In defense of the White House ballroom
despite_velasquez @ despite_velasquez @lemmy.world Posts 0Comments 61Joined 2 wk. ago
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That's a reasonable way to think about it, but what "should" happen and what "does" happen are different.
It seems like historically, state visits happen at the White House, which to me makes a lot of sense given the logistics of hosting foreign entourage.
The US is a world power, part of being a world power is being able to project that power, including through aesthetics, compare the aesthetics of a state visit in the Kremlin and Great Hall of the People vs. hosting in a temporary tent on a lawn.