Mike Willson

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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!

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@JamesTate121 I think there is a whole cottage industry for photoshoppers, just waiting to spring up, to edit photos like this.

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@HalfwayPost He doesn't need their help to look or sound like that.

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Australian broadcaster on hot mic after Trump crashes Spain’s World Cup trophy presentation: “They’re gonna edit him out of that”

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A major story here.

A longtime Republican tax expert and Trump appointee was just ousted from a key position at the IRS after warning that the White House was potentially violating federal law.

The law in question "prohibits the president, vice president, White House staff and certain agency heads from directly or indirectly requesting that the IRS conduct or terminate an audit or investigation of any particular taxpayer."

We do not know what the request was, who made it, or who the target of the audit or investigation was.

This warning brings to mind Trump's attempts to direct IRS investigations of his enemies during his first term, and his recent "license to steal" agreement with DOJ to permanently exempt himself from audits.

I do not expect the current Republican rubber stamp majority to look into this, but majorities change. And there is a clear imperative for Congress to investigate this matter.

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