• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Trump’s Triumphal arch is a joke, it has no symbolism of any value, where for instance the French “Arc de triomphe de l’Étoile” has double significance as praising the success of the Napoleon army, and as a symbolic memorial place for the unknown soldier, and today it has become a historic landmark.

    What Trump is doing is putting up a huge piece of garbage of no value and slab his own name on it.
    It’s a cheap copy of “the original” in Paris, both in concept and design. Much like a cheap Chinese copy of a Vuitton designer piece.
    Trump has no style and no class, only someone completely without any sense of either could think such a project is cool.

    • sik0fewl@lemmy.ca
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      2 hours ago

      Triumphal arches go back to at least the Romans, so the one in Paris is nothing close to the original. It’s a copy, as well.