Proposed 'Arc D. Trump' Monument Next to Lincoln Memorial Seen in White House Photos

essentialsaltes said:

It's NIke. It's Greco-Roman symbology, borrowed by American founders who hearkened back to the Greeks and the Roman Republic.

Victory with arms. Victory bestowing a laurel wreath.

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essentialsaltes said:

It was not my comparison. It is a fact of history. It is also a fact of history what the Know Nothings stood for.

They didn't object to the Washington Monument because it honored a president. Among other things, they objected to a stone blessed by the Pope.

As elsewhere in the northeast, the Know-Nothings were ascendant in Washington for a brief period in the mid 1850s and found odd ways to express their xenophobia. One particularly infamous episode occurred in March 1854, when late one night a band of Know-Nothings stormed the shed next to the unfinished Washington Monument and seized a beautiful polished marble stone that had been donated to the Monument project by Pope Pius IX. Attacking the stone with hammers and chisels, they damaged and defaced it, then threw it into the Potomac. (The stone was later recovered and carved into an obelisk, now in the National Museum of American History.) To round off their mischief, the Know-Nothings subsequently maneuvered to gain legal control over the privately-organized Monument project and through their incompetence stopped any further construction work. The result of their actions was that the stub of the monument languished uncompleted for decades to come.

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essentialsaltes said:

It's Greco-Roman symbology,

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