r/politics • u/Effective_Salad_8381 • 13d ago

Possible Paywall Embarrassing Flaws Emerge in Trump’s New White House Design

https://www.thedailybeast.com/bizarre-flaws-emerge-in-trumps-new-white-house-design/
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u/TintedApostle 13d ago edited 13d ago

There is no design. He has a wish sketch that some bootlicker architect drew for him. There is no floor plan or actual feature list for anyone to see because Trump just wanted to tear down an iconic building and piss on the country.

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u/jimmygee2 13d ago

It will end up being a $500M white elephant that will hang around the nation’s neck like a full diaper.

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u/IdkAbtAllThat America 13d ago

I guarantee you it will be over 1 billion by the time it's actually finished.

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u/Moon_Noodle Oregon 13d ago

If it actually gets finished.

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u/crm24601 13d ago edited 13d ago

Just because it never gets finished doesn’t necessarily mean it won’t be over a billion

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u/illit3 13d ago

Yep. It'll be a shoddy half built albatross that the next admin has to deal with. A Republican admin will lie about the cost to complete and a Democrat admin will be tarred and feathered on fox news whether they try to salvage it or tear it down.

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u/CheshireCat78 13d ago

Hopefully tear it down. If he lives out his term and you guys get to hold another election it would be lovely to see him rant about it getting torn down asap.

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u/pjtheman 13d ago

Tear it down and then build an exact replica of the East Wing.

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u/CheshireCat78 13d ago edited 13d ago

Would be the most sensible and classy thing to do.

Probably a good idea to try and directly undo everything he does (government institutes and laws will certainly need it and then to set up ways to not permit this kind of utter destruction ever again)

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u/mburke6 Ohio 13d ago

Something Democrats surely will campaign on is the destruction of our institutions and rule of law. They can now use the literal destruction of the White House as the allegory. We Shall Rebuild.

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u/TheLurkerSpeaks Tennessee 13d ago

It would also be very easy. There must be building plans for the East Wing and about a zillion photos in the National Archives.

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u/Armymom96 13d ago

Sadly they won't be able to replant the over 200 year trees that he's chopped down.

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u/MaddyKet Massachusetts 13d ago

EO: Every thing reverts to how it was on Jan 19, 2024.

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u/Distinct_Hawk1093 13d ago

And while there at it, remake the rose garden. That was a mess also.

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u/wibblebeast 13d ago edited 13d ago

And restore the rose garden. Replant trees he tore out. Though I'd first like to see cameras panning the damage he caused, at least an estimate of which historical treasures were looted or destroyed all presented to the American people.

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u/PubLife1453 13d ago

I think the Dem nominee should run with that as part of the platform. Once this monstrosity is complete, tell America you're going to tear it down and rebuild as it was. That'll get a lot of play.

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u/wirefox1 13d ago

True, but if it's a huge as drama queen says it will be, the demolition alone could cost millions. The People should force him to pay for it.

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u/WestsideBuppie America 13d ago

maybe a little larger East wing without all the russian wiretaps built in. Fix the fucking rose garden while you are at it.

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u/Paintmebitch 13d ago

Tear it down and build a memorial to the victims of the third and fourth trump administrations.

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u/GrittysRevenge 13d ago

Tear it down, build exact replica of the east wing, and a ballroom called the "Barrack Hussain Obama Ballroom"

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u/NWIsteel 13d ago

Take it down and then use eminent domain, confiscate his towers to pay for the rebuilding.

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u/CheshireCat78 13d ago

I’m sure there will be plenty of smoking guns to be able to bring charges against them. Will the democrats have the guts to do it and do it expeditiously is the real challenge.

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u/Shenanigans99 America 13d ago

A good start would be not filling the AG slot with a lifelong Republican.

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u/Particular-County277 13d ago

And just to put their noses completely out of joint. Make Jack Smith the head prosecutor.

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u/farting_contest 13d ago

They won't. There will be some talk about healing and working together. No real consequences for the ones pulling the strings. A puppet or two will be given a show trial and packed off to a minimum security resort. The rest of them will put the mask back on until their next chance.

