White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
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Its actually disgusting that a president can juat destroy an entire wing of The White House.
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I mean, they regularly modify it. Sure, it's a historical building, but it's also an active residence, diplomatic facility, and office.
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This building could be used for actual work and historically was. It is history. But they want to replace it with a giant party room
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Whether you like it or not, THIS is going to be a part of your history moving forward. If the US survives this nightmare I hope this ballroom will serve as a reminder that this bullshit happened.
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My preference (if we must have a federal government) would be to tear the whole thing down and rethink the entire office of the President.
Congress is the original core of the US federal government. It didn't come into existence with the Constitution the way the President and Supreme Court did. It was here before the Declaration of Independence. In the strictest sense, it was here before there were states.
And if it wasn't such a do-nothing ass scratching committee, we could make it a parliament with executive power combined into the role of Prime Minister. Don't need a White House anymore. Almost all other modern democracies went that route rather than copying our bizarre system.
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I still wouldn't be shocked if this is his excuse to be POTUS out of mar e lago. "I can't live in the white house while all this construction is ongoing so I'll use my bathroom as a SCIF" (just much more incoherent and racist). Lets him massively bill the government and secret service for all the lodging and so forth. But yeah... this is generally not what you do when you are planning to leave in 3 years.
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That was his exact strategy during his first term and he executed it to great effect. Millions of taxpayer dollars got funneled right back into the Trump family coffers.
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Don’t stop there. Raze it all.
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Wow, didn't need Canadians to destroy the White House this time.
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Now everyone who looks at a picture of the wh will be reminded of trump's smell. Every time.
Source: my country's former prime minister embezzled state funds to the tune of billions. He built an ugly ass megascraper visible from most parts of the city capital. I hate it.
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Merdeka 118?
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I hope it catches fire.
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I'm already dreaming up a dystopian future featuring the ruin of the mutated, ever unfinished White House. Escapism here I come.
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All paid for by bribes and backdoor deals to make Americans suffer more.
Remember next year when your insurance premiums increase by 20-400%. You can thank Donald Trump personally.
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It's paid for by our taxes. The bribes and backdoor deals go straight into his pocket.
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I want to know who is the contractor hired for the work
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POTUS aside, It's kind of nuts he's still deemed creditworthy by contractors given his history
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The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
As if he would know or care...
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he would turn the whole white house gold if he can. with the gaudy giant VASES.
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What a monstrosity.
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SNAP benefits about to end while the orange shitstain starts his vanity project.
And Argentina gets $40 billion.