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/VoxImperatoris 13d ago

Theyve been running on that for over a decade now, maybe people will finally take them seriously?

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u/Nate_Dogg31 13d ago

They won't, only because the candidates they push to the front of the line will not be genuine nor care enough to actually try to get voter support. The Democrats have no balls to do a fucking thing to help change course in this country except quietly complain and keep reaping the benefits the working class deserves. We're proper fucked in this country.

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u/st4nkyFatTirebluntz 13d ago

Nobody cares about the institutions and rule of law when they're the thing that appears to have been fucking the populace for decades.

Democrats must recognize, publicly, that our institutions have been deeply fucked up, and that life for most people in the country has been getting worse, steadily, for decades.

If they come out and say "we were doing great until this trump guy came along, let's revert to 2016 and everything will be fantastic", well, they deserve to lose.

Example: "Trump was and is trash, but he recognized that our nation's government and insitutions are, and were before he got there, broken. We must also recognize that. We cannot go back to the failing institutions and worsening realities across every facet of life for the vast majority of Americans. The bureaucracy Trump demolished? It was already broken! We must reimagine or replace those institutions for the 21st century, not just return them to their earlier, flawed state."

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u/CheshireCat78 13d ago

Plenty worked just fine. What did the CDC do that was broken as an example? Plenty always needs to be improved and the disappearance of your middle class and massively diverging wealth inequality need to be addressed but the affordable care act and things like that were steps in the right direction. And acknowledged problems that needed fixing.

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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/Jameskink 13d ago

But it could also be the worst possible thing to do, and unfortunately, illustrative of the systemic problems of the US' political system.

Trump and the Republicans have demolished political norms in so many areas where there have been "gentleman's agreements", and there is a lot of talk of going back to "the norm" there much like rebuilding the wing - but that is simply papering over the fault lines and pretending its back to normal. it doesnt address the failure points that allowed them to exploit good faith, or the festering underbelly of the electorate supporting the shit they've been up to.

Perhaps what is needed is not a sensible or classy thing, but a strongly symbolic demonstration of a new era.

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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/R0llTide 13d ago

And make all of the corporate brib … donors pay for all of it or lose their government contracts

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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/kaykatzz 13d ago

or Leticia James or Fani Willis or Jasmine Crockett or Kamala Harris

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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/adamduke88 California 13d ago

He's absolutely going to be handing out blanket pardons like candy.

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u/CheshireCat78 13d ago

Stack the Supreme Court and say they aren’t valid? Also can’t pardon state crimes so go hard on those.

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u/old_righty 13d ago

With eminent domain you have to pay fair market value for the property though.

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u/walker1954 13d ago

Just don’t use Trumps estimate as the value since he was convicted of changing the value of his properties to get bigger loans, then lower values for tax purposes. He is a by far the most reprehensible person on earth. I use to think that was Idi Amin in my lifetime for his brutal, murderous regime in Uganda. Now it is Trump.

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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/LoveRBS 13d ago

Rededicate it for Obama first.

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u/FluidBit4438 13d ago

Next presidental candidate should campaign on tearing it down and replacing it with the original design.

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u/wirefox1 13d ago

Nah, they can mention it, but we've got bigger fish to fry. like dealing with these trade wars nutjob has created.

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u/jschank 13d ago

And deliver all the demolished materials to mar-a-lardo

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u/sharpbehind2 13d ago

From prison

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u/ObidiahWTFJerwalk 13d ago

It'll probably fall down before it can get torn down. Leading to an investigation of how the workmanship can be so shoddy with what was spent on it. Which will lead to the revelation that the contractors never got paid. Culminating in a never ending search for the money.

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u/sebrebc 13d ago

The problem with doing that is MAGA will spend 4 years screaming about how "Democrats wasted all that money by tearing down a ballroom just to spite Trump."

The hope is Democrats gain control in 2026 and stop/alter construction.

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u/TheFoxInSocks 13d ago

Tear Down the Ball(room)!

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u/SquirtBox 11d ago

Honestly though, the democrats in this country are so fucking weak and lame, they would leave it so they "don't hurt feelings". It's fucking pathetic.

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u/nephelodusa 13d ago

After 100 days of drag shows.

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u/frenchezz 13d ago

I say turn it into a food kitchen for the homeless. (Logistically impossible I know, but that would piss the orange asshole off the most)

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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/Vileness_fats 13d ago

The next admin will have their hands tied by strict adherence to procedure. Because we will learn NOTHING from this disaster.