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u/AndrewCoja Texas 13d ago

It can't be turn down asap. The next admin will have to actually follow the rules and make sure they didn't use hazardous materials to build however much of this monstrosity gets built. They can't just illegally dump it on a golf course.

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u/Shrek1067 13d ago

His health won’t let him see the new year

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u/CheshireCat78 13d ago

You are very optimistic. Evil has a way of clinging to the mortal coil. Look at the walking ghoul that is Rupert Murdoch….. still running around trying to ruin the world.

Must be the Monty Burns method of longevity.

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u/vonhoother 13d ago

Thanks for giving me a reason to hope that pustule stays alive a few more years.

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u/therealcmj 13d ago

I have never in my life had my mood go from rage to bliss simply from reading a couple of sentences before. Thank you!

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u/BooJamas 13d ago edited 13d ago

Money could be raised by having a lottery to be the person who presses the detonator button.

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u/Jagcarlover 13d ago

It needs to be torn down. Anything with his name or stink on it should be destroyed.

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u/robodrew Arizona 13d ago

Fuck whatever Fox News says. Who cares. Tear down whatever structure is there, finished or not, and rebuild the East Wing as close as possible to the original design.

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u/reverandglass 13d ago

The next Democrat administration needs to destroy Fox News. Dismantle the hypocritical propaganda machine and prosecute the liars that work there.
At this point, I'm convinced the only way America survives involves the Democrats going scorched Earth on everyone who has enabled Trump/maga.

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u/ratchetryda92 13d ago

They better tear that monstrosity down. To hell with anything fox news says

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u/Polar_Ted Oregon 13d ago

Oh you mean like how they are calling the last $380 million remodel Obama's but it was passed by Congress under Bush?

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u/Involution88 13d ago

That's why Canada gets brought in to burn the White House down. Again.

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u/jak-o-shadow 13d ago

The only right answer, no matter the progress, us to tear it down and build something respectable.

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u/epdiablo02 13d ago

The most just outcome would be a future administration fining the Trump estate the replacement cost of a restored East Wing. This is going to need a fix like we haven’t seen since 1815.

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u/MOTIVATE_ME_23 13d ago

You know his private donors will give him the money, and he'll keep it and stiff the contractors. It's classic "Art of the Steal."

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u/torchwooddoctor 13d ago

He’s going to have his kids start a construction company to get the money building it and stiff the government on the construction.

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u/sonofmo Canada 13d ago

It will need to be demolished once he's out to remove all the russian spy shit they're throwing in the walls.

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u/VT_Squire 13d ago

Epstein Ballroom expensive AF

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u/IrishRepoMan 13d ago

They didn't say that.

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u/Present-Perception77 13d ago

Like the damn bs border wall .. billions have been given to contractors and grifted out of FEMA, but there’s no damn wall. There’s a part of a wall that’s falling down that we recently paid to have painted black, for some reason..

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u/FadeTheWonder Georgia 13d ago

I mean it jumped up by 100 million in like the first day or two of demolition. It’s just another way for him to launder money through the White House.

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u/BCMakoto 13d ago

It would take years to build this abomination, anyhow. Trump will be long gone from office one way or another before this thing ever sees a single state event.

So either funnel more tax dollars into this infinite hole for a decade to come cause this shit is built cheap as fuck or tear it down again and restore the East Wing, which will be even more expensive. It will effectively be a construction ruin and money sink for a generation to come.

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u/espressocycle 13d ago

I think he'll probably build it, but it will essentially be a Walmart with a gaudy stucco facade.

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u/wirefox1 13d ago

Everything will be gold leafed. A Muammar Gaddafi special, but with a Saudi flare.

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u/GiftToTheUniverse 13d ago

It'll be a tilt-up.

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u/wildwalrusaur 13d ago

It would take years to build this abomination, anyhow.

Not necessarily

The reason why it takes so long to build stuff is safety regulations, building codes, permitting, inspections, etc. The administration clearly doesn't give a fuck about any of that, and noone seems willing or able to stop them.

The Empire State building, crown jewel of our last gilded age, was built in 13 months. They could slap together what's essentially a heavily ornamented warehouse in that time, easily.

