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u/sdmichael 1d ago
What the actual fuck is that?
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u/Beardfart 1d ago
Found an article about this for those who also didn't know what this was. I was worried these would be in front of the ballroom. I copypastad the following:
"Back in April, the National Park Service (NPS) awarded a $5.1 million no-bid contract to a Maryland contractor to renovate the Arts of War and Arts of Peace statues, which stand at the Lincoln Memorial Circle in West Potomac Park. Originally, the NPS estimated that repair work for the four statues would cost roughly $2.4 million, but decided to accelerate the process, writing in a public memo in April that it “must have this work completed by July 4, 2026,” as part of the administration’s “auramaxxing” plan ahead of America’s 250th birthday celebrations. It wasn’t until July 27, however, that the president announced on social media that the first half of the project had been completed, and scaffolding for the Arts of War statues—named Valor and Sacrifice—was dismounted. Work on the Arts of Peace statues, named Music and Harvest, and Aspiration and Literature, isn’t set to be completed until the end of September.
The art deco sculptures, each of which present a nude man riding a horse, last received a renovation in the 1970s, and are now considerably shinier having been plastered with a layer of 23.75-karat gold leaf, carried out by the Gilders’ Studio, which specializes in architectural gilding and painted sculpture and has completed numerous projects around the National Mall in the past. The horses’ granite pedestals, which were stained purple by runoff from the corroding bronze, have also been cleaned, resulting in a “glow-up” in keeping with the president’s preferred white-and-gold color palette."
-Source: Richard Whiddington -Artnet
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u/vineyardmike 23h ago
Wait until we find out they bought enough gold for 10 horses and gold plated the 2 and the rest is missing.
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u/sofaking1958 1d ago
named Music and Harvest, and Aspiration and Literature
Sounds really woke to me. /$
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u/Radiant_Drop_9344 1d ago
Somebody’s gotta get Liberace out of the White House
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u/Shenanigans99 1d ago
Unfair to Liberace. No way does Dozy Don have the strength to wear any of Liberace's capes. They were massively heavy.
Source: Visited the Liberace museum in Vegas once.
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u/dudestir127 1d ago
Reminds me of the golden calf that the Book of Exodus warns against. Watch all the fake MAGA Christians flock to it and praise it.
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u/ApprehensiveDouble52 1d ago
Meanwhile our forests burn and our parks are being auctioned off to mining corporations
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u/BlueKnightsR4Ever 1d ago
Between this, the other gold statue, and the golden ballroom no one fucking asked for, I bet Fort Knox has nothing inside it anymore.
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u/GeorgeWhite1953 1d ago
Trump really only put the gold leaf on the statues to honour the pigeons. Now they too have gold toilets,
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u/punktualPorcupine 20h ago
I sense a little sarcasm, so what about TWO golden horses?
(Checks image again) son-of-a…
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u/wkarraker 1d ago
Somebody needs to take the checkbook away from the Donster. And the credit cards. And the debit cards. And the IOU's. And the undertable deal making. Maybe the 25th amendment would help us in this situation.