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Miles Archer

(21,552 posts)
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 11:19 PM Yesterday

Trump BOLDLY TACKLES the AFFORDABILITY CRISIS with "potential marble armrests for Kennedy Center seating"

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-threatens-kennedy-center-with-a-tacky-marble-makeover/

Not content with completing his takeover of the Kennedy Center by slapping his own name on the building, President Donald Trump has revealed the next phase of his current redesign obsession.

The 79-year-old president hinted on Truth Social that the ’60s modernist building in Washington, D.C., would be getting the Mar-a-Lago special with a gold and marble interior refit, starting, of course, with the theater’s armrests.

“Potential Marble armrests for the seating at The Trump Kennedy Center. Unlike anything ever done or seen before!” Trump announced on Friday evening.

Accompanying images show the hard-stone armrest examples that Trump apparently wants to install in the chairs of the center’s three main theaters.
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Trump BOLDLY TACKLES the AFFORDABILITY CRISIS with "potential marble armrests for Kennedy Center seating" (Original Post) Miles Archer Yesterday OP
Sounds very uncomfortable - hard surface to accidentally whack an elbow. Marie Marie Yesterday #1
JFC... buzzycrumbhunger Yesterday #2
Marble armrests? Who wants those? Ocelot II Yesterday #3
Why is he so obsessed with Marble? montanacowboy Yesterday #4
I thought this was going to be Borowitz. Coventina 22 hrs ago #5
I can't think of anything more uncomfortable except making the whole seat marble. sinkingfeeling 16 hrs ago #6
Oh, that should help the attendance. Liberal In Texas 16 hrs ago #7
Why on earth would anyone want seating with marble armrests? He has to "tackify" everything. Vinca 15 hrs ago #8
Yes, cold, hard stone is the perfact surface for resting one's arms. GoCubsGo 15 hrs ago #9
Marble armrests with divots blogslug 15 hrs ago #10
not only stupid, they wont last. mopinko 13 hrs ago #11
Uh oh .. next time Rudy visits dweller 12 hrs ago #12
Even better seats for the more loyal adherents. Ping Tung 12 hrs ago #13

buzzycrumbhunger

(1,617 posts)
2. JFC...
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 11:26 PM
Yesterday

Someone needs to corral this miserable POS lunatic. Are they waiting for him to “cross” some line? I think he passed that months… YEARS ago.

Anyone got a backbone to spare? *eyeroll*

montanacowboy

(6,669 posts)
4. Why is he so obsessed with Marble?
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 11:54 PM
Yesterday

what sicko psychological bent has made this monster wanting to turn everything into marble? How long will they enable him? just as long as there is another buck to be grifted, until they empty the entire treasury of the USA.

Coventina

(29,083 posts)
5. I thought this was going to be Borowitz.
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 01:21 AM
22 hrs ago

Good lord, this man is so insane.
I have no words.....

sinkingfeeling

(57,096 posts)
6. I can't think of anything more uncomfortable except making the whole seat marble.
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 07:06 AM
16 hrs ago

Leather padded armrests would be a 1000 times better.

Liberal In Texas

(15,949 posts)
7. Oh, that should help the attendance.
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 07:13 AM
16 hrs ago

You know, people are just clamoring for hard uncomfortable armrests.

Vinca

(53,250 posts)
8. Why on earth would anyone want seating with marble armrests? He has to "tackify" everything.
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 07:59 AM
15 hrs ago

GoCubsGo

(34,643 posts)
9. Yes, cold, hard stone is the perfact surface for resting one's arms.
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 08:12 AM
15 hrs ago

Said no one ever. The pudding that is his brain is starting to dry up into a hard, caked-up mass. I shudder to think of how much it's going to cost to repair just the physical damage this fucking sack of shit is doing to this country, alone. May those funds come out of the hides of those who could stop this shit, but are standing by letting it happen.

blogslug

(39,079 posts)
10. Marble armrests with divots
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 08:12 AM
15 hrs ago

I'm assuming they're for a brass inserts he will swear are 14k gold and they will say Trump.

mopinko

(73,263 posts)
11. not only stupid, they wont last.
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 10:54 AM
13 hrs ago

marble is SOFT. putting holes and screws in it, then having ppl lean on it, is a recipe for failure.
pics at the link show a lot of machining. half of them r gonna crack right then.
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