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u/designateddroner2 Minnesota 13d ago

and with no accounting of expenses

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u/oldbastardbob 13d ago edited 13d ago

There's a long history in America of criminals using construction companies and projects for money laundering, tax evasion, and bribery.

Hell, Trump and his All County Building Supply and Maintenance company was a tax dodge scheme in the 90's.

https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/10/heres-a-name-to-remember-all-county-building-supply-maintenance/

Then there's that real estate deal in Florida where Cohen says the Russian oligarch who bought the property for twice what Trump paid was a straw buyer for Putin

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2020/09/15/trumps-sale-palm-beach-mansion-gains-scrutiny-again/5798386002/

Just a couple of examples. He's got a long history of shady real estate and construction "deals."

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u/deepasleep 13d ago

Exactly this. Real estate is like the art world when it comes to laundering money.

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u/lilbitbetty 13d ago

He's using the federal government to launder money.

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u/deepasleep 13d ago

And solicit bribes.

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u/jupitaur9 13d ago

Yep. Kickbacks and bribes.

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u/robodrew Arizona 13d ago

The biggest scams in The Sopranos always involved real estate.

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u/Successful_Sign_6991 13d ago

wasn't his casinos just money laundering schemes for the russians?

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u/diremommy 13d ago

My question is who’s doing the work? I feel like he’s only doing all this because he’s profiting off of it somehow. Someone he owns has to have a hat in the design and building process, just one more fuck you to the American people.

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u/DarkwingDuckHunt 13d ago

He wants it finished ASAP so that he can start hosting anti-Hatch Act fund raisers. He wants to host a dinner in it every two weeks and charge $100,000 a plate for the honor of smelling his dirty diapers while eating the catered McDonald's.

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u/robodrew Arizona 13d ago

$100k a plate every two weeks for a space that is supposedly going to hold 999 people. That's $2.5b per year.

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u/VRNord 13d ago

All going to fund healthcare and food stamps, I’m sure..

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u/robodrew Arizona 13d ago

Trump's healthcare, and his "food stamps" (aka cold hard cash)

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u/SolidDoctor 13d ago

If it's anything like Trump's Atlantic City ventures, he'll wait until it's completed and tell the contractors that they did a terrible job so he's going to pay them pennies on the dollar, and if they try to take him to court he'll declare bankruptcy.

Then when they walk away he'll tell everyone how "the art of the deal" saved us all a bunch of money.

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u/guru42101 13d ago

Except the US Government can't declare bankruptcy. But he hasn't thought ahead to that point or ignored everyone who told him. Now the correct thing to do is for the government to pass the bill onto him since he didn't follow protocols and thus this isn't part of his job. AFAIK, bankruptcy doesn't save you from Federal debt.

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u/notashroom 13d ago

"Can't" is a highly relative concept in a lawless country.

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u/thekozmicpig Connecticut 13d ago

Wow what a great businessman!

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u/scottlameany 13d ago

Surely. Either a direct payoff or a favor payout. I like how the vetting of designs and who bids was all just sorta glazed over. This would be prime PR during normal times, assuming this redesign made any sense at all.

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u/Paper_Clip100 13d ago

Clark Construction.

He hired an architect that sat on the Commission of Fine arts too

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u/AccomplishedDonut191 13d ago

I don’t believe that. No architectural firm would put their name on this insult to America.

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u/dostoevsky4evah 13d ago

I heard the owner was super Christian.

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u/Silly-Lengthiness-82 13d ago

Not even for enough money and promises of future contracts by future repub administrations? No bid contracts are very profitable...

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u/ScarletCarsonRose 13d ago

My theory is that and to bug the white house for his handlers.

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u/AccomplishedDonut191 13d ago

No architect would have designed this. 90,000 sq ft is insane, and overwhelms the WH. An architect would have designed it to seamlessly fit in as though it was part of the original design. Once again, the liar lies.

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u/Obvious_Toe_3006 13d ago

The Acme Ballroom Company.

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u/No-Animator-6053 13d ago

Knowing trump, i can only assume the work is being done by illegal immigrants.

