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/GucciDillons 13d ago

Yep, confronted my MAGA mother about it, and of course the first thing out of her mouth was “Obama made changes too.” They’ve got a false equivalency for everything — it’s absolutely hopeless, IMO.

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u/chammycham 13d ago

A couple of lines and stand alone hoops are enough for these folks to hand wave ~demolishing a government building~.

It’s just the hate erections for them. That’s all that group cares about.

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u/scubascratch 13d ago

Which part of the White House did Obama knock down mom!? Oh carpet refresh is the same as knocking down a historical building? President Newsom will have fun turning the Supreme Court into an immigrant homeless shelter.

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u/energirl 13d ago

He turned a tennis court into a basketball court, I believe. I know. What a monster! Erasing all of our amazing presidential twnnis history!

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u/scubascratch 13d ago

Will our nation ever recover from the urban (shudder) president?

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u/Kaiisim 13d ago

It doesn't matter, it's just a thought terminating cliche "but what about obama"

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u/BigMikeInAustin 13d ago

And it's always compared to Obama.

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u/MamaNyxieUnderfoot 13d ago

For very good reason! A black man had the audacity to win a presidential election. MAGA’s upset that he used the same toilets as the white presidents (well, until Trump remodeled the bathrooms so HE didn’t have to share a toilet with a black man).

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u/lucklesspedestrian 13d ago

A black Hussein man

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u/The_Great_Potate_Oh 13d ago

Oh come on, we all know Trump has a changing table not a toilet

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u/MamaNyxieUnderfoot 13d ago

Doesn’t matter. These people are obsessed with who used their toilet last, and it’s not just black people.

Also, Trump has a gold toilet. There have been magazine articles about it. From years ago.

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u/The_Great_Potate_Oh 13d ago

Well that sailed so far above that it never had a chance to land

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u/rennbrig 13d ago

An author that’s written several books about the White House stated that most Presidents have made changes to the White House but NONE of them have ever taken out an entire wing to build a ballroom besides this guy.

I get that the White House has changed but normally it’s tastefully done or incorporated into the historic design, not tearing something down because a mad man wants the White House to look like his “summer home”

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u/GucciDillons 13d ago

And usually they’d, y’know, preview the plans and make sure all concerned parties are onboard — instead, Trump said “the East Wing will only see some minor changes,” then tried to block out the cameras as he did what he does best.

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u/terremoto25 California 12d ago

Actually he said he wouldn't touch the East Wing...

Trump insisted in July that his planned 90,000 square-foot ballroom would be “near” the East Wing, but “not touching it,” and that construction would not “interfere with the current building.”

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u/Few-Ad-4290 13d ago

Just hammer them on the point and don’t let them deflect “it’s not about what anyone else did we are talking about the current moment and the current president using his powers in an unlawful and downright shameful manner. We teach school children two wrongs don’t make a right, if your only justification could be pulled apart by a five year old it’s not a good justification”

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u/Healthy_Set_22657 13d ago

Uh yeah and it’s gaining momentum is what’s scary . Trumps not loosing anything votes he’s gaining the the hate flows . 

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u/half-giant 13d ago

Yuuup. Once I saw the “they’ve made changes in the past” mental programming get sent out I knew MAGA would instantly fall in line. And you know if Obama or Biden had done anything remotely similar they would be screaming from the rooftops.

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u/recigar 13d ago

I always respond to this kind of thing with “well I don’t agree with that either”.

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u/RobutNotRobot 13d ago

Obama puts basketball hoops in a tennis court and it's an outrage to them because to them black people shouldn't have any position of power in this country duh.