The company owned by the family of Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior White House advisor, has unveiled plans for a makeover of a New York City building.
The Wall Street Journal said Tuesday that Kushner’s role in the White House is complicating the process due to the potential for conflicts of interest, even though he has sold his stake in this and other family owned properties.
But the possible conflicts aren’t getting nearly as much attention as the building’s design, which Twitter users say is unmistakably phallic.
Here’s some of the reaction:
Kushner's new skyscraper is 100% a huge glass dildo pic.twitter.com/JPMuX9N8eJ
— CAFE (@cafedotcom) March 21, 2017
@PeterGrantwsj His architects probably had to bone up on their skills.
— Blobert 🌮 (@blobert) March 21, 2017
@nycjim @WSJ That...is not subtle. Freud would be done with this case study in about .5 seconds.
— eli friedmann (@eligit) March 21, 2017
@PeterGrantwsj pic.twitter.com/z6bIVjeKzI
— Ryan Endean (@ryanendean) March 21, 2017
Given the design and street number, I shall call it "The Devil's Dildo." https://t.co/YhsVev1zJj
— Betty Cracker (@bettycrackerfl) March 21, 2017
Eternal symbol of Kushner/Trump dynasty, looming over Manhattan like a Swarovski phallus https://t.co/HpcE9j38cy
— Tero Kuittinen (@teroterotero) March 21, 2017
Edifice Complex https://t.co/FxF1WG9ArR
— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) March 21, 2017
@PeterGrantwsj From an engineering perspective, erections like this are difficult to maintain.
— Blobert 🌮 (@blobert) March 21, 2017
aka Meme Tower https://t.co/6cCPnruUoQ
— Ivan the K™ (@IvanTheK) March 21, 2017
@blobert @PeterGrantwsj And if they remain that way for more than four hours, that's an emergency.
— 🛡 Dustin Miller 📎 (@spdustin) March 21, 2017
Given the design and street number, I shall call it "The Devil's Dildo." https://t.co/YhsVev1zJj
— Betty Cracker (@bettycrackerfl) March 21, 2017
@TimOBrien The Dildo Building
— Larry LaRue (@larue615) March 21, 2017
@TimOBrien Penile Envy
— Mitch Mitchell (@SonofaMitchToo) March 22, 2017
@IvanTheK
— Bev Reese Gray (@BevReese) March 22, 2017
The building will be named "Overcompensating"
@PeterGrantwsj pic.twitter.com/KKLk5ZlN3Z
— Steven Romo (@stevenromo) March 21, 2017
But not everyone sees it as a penis. Here are a few other possible interpretations:
@PeterGrantwsj Here's the final concept. pic.twitter.com/AOIe9YHH7F
— Grok (@Groked) March 21, 2017
appropriate that Jared Kushner would erect a giant middle finger.https://t.co/lyBDl1TgJn
— Rob Flaherty (@Rob_Flaherty) March 21, 2017
@nycjim @WSJ pic.twitter.com/4BnrUYvRmC
— Mexican Judge (@laloalcaraz) March 21, 2017
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