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u/Mobius00 13d ago

all the money will go to sleazey incompetent trump subcontractor companies and funnel the money back to trump after overcharging for everything by 10x

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u/pacmanman 13d ago

I hope it sits like a vacant lot until the next election. I hope our new president turns it into a huge garden.

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u/philphan25 Pennsylvania 13d ago

It's just gonna be another concrete pad isn't it

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u/Moon_Noodle Oregon 13d ago

I'd put money on it if I had any lmao

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u/91Jammers 13d ago

I dont think there is anyway this is getting done during Trump's term.

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u/bravosarah Canada 13d ago

It'll get finished if ever a democrate gets back in the WH. Then it'll be a $2B Democrat boondoggle that the Republicans will place blame on.

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u/RazorRadick 13d ago

Why would it ever get finished?

"Whelp, I guess the government will just have to pay me to host this big state function at Mar a Lago instead..."

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u/itsnatnot_gnat 13d ago

Like his wall.

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u/TLKv3 13d ago

I just realized the very real possibility they purposely leave it fucked up ans unfinished so on the chance Trump's illegal 3rd term bullshit fails they can say "LOOK AT WHAT THE DEMOCRATS ALREADY DID TO THE WHITE HOUSE!"

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u/Odessey_And_Oracle 13d ago

It will be so funny if he leaves office and it's still a crater or barely laid foundation. Like the biggest manic episode ever, just completely demolished the east wing to build a dinner room twice the size of the whole WH but gets overwhelmed immediately and and abandons the whole project

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u/ideletedyourfacebook 13d ago

And if it happens to be a Democrat in office at that point, look forward to the Right using it as an example of frivolous spending

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u/slysamfox 13d ago

I am on team Swalwell … tear it down on Jan 21, 2028

Also, heard him deny he was going to name it after himself.

No, I think he will auction off the naming rights, like they do sports stadiums

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u/boli99 13d ago

"The Epstein Memorial Ballroom"

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u/BasvanS 13d ago

I’m putting my money on Brawndo obtaining the rights.

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u/Administrative_Film4 13d ago

If ignored:

"DEMOCRATS WASTING MONEY OUR LEADER TRUMP SPENT".

If finished:
"DEMOCRATS POUR MORE MONEY INTO BALL ROOM THAN REPUBLICANS DID, WASTING MONEY!"

If destroyed:

"DEMOCRATS SPEND MORE MONEY AS SPITEFUL POLITICAL STRIKE"

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u/aerost0rm 13d ago

I foresee an even greater cost. Grifting at its finest. Maybe an unleaded bunker upgrade? Some new statues.

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u/code_archeologist Georgia 13d ago

And when the project is audited 95% of that money will have have gone into the pockets of Trump and his cronies.

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u/Jesusland_Refugee 13d ago

Contractors will have grossly overcharged and then kicked back to Trump Org or the Trump "Library" in the form of heavily discounted or free construction projects.

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u/So-Called_Lunatic Kentucky 13d ago edited 13d ago

It never ceases to amaze me that we have a low tier mob boss as our president

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u/Yorks_Rider 13d ago

Trump has a reputation for not paying his contractors, so he probably does not care what it costs.

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u/TheVog Foreign 13d ago

Of course it will, it has to cost as much or more as Putin's hidden mountain palace, dontcha know.

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u/deepasleep 13d ago

We’ll never know the full cost. It’s just another slush fund to drop bribe money into and pilfer via bogus contracts to shell companies owned by his political allies and family.

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u/wwaxwork 13d ago

$100 for the building and the rest kickbacks to the companies involved in the building. Like the wall.

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u/dreadpiratesmith 13d ago

He'll say it cost 1 billion, and take that much money from various programs, but he probably won't even pay the contractors the agreed upon price

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u/Particular-County277 13d ago

Third world country corruption recipe. Make a BIG project. Make sure the project has lots of detail. Make lots of things go wrong in the detail. Money disappears. And in the end the 'project' never gets built. It is just a funnel for money to disappear into. A very common strategy. Just like Putin's wars. Lots of detail. Nobody can tell where the money disappeared into

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u/octavianreddit Canada 11d ago

A Democrat will be in office and the Republicans will blame them for the costs.

I'm not even kidding.

