not many people know this but after Grover Cleveland left office, the Statue of Liberty became Cleveland's personal property, and he had horses attached to the front so he could ride it around the country - ThreadSky

pwnallthethings.bsky.social • 31 days ago

not many people know this but after Grover Cleveland left office, the Statue of Liberty became Cleveland's personal property, and he had horses attached to the front so he could ride it around the country

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TAPPER: Even if Qatar isn't asking for anything in return now for the jet, that's a bill that could come do. Nobody in the world just gives a $400m jet to be nice.

BESSENT: Well, I don't know Jake. The French gave us the Statue of Liberty.

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titusoates6.bsky.social•31 days ago

Thanks to you now everyone knows it.

bob0colo.bsky.social•31 days ago

The Jet is a Gift to Trump, Going to his Personal use "Library". What a Load of Bull 💩 ....it is a great distraction.

sardarji.bsky.social•31 days ago

It became awkward when he was elected President again. What to do with this statue? That's when it was moved to NY.

unusual-gentleman.bsky.social•31 days ago

Scott, be sent, to mars please. I believe the beaches are extra smarmy there.

michaelsweet.bsky.social•31 days ago

This Statue of Liberty argument is so stupid, yet it seems like the best counter the GOP can come up with.

perplexed.bsky.social•31 days ago

This is true, but it was okay because Congress voted both to approve the gift and also to add the filigreed horse collars and the tasteful monster truck wheels.

jrzaworski.bsky.social•31 days ago

Only because Congress refused to fund his original steampunk mecha concept.

adriana1o5.bsky.social•31 days ago

missing from all the stupid coverage is that it would take years to retrofit it with security features so it wouldn’t even be ready for use by him until the end of his term (at best)

So it really is a total grift. It’s just for him to use after & if you think he’s parking it at a library - lmao

redwineandtacos.bsky.social•31 days ago

😂

pwnallthethings.bsky.social•31 days ago

The famous phrase "give me liberty or give me death" actually comes Cleveland too, who would shout it at valets to bring the Statue back round front whenever he stayed at a Holiday Inn but wanted to go out to parties in the evening

sardarji.bsky.social•31 days ago

He took it with him to parties because all the hot girls wanted to ooh and aah over it.

ploeg.bsky.social•31 days ago

The Statue of Liberty currently marks Cleveland’s grave in Princeton, NJ.

kiernan.io•31 days ago

He’d also hang out the ear and go “it’s Grovering time”. Partly why a city got named after him

silsmile.bsky.social•31 days ago

Gosh I learn so much about US history following you

auntierabbit.bsky.social•31 days ago

I can get behind your version of this history.

bbdd333.bsky.social•31 days ago

Fact check: plausible

prairie-schooning.bsky.social•31 days ago

Dear god you are funny

ladiaz.bsky.social•31 days ago

why is it you can find out the SOL was privately financed and congressionally approved in about 5 minutes, and Jake "i left journalism for cnn" can't ask a meaningful follow-up question? obviously rhetorical...

thereitgoes.bsky.social•31 days ago

And charge people to see it.

beaver1224.bsky.social•30 days ago

Tell you what, if we accept the jet and put in NY Harbor, I withdraw my objections to it.

auntierabbit.bsky.social•31 days ago

They are all complicit in thier justification of placating the tangerine cheeto.

sundaedivine.bsky.social•31 days ago

You haven’t lived until you’ve seen a copper goddess tearing up a dirt road in Ohio.

redrebel.bsky.social•31 days ago

They gave the Statue of Liberty to US, ALL OF US, not TO the president.

Scott Bessent is a cunt.

funpo.bsky.social•31 days ago

Plus, statue was symbolic art. Not an expensive airplane to be used by the “leader”.

redrebel.bsky.social•31 days ago

They want it back.

I don’t blame them.

funpo.bsky.social•31 days ago

Lots of us here still fighting.. we need support from allies..just like the revolutionists had support…

redrebel.bsky.social•31 days ago

Indeed.

Please follow @thecleannewdeal.org & @patricklovellpresentsthecleannewdeal.com.

Two of the best allies you’ll ever find!

thecleannewdeal.org•31 days ago

We have You, don't forget!💥💥

bquintiliani.bsky.social•30 days ago

This entire administration is an embarrassment!!!

webuiltthiscity.bsky.social•31 days ago

Also, no one was allowed to enjoy looking at the Statue of Liberty except for Cleveland, it was his personal property. He had it installed in the backyard of his mansion. It was only recently moved to its current location

numbcat9.bsky.social•31 days ago

I mean hey if Trump wants to build a big pedestal in New York Harbor and stick the 747 into it tail down nose up and turn the cockpit lights on as a kind of shining beacon of freedom and democracy? We could even have the Coast Guard administer it like it was a lighthouse, like the original.

eveexamines.bsky.social•31 days ago

Notice how Jake is already getting the quid pro quo wrong. Trump at a minimum has stopped pointing out completely accurate disgusting facts about Qatar. Funding Hamas, in cahoots with Iran. Of course he and the Republicans never gave a shit about Q's slavery.

greenfieldmj.bsky.social•31 days ago

What we *think* is the Statue of Liberty is actually a replica - the original was spirited away in the middle of the night and sold to an Ottoman pasha. Cleveland used the money to purchase a chain of Pacific islands for his ne’er do well son-in-law, who tried and failed to establish a coconut farm.

smellbringer.bsky.social•31 days ago

Incorrect. Grover Cleveland actually animated the Statue of Liberty using the slime from Ghostbusters II and then rode it around.

davidchao.bsky.social•31 days ago

Trump’s path to match Grover Cleveland’s path is clear

hoarton.bsky.social•31 days ago

You see, because the amazing, very smart Mango Mussolini was generous and strategic enough to accept the gifted 747 palace, Qatar decided to purchase some airlines from Boeing. It's simple LOGIC.

thewhidxan.bsky.social•31 days ago

I can go inside the Statue of Liberty, but I will never be allowed in the jet,dumbass

teethofwisdom.bsky.social•31 days ago

Also, 747s are the cornerstone of any library. It is known.

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