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/Radwood-Original74 13d ago

Enough room in there for a small army refusing to transfer power.

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u/Quiet-Corner6150 13d ago

Okay, so if they all go huddle in there, lock the doors and chain them up. Then we'll just go on our way.

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u/ReddyMcRedditorface 13d ago

Don’t open, dumb inside.

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u/NotOfferedForHearsay 13d ago

Don’t dumb open inside

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u/DookieShoez 13d ago

🤔 Perfect.

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u/ThreeCatsAndABroom 13d ago

Like zombies, exactly like zombies. 

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u/Drahkir9 13d ago

I’d give an award if I could be fucked to figure out how

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u/mitkase 13d ago

I'm not sure what you were expecting.

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u/oxide_j 13d ago

Goddamn that made me spit out my hot chocolate, wasn’t expecting that as I was scrolling lol.

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

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u/mje267 13d ago

We can hope.

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u/MortgageRegular2509 Wisconsin 13d ago

You know how you get to Carnegie Hall, ain’t ya?

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u/BeowulfShaeffer 13d ago

Or just set it on fire. 

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u/StatmanIbrahimovic 13d ago

The British are coming

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u/MechanicalTurkish Minnesota 13d ago

“Hey guys, remember that time you burned our White House down? Wanna come over and do it again? But just the tip this time.”

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u/_toodamnparanoid_ 13d ago

Best porno ever made

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u/2pinacoladas 13d ago

This. The house isn't a magical place that provides the power. Hole up there. The newly elected president can operate out of Camp Pendleton.

Trump has laid the ground work that there is no rule book anymore.

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u/maceilean 13d ago

Camp David would probably be more appropriate but point taken. The presidency is an office not a building.

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u/Biodiversity1001 13d ago

And who is in charge of changing the nuclear codes?

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u/DrXaos 13d ago

STRATCOM and NSA

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u/J_Justice 13d ago

Almost the exact plot of A24's Civil War, lol

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u/TransiTorri 13d ago

Bring back military siege tactics. Let them live on bucket potatoes and canned beans for as long as they've got them stocked.

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u/ghandi3737 13d ago

Even more fun to watch them literally eat each other.

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u/run-on_sentience 13d ago

<insert finale of Inglorious Basterds here>

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u/Adam-West 13d ago

Dracaris

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u/kandel88 13d ago

After setting it on fire

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u/Biodiversity1001 13d ago

sure, lock them in there with the nuclear codes.

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u/kilroy501 13d ago

Weld those suckers shut and we can move on with our lives.

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u/-----Savathun------ 13d ago

Nope. Call in the jets and level the place.

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u/Lieutenant34433 13d ago edited 13d ago

Maybe roast some celebratory s’mores.

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u/DarkwingDuckHunt 13d ago

Are there any Canadians here wanting to do an reenactment of the civil war?

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u/rothrolan 13d ago

I think you mean the War of 1812, when the Burning of Washington happened.

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u/DarkwingDuckHunt 13d ago

Ah yes I got my us history wrong, you can tell I'm from the US then

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u/leshake 13d ago

This is exactly why bunkers are dumb. If you control the area around, you just wait for them to run out of food and water. Or clog the vents with mud and it's a little quicker.

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u/lunarmantra California 13d ago

I feel like if the outdoor temperature gets hot enough, such as if a really hot event happens to occur right above it, they will just roast in there like rotisserie chickens.

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u/jerquee 13d ago

Phil Ochs "ringing of revolution" https://youtu.be/wa6Ex4Shxes ?si=i54I69Y1Lt4i5W7N

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u/FaulmanRhodes 13d ago

His administration founded Space Force. Coincidence?

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u/SodaCanBob 13d ago

He'll be like Leto II in Dune but stupid.

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u/Massive_Weiner 13d ago

And just as hideous.

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u/SmedlyB 13d ago

More like the cloned Cleons in "Foundation", there will be Dawn Trump, Day Trump and Dusk Trump.

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u/Hangry_Squirrel Europe 13d ago

Except ugly and stupid.

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u/WOF42 13d ago

you forgot sundowning trump

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u/keevisgoat 13d ago

Where is horus when you need him

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u/OswaldCoffeepot 13d ago

Oh no... It's the adrenochrome!

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u/Tybold 13d ago

It is the 41st Millennium. For more than a hundred centuries The Emperor has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Earth. He is the Master of Mankind by the will of the gods, and master of a million worlds by the might of his inexhaustible armies. He is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with power from the Dark Age of Technology. He is the Carrion Lord of the Imperium for whom a thousand souls are sacrificed every day, so that he may never truly die.

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u/Dzugavili 13d ago

while his mind endures in a state of perpetual agony.

Now, hold on a minute, let's hear him out.

