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May 20, 2005
Kudos to Donald Trump
Donald Trump can come across as a little clownish in some respects, but if he makes good on recent plans, he will deserve to go down in history as a patriot and a hero.
Legitimately disgusted with the bleak ghost tower design that thankfully has been shot down as a replacement for the World Trade Center, Trump is advocating what many have longed for since 9/11: the rebuilding of the towers the way they were.
This is what they had planned to inflict on the New York City skyline:
The upper part of the "Freedom Tower" was to be an empty skeleton, in honor of cowards too faint-hearted to work there. The effect would be a cross between the morbid and the pathetic, a 1776-foot symbol of pusillanimous self-pity.
The Donald deserves credit for perceiving that this does not reflect the American spirit. Making a building 1776 feet tall is not a meaningful symbol. Rebuilding the towers as they were, but one floor higher as Trump is proposing — that is a meaningful symbol.
"If we rebuild the World Trade Center in the form of a skeleton, the terrorists win," Trump observed.
But if we build according to his plan, we win. New York wins, America wins, civilization wins. The message will be clear: you knock it down, we'll kick the tar out of you and then build it back even taller than before, after leaving the world a better place by spreading democracy in the Middle East.
If Trump pulls this off, he can count me as a fan for life.
Posted by Van Helsing at May 20, 2005 12:55 PM
Comments
I'm with you and Mr. Trump. That Freedom Tower thing is ridiculous and so were pretty much all of its competitors.
The skyline needs to be restored to its former beauty and the only way to do that is to put the Twin Towers back better than ever.
Take care,
Posted by: The Gnat's Trumpet at May 20, 2005 3:45 PM
OT: But right up your alley: An Extreme Moonbat Site Obssessed with Portraying Laura Bush as a Murderer
Laura Bush, “America’s First Murderess of the Land,” had literally ripped a hole in her boyfriend’s neck. Michael lay there for eight minutes staring at Laura and her once loving arms, while Laura stared back wondering, “Is the head dead yet?” There has never been an adjudication of the murder, even though Laura and her girlfriend had apparently conspired to murder him and been laying in wait for his car.
Posted by: V the K at May 20, 2005 4:21 PM
Wow, this is a way cool story, Van. Lovin' it, and I have to say--my impression of the balding philandering guy with a new blonde on his arm every week and the hairspray is much changed by it. Thank you.
Posted by: Cao at May 21, 2005 12:20 PM
