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Temu again.

So do you think the lack of planning/quality control is a by- product or “the product”? It seems we’ve bought so much we own stock in this shit.

Just like on The Apprentice.

If that’s the real arch, this is an embarrassment… and I’m not surprised.

But it has the gold statues on top -- that's the really important part.

It looks like it's made of cardboard and wrapping paper.

We need a picture of someone walking their dog peeing on it.

“Once again Dougal, these are cows are small, those cows are far away”

It's the mini Stonehenge from Spinal Tap

Premature construction?

Missing an equestrian statue

Arc du Chump

1 point for the effort, to be generous.

Surprised it isn’t covered with the gold plastic medallions that he slathered all over the Oval Office. Also, couldn’t get some fiberglass columns from Temu?

Donny will spend $200 million on the plywood one… No-bid contract!

How they ended up with circles is just bizarre. They literally have concept art.

A feature of authoritarians the great world round is that they delegate everything to underlings and the underlings do NOT give a shit.

I checked and it is a design choice that isn't even in some of the mock ups.

Those cutouts are the clearest sign the concept art is AI. They're weirdly asymmetrical with the other side. That and the way all the people in the background are walking left.

Which means it IS the perfect miniature of the real thing

Do they both have the same organizer?

And then there's a thick line. This here mockery-up of a triumphal arch is across the thick line.

Idk but I think they should put some big ass googly eyes on there..

I've often wondered what all that moulding at Home Depot was for. Now I know.

The 250 ft version ain't gonna be much better.

Well the only thing they got right on the concept pic was the number of people showing up....

Perfect summation of his life. The reason his money comes from licensing his name to things already done, he doesn’t have the patience or attention span for actual construction. What a joke.

I Baudrillard’s sign order stages of “Simulacra and Simulacrum,” "Stage 3 masks the absence of a profound reality, where the sign pretends to be a faithful copy, but it is a copy with no original." A can’t decide if this is stage 2 or 3.

It looks like we're waiting for the textures to load in.

The arch was perfect until it was cut and butchered by vandals. They created great damage to a beautiful work of art.

We can still redo 250 in 2033 for the Treaty of Paris, which I consider the real birth of our nation as recognized by GB. The US wasn’t a country at conception…

Like everything in his world, big talk and no delivery

Fascists now 🤝 Fascists then Actually being pretty bad at getting around to building all those tacky monuments they had planned

🤣

Trump loves cheap, tacky crap.

Because he stashed away the funds ...?

All the more reason to just say no.

the Chumps El Sleaze

What is this? An arch for near-sighted ants?

Like the plastic letters on Trump "tower."

Americon

The concept art kinda nails the attendance.

I'm dyin'

The Not So High Castle

Maybe its just further away?

Clouds look nice at least in the actual photo.

"Oh! And oh how they danced. The little children of Stonehenge..."

Come on, that's a stretch and a half.

Incredible

That’s in metric inches to be fair

“Fuck the napkin!”

Even the concept art is just a lonely Ferris wheel and some random people milling around a mostly empty field. Which, kudos, they did accomplish their lameass goal I guess

I'm just as captivated by the London Eye concept being realized as a one-flatbed carnie ride.

Credit where credit is due for whoever did the concept art. Had a damn fine grasp on what the attendance numbers would look like.

I agree, wholeheartedly. This here is a Metaphorical Art masterpiece.

Thats load bearing drywall.

It looks like a giant single Lego block with some of the kids’ other clutter stacked on top.

👏👏👏😂🏆

I've seen more authentic looking architecture at a kids' themed playpark.

Probably cost taxpayers $12 million

Thought these were DJT’s arches.

I would like a White House correspondent to ask if this is coming out of the National Parks budget.

Big Strong Men came up to me with tears in their eyes, wanting to play Spinal Tap Mini Golf

“Scrap plywood wrapped in vinyl” is a phrase which should echo through history.

I was going to say — this is shitty on purpose because it was a money grab.

A guy who is the evil owner of a ski lodge since the 80s

He is so tacky and vulgar.

Please someone visit the workshop and crew that made that! Documentary gold!

Looks like a light breeze would take that thing down.

The got the sparse crowd and the nearly-busted ferris wheel right. Why can’t we celebrate that?

They were shooting for The White City, and delivered, uh, whatever this is.

Actually it’s supposed to be a Minecraft piggy

It’s a bit early to judge whether it’s a perfect miniature of the real thing or not, no?

it’s in danger of being trodden upon by a dwarf

Just wait until the arch turns green.

It's like the Stonehenge scene in Spinal Tap but Reifenstahlishly

In the concept art, everyone was asking where all their $onations went. Like alway$.

American Willy Wonka Experience

This is embarrassing. And of course they spent millions of dollars on this nonsense job.

The golden statues of Trump go in each niche????

Even in the concept art they kind of nail the whole ‘less than a hundred people attending’ thing.

Trumps DC arch will be the largest arch in the world and dwarf every other monument in DC except the Washington monument. He is WITHHOLDING that he will name it the Trump Arc …. only after it is finished … & too late to stop. It’s a monumental to himself.

Unfortunately I say this almost every day, about different things

The money designated for the fair was not spent on the fair, methinks

he he

And the state displays look like a collection of storage units.

There’s a metaphor here.

The Willy Wonka Experience at least introduced the Shadow Man.

The "real" one looks like the tiny Stonehenge in Spinal Tap

The Epstein Island exibit is the most popular of the fair

I'm pretty sure I can make it better myself with 1/10th of the budget, some cardboard, glue and acrylic paint. It pretty much sums up Trump's administration though.

MAGA also has a habit of turning the noise up to 11.

"In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, an ancient race of peoples...the Druids. No one knows who they were or what they were doing..."

They got the attendance mostly right.

“I think that the problem may have been that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf.” — David St. Hubbins, This Is Spinal Tap

Hey with technology today, it would have been easier to make a true 3D model than this crap

This is clearly a problem with the photographer. Probably the worst photographer.

Everyone in the concept “art” is a Beft; they only move to the left

In danger of being trod upon by a dwarf!

Translation: One of his Mar A Lago friends got $10s of millions to build it but had no experience or expertise in building anything like this.

Hahahaha Looks about as good as the rest of his projects Reflecting 'Pond' Ballroom Golden horse statues Lawn of the Ellipse Walkway of the President's Oval Office decor Yada yada

My first thought as well

Came here for this was not disappointed