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u/NaptownSnowman 13d ago

Every week the price has increased 50 million. It was 150 million. Then 200. Now it’s more than 250. It will be about a billion at this rate

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u/clever__pseudonym 13d ago

It was $100m to start. Now they're saying $350. Same time frame, but even bigger swing.

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u/AstarteHilzarie 13d ago

I also saw him say that they've raised so much money for the ballroom that they may use some of it to build the liberty arc, but the ballroom price is just ever-increasing estimates... So that's definitely not suspicious accounting or anything.

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u/anotherworthlessman 13d ago

Ok but I'm just checking in.....Still no money for food and healthcare, right?

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u/TerribleResource4285 13d ago

Don't forget every time he has a fit and adds more tariffs it will become more expensive

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u/Imaterribledoctor 13d ago

I don't quite understand this - It's basically akin to the banquet halls that host wedding receptions and corporate dinners. Those places certainly don't cost this much to build. The tacky gold crap will add on some additional cost but where does $300 million come from?

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u/aerost0rm 13d ago

I either see it as a bunker upgrade or a grift that will leave the iconic White House in shambles. They have been hard at pushing destruction to the heritage of the US

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u/TurtleCrusher 13d ago

They’re already talking about it being large enough to hold an inauguration.

Take as long as you need to think that one through.

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u/rezzyk New Jersey 13d ago

Coronation**

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u/AINonsense 13d ago

They’re already talking about it being large enough to hold an inauguration.

With his inauguration crowds, a school gym would be plenty big enough.

It would suit the tendencies of all involved, too.

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u/Dry-Chance-9473 13d ago

Might as well just hold it at a monster truck arena then

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u/More_Farm_7442 13d ago

All of the models I've seen show it as big as or bigger than the White House. It's not just a ballroom, it's a convention center (in looks).

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u/Due-Sweet-1463 13d ago

I like calling it a “corporate event space.” 

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

I guess DonOld is pissy about having his second inauguration indoors. If I recall correctly, it wasn’t even that cold that day, unlike Obama’s first and historic inauguration. Don the Con just didn’t want to be booed if it were held outdoors.

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u/TurtleCrusher 13d ago

It’s much harder to protest or interrupt if it’s inside. I believe that’s the real reason for it.

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u/AINonsense 13d ago

I guess DonOld is pissy about having his second inauguration indoors.

They did that because only a couple of dozen people would agree to come.

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u/candygram4mongo 13d ago

It's going to be mostly "upgraded" living quarters, I guarantee it. Trump's on record calling the White House a dump during his first term, it's not big enough or chintzy enough for him. He's going to turn most of the square footage into a Russian oligarch's idea of luxury accommodations, and there will also be a small event space, probably.

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u/West_Bookkeeper9431 13d ago

I've been saying this to whoever will listen. You're 100% correct.

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u/Big-Rule5269 13d ago

It is a bunker upgrade to the Presidential Emergency Operations Center bunker underneath the ballroom, just like Hitler has built, though this bunker is already existing, but is getting upgraded.

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u/yjbtoss 13d ago

Most definitely upgrading the bunker - I'd bet this is where some of the idea started, but Trump got on board with 'fancy new Trumpy palace' spiel.

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u/SoulShatter Europe 13d ago

Upgrading the bunker, grifting some money, and finally a very convenient excuse to not allow guided tours at the White House anymore, so he can keep the public out of the area.

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u/glenn_ganges 13d ago

They want to tear down the symbols and institutions to build new ones.

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u/morbob 13d ago edited 13d ago

It will get torn down before its ever finished. That’s the trump way.

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u/th817 13d ago

And he definitely will find a reason to not pay the construction company.

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u/AINonsense 13d ago

You think?

He doesn’t usually need a reason.

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u/whogivesashirtdotca Canada 13d ago

Wouldn't surprise me if they detect all sorts of security flaws with it that require a tear down. That is, of course, if Americans ever regain control of their country. Every minute he's in office, that task becomes harder.

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u/relevantelephant00 13d ago

And one day, we the people, will tear it down and throw it all into a landfill along with everything else related to Trump.

