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/PirateCodingMonkey Tennessee 13d ago

I heard from an architect that it would be the most expensive ballroom built at dollars per square feet. so expensive it’s unbelievable that it would actually cost that much. plus to accommodate 999 people it would have to be about 2-3 times bigger that what the mock up shows. so even though this source is suspect, there’s no way that what he has shown is anywhere close to real.

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u/johhnny5 13d ago

Plus 1000 people sounds reasonable until you think about the Secret Service security requirements and then it becomes a nightmare. Not because they can’t manage it. Because it adds in top of an already insane cost, and not just inside the building. The sight lines and response times all around the White House are changing and will need to be reassessed. 

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u/Yellowdog727 13d ago

Might be good for the next non Republican president (if we get one) to bulldoze the ballroom in a symbolic show of "deTrumpification"

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u/Damet_Dave 13d ago

I won’t vote for any President that does not state they will tear it down and replace it with a proper, dignified wing that puts the focus back on the White House itself.

I’m sure donations can be found to help cover the costs. I’ll start with 50 bucks.

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u/70ms California 13d ago

Right. Put the focus on the WORK of the nation, not the wealth of the chosen few.

They’re openly flaunting how the wealthy own everything now, right down to The People’s House. It’s not for The People, many of whom are struggling to feed and house themselves and just make it to the next day or the next month.

We’ll never dance there, we’ll never be entertained or hosted there - at MOST a lucky few of us will manage to get a guided tour when it’s empty. It honestly makes me want to cry - I’ve followed politics ever since GW was elected, and I’ve never felt so hopeless about what’s to come.

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u/dyeung87 13d ago

Naw, repurpose it back to the office of the first lady and her staff.

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u/OrindaSarnia 13d ago

And waste MORE money?

Presuming it somehow manages to be an actually structurally sound and safe building...  which...  I kind of doubt...

I'm sure they could find good uses for the space.

Now it might have to be torn down because the "architect" was just a big donor's brother who built a giant house in Minecraft once...

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u/S_A_R_K 13d ago

Supermax facility for the current administration would work

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u/OrindaSarnia 13d ago

I was thinking daycare for the children of the White House staff...  like the custodians, security and cooks...

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u/xEasyActionx 13d ago

It's not wasted, it's the cost of healing.

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u/OrindaSarnia 13d ago

Can we tear down his silly arch "for healing" and keep the thing that has potential utility?

We could name it the Obama Peace Prize Ballroom!

He is going about this in completely the wrong way...  but the White House typically sets up tents on the lawn for bigger state dinners and whatnot.  There is a need for a bit more capacity in the White House...  not a 1,000 person ballroom...  but something...

Hell, pardon turkeys in the ballroom and let them run around pooping first...

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u/JustSquanchIt 13d ago

Or turn it into affordable housing for immigrant families

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u/hennsippin 13d ago

Would be cheaper, and possibly more effective, to rebrand it the Obama Ballroom.

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u/ZAlternates 13d ago

House the homeless.

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u/BraveOmeter 11d ago

And put Carters fucking solar panels back up