Stalin
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I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Frump, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
The Boeing 747 on display in a video announcing the design for Donald Trump’s presidential library is the giveaway. Trump, who doesn’t deserve a presidential library, is planning one of the biggest grifts of his career. That could have lasting consequences for American democracy.
Renderings of the building, to be designed by the Florida-based architecture firm Bermello Ajamil, appear to show a tower with some 50 floors set upon a wider podium or base. It would be the first skyscraper to serve as a presidential library, taller than the stubby structure designed for the Obama Presidential Centre, which opens in Chicago in June, and greatly larger than any existing presidential library. It is likely to have a significant commercial element, perhaps multiple floors devoted to a hotel, office space or high-end apartments or condos. Bermello Ajamil did not respond to an email or telephone message.
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comrade stalin
moscow
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Frump, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
The Boeing 747 on display in a video announcing the design for Donald Trump’s presidential library is the giveaway. Trump, who doesn’t deserve a presidential library, is planning one of the biggest grifts of his career. That could have lasting consequences for American democracy.
Renderings of the building, to be designed by the Florida-based architecture firm Bermello Ajamil, appear to show a tower with some 50 floors set upon a wider podium or base. It would be the first skyscraper to serve as a presidential library, taller than the stubby structure designed for the Obama Presidential Centre, which opens in Chicago in June, and greatly larger than any existing presidential library. It is likely to have a significant commercial element, perhaps multiple floors devoted to a hotel, office space or high-end apartments or condos. Bermello Ajamil did not respond to an email or telephone message.
The Trump presidential library would be a giant tower of grift
Critics warn the project blends a presidential library with luxury real estate.
comrade stalin
moscow
