Donald Trump asked the Smithsonian Institution to install a 30ft “Colossus statue” of George Washington outside the National Museum of American History, and a special exhibit honoring the nation’s first president, in a social media post late on Friday.

The president requested that the exhibit continue through February 2032, the 300th anniversary of Washington’s birth.

“He is easily America’s Greatest Hero. Without him, our Country and our Freedoms wouldn’t exist,” Trump posted on Truth Social as he flew to his golf course in Ireland.

The statue of Washington would replace the current Infinity sculpture by New York artist José de Rivera, commissioned by the federal government and installed in 1967.

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    16 hours ago

    Does this asshole ever focus on doing the job for the benefit of all Americans?

    This bullshit about the decor of the WH, or the reflecting pool’s color, or a stupid ballroom, or the arch, or putting his goddamned name on the Kennedy Center and fucking around with all this culture war stuff is all about his stupid ego and I don’t want to see any of it.

    Has he even spent a minute on trying to make anything affordable?

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      15 hours ago

      Has he even spent a minute on trying to make anything affordable

      well, yea. he has, and he is…

      the scraps of america, after the collapse, will be ridiculously ‘affordable’ to those that still have the means to buy it all up for pennies on the dollar.