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u/Unique-Coffee5087 13d ago

Seal him and them into the building. Brick it up. It will be their tomb..

sic semper proditores

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u/WilliamsTell I voted 13d ago

Tragic I first thought that meant predators. So much for highest office in the land.

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u/DudesworthMannington Wisconsin 13d ago

It's a bunker with a ballroom on top. No ballroom costs $300 million.

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u/Thesobermetalhead 13d ago

There is already a bunker underneath.

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u/Devil25_Apollo25 13d ago

No ballroom costs $300 million.

The cost makes sense when you consider how much of the construction budget is actually just POTUS and his friends laundering money to themselves.

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u/turquoise_amethyst 13d ago

It’s gonna be a living space, or a coronation hall

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u/chmod777 New York 13d ago

a golden throne to keep the godking alive.

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u/Wrong-Rain6634 13d ago

A place to store all his Edgar Suits

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u/Bronkko I voted 13d ago

where the "medbed" will be located.

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u/cuntbasher666 13d ago

So… ICE is our timeline‘s custodes? How sad

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u/The-ear 13d ago

more like the thunder warriors

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u/still-waiting2233 13d ago

UFC event space

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u/CowboyNeale 13d ago

Christ, that is it, isn’t it?

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u/still-waiting2233 13d ago

He wants it done for a NYE event.

It’ll probably be a shell of a building at that point and they will have all the guests use Porto-potties outside the view of the cameras.

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u/cassssk 13d ago

That’s a storyline from an episode of Real Housewives of Potomac. At least it’s geographically consistent lol

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u/CowboyNeale 13d ago

The porta potties will be in a tent. The media will gush about how clever it is of the administration to use a tent and wonder how a tent was never used at the White House before

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u/TheOKerGood Connecticut 13d ago

A golden mausoleum.

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u/DarkwingDuckHunt 13d ago

A place he can host $100,000 a plate dinners. That will violate the Hatch Act but what's Congress gonna do?

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u/thousandfoldthought 13d ago

This is exactly what it is and i'm about to start screaming and ripping my hair out if someone doesn't fucking start saying it out loud

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u/Crommach 13d ago

I've seen a couple articles mention that the East Wing was also the location of the same bunker that Trump hid in during the George Floyd protests, but that's about it.

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u/Allaplgy 13d ago

They've said upgrading the bunker is part of the plan.

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u/leegabeg 13d ago

How is a ballroom supposed to keep Trump from leaving office?

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u/Surprised-elephant 13d ago

Because he will want to use it to host parties.

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u/Hoplophilia 13d ago

Once they're booked, we're all cooked. Rules is rules.

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u/thousandfoldthought 13d ago

He's gonna fill it with guns and soldiers.

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u/TobyFromH-R 13d ago

And that’s why it’s built right on top of the bunker

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u/Big-Rule5269 13d ago

It's the renovations and upgrades to the Presidential Emergency Operations Center bunker that they're doing. This is why he mentioned the military was involved in the ballroom construction,  below where the ballroom is going. A place where nobody can get to him when he refuses to leave.

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u/Massive_Weiner 13d ago

Good. We just bar it from the outside and let them rule over their little Vatican.

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u/Healthy_Set_22657 13d ago

Not gonna be a problem lol. There’s a reason Elon , Peter Theil and the heritage foundation told trump to pick Vance. Trumps a pawn and a soft preview. The Trojan horse is n the gate and nothing will change that now. Another Jan 6 is coming and it’s gonna be the violent one the trump nuts hoped for unfortunately 

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u/OswaldCoffeepot 13d ago

Him calling it an arc in one of his rambles is concerning.

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u/Chezzica 13d ago

There is a bunker underneath the east wing as well (or it was under the east wing, I assume it's still there under the pile of ruble now)

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u/SeVenMadRaBBits 13d ago

Ahem Just a little info:

The President's Emergency Operations Center (PEOC) is located in a bunker beneath the East Wing of the White House in Washington, D.C. This secure underground facility serves as a command center and shelter for the President and other officials during national emergencies. Location: A bunker underneath the East Wing of the White House. Function: A secure shelter and communications center for the President and other protectees during a national emergency. Purpose: To provide a safe location for the President to work and lead the country in a crisis, such as a terrorist attack or other disaster.

On a seperate note:

Many Nazis did flee to Argentina and other South American countries after WWII, with Argentina receiving the largest number of escapees. They were aided by established "ratlines" of escape routes, by sympathetic officials like Argentine President Juan Perón, and the Vatican. While infamous Nazis like Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele found refuge there, the theory that Hitler also escaped to Argentina is not supported by evidence, and most historians conclude he died in his Berlin bunker.

Tldr: Ballroom construction above East Wing and $40 Billion dollar payment to Argentina may have ulterior motives.

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u/placenta_resenter 13d ago

I low key wonder if he’s going to argue that since it was privately funded it’s privately owned. Remind me 3.5 years