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Trump plans to build a 250-foot Triumphal Arch near Arlington National Cemetery, featuring a gilded statue and classical architecture.
Sanewashing is a word that had to be invented to describe how the more strait-laced media outlets were covering the speeches and tweets and other outpourings of Donald Trump.
I don't normally waste my time reading editorial pages because I don't care what about six guys sitting in a skyscraper have to say about anything. The fact of the matter is this: we wouldn't be where we are today but for the fact that this president did something no president has done in half a century.
Congratulations to Rory McIlroy on another Great Championship, The Masters! He performed tremendously under intense pressure, something which few people would be able to even think about doing. With each year, Rory is becoming more and more a LEGEND!
Situated on 0.75-hectare site, on the corner of Temple Road and Richmond Avenue South, in Dartry, the property also has frontage onto the Milltown Luas station and faces Alexandra College, one of the country's top girls' schools.
If you remember, I said I want to run it for a year just to see, because the place is falling down. It's horrible. Air conditioning, heating is gonna to be ripped out in its entirety and, you know, it needs new it's old. It's how many years is it, Rick? What's the total? Over 50, and we have 50-year-old air conditioning more than that, actually and it's in bad shape. Everything's in bad shape. It's gotta be redone.
The 65-year-old taoiseach Irish for prime minister was under political pressure to talk tough to Trump about the war on Iran. But as the Irish Times newspaper noted, he remained effectively mute for the first 20 minutes as the US president held forth on a range of grievances, including the resignation of Kent, director of the US National Counterterrorism Center.
Barron Trump is listed as a director of Sollos Yerba Mate Inc., a startup set to launch in April. Business filings show the company is registered to a $16 million, five-bedroom home near Mar-a-Lago owned by Jay Weitzman, a businessman who has donated to Trump and whose parking company has received federal contracts for years.
"Gardaà were alerted to a suspicious package at a premises in West Clare earlier this evening, Wednesday, January 21, 2026," a garda spokesperson told the Irish Independent. "A cordon was put in place around the area and the services of the Defence Forces Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team requested. "The package was subsequently deemed safe, and the cordon has been lifted. "Investigations are ongoing."
After 17 years on RTÉ's flagship home renovation show, and narrowly escaping a heart attack, the architect says he no longer 'loses any sleep' over critics
The president announced on Truth Social that the recently renamed center will close on July 4 for two full years of renovations. No better way to celebrate 250 years as a nation than by shutting down our center for the performing arts! Most high schools, given the opportunity to shut down their performing-arts departments, don't view it as an exciting, patriotic celebration, and prefer to have a bake sale.
The hotel is on a prime cut of the Midtown East business district near Grand Central that the Bloomberg and de Blasio administrations upzoned in the 2010s. That change was meant to spur projects like this one, replacing older mid-rise buildings with newer taller ones, and we're seeing the results now.
Speaking to donors at a White House dinner, he revealed several scale models, inspired by Paris' Arc de Triomphe earning the project the nickname, 'Arc de Trump.' When asked by a CBS news reporter who the arch was for, he reportedly pointed to himself saying 'me,' adding that it would be 'really beautiful.'
"It was interrupted by a thing called the Civil War, and so it never got built," Trump said aboard Air Force One as he flew to Florida last weekend. "Then, they almost built something in 1902, but it never happened."
The demolition was hardly the most egregious action that Trump has taken as president, but it captured popular and media attention because it was such a clear metaphor: Trump had secretively demolished part of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, treating it as his own. That metaphor may become more potent yet. Recent events suggest that the gaping hole where the East Wing once was may lie there exposed, undeveloped, and contested for quite some time.