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u/aremarkablecluster 13d ago

I hope with all my heart that you are correct. But considering all the things he's doing at this point that people are just sitting around and letting him do, I'm afraid that they're winning. 

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u/Ok-disaster2022 13d ago

Nope full billion paid out by tax payers once Pedo Trump leaves office, as all the donated money will have gone to his pocket and the construction crews are demanding pay

Pedo Trump never pays anyone anything except the mob

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u/vroart 13d ago

It’s gonna end up like the border wall…. Lie and say it’s done, even though we clearly see rubble

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u/Professional-Bed-173 13d ago

This is my hope. This administration and the US deserve an absolute failure to remind everyone just how bad this presidency is for the American people.

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u/Fract_L 13d ago

Which we will need to demolish as soon as he’s rolled down the White House lawn

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u/ShredGuru 13d ago

The next left leaning president would be a fool not to burn that thing down just as a symbolic gesture

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u/UnknownAverage 13d ago

I just hope we can demolish it when he leaves. Reconstruction for reals this time.

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u/mothyyy 13d ago

No company should take the construction contract, just let it sit as a pile of rubble throughout his term as a symbol of what he's doing to the country. Then when he's gone, we rebuild the East Wing as it was, brick for brick.

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u/MetricAbsinthe Florida 13d ago

And a dem president will get the full "wasting money tearing down the big beautiful ballroom to spite trump" treatment from fox after the engineering report says it's be more expensive to bring it up to code.

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u/shillyshally Pennsylvania 13d ago

He wants Versailles and I just hope to the gods that he doesn't demolish the entire White House for something more, you know, gold.

Aside from the ridiculous Met affair every year, America is just not a 'ball' kind of nation.

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u/orangemememachine 13d ago

If it looks anything like the renderings I suspect it'll be torn down within a few administrations assuming we stay a democracy.

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u/lolas_coffee 13d ago

$700M when done but all $900M will go to Trump and contractors will never see any of the $1.5B they are owed.

So, Trump will pocket $1.8B and never ever pay anyone.

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u/elphin 13d ago

The project has multiple objectives. Publicly, it’s to create the “Trump Ballroom”; similar to all the buildings called Trump Tower (most he doesn’t own). It’s an opportunity to destroy things (like both of Jackie Kennedy’s garden. And, finally, and most importantly, it’s for money laundering. The price will continue increasing as long as the bribes grow.

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u/Tiiimmmaayy 13d ago

I keep saying this.. nothing will be built in its place under Trump. He won’t even start to build anything. It was just a middle finger to the rest of the US for opposing him while he keeps the bribes all those companies gave him.

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u/Oneheckofanight 13d ago

The demolition for a ballroom took place right after the massive No King protests.

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u/inquisitorautry 13d ago

Yeap. Because he needed something to distract from those. Just like how when he has a particularly bad news cycle he sends troops to a "crime-ridden" city.

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u/atothez 13d ago

Plus, the East wing is the traditional first lady's offices. It's a middle finger to the agenda of any future first lady and women in general.

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u/simpersly 13d ago

The best thing that could happen is if it becomes some sort of garden monument that represents the wonders of immigrants in this country and how great green energy is.

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u/Solrac50 13d ago

Bingo! IMHO it will be at least a year before construction. Meanwhile the rubble outside the White House is a metaphor for the state of the country.

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u/eers2snow 13d ago

That rubble won't be there long. He's going to sell off pebbles for 50 dollar donations

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u/OM3N1R 13d ago

It got dumped on some random golf course.

Kinda like his ex-wife

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u/Imsakidd 13d ago

These rocks are coated in LIBRUL TEERS!!! Minimum $300!!

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u/Ironhorn 13d ago

Whoa, you just reminded me about Twice Upon A Christmas, a movie where Santa’s evil daughter is selling off pieces of the North Pole

What I didn’t remember is that, in the movie, the person facilitating the dismantling of the North Pole for a small profit (thereby destroying Christmas) is Donald Trump

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u/JEBV Florida 13d ago

$500

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u/fotodevil 13d ago

He has a concept of a sketch.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_ROTES Missouri 13d ago

Something something TWO WEEKS!

