President Donald Trump had a statue of Thomas Jefferson placed in the Rose Garden last week, bringing to five the number of sculptures he has added this year. George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Alexander Hamilton, and a sculpture honoring Revolutionary War soldiers preceded the one honoring our third President and the author of the Declaration of Independence.
Naturally the Washington Post is sneering at the project, even going to the trouble of finding an expert, Maxwell Anderson, the former president of the Association of Art Museum Directors, to sniff that the statues statues are of “negligible artistic value.” You know, not like the Obama Presidential Library…
…or the obscene thing supposedly representing the Kings embracing
…or the King Memorial, which makes me think of Han Solo hanging on Jabba the Hutt’s wall.
The Jefferson statue is of “negligible artistic value” because President Trump selected it, just as the Reflecting Pool upgrade has to be mocked and sabotaged because it is this President’s project. Trump Derangement is pure Cognitive Dissonance Scale craziness: the President’s endorsement of dogs—fortunately he is the only POTUS in memory who hasn’t put a dog in the White House as a political prop—would have much of the Left siding with Mamdani’s anti-canine Muslims.
The statues are also irritants to the Axis and pals because the Rose Garden sculptures that arrived before Tom’s are on loan from Harland Crow, the conservative billionaire who has lavished gifts on Clarence Thomas. That’s also cognitive dissonance at work where it doesn’t belong. The owner of artwork has no relevance to the quality of the art, just as the character of the artist is irrelevant to any assessment of the artist’s work. There should be nothing controversial about the White House honoring patriots and Founders on its grounds, and there isn’t. No Chief Executive in our history has been so absurdly attacked over non-substantive matters. President Trump’s real offense is that he dared to persevere into the headwinds of presumed leftist dominance and prevailed. How dare he?
Ethics Alarms 
At first I thought, “sure, bronze, no problem”. Then I noticed that Tom’s hands are fairly dark but his shirt is light. Then I realized in horror, this is Tom in Blackface or at the very least Brownface.
as 1 of the 3 people who visited the Albert Einstein monument in DC since July 1989 (yes, I dragged my parents in search of that monument that is expertly hidden in plain site, as I recall), artistic value of a statue appeared to be an irrelevant factor.
-Jut
That one’s by the same sculptor responsible for the giant JFK head, in the Kennedy Center, that looks like it was made out of bubble gum.
I would not say it was bad.
Just plain and unremarkable, which, for a memorial, is kinda bad.
-Jut
Aaaaaaaaaaah to bad they are on loan and not official gifts to the White House.
As *permanent* gifts, the next petty Democrat would have to *remove* statues of the founding fathers (not that the media would make an appropriately big deal out of it).
Don’t forget the addition of the statue of Columbus on the grounds. Not that it’s a bad statue, but it was definitely done as a thumb in the eye to Black lives matter. I’m not surprised about some of the replies, I’ve seen a lot of posts about the next Democratic president should commit to bulldozing the new ballroom.
Yet the White House honoring Columbus is completely appropriate. As is a thumb in BLM’s metaphorical eye.
Viva Italia! 🇮🇹
Viva America!🇺🇸
E viva Colombo! ⛵
👉🏻👁️
Of course. Any representational art is not acceptable to our betters. And, gasp! These figures are clothed!
Obama’s temple to himself can be best appreciated if viewed at twilight.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HK4v3H4WQAEAUg8?format=png&name=small
Just keep your car or Uber near for quickly leaving the neighborhood.