It's probably been mentioned many times already, but here it goes anyway:
"If you put a clown onto the throne, the clown will not turn into a king. The palace will turn into a circus."
this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2026
279 points (99.3% liked)
Not The Onion
21640 readers
1669 users here now
Welcome
We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!
The Rules
Posts must be:
- Links to news stories from...
- ...credible sources, with...
- ...their original headlines, that...
- ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”
Please also avoid duplicates.
Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, ableist, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.
And that’s basically it!
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
Relevant quote from Carl Sagan's "The Demon-Haunted World":
[The 1939 New York World's Fair's president] Grover Whalen - a former corporate executive, New York City police chief in a time of unprecedented police brutality, and public relations innovator [...] had convinced Stalin and Mussolini to build lavish national pavilions. (He later complained about how often he had been obliged to give the fascist salute.) The level of the exhibits, as one designer described it, was pitched to the mentality of a twelve-year-old.
It'll come down next week then.
TACO
Lol, president Komancho
Not even close. Komancho was a very good president.
I can see the logic. Build a colosseum and stage gladiatorial contests, distract the masses and get made emperor for life. But what a pathetic attempt at a colosseum this is.
No room for chariot races, fierce wild animals, or simulated naval battles. Pathetic indeed.
Please note that this is the guy that hates the sight of wind turbines out in the distance. They ugly.
Wind turbines look freaking bad ass!
I absolutely agree
Name me one person in the world less tasteful than trump. Go on, I'll wait.
WHO THE FUCK TOLD HIM ABOUT THE EIFFEL TOWER?
Just what I was thinking. There's no way orange hitler knew that it was originally a temporary structure that became permanent.
I swear there was a popular meme template years ago of him typing on his phone, and another panel of a search browser saying "what does a president do?". Can't find it now. But I imagine that template with a wiki page or the tower
Not surprising - Bonespurs thinks he's permanent too.
I work in events. That is a very temporary structure. The frame is aluminum trussing, and although it would hold up fairly well, all of the fabric will start bleaching within 3-4 weeks, the metal chains holding everything up will start rusting pretty quickly being exposed to the elements. The lights themselves aren’t IP rated and are relying on the fabric for protection so those will fail pretty quickly. Finally the stage itself has a wood underlayment that will rot within a single season if left outside.
Lastly it’s all rented and the rental company will continue to charge the client until it’s returned.
Lastly it’s all rented and the rental company will continue to charge the client until it’s returned.
That's just another line item for the American taxpayer. Hardly Trump's problem.
Funny story about temporary rental equipment.
My old company, big (as in billions $$) defence control actor. They refused to buy permanent sites, instead they would lease or rent buildings or structures. Sea cans counted as structures. They rented 3 sea cans for 15 years. Spent almost 100k each over that period. Never once did they accept the financial argument that one years lease would almost buy a sea can outright.
They don't want it on their books. Renting looks better.
Probably the only consideration is what is cheapest for the current quarter.
Let's hope it outlasts Trump
Is it the US version of the Liz Truss head of lettuce?
It’s like the parked car on cinder blocks in someone’s yard.Eventually the grass will grow tall enough that you won’t see it
I’m curious—can you tell the lighting isn’t rated from these images, or just because of the number / cost?
Also curious about the chains—does that means they can’t be reused for long if they’ve been outdoors? I assume there’s plenty of regulation around that kind of thing.
I saw some other pictures of it being assembled and the lights were wrapped until the fabric was on. It’s also relatively rare for moving heads to be IP rated because they move, and in order to maintain IP rating on something that moves it requires significantly more maintenance and with that, higher cost. The lights that are on the outside are IP rated for instance, as they didn’t have the fabric to protect them. But from prior experience that means those lights cost about 3 times as much to rent.
The chains are protected by a coating of oil, the oil is in a reservoir inside the motor so if the chains aren’t getting ran on a regular basis they aren’t getting a fresh coat of oil. As soon as any sort of weathering happens, the chains become exposed and will start rusting. You can get stainless steel chains that won’t rust, but the price on those is so astronomical, that it’s special order only, and only used for permanent installs. The only way this has stainless steel chains is if it was designed as a permanent install from the beginning.
The ideal Trump monument.
Can't wait to find out that this somehow cost us taxpayers like a hundred million dollars.
And the rental company is DefinitelyNotTrumpJr LLC.
It'll be like a toilet in the front yard and he plants flowers in it. White trash is his style.
load more comments
(1 replies)
They’re expecting trump to pay the rental fee? How quaint.
It's not Donald paying. It's those of us who actually pay taxes.
You just know Trump will try to screw them and pocket the money instead.
Knowing Trump, this is run by some friend, family, or donor. Him paying with tax money is pocketing it. That's how you make public wealth private.
load more comments
(5 replies)
Oh please let him live long enough to watch us tear all his tacky shit to the ground!
I want to see them light the det cord that demolishes mar a lago
With Trump in it... Right?
No, too fast and painless. Not that it'd be painless, just not painful enough for him.
Ideally, yes.
as cathartic as that sounds, he doesn't care.
the only thing that he cares about is himself. the best punishment for him would be to be locked in a room with read only Internet to watch the world move on and him die not being able to be the center of attention.
the best way to win a game against a narcissist is to play a different game with impossible to follow rules for them.
Give him a twitter account but have a script change whatever he types into BLAH BLAH BLAH
load more comments
(2 replies)
If you want to treat something down, treat the Golden Dick monument in Florida, the giant T on every Trump tower.
Slaps top of arena This thing can hold so many guillotines
I hope the rain absolutely hammers down
I'm calling it now. Some attack will happen at these events. Trump will play the role of "oh no, I've been shot..." and then 2 hours later will brag that he's the healthiest guy the doctors ever saw.
Anybody ever see the movie Groundhog Day?
........no reason.
load more comments
(6 replies)
This whole term in the White House feels like the worst Airbnb trashing story and then some.
And, like a UFC event venue, will likely require fire hoses to wash out a good portion of the trash and stank.
view more: next ›