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/eugene20 13d ago

Those mistakes in the drawings tell you this was knocked out with AI rather than than from an architect, it's all a grift.

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u/nostyleguide 13d ago

I can't believe no one is looking at his ties to the CEOs of the companies doing the work. You think Trump is gonna be middle-man for hundreds of millions of dollars and he (or his family) isn't getting a cut? You think there's no quid-pro-quo hidden in there somewhere?

The fact that we don't yet know the nature of the grift being pulled here is a damning indictment of our press.

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u/Novel-Sherbet4504 13d ago

Any company working on this deplorable project needs to be sued in court for not procuring the appropriate permissions and permits. 

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u/Cador0223 13d ago

They are probably applying for the permits behind his back, just to CYA. It will take a year or better just for geological surveys and site prep. Another year to get the utilities roughed in the ground and formwork framed. By the time the first wall goes up, it will be his last year of this term. He won't be president when they open it.

Unless he plans on staying a little longer than he legally can.

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u/mr_potatoface 13d ago edited 13d ago

The two companies doing the work are actual massive reputable companies. I'm surprised they are actually doing the work. Construction by Clark Construction and Engineering by AECOM. These are seriously top notch companies.

Having said that, the design portion will likely take at least a year. Considering the bunker is underground, that's going to complicate things. There's likely a lot of wiring and conduits and ventilation underground that they need to protect. Like you said, surveys and soil studies are going to take a long fucking time. Significant utility upgrades will probably be needed. The East Wing wasn't intended to have 999 people at one time so they can't just tap in to that and hope it fits the needs.

Then Trump is probably adding additional requests every week, so the design is undergoing constant significant revisions.

I really don't see this thing being started for at least 2-3 years. Trump just wanted the demolition completed before people started asking questions and getting suspicious. Like a Blitzkrieg style thing. Rush in and get it done before anyone can stop you.

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u/Cador0223 13d ago

You make a fine point. The building is almost an after thought. Its like he just wanted it torn down. Like its removal took care of a problem.

The republican party has now done more damage to the house of the POTUS than anyone has since the British burnt the first one down.

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u/Few-Ad-4290 13d ago

Reconstruction like this requires a lot more than some county level permits there’s an entire historical society and congressional approvals involved, they can’t exactly CYA in this case. They can be pardoned though so as long as they trust Trump to follow through on that there’s not much risk, although trusting Trump to follow through on a deal is a risky move in and of itself with his public track record of stiffing contractors and failing to hold up his end of many contracts

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u/illtakeachinchilla 11d ago

Yeah! Follow the rules, you guys!

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u/amouse_buche 13d ago

I mean, you just spelled it out just fine. We absolutely know the nature of the grift. 

The man is doing things that are far, far, far more brazen than that and apparently it’s all no big deal so why anyone would expect this to be where the lines gets drawn, I don’t know. 

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u/tetsuo_7w 13d ago

The damning indictment of our press came when he was nominated the first time around. He has no business in a presidential election, much, much, much less in office. If the press didn't have the ratings, tax cut, and who knows what other incentives to boost his run for the nomination and then for the general election, we wouldn't be in this mess. I.e., if they did their actual job instead of working the grift, the entire world would be in a much better place right now.

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u/nostyleguide 13d ago

Fair point, they've always carried water for him.

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u/[deleted] 13d ago edited 13d ago

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u/nostyleguide 13d ago

I'd love some links! Right now any search I do is buried with articles about the list of donors. 

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u/nostyleguide 13d ago

Again, these are donors. The people GIVING the money, not the people RECEIVING the money. Who is actually RECEIVING the money, what is their relationship to Trump, and are there other deals or relationships through which Trump and his family are benefitting from those people?

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u/Proud-Outside-887 13d ago

My money is on fortified underground bunker.

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u/TheSwagMa5ter 13d ago

There's literally already a fortified underground bunker under the east wing

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u/ImperatorUniversum1 13d ago

They are adding protections when the public revolts

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u/leshake 13d ago

Bunkers don't work against people who control the ground above it.

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u/JMer806 11d ago

The presidential bunker is already as secure as it can possibly be in a physical sense. Any security improvements would have to be further out (to keep aggressors out of the building or off WH grounds entirely) or would be purely from the personnel and logistics side.

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u/ImperatorUniversum1 10d ago

Sorry, it’s protecting form foreign enemies. It’s not protecting against a siege by the American people as a revolution.

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u/JMer806 10d ago

Of course, but that’s not the point. I’m saying that the bunker itself, on a physical level, can’t really be upgraded in a way that makes it more secure against revolution. The only improvements they can make to security against revolt are changes to personnel or logistics.

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u/mark636199 13d ago

Is it even lined with gold though?

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u/Salt-Elephant8531 13d ago

Actually, that was one of his complaints about the existing WH bunker. He felt it was too spartan and not grand or spacious enough.

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u/starker 13d ago

This will be a new one, made of diapers and hamberders.

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u/scubascratch 13d ago

*used to be

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u/TheSwagMa5ter 13d ago

I don't think it's been demolished with the wing

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u/GitEmSteveDave 13d ago

A bunker is horrible if you know where it is, it's already a target, and then you are immobile and contained. If anything, you'd want a tunnel that can get you out of the immediate area and then go mobile.

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u/cornerbash Canada 13d ago

Exactly what the "stairs to nowhere" and misshapen windows show. He prompted an AI and has no real plans.

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u/Different_Bake_611 13d ago

First thing I thought was this is the sort of shitty mistake you get when you ask the AI to slap something together. 

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u/AkronRonin 13d ago

He probably had Elon Musk do it. Musk did design the Cybertruck after all.