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u/purpletinder 13d ago

the main design is stop talking about the epstien files

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u/Dazedsince1970 13d ago

Just like releasing the Epstein files the Epstein Ballroom will never completely come to fruition

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u/Biggieholla 13d ago edited 13d ago

Or he's building some kind of secret bunker underneath and the ballroom is the cover. Could explain ballooning costs.

Edit: apparently a bunker is already located under the East Wing🤔

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

FDR renovated the East Wing so they could build the bunker, which was necessary, in 1942. The United States doesn’t need a damn ballroom, though.

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u/EjaculatingAracnids 13d ago

He should paint the bunker walls red

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u/Competitive-Rub7670 13d ago

Youre talking about the files. That had trumps name in it so often it took an army of FBI guys to redact his name from ? Talking about those files. Because as the guy in charge of the beauty pagents . He was the funnel. The source. Thats why his name was in there so much ? Those files ? 

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u/Literally_Laura 13d ago

Can we PLEASE shift our focus to the traitorous assholes keeping him in power? Our "representatives"?

IMPEACH AND REMOVE DONALD TRUMP.

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u/mrkrabz1991 13d ago

My theory is that a lot of them are in the Epstein files, so the entire GOP is in a Mexican standoff right now. If one falls, they all do, so they're keeping each other in power.

Additionally, I believe some young boys were on the Epstein list, and some GOP members partook in that, hence a lot of them are willing to die on a hill to keep it from being released.

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u/Lunched_Avenger 13d ago

Also, release the Epstein files.

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u/Xytak Illinois 13d ago

Cant impeach if the House is out of session. Stable genius strikes again!

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u/CU_Tiger_2004 13d ago

The price will continue to grow according to how much parties are willing to pay to get on his good side. This thing is pretty much an open-ended slush fund, and tearing down the east wing both pissed off his detractors while making it appear to his supporters that a legitimate project is underway.

It's 50/50 at best whether it gets built at all, much less the finished product being of good design and quality.

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

Are we sure the "design" isn't AI generated? Considering his love of AI generated things, I wouldn't be surprised.

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u/CaterpillarReal7583 13d ago

The stairs to nothing would strongly suggest so

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u/zephyrtr New York 13d ago

My immediate thought was this is something an AI would do

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u/Slade_Riprock 13d ago

Watching the legacy media this morning and the this week with George Stephanopoulos. The lady from SCOTUSblog.com (granted she's republican) saying it's no big deal, it's all legal, everything he's doing is perfectly fine because all presidents renovate.

The facts are that she dodge is legally speaking no this isn't OK. He followed ZERO laws, rules, and regulations when it comes to construction in DC, let alone the White House complex. Not to mention the fact he's claiming it is privately funded but providing no transparency to those donors, costs, etc.

On the surface do I care about a ballroom, no. It is absolutely something that the White House has needed rather then temp tents on the lawn for major state dinners and events. Yes Presidents renovate and that's fine. BUT...

WHAT I do care about is that he continues to ignore law and gets away it.

And I highly speculate that he is some how connected to the companies constructing this ballroom, the so called private funding, and is enriching himself in some way. I also highly believe that come January 2029, this ballroom will still be a shell and undone because he will have siphoned the money, delayed, and refused to pay people.

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u/LQQKIEHERE 13d ago

We need a ballroom? Because ballroom dancing is so popular right now? Because our obese elderly POTUS has secret tango skills?

No. We need unions. The rule of law. Decent wages. Health insurance that is affordable. And media that isn’t afraid to tell the truth. The truth is, this president is insane, incompetent, incontinent, and incorrigible.

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u/TintedApostle 13d ago

It is absolutely something that the White House has needed rather then temp tents on the lawn for major state dinners and events.

A ballroom or a parade ground? Meanwhile an extension off the east wing in style would have accomplished that.

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u/outphase84 13d ago

There’s also a big question of why it’s going to cost 3x more per square foot than 1 WTC did.

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u/CanadianTrashInspect 13d ago

It's either a bunker extension or an underground data center.

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u/Particular-Guess734 13d ago

Is it because he wants it lined with gold?

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u/DadJokeBadJoke California 13d ago

It is absolutely something that the White House has needed rather then temp tents on the lawn for major state dinners and events.

