dismissed the effort as futile. “There is no expunging the stain of Trump’s two impeachments,” he wrote. “Or avoiding the conclusion that the president cares little about the economic hardships of the American people. His priority is only, ever, Donald Trump.” Trump was only the third US president to be impeached, after Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1998. Both men were acquitted by the Senate. Richard Nixon resigned in 1974 before the House could vote on articles of impeachment over the Watergate scandal. Since returning to office, Trump has repeatedly portrayed the impeachments as part of a broader campaign by political opponents and government institutions to undermine him. But constitutional scholars note that the US constitution contains no mechanism for reversing or cancelling an impeachment once it has occurred. As a result, any congressional resolution would amount largely to a political statement rather than a substantive legal action.
Trump asking Congress for symbolic expunging of his two impeachments
President is first in US history to be impeached twice, over abuse of power and inciting an insurrectionDonald Trump is pressing Congress to erase one of the darkest chapters of his political career, urging Republicans to pass a resolution that would symbolically nullify the two impeachments he suffered during his first term in office. The effort, first reported by the Wall Street Journal and confirmed by a White House official, would allow Trump to claim a symbolic victory on a key grievance from his first term. But experts say it would have little legal significance, since the constitution provides no procedure for undoing an impeachment. Trump is the first president in US history to be impeached twice. The first case, in 2019, centred on allegations that he abused his power by pressuring Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden, a political rival. He was acquitted by the Senate in February 2020. The second followed the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol, when members of Congress accused him of inciting an insurrection. He was again acquitted after leaving office. According to the Journal, Trump and his allies are seeking a congressional resolution that would effectively expunge the impeachments from the historical record. While such a measure would carry no legal force, supporters view it as a symbolic repudiation of what they regard as politically motivated proceedings. Any attempt to revisit the impeachments is likely to reopen some of the most contentious episodes of Trump’s political life at a moment when Republicans are preparing for November’s midterm elections. Critics argue that the strategy risks drawing renewed attention to the very allegations the president would prefer to consign to history. Speaking on CNN, the political commentator SE Cupp questioned the wisdom of the move. “What are you thinking?” she said. “He’s not thinking ahead. All the reasons he was impeached get dredged up again, and we’re all talking about it around a midterm election.” Democrats duly seized on this argument. Ted Lieu, a Democratic representative from California who served as one of the House impeachment managers during Trump’s second impeachment trial, wrote on social media: “As a former impeachment manager, I plead with you to please bring up Trump’s prior impeachments. “Let’s hold hearings, call witnesses and show videos to remind people what happened. And please make every Republican in a swing district vote on this. Thank you.” Adam Schiff, the California senator who was the lead impeachment manager in the first impeachment trial of Trump, dismissed the effort as futile. “There is no expunging the stain of Trump’s two impeachments,” he wrote. “Or avoiding the conclusion that the president cares little about the economic hardships of the American people. His priority is only, ever, Donald Trump.” Trump was only the third US president to be impeached, after Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1998. Both men were acquitted by the Senate. Richard Nixon resigned in 1974 before the House could vote on articles of impeachment over the Watergate scandal. Since returning to office, Trump has repeatedly portrayed the impeachments as part of a broader campaign by political opponents and government institutions to undermine him. But constitutional scholars note that the US constitution contains no mechanism for reversing or cancelling an impeachment once it has occurred. As a result, any congressional resolution would amount largely to a political statement rather than a substantive legal action.