forget that, when are
they going to do statue?
one surreal moment …
Adapted from the article, “Flatterers out in force to fill Trump’s head with Venezuelan statue dreams” by David Smith where Mr. Smith writes:
Burgum added that, during his recent trip, the media had been allowed to visit Venezuela’s equivalent of the White House, the Miraflores Palace, for the first time in 20 years. He said there were encouraging signs for US businesses returning and for oil production. But Trump’s mind was still elsewhere.
“Forget that,” the president interjected. “When are they going to do the statue?” The room erupted in laughter.
Trump has long had a special interest in statues. He has railed against protesters who toppled Confederate statues, proposed a National Garden of American Heroes and this week installed a Christopher Columbus statue on the White House grounds. Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna has proposed carving Trump’s face on Mount Rushmore in South Dakota.
The exchange was just one surreal moment in another weird and wild cabinet meeting, the first since the war in Iran broke out. Trump claimed that Iran has been “beat to shit” and accused British prime minister Keir Starmer of a “shocking” lack of support. He went on a long riff about the merits of Sharpies over what he claimed were the $1,000 pens that presidents typically use to sign bills.
Just one surreal moment in another weird and wild cabinet meeting.
Just one surreal moment.
Another surreal moment was listening to people argue that ‘we’ are safer today now that those folks in Iran no longer have the ability to nuke us.
That those folks in Iran who have been after us since the Carter administration are no longer a threat.
That people in the US feel safer today because of this.
I said to my wife I never felt a threat from Iran.
She agreed and put forward the thought that we had lived most of our lives under the threat of immediate annihilation from the dread Soviet Evil Empire and with that in our background, Iran didn’t seem like much to worry about.
I been thinking about that.
I think she is right.
But a good part of the population today don’t remember the Soviet Union.
But a good part of the population today don’t remember those Olympic Teams of the CCCP.
Just one surreal moment in another weird and wild world that exists due the efforts on one man.
I guess he desrves a statue.
BTW – this is a real statue in Oslo, Norway. The creator, Norwegian sculptor Gustav Vigeland, spent the last two years of his life making the statues in a particular park in Oslo contains 212 bronze and granite sculptures and covers around 80 acres of land. including this mad baby. Here we have a statue of a giant, angry infant throwing a naked tantrum on top of a cube stacked atop a larger cube.
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