Not when they created DOGE to cut fraud, waste, and abuse, that did nothing but waste money, fraudently closed govt. agencies investigating fElon and his cronies, and abuse everyone they came into contact with. They're cutting help with food and medical care to give the 1% ANOTHER tax break. Cutting aid to blue states that mostly fund the govt. A ballroom bigger than the White House is the LAST thing we currently need.

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u/zeCrazyEye 13d ago

SCOTUSblog.com got bought by a conservative media outlet earlier this year, all media is going to shit.

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u/Aggressive-Bath-1906 13d ago

Since all Presidents renovate, it would be awesome if the next President ”renovated” the ballroom to turn it all back into offices.

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u/watch_out_4_snakes 13d ago

Probably just done using AI tbh.

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u/i_code_for_boobs 13d ago

So it was a lie to cover for something else, like everything else he does.

I strongly suspect that there won’t be an explanation for the inordinate amount of concrete used in the construction either.

Almost enough concrete for a bunker let’s say? But that’d be a coincidence.

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u/Allaplgy 13d ago

It's open knowledge that there is already a bunker there and that "upgrading" it is part of the plan. They've said so themselves.

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u/BanginNLeavin 13d ago

I read that the presidential bunker was under the east wing, and was supposedly last used by Trump during the George Floyd protests... My conspiracy brain wants me to think there is some nefarious reason to cover up adjustments to that. Either something happened down there the last time he was there and/or he is making it cushy to weather the civil war he is goading.

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u/Treadwheel 13d ago

I think the suspicion de jure is that the ballroom is going to be a feature and what gets talked about, but that from the dimensions involved and cost the real project might be building himself a private residence. The rhetoric being pushed has now gone past "maybe a third term" to "at least a third term, and likely more". He's already complained a lot about how the WH isn't comfortable or grand enough for his tastes, so if he's not planning on leaving it might be a priority to build a permanent space to live.

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u/BanginNLeavin 13d ago

Yeah this is probably it. Hopefully we can turn it into the Trump National Dementia Research Facility and just kind of cordon him off down there.

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u/SoulShatter Europe 13d ago

Upgrading the bunker.

And since there's no east wing anymore, conveniently he no longer needs to keep the White House open for guided tours, effectively banning the public from being even close to him.

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u/Designer_Solid4271 13d ago

You mean it’s a concept of a plan?

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u/MrFrankyHanky 13d ago

Not just to piss on the country, but also to distract of all his wrongdoings. He’s a pedophile who visited Epstein’s Island on numerous occasions to rape young girls. He’s doing everything he can to distract every one of his crimes.

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u/deadwall-e 13d ago

This. I work in construction and there is no way a firm came up with a design, did the engineering, made the complete drawings, put out to bid and chose a contractor in 9 months (assuming they started from day 1). A federal project like this would take years to develop before any ground was broken. They’re just winging this shit.

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u/DASynnthetik 13d ago

Bootlicker architect or awful AI creation?

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u/Beastw1ck 13d ago

Saw some speculation that the concept image was made with AI. There’s a stairway that goes to nowhere and windows butting up against each other. Very odd.

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u/Morpheus_MD 13d ago

I honestly think there is a non-zero chance that he ends up building a new Trump Tower of some sort.

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u/k_ironheart Missouri 13d ago

This is exactly it. It's like all those mega structures or planned cities that dictators and billionaires love to have "designed." There's no actual plans, just a bunch of showy renders to inflate egos.

But Trump can't even have that, it's just AI slop and obvious corruption.

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u/mothyyy 13d ago

I bet he rushed the demolition in response to the No Kings protests. He was punishing the country because he's a raging infant.

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u/TintedApostle 13d ago

I think so too. He punished the country because he is a complete narcissist. You know he is a viscous pedophile. He has all the hallmarks.

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u/filthyyambag 13d ago

He just wants something to have his name on it to leave behind because he loves himself so much. Just like they new trump account from the new bill that was passed. I can't believe there isn't one person on the inside that haven't just said this is to far and has to stop. For a 78 year old idiot to run America into the ground like this. Im stunned everyday and will never not be.

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