I have been trying to think of what Trump’s hideous “ballroom” project reminds me of — and I finally have it — it is Nicolai Ceausescu’s infamous and unfinished House of the People in communist Romania, which also brought awfulness to a lovely downtown.

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It features a huge ballroom with niches for portraits of the dictator and his wife and a sliding roof so that a helicopter can enter and exit. The building also had a nuclear bunker. The aesthetic sense of the two men is much the same but Trump’s construction will probably be even worse.

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Trump just claimed the United States had done “a lot” for Ukraine, but that Ukraine has done “nothing” for the United States. This is unjust in the highest degree. And not just untrue in the normal sense — it is a big lie, designed to bring about horror and chaos. snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-big...

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Leute, die meinen, man müsse außer der Gewissheit, Leben (und die Stabilität Europas) gerettet zu haben, für die (im Budapester Memorandum zugesicherten) Hilfen "etwas zurückbekommen", sind genau so verkommene 🤬 wie Trump und seine Verbrecherclique. VÖLKERRECHT IST KEIN BUSINESS!

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I just called. Took 1 minute.

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