You know, I’m glad he’s doing it. It’s a great metaphor, not just for the damage he’s doing to the country, but also how it will have enduring, irreversible consequences. The East Wing won’t just go back to normal when he’s gone. We’ve permanently lost something, and even if we stop that stupid fucking ballroom from taking it’s place, we will have to build something new there.
Once trump is gone they should seriously demolish all of his changes and revert it to exactly how it was before.
Just make it as he has never been there.
Then, in a corner room somewhere, add a publicly accessible space as a museum showing what shit will happen is you let fascists loose
If it were up to me we’d demolish the ballroom and leave it there, just a rotting pile of rubble lying on the White House lawn. Let it sit there as a reminder of all the damage our nation caused, even to ourselves, and how it can never be undone.
In July, the ballroom was going to cost 200 million.
In September, he said 250 million.
In October, the cost became 300 million.
SNAP food benefits cost 100 billion for the entire fiscal year of 2024. However, due to the government shut down (because they cannot agree on health care btw; give you two guesses who want to take it away), SNAP benefits will not be paid out to hungry families for November.
A small skyscraper can be built for 300 million. This is a ballroom.
Americans, you’re not angry enough.
Edited to add: Forgot to add! He has given the go ahead on this project without the proper permits being approved.
He is also going to seek 250 million from DOJ for them investigating him. That’s taxpayer dollars, to be clear
Edited to correct 100 million to 100 billion.
But wouldn’t you rather have a ballroom that only elites will ever get to see? Hungry people are going to be hungry whether or not they get food. The Elites, though, how are they gonna get their ball without a room?
Frankly, the elites can take their ball and go home.
They keep threatening to do that if democrats raise their taxes I want to see it happen.
Let them eat ballroom. /s
How do you build ANYTHIING without a BLUEPRINT or a PERMIT???
I have to get a building permit to change my front door.
Your absolute monarch doesn’t need those things. He’d proudly state “l’état c’est moi” if he was able to.
Right, good reminder.
He started this process without the proper permits, because a king needs no one else’s approval.
You walk in, say a bunch of words, approve all variances, and do it again the next day.
That’s how you spend unlimited money
Demo doesn’t need a blueprint I guess.
Yes, it does. How else do you know what to demolish? Source: am former engineering draftsman.
I can only assume the plans were drawn up a long time ago, well before any announcement.
Blueprints aren’t needed if the project is going to be a boondoggle to swindle more cash out of investors. Just keep adding stuff, just keep claiming you NEED to add more stuff, and eventually you wind up with The Big Dig.
Simple. You get in your excavator and start digging.
And then have a big problem when you hit a sewer pipe or electrical cable.
I’m sure that “problem” only needs another few million dollars to fix. No one is getting paid anyway.
Just change the door and store the old one in the shed or attic in case they tell you to revert your changes. -That’s what we always did.
“If you build it, he will come”
He actually just let slip it could be as much as $350M, but then backtracked.
A ballroom of this magnitude and extravagance should have an equally fitting name, something classy like Epstein Hall
Coincidentally also sounds like the Epstein Hole, which is just as sickening as he is
He’s also wanting to use the construction as a smokescreen to expand the
FuhrerbunkerPresidential bunker.trump funnels money out of every building project that he is involved in.
And has never paid the bill.
Listen, it’s hard to give quotes when you are actively devaluing the dollar.
He’s also probably digging up the FDR bunker and replacing it with a bigger one with guns, an elevator and a stripper pole.
Don’t forget a McDonalds
Off by a couple orders of magnitude on the cost of SNAP benefits. 100 Billion. Source https://usafacts.org/answers/how-much-does-the-federal-government-spend-on-snap-every-year/country/united-states/
Very embarrassing typo! Thank you for the correction!
For 300M one could build a pretty spiff bunker, with a ballroom on top. There’s always a distraction, and there’s always a place where the fascist doesn’t want you to look.
Already a bunker below the east wing, I believe one of it’s main purposes is military planning. How much of that 300 mil is for survalence equipment installation? Who knows without permits!
2 trillion dollars in debt added, and still no trimp/Epstein files!
I really don’t care much for America… But it’s an absolute travesty… I’m genuinely surprised that it seems Americans are happy to be treated like utter shit by their own government.
Its very unpopular, but the media wont frame it that way, so you wouldn’t know it unless you spoke to people in person and asked their opinions.
Not all Americans. Unfortunately, both law enforcement and military are mostly complicit due to blind obedience, and yet a widescale mutiny is no longer an impossibility.
I cannot imagine the outrage if Biden had done this. There’d be actual violence from magats. It would be the only thing on all news radio and tv 24/7
Trump, after seeing the demolition on TV, now wants the ballroom on the other side.
The epstein ballroom
Big brain play.
Canada can’t come and burn it down again if its demolished first.
Trippy
Any other scenario where one-third of the White House is destroyed is called a terrorist attack.
Feel free to call it as such.
It’s not that far from the definition considering how USAians view their national symbols - while not eliciting terror per se, reshaping such a thing is def a show of power to the plebs.
A bit like how they carved them randos heads in a holy mountain.
The East Wing, where first ladies created history, planned state dinners and promoted causes, is now history itself. The two-story structure of drawing rooms and offices, including workspace for first ladies and their staffs, has been turned into rubble,
Of course he demolished the part of the White House that was traditionally used by women.
Because his wife is useless and doesn’t do anything with the space I guess the next first lady can just fuck off.
Trump building the Epstein ballroom.
The cornerstone will be a vault with the Epstein files.
I imagine some of the documents Trump stole were the Epstein files that incriminate him
Didn’t know it was that easy to just demolish a historical building. And not only a historical buidling, but the symbolic seat of power of a nation.
Is he gonna tear down the Lincoln statue next and replace it with his own?
Well, there are two things at play here. First is that the White House isn’t technically classified as a historic building. It’s a functioning government building with high security needs, so it doesn’t have the same strict protections placed on it that Historic Buildings have.
Second is that Trump bypassed the protections that are placed on it by simply lying about what’s taking place and moving too fast for anyone to stop him. This is also how Trump’s dad destroyed Coney Island’s Steeplechase Park before anyone could object.
I will personally shit on it myself if he does that.
I could totally see that happening across the nation. He tears down statues of Union leaders and replaces them with Confederate leaders, but puts a bunch of himself up too “because I’m fixing what the left did to this country’s history”.
I had thought the thing had been reinforced such that it would take longer but no. Hydraulic excavator FTW. Monster machines.
My prediction: he will visit that ballroom once, and never use it again.
The new Epstein Ballroom?
…whetever. Just demolish the whole fucking thing. The whitehouse and office of the President are lost.
Pretty much how I feel about it too , we have so much larger fish to fry than this dumb vanity project
