04/26/2026
Trump is basically the Anti-President. He does very little for the American people that isn’t in someway 99% driven by either personal ego or profit.
To understand this is to understand what drives really have to look hard, you just have to be willing to look with honesty and an open mind.
I’ve always understood that Architecture is a reflection of societal values and influence in the world. Specifically it reflects who we are as a people and what drives our daily ambitions and goals.
When I see Donald Trump ignoring the fundamental process that decisions are made, which are supposed to represent all Americans, through consensus and respect to our history, I find it beyond flamboyantly disrespectful and filled with nothing more than a tiny man, trying to fill the world with his memory, because he is trying to compensate for all of the evil he has already done.
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America woke up Friday to workers coating the bottom of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool with an industrial grade swimming pool surface in what trump is calling "American flag blue." Here is the thing though: a reflecting pool works precisely because dark surfaces mirror the sky, the monuments, the world above. Slap swimming pool blue on the bottom and you have got a giant decorative puddle. The pool, which was the backdrop for MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech and last received a $30 million National Park Service restoration in 2012, is now being redone by contractors trump called up personally, the same way you might phone a buddy to redo your backyard.
And this is the pattern, right? No public process, no historic preservation review, no heads up. The same energy that woke Washington one morning to a demolition crew tearing into the White House East Wing, and that plastered trump's name all over the Kennedy Center without warning, is the energy at work here. He calls his own guys, they show up, and America finds out about it on Truth Social.
And it’s so ironic. trump has styled himself as the avatar of rugged, no frills American masculinity, the alpha's alpha. And yet he spends an extraordinary amount of time redecorating. The Rose Garden, the Oval Office, the Kennedy Center, the reflecting pool, the Eisenhower Building, the West Wing. This is not governing. This is an infestation, pure and simple. Territorial marking, every golden doily nailed to the wall gleaming like the territorial pissings of a feral mongrel. I hope to live long enough to see every single thing he has tainted with his tacky, self aggrandizing aesthetic stripped back and restored to its rightful form.