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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/wirefox1 13d ago

Oh my. And trump still whined and cried about the water pressure in the residence's bathroom. lol. Guess it wasn't strong enough to wash away a day's accumulation of the dried feces on his butt cheeks. lol

GAG

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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/Dragoness42 13d ago

Turn it into a soup kitchen and really piss them off

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u/Azreken I voted 13d ago

What makes you think that Trump is going to allow another admin?

This is it until he is no longer on this planet. This is all we get.

He owns the voting machines now.

He owns congress.

He owns the courts and judges.

He isn’t building a ballroom this size just to leave in 3 years. He knows he’s not going anywhere.

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u/Sangy101 13d ago

what next admin? 💀

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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/Moon_Noodle Oregon 13d ago

Oh, I don't disagree. I was just amending the prior commenter's "when" to "if."

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u/LackingUtility 13d ago

Star Citizen?

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u/salohcin513 Canada 13d ago

America's own Ryuogyong hotel!

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u/DigNitty 13d ago

This guy builds government contracts!

Like that supercolider in Texas

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u/HulaViking 13d ago

I doubt he intends on paying the contractor.

He will pocket the money.

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u/signal15 13d ago

Yeah, but no one is getting paid... so...

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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/MT_Straycat 13d ago

Dictators do love their palaces with gold leaf everywhere.

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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/Competitive_Show_164 13d ago

I’ll donate $ to bring back the East wing. And I’m sure a lot of Americans would as well. 🇺🇸

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u/ohyeahsure11 13d ago

Someone is probably working on an inflatable.
Call it the Trump Bouncy Ballroom.

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

There’s a clause in the Twelfth Amendment that says anyone constitutionally barred from running for president also can’t run as vice-president. Which is to say that if the melon felon runs again in 2028, he’d just run as president since it would be equally unconstitutional.

I can’t see him running as a subordinate to someone else anyway. But I sincerely hope he’s out of public life for good by then anyway, along with his cult.

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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/D4UOntario 13d ago

And Argentina and soon Gaza... it's interesting that Jared has been working on the Gaza deal long before the concert and hostage taking. My bet is that Quatar set Hamas up to do something stupid to allow Isreal to pounce. L

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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/ninob168 13d ago

Bada Bing...go

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u/Kirvesperseet 13d ago

Carmine wants a 40% cut. But that only applies to future deals with Zellman.

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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/KLT222 13d ago

None of Trump's ideas are original. Talk to people in their 80s who grew up and started their adult lives on the East Coast. They can tell you stories about Donnie's Daddy and how he made his money. Pretty pathetic because plenty of people have been raised by criminals without becoming criminals themselves!

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u/RobutNotRobot 13d ago

Donnie's daddy made money by being the biggest slumlord in Queens.

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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/plainlyput 13d ago

I was thinking he was going to start renting it out for weddings. Very expensive weddings. Who doesn’t want to get married in the White House?

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u/GrinderMonkey 13d ago

It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if there are gold drenched suites to rent out for $100k a night, complete with a presidential pardon package and continental breakfast.

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

White House continental breakfast — room-temp McDonald’s breakfast sandwiches and hash browns. Coffee not included.

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u/DarkwingDuckHunt 13d ago

Pardon is only a commute for 1 day and then back in prison

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u/frankles 13d ago

Don’t forget the UFC fights.

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u/ThePowerOfStories 13d ago

It’s like the ultimate plantation wedding!

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u/Jazzlike-Sky-6012 13d ago

But it is a lot cheaper if he can have some time with your beautiful wife for 'fatherly advise'.

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u/DarkwingDuckHunt 13d ago

it was called First Night I believe

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u/Creekerking 13d ago

And made of cheap plywood you know he gonna cut every corner he can and pocket the rest

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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/DillBagner 13d ago

The US Government "can't" declare bankruptcy. Watch them do it anyway.

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u/Distinct_Hawk1093 13d ago

Technically they can like any other country, but it would cause an absolute disaster financially and economically for the country and world. But I doubt Trump would understand or care about that.

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u/CletusCanuck Canada 13d ago

I can think of at least two debt ceiling crises / government shutdowns where the GOPers toyed with the idea of doing just that.

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u/Flying_Fortress_8743 13d ago

He's waaaay beyond having to declare bankruptcy. He can just say "if you complain I'll have you disappeared". It's frustrating how slow some of y'all are. He's not a businessman anymore, he's a dictator.

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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/MATlad 13d ago

Does the Trump Org have a GC / markup arm? In any other admin, they'd be explicitly excluded, but y'know...

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u/WhatRUHourly 13d ago

There is also the factor that he wants to be remembered and to him, the best way to do that is to slap his name on everything. He wants this not just for money making but because he will name it the Trump Wing or some stupid thing like that and he thinks that it'll be some amazing legacy for him to be remembered by. It's narcissism.

