President-elect Donald Trump has some monumental plans when he returns to office next month.
As in, actual monuments.
Trump posted Tuesday on his Truth Social media platform that “America is going to start building monuments to our great heroes and heroines again!!!”
Although the former-and-future president didn’t elaborate on who he thought should be honored with a monument, many people on social media decided to speculate on his picks.
And it was a real rogues’ gallery with some bizarre suggestions, such as QAnon Shaman Jacob Chansley and Grimace from McDonald’s.
My mind first went to presidents like Andrew Jackson but it’s probably going to be like the QAnon Shaman and Grimace and the war criminal soldiers he pardoned.
— Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social)2024-12-10T16:27:08.965Z
Another person thought golfer Arnold Palmer might make the cut, considering how impressed Trump was with Palmer’s genitalia.
Apart from the Great Orange Overlord himself, which people would Trump be in favor of erecting monuments to? (Wrong answers are impossible.)I’ll start: an Arnold Palmer statue in the style of a Greek marble nude.
— Koosemar (@koosemar.bsky.social)2024-12-10T16:40:30.206Z
And, of course, Kid Rock was mentioned ...
Trump wants to build new monuments! How about this! A monument to PhilRock ????
— Barbara (@Iamnightbird) December 10, 2024
I can see the defacing now!
'Please wash hands after urinating or defecating.'
Best send up of two Trump toadies ever! pic.twitter.com/ptY9vojDCK
Others across various social media platforms chimed in.
Hey DOGE, sounds like waste to me. What do you think?
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) December 10, 2024
Who is he going to build monuments of? Rudy Giuliani and Paul Manafort? pic.twitter.com/NCjMunY76o
There’s only ONE likeness Trump wants to build monuments to & that is of himself
— JoeyMama (@TheJoeyMama) December 10, 2024
He doesn’t care about the cheap seats people
Strand is dreaming if he thinks America is going to honor those who tried to erase our votes & shove Trump down our throats bc they didn’t get their way pic.twitter.com/ViIuXc3Pd3
I've sculpted large bronze monuments before. I know monuments, and donald trump you are not worthy of any monument.
— BD Max (@bdmax54.bsky.social)2024-12-10T19:02:09.462Z
Trump monuments = new outdoor restrooms
— BadTrumpQuips (@badtrumpquips.com)2024-12-10T17:20:58.159Z
Is Trump going to build an Iwo-Jima type monument to the J6 insurrectionists? Or is he talking about resurrecting Confederate monuments? Or both?
— Chris Panza (@cpanza.bsky.social)2024-12-10T16:35:22.472Z
The monuments will be holding a trump bible, wearing a don watch, and stink of don cologne and sneakers. He needs something to hang his cheap shit on.
— Not X (@davidhatestrump) December 10, 2024
Prediction, all Trump "hero" monuments will be torn down in 25 years. Every single one of them.
— Ronald Pinto (@RonaldPinto22) December 10, 2024
Trump has inspired many arrtists to create sculptures and statues dedicated to him ― some even in gold.
In October alone, at least three Trump-inspired artworks popped up around the country, though it’s unlikely he’ll find any of them flattering.
The Nevada Republican Party griped after a 43-foot-tall naked Trump statue was propped up on a crane outside of Las Vegas.
Additionally, a mysterious satirical poop monument appeared by the U.S. Capitol to “honor” Trump and the people behind the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.
Washington, DC, also saw the mysterious appearance of “The Donald J. Trump Enduring Flame,” a “tribute” to the time he reportedly referred to the white supremacists who marched in a 2017 rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, as “very fine people.”
