{"id":46203,"date":"2026-10-30T20:33:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T01:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=46203"},"modified":"2026-10-30T22:31:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T03:31:37","slug":"the-presidents-arch-of-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/10\/30\/the-presidents-arch-of-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"The President&#8217;s Arch Of Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or so it seems to me.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin detailed the arch\u2019s potential security features as part of legal filings that the administration submitted ahead of a hearing on Friday. Both officials said Washington faces \u201ccontinuously evolving\u201d threats and that Trump\u2019s planned 250-foot-tall arch \u2014 positioned by the south end of the Arlington Memorial Bridge \u2014 would offer a perch to coordinate officials\u2019 security response, deploy snipers and take other steps to defend the region.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/10\/28\/hegseth-tells-court-trumps-arch-needed-national-defense\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yep, put your snipers up there where a single FPV drone armed with a fair-size bomb can kill them easily. Have these guys not learned anything from the world leaders in defense, Ukraine?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a sop to a demented, or worse, old man&#8217;s vanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or so it seems to me. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin detailed the arch\u2019s potential security features as part of legal filings that the administration submitted ahead of a hearing on Friday. Both officials said Washington faces \u201ccontinuously evolving\u201d threats and that Trump\u2019s planned 250-foot-tall \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/10\/30\/the-presidents-arch-of-disaster\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46212,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46203\/revisions\/46212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}