Triumphal arch would be 250ft tall, featuring a 60ft golden Lady Liberty, at the foot of Arlington Memorial Bridge

Triumphal arch would be 250ft tall, featuring a 60ft golden Lady Liberty, at the foot of Arlington Memorial Bridge

The Trump administration on Friday released new renderings of the triumphal arch the president wants to install in Memorial Circle at the foot of the Arlington Memorial Bridge.

As part of Donald Trump’s legacy-building quest during his second term in office, the so-called “Arc de Trump” would stand 250ft tall, feature a 60ft golden Lady Liberty, and include a viewing deck. The phrase “One Nation Under God” would stretch across the top of the structure, according to the latest plans from Harrison Design.

The mock-up was submitted to the Commission of Fine Arts (CFA), who are next due to meet on 16 April to consider the proposal.

  • Smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    52·
    2 days ago

    Hey, if you work construction and are on the crew for this, I’ll personally give you 10 bags of sugar to add to the concrete. If that’s not what’s needed, lemme know what bolt sizes you’ll need and I’ll order them express from Temu.

    • paranoia@feddit.dk
      38·
      2 days ago

      Sugar is too obvious for such sabotage as the concrete will just not harden. What you need to do is add more water into the mix to make it weaker, and then slop off the surface water to force it to cure too quickly. Salt in the mix is an accelerant and will induce cracking/spalling.

      If I had control over the total mix I would try to substitute a contaminated aggregate (e.g., pyrites).

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        2 days ago

        I wonder if you could doubleshot concrete- cast a giant dildo inside with good concrete so that the arch crumbles away into it.

        • 4am@lemmy.zip
          8·
          2 days ago

          I mean you’d need to have both good and bad concrete on site and you’d need a mold of the dick so you could inject the good concrete into it but then pull it away after the bad stuff was in place around it and without forming and curing the dick first and then lowering it into place within the outer mold I don’t know how you’d do this

          • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
            7·
            2 days ago

            Well probably the stealthy way to do it is to prefab the interior shape, coat it with whatever finish and such then a ton of mold release.

            Place it into the form overnight and then pour the bad stuff around it.

            But this assumes the arch is a solid casting. I suppose you could build out the dildo in slices, and then stack the slices for each fresh layer.

            I just think this would be a hilarious escalation of the art war

            Edit: Hey, contractors. You know that trump doesn’t pay his contractors, right? Just saying…