Just Junk All Across the Horizon

Trump came back to Washington, D.C. last year and, once ensconced in the White House a second time, decided to remake the egalitarian architectural composition of Washington in his image.  First came the East Wing demolition for the ballroom.  Then came his appendage of his name on the Kennedy Center (the Third Reich architecture of which I already explained), though his name had to come off and he put tarps over where his name used to be.  Now, the algae in the reflecting pool.

Trump had the reflecting pool's floor painted the same shade of blue that's in the American flag because he through it would be - no doubt - "beautiful."  I'm sure it is.  Too bad you can't see it with all the algae.  Scientists explained that a dark color in the pool not only eliminates reflections but allows the sun to heat the water more thoroughly and create the conditions for algae to grow and bloom.  Scientists could have told Trump that would happen if he had the floor painted dark blue, but we all know Trump hates science.

Trump then arranged for the National Park Service add hydrogen peroxide to the water, which didn't do much to kill the algae but did break up the paint on the pool floor and brought it up in chunks of various sizes.  But I think the Trump brothers have a solution for that.

This is just a parody, but don't be surprised if it becomes something real.

But while it's an abomination to see what Trump is doing to Washington, one thing I cannot tolerate is how white bourgeois liberals complain about the desecration of the national capital's landscape but is totally unmoved by the desecration of the nation's landscape.  They have a lot of damn gall to complain about how Trump is making Washington D.C. ugly when they drive to the local big-box chain store, pass strip shopping centers, large, loud illuminated signs and cartoonish fast-food eateries, and probably pass through - or live in - a subdivision of bland houses and sidewalks that lead nowhere (assuming they have sidewalks) . . . and don't think twice of how ugly and degrading this all is.  They don't like what Trump is doing to Washington, D.C. yet they don't mind an America that has become one big Breezewood, Pennsylvania. 

You know, as problematic as "The Star-Spangled Banner" is, maybe "America the Beautiful" shouldn't be our national anthem.