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BumRushDaShow

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26. It is where his tower is in NYC

Reply to AverageOldGuy (Reply #23)

Fri Aug 29, 2025, 09:27 AM

Aug 29

He completely razed the original Bonwitt-Teller building that was there.

https://envisioningtheamericandream.com/2024/04/15/the-travesty-of-trump-tower-and-bonwit-teller/

It's been publicized for over 40 years but no one seems to care (except maybe architecture and art officiandos), and notably of no interest to people who don't live in NYC (or even who live there). People didn't seem to care about the "Access Hollywood" tapes so...

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Trump order makes classical architecture default style for federal buildings [View all] BumRushDaShow Aug 29 OP

I think he means neoclassical C_U_L8R Aug 29 #1

No classical like Wolfgang Botany Aug 29 #15

Not neoclassical... Trueblue Texan Aug 29 #17

Don't rule out him wanting to build a Colosseum muriel_volestrangler Aug 29 #29

I sense the aura of hagiography formulating in the stable genius mind. bucolic_frolic Aug 29 #2

Albert Speer on Line 1 Prairie Gates Aug 29 #3

And as Berlin was being turned to rubble by Allied bombing and Soviet artillery Hitler was playing... Botany Aug 29 #8

... speak easy Aug 29 #16

Hitler died "young" by Chump's standards FakeNoose Aug 29 #21

Exterior Designer in Chief. 🙄 a guy with no class and apparently nothing better to do underpants Aug 29 #4

Ceasar has spoken LPBBEAR Aug 29 #5

What a boon for Home Depot polyurethane millwork sales! EarthFirst Aug 29 #6

Like religious fundamentalists and other reactionaries, what Turnip really hates is modernity itself. eppur_se_muova Aug 29 #7

This is why he admires the Taliban Walleye Aug 29 #28

President Tacky. enigmania Aug 29 #9

Oh my God! He's so stupid! That's not how this works. He doesn't get to decide that. Scrivener7 Aug 29 #10

Howard Roark would bitch-slap him . . . . . no_hypocrisy Aug 29 #11

And I would stand in line... GiqueCee Aug 29 #22

Calling Albert Speer! The Blue Flower Aug 29 #12

This paragraph exemplifies MSM JMCKUSICK Aug 29 #13

This is why no one pays attention to MSM johnnyfins Aug 29 #19

A variant on Soviet-style Social Realism, version 2.1 (The America update and patch) Torchlight Aug 29 #14

If he's dictating... GiqueCee Aug 29 #18

The next Dem president will have to undo all this crap FakeNoose Aug 29 #20

I don't recall the details . . . But . . . AverageOldGuy Aug 29 #23

It is where his tower is in NYC BumRushDaShow Aug 29 #26

The EPSTEIN files.....The EPSTEIN files........... Bengus81 Aug 29 #24

Says the guy who tore down gorgeous mwmisses4289 Aug 29 #25

Megalomania is a serious disorder Walleye Aug 29 #27

Same shit he tried during his first term. Also see Reply #3. Eugene Aug 29 #30

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