Manbaby wants to build an "Arc de Triomphe" in Washington for the 250th anniversary

[Magical Realist]

He actually "designed" it himself. The French are laughing...

https://www.azfamily.com/2025/10/16/pres...gmd7FkY5Pw

WASHINGTON (CNN) - "President Donald Trump unveiled plans this week for a new monument in the nation’s capital, called the “Independence Arch.”

Trump personally came up with the design to commemorate the country’s 250th birthday next summer, according to a White House official.

Small models have been made of the arch, which resembles France’s Arc de Triomphe.

The monument would be placed in a traffic circle near the Arlington Memorial Bridge.

Officials did not immediately share how the project will be funded or a timeline for its construction."

[Syne]

What's wrong with memorializing 250 years as a nation?
Just the TDS of Trump doing it? 9_9

[Magical Realist]

The airplane, the ball room, and now this. It's Trump's way of pissing on everything around him, leaving his foul stain on Washington forever. Nobody in Washington DC wants that. Pretty sure the arch would become a constant target of graffiti and vandalism in no time.

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Speaking of that plane gift to Trump from Qatar..

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[Syne]

The Qatari base in the US is a lie.
And vandalism is illegal, but no doubt the next Dem in the White House will make DC a criminal shithole again.

But I can see why you titled this thread with "manbaby." As usual, leftists use projection to foreshadow exactly what they're about to do. In this case, MR whining like a little baby.

[Magical Realist]

"Qatar’s ruling family may have just found out how much influence a run-down Boeing 747 buys you in Donald Trump’s America.

In a scenario that would have dominated the headlines in any other administration, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced last week that Qatar’s Air Force would be moving into a plush new “military facility” at the Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho. Yes, the same Qatar that Trump once accused of funding global terrorism. What a difference an airplane makes!

The president’s new love affair with Qatar is flying under the radar, it seems, thanks to a constant stream of fresh political scandals closer to home. But this new coziness with Qatar’s Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani is causing turbulence with everyone from top military brass to Trump’s closest Capitol Hill allies. If Democrats want voters to treat this like the national security crisis it is, they’ll need to get a lot more comfortable explaining why Qatar isn’t our friend.

The Qatari government apparently knows that when it comes to Trump’s ego, the sky is the limit. When the regime offered the White House a “free” Boeing superluxury jumbo jet (estimated value $400 million), Trump was quick to accept it as a show of respect, even though doing so put American taxpayers on the hook for nearly $1 billion in repairs and security refits. As Trump said at the time, only “a stupid person” would turn down a free airplane. But even setting aside the exorbitant taxpayer-funded upgrade costs, Qatar’s 747-800 now looks anything but free.

Last month, Trump issued the executive order “Assuring the Security of the State of Qatar,” but the sweeping declaration did far more than deepen America’s defense relationship with the emirate. Trump’s order guaranteed Qatar’s security, putting the country on par with our NATO allies and ultimately snatching away Congress’ constitutional authority to approve treaties and security agreements.

As Gary J. Schmitt of the conservative American Enterprise Institute pointed out last week, security guarantees of this scope normally require a two-thirds vote of the Senate. That’s because security guarantees are massive agreements that require the United States to use every diplomatic, economic and military tool to protect Qatar from enemy attack. In the past, Congress has demanded its right to confirm these far-reaching deals. Instead, Trump rubber-stamped the deal himself before Congress was even aware of what was happening. With its Boeing diplomacy, Qatar managed to secure seemingly unlimited American security for effectively nothing.

If Trump’s decision to offer Qatar an open-ended security guarantee got MAGA Republicans grumbling, his decision this week to grant the Qatari air force its own military base in Idaho sent them into a frenzy."

Oct. 16, 2025, 4:35 PM PDT

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opin...rcna238062

[Syne]

Qatar's facility at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho

In October 2025, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced an agreement to build a training facility for the Qatari Emiri Air Force (QEAF) at the U.S. base in Idaho.
The facility will host Qatari pilots and F-15 fighter jets purchased from the U.S. to conduct training exercises with American military personnel.
A Qatari official clarified that it is a "dedicated facility" for training within the U.S. base, not an independent Qatari base.
The arrangement is similar to a program with Singapore, which also trains with its F-15s at Mountain Home Air Force Base.
- Google AI

MSDNC is pure trash.

[Magical Realist]

"The central messaging for Donald Trump's second term as president is propelled by an inversion of reality.

Trump insists that cities like Chicago and Portland are flaming hellscapes that must be occupied by America's military, despite standing orders from federal judges who tap the brakes on his invasion while rejecting his inaccurate imagery. Trump, undeterred, just keeps repeating the same lies, demanding that Americans adhere to his fake narrative.

