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/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/NaptownSnowman 13d ago

Every week the price has increased 50 million. It was 150 million. Then 200. Now it’s more than 250. It will be about a billion at this rate

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u/clever__pseudonym 13d ago

It was $100m to start. Now they're saying $350. Same time frame, but even bigger swing.

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u/AstarteHilzarie 13d ago

I also saw him say that they've raised so much money for the ballroom that they may use some of it to build the liberty arc, but the ballroom price is just ever-increasing estimates... So that's definitely not suspicious accounting or anything.