“At the strong request of the United States Military, and for National Security purposes, I have agreed to convert the magnificent Triumphal Arch… into a top grade Military Complex/Triumphal Arch,” Trump wrote on the social media platform.
Trump added that the arch near the National Mall will “house, store, and have the rapid ability to use large numbers of drones, plus Snipers, on both the roof and plaza areas, and additionally have and hold large quantities of sniper ammunition in storage.”
But why tho.
Because he has noticed that courts seem to be giving the President deference for things needed for “national security”, so he thinks those are magic words that will make accountability go away.
It’s working far too often.
Because they expect a civil war, or some sort of massive uprising. And I’m not naive, I don’t expect this to be some glorious, organized revolution of the shining proletariat. It will be chaotic, disjointed, and without goal (at least at first). Whether it’ll be armed or not, peaceful or not (at least to start with), doesn’t matter. They know DC will be a hot zone.
The same reason he’s building a nuclear proof bunker. The same reason he released, and has normalized, the national guard around DC. Whether he knows this, or his handlers, I don’t really think it matters. They know that something will break eventually. Yes, I know we all call out Americans’ apathy and make doomer jokes about them never rising up. But there IS another great depression coming (not recession, depression), gas will almost certainly go past $6 or $7 a gallon nationwide, food will become completely unaffordable, I suspect over 40% of people will be unemployed. And unlike the first Great Depression, we have mass surveillance, AI, a world MUCH MUCH more dependent on central supply chains, and so much more shit.
They know something is coming. Yes, USians suck and are so fucking apathetic, but that will crack eventually.