The flip side to that is Team Trump's revulsion at being accurately quoted, especially when something they say inflames the MAGA influencers who usually spread his message of inverted reality.

Pete Hegseth, Trump's chief at the Department of War, has offered the latest case study in how this dishonest administration wants you to believe only what its members claim while ignoring what they do. Hegseth sparked an eruption of MAGA fury on Oct. 10 while meeting with Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, the minister of defense for Qatar.

At the meeting, Hegseth said he was "proud that today we're announcing, or we're signing a letter of acceptance, to build a Qatari-Emiri air force facility at the Mountain Home Air Base in Idaho. The location will host a contingent of Qatari F-15s and pilots to enhance our combined training, increase lethality, interoperability. It's just another example of our partnership."

Hegseth was talking about a partnership between our countries that has already been fabulously lucrative for Trump personally and politically in 2025, from a golf resort with luxury villas his family is developing in Qatar to a $400 million jumbo jet Qatar gifted him back in May.

MAGA swallowed all that. But a Qatari military base on American soil was just too much, especially for MAGA influencer Laura Loomer, a known bigot who wields considerable power when urging Trump to fire any administration members she distrusts.

Loomer flew into a social media rage as the news broke, declaring, "There isn’t a single Trump supporter who supports allowing Qatar to have a military base on US soil. I don’t know who told President Trump this was a good idea, but it has made people not want to vote."

There was the threat: Trump fears Republicans losing control of Congress in the 2026 midterm elections and the inevitable oversight and accountability that would come with that. Loomer doubled down, posting that she might not vote next year.

Steve Bannon, a former adviser to Trump during his first administration now advocating for a Trump third term despite that being prohibited by the U.S. Constitution, told Newsweek on Oct. 10, "There should never be a military base of a foreign power on the sacred soil of America.”

The Idaho Freedom Foundation, a conservative group often aligned with MAGA, denounced the Qatari base: "To unilaterally decide that Idaho will host a foreign nation’s Air Force facility, which would house and train foreign nationals whose loyalties don’t align with our own national and state interests, is a completely unacceptable overreach."

Hegseth, after just a few hours of outrage on Oct. 10, took to social media with a "clarification," noting that despite a long-standing military partnership between America and Qatar, that country "will not have their own base in the United States ‒ nor anything like a base."

Hegseth, in keeping with Team Trump protocol, did not explicitly say in his clarification that he had just hours before explicitly stated the intent to "build a Qatar-Emiri air force facility" in Idaho.

That would be admitting the truth. Team Trump never does that. And the member of Team Trump who nearly rivals the president when it comes to telling lies with a straight face is Vice President JD Vance.


That's why Vance was on Fox News, a safe space where his inversion of reality would not be challenged by host Maria Bartiromo, calling talk of a military base for Qatar in Idaho "largely a fake story."

"The reporting that somehow there is going to be a Qatari base on United States soil, that's just not true," Vance said on Oct. 12. "We are continuing to work with a number of our Arab friends to ensure that we are able to enforce this peace. But we're not going to let a foreign country have an actual base on American soil. So there was a bit of misreporting on that, as there often is, as you know Maria."

Bartiromo simply nodded and moved on to her next question.

So there you have it: The official Trump administration message is that Qatar will have an air force base built in Idaho. Except, not really. And anyone who accurately reported on what Hegseth initially said is now spreading a "fake story."

That's how the inversion of reality works. Americans see and hear what the Trump administration does and says. And then the Trump administration tells Americans they didn't really see or hear that at all.

Some Americans will comply with that. But you don't have to. And you really shouldn't."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/c...673752007/

[Syne]

So there you have it: The official Trump administration message is that Qatar will have an air force base built in Idaho. Except, not really. And anyone who accurately reported on what Hegseth initially said is now spreading a "fake story."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/c...673752007/

See where they suddenly change "military facility" (e.g. training facility) into "Qatar will have an air force base built in Idaho"?
No? Duped by USAToday too.

[Magical Realist]

An air force facility is an air force base moron. MAGA got all upset because they thought they were different. They're not.

"Air Facility: A general term that can refer to any location with air operations.

This term can encompass air bases, but also air stations or auxiliary airfields.

The new Qatar Emiri Air Force facility at Mountain Home Air Force Base is a good example of a specific air facility within a larger air base."

Air Facility

Air navigation facility: Any facility, equipment, or system used to aid in air navigation, including national airspace system buildings and software.

Aviation facility: A broader term that includes airports, heliports, hangars, fuel storage areas, and facilities for aircraft maintenance and crew training.

Airbase: A military installation where aircraft operate, typically equipped with runways, hangars, and support services."

[Syne]

Illiterate moron who can't even comprehend the definitions he posts. 9_9