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‘Their first instinct was to loot’: how Trump’s acolytes are plundering the Kennedy Center
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 01 Jan 2026
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Ohh, that sounds amazing
My idea was to just bulldozer that shit right after he's gone and bring back everything to how it was and continue from there, but this is better. Leave. A place where people can learn what stupid shit can happen when you vote for fascists
What really should happen is that nothing of Trump's remains. Full rollback. Every single decision and appointment undone. Every executive order, rescinded, no exceptions. All income that he and his family cannot prove was gained honestly, confiscated, and the same goes for assets. Trump's name stripped off every edifice, public or private. If you want a monument to folly, put a gold-leafed crapper on a plinth somewhere, and bury Trump under the outflow pipe.
Given his track record with contractors, it'll be so shoddily built it will probably fall down on its own. Maybe even before the construction is complete.
No need, that abomination is never going to get built.
Personally I'm not letting go of the idea of either burning it down or just letting it rot while turning the rest of the white house into a museum. President can live in a crackshak for all I care, frankly speaking I think they are far too secured for something so easily replaced, if they get mugged in a Denny's parking lot it shouldn't even appear on the news.
Wouldn't be the first time the White House was set ablaze.
I can get behind that.