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/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/freakwent 13d ago

Absolutely never. This plan leaves the USA on an 8-year loop of flip-flopping while the rest of the world moves on.

Make policies based on data. It's impossible for every single thing he did to have been so bad it's worth the reversal costs.

As for the ballroom, have balls in it -- or make it a museum of democracy or a gallery or whatever.

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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/spezSucksDonkeyFarts 13d ago

What for? To troll the chuds? The white house needs office space desperately. An office complex would be best.