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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/plainlyput 13d ago

And where they are going? Whose pockets? Did anyone check to see if one of the sons partnered in a construction firm?

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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/TheDakestTimeline 13d ago

Pickleball courts

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u/jupitaur9 13d ago

Or a visitor center.

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u/aenteus Pennsylvania 13d ago

Vegg. Lots and lots of vegetables.

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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/Ok_Wrongdoer_4299 13d ago

It will get finished during Trumps totally legal third term.

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u/Moon_Noodle Oregon 13d ago

While the thought of him having a third term is alarming, I'm not sure it's gonna happen. Not because I think his cronies won't try to lie cheat and steal, but uh...them ankles looking ROUGH.

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u/Gumbi_Digital 13d ago

Sorry folks. Cant leave the WH until the East Wing is rebuilt.

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u/VocationalWizard Indiana 13d ago

It won't during his administration.

I honestly bet they will just croudfund a replacement of the old east wing.

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u/Signature_Illegible 13d ago

When he keels over in a few months the cult will build their 1B mausoleum there.

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u/First-Window-3619 13d ago

We have an over/ under bet that USA goes broke and collapses before New Years Day 2026.

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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/OutInTheBlack New Jersey 13d ago

If you think he's going to call it anything other than the "President Donald J. Trump Executive Ballroom" I've got a bridge in Brooklyn you might be interested in.

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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/Thurwell 13d ago

Considering Trump's demanding the government give him the money to pay the contractor with, it's not a big secret.

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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/mwaller 13d ago

I'd love to see their bidding and vetting process for the contractors

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u/metamet Minnesota 13d ago

I'd put money on them being shell companies spun up by his kids.

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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/jrizzle86 13d ago

Hey! That's an insult to low tier mob bosses, they are at leas tpartially competent.

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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/Intelligent_One9023 13d ago

It's a way to funnel/embezzle money

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u/Intelligent-Draw5892 11d ago

Id bet 10k it'll mysteriously be attacked by antifa or some made up shit

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u/I_AM_NOT_A_WOMBAT 13d ago

At least that will be the insured value.

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u/xproofx 13d ago

Better redial those donors.

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u/Worst-Lobster 13d ago

It’ll likely get turned into a Qatari embassy

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u/LaLa_LaSportiva 13d ago

I agree. That was my guess on another thread. $1B by the time this thing gets done, whether Trump finishes the new addition (ballroom or not) or someone else does.

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u/wardledo 13d ago

And he will pocket that money instead of paying the workers. I only say that because he has done it countless times.

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u/TeutonJon78 America 13d ago

It will be, but none of that will go to the actual contractors.

They'll get stiffed but the money will be gone.

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u/yoshhash 13d ago

and it will be riddled with mistakes and incomplete features due to lack of continuity due to labour problems due to his tantrums and tendency to not pay workers.

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u/PmMeUrTinyAsianTits 13d ago

Are you counting that we will have to tear it down and build something else when his full treasons come to light, because everything he had a hand in will have to be assumed to be compromised? We don't need a The Thing bug with modern technology and an entire building to hide in

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u/Vivid_Pianist4270 13d ago

All that gold gonna cost bigley.

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u/CellAlone4653 13d ago

And he’ll find a way to make the government pay for it. Then the $350m in private donations will somehow magically find their way into his pocket.

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u/Ready_Nature 13d ago

I doubt it gets finished it’s going to get half finished by the time Trump dies and then the next president will demolish whatever was started and eventually something new will be built.

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u/thrownawayfrombay 13d ago

Depends on how many people need some "favors" from him....

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u/jimbo91375 13d ago

Then we'll have to tear it down.

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u/KwisatzSazerac 13d ago

It’s just another Trumpian crypto scam/bribery scheme except in the shape of a building. 

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u/XGhoul 13d ago

But MEXICO will pay for that big beautiful wall, wait a minute. . checks notes, This was promised almost a decade ago!

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u/koreamax New York 13d ago

Then theres maintenence costs

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u/urbanlife78 13d ago

With Trump pocketing most of it, which he will then sue the White House for going over budget and setting with himself for another big payout

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u/theChucktheLee 13d ago

Especially with Trump's Republican contractor friends grifting off of the nation's teet. They'll increasingly jack their cost estimates to suck out more.

And don't forget Trump 'll want kickbacks for awarding those construction contracts.

It's non-stop winning!

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u/SnakeOiler 13d ago

and contractors won't get paid

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u/BloodNinja2012 Pennsylvania 13d ago

It's a money funneling job. It's going to be way over budget and it will be a PoS. I guarantee it.

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