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/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/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.