Mary Anderson

Retired & loving it. Interested in current events. Happily married, our only daughter lives with us & we love it! VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO!!

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Trump’s golden arch POWER GRAB looks to GUT the preservation law meant to protect historic sites.

Donald Trump wants a 250-foot golden triumphal arch built in the heart of Washington DC — despite the fact that it violates height limits, hasn't received required congressional approval, and would block sacred sightlines between Arlington National Cemetery and the Lincoln Memorial.

And now, according to a new Atlantic report, his administration is quietly rigging the rules to ram it through anyway.

The scheme centers on Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, a law requiring federal agencies to consult with preservation experts and create binding plans to AVOID damaging historic sites before construction.

Trump's handpicked vice chair on the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation is now pushing to gut that requirement — allowing officials to simply "minimize" harm rather than avoid it, and to write the mitigation plan AFTER approval instead of before.

In other words, build first, pretend to care later.

Law professor Sara Bronin summed it up bluntly: "If adopted, these regulations will be challenged in court, and I doubt they will survive judicial scrutiny."

And the legal gymnastics don't stop there. The arch would tower well beyond DC's federal 130-foot height limit, so the administration is simply claiming that century-old law doesn't apply to federal buildings — despite nothing in the statute saying so.

For congressional approval, the Justice Department is citing a completely unrelated 1925 bridge design that included some columns, columns that were actually REMOVED from the final plan by President Hoover, as somehow constituting authorization for Trump's golden monstrosity a hundred years later.

The National Park Service's own assessment found the arch would damage the historic character of the National Mall landscape. Public comments called it a "garish, tasteless eyesore" and a "McMonument." Veterans have sued to block it, arguing it would obliterate sacred sightlines between Arlington and the Memorial Bridge. Americans oppose it more than 2-to-1.

None of that matters to Trump. He wants his golden arch, he wants it now, and he's willing to rewrite federal preservation law itself to get it — turning hallowed, solemn ground into a monument to his own ego.

The big question is: When will Congress grow the cojones to stop this out-of-control narcissist?

Please like and share if you think Trump’s desecration of our nation’s capital needs to stop now!

[Mary Anderson @MaryAnderson62]

@commons96055467 Isn't the word "consigliree"??

[Common Sense 🇺🇸💙 @commons96055467]

He is about to lose his law license to practice law because of his illegal, criminal activities for trump. The Republican Party would confirm him as the next highest law enforcer of our country. The Republican Party is a criminal, mafia enterprise. He is a mafia boss’ fixer.

[Mary Anderson @MaryAnderson62]

@0laratrumpRv2 Oh, hell, yes!

[Lara Trump RV Q 🇺🇸 @0laratrumpRv2]

Ron Howard said “Trump is a self serving, dishonest, morally bankrupt ego maniac who is Hustling the U.S.”

What's your response to Ron???

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

We need every State doing the same thing because we have to be prepared this time.

[Mary Anderson @MaryAnderson62]

@0TulsiGabbard2 Obama, of course. Smart & articulate! Something you could never say about trumpie!

[PoliticsVideoChannel @politvidchannel]

BREAKING: Ashley St. Clair (Elon Musk's baby mama) accuses Elon Musk of rigging the 2024 Election for Trump.

[Blue Moon Birdie 🐸 🇺🇸 🦅 @Baloushe_]

@strujillo075 As soon as DOGE stepped in and took over every agency and depart and fired 300,000 people, democracy was damaged. Everything has been to hurt America and Americans. If this is not a hostile occupation with ICE murdering and attacking people without even asking for ID what is it?

[kathryn strachan @CtStormy]

@strujillo075

[BigDaddy @strujillo075]

Michael Fanone — the officer nearly beaten to death defending the Capitol on January 6 — isn’t mincing words anymore. He calls Trump’s movement what it is: an authoritarian, fascist takeover. After shedding blood for democracy, Fanone says he’s done pretending this is anything less. That’s coming from a cop who lived the violence firsthand.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

Rep.Jasmine Crockett is letting everyone know that Todd Blanche cannot be appointed as the U.S Attorney General because he walked into the Senate & told them all that he is still Trump’s personal attorney. It’s also a conflict of Interest especially because of the Epstein files.

[ZZ Santa Chevy Cruze™️ #SmokeFleet🟦 @Danphillipsresi]

Republicans hate this because it helps someone besides billionaires.

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

🇺🇸 Trump: "Iran has been very badly damaged. They've lost almost everything militarily."

🇺🇸 Obama: "I've heard this for the 55th time, yet Iran just hit our military bases 10 minutes ago. How?"

Obama brutally exposes Trump 🔥

[Mia @MiaForTrump]

🚨 When Trump’s presidency finally ends, it should be completely annulled.

• No presidential library
• No official portrait
• No titles or honors
• No Nobel Prize

It was a shameful chapter of lies, grift, chaos, and destruction.

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

Bruce Springsteen says he “doesn’t care at all” what Trump thinks of him, calling Trump a textbook case for the 25th Amendment and impeachment, and accusing Congress of being “cowardly” for not taking action.

Do you agree with Springsteen?

[Mary Anderson @MaryAnderson62]

@hwinkler4real Oh, yes! It's called being polite!

[Henry Winkler @hwinkler4real]

Yes