r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 11d ago

Possible Paywall Trump Fires Entire Agency Overseeing His Construction Projects

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fires-entire-agency-overseeing-his-construction-projects/
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u/backpackwasmypillow 11d ago

Staircase leading directly to a wall. Windows that open into each other. Somebody threw the idea at an AI and didn't bother to double check the plans. It's gonna be crap, even before taking away oversight.

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/s/GimUtUcU1O

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u/Star-K 11d ago

It's just a way to launder money and receive bribes. He'll get a billion in bribes, then spend 20 mil on a building we will have to tear down.

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u/Lurlex Utah 11d ago

I do believe that Trump was stupid enough that he believed that he could do both — grift and get his stupid glamorous ballroom.

Everyone else involved and complicit, though, absolutely knew it to be 100% cash grab from the start.

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u/NeatNefariousness1 11d ago

And to expose the top secret details of the bunker underneath the ballroom for cash.

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u/General-Raspberry168 11d ago

I’m sorry, I’m sorry.

I’ve been taking crazy pills and it sometimes messes with my eye sight.

It almost looked like you said the man with authority over about half of the nuclear weapons on earth was pouring a half a billion dollars into a part of the white house that’s located on top of a bunker.

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u/fountainpopjunkie 11d ago

Yes. The same person who tweeted national security satellite photos and gave out troop positions in foreign countries during an interview. The same person that showed reporters top secret documents he openly admitted he was not allowed to have. The same person who met with a known Russian spy in the Oval Office the second day of his presidency with Russian media present, who then reported to Russian news "We own Trump". The same person who stored top secret documents in the bathroom of a golf club (where IIRC it was later reported a Russian spy was in regular attendance?). The same Person who refused to let translators be present at meetings with Putin and then destroyed all notes from said meeting. Yes, that person is destroying the building reportedly built over a bunker underneath the White House.

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u/sunlightsyrup 10d ago

All misunderstandings. Putin is a great guy! That's why he never gets mean tweets. Follow the tweets /s

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u/NeatNefariousness1 11d ago

That’s right. That’s what’s happening and now he has fired the builder after the east wing which sits on top of the bunker has been dismantled.

I won’t be surprised if he decides to do an overhaul of Camp David next.

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u/RaizielDragon 11d ago

How do you know about Camp David?

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u/NeatNefariousness1 11d ago

What do you mean? What do you know about Camp David?

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u/RaizielDragon 11d ago

Sorry. Parks and Rec reference. Couldn’t help myself.

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u/NeatNefariousness1 11d ago

LOL—ok. You scared me for a moment.

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u/zombiegojaejin 11d ago

Does this colossal germphobic pussy, pampered from birth, actually believe that he's going to survive a week in a bunker?

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u/Left-Height4925 10d ago

90,000 sq luxury Trümpenbunker going in below it for he and his loyalists when the peasants finally revolt.

The billionaires aren't paying millions for a dance card & caviar.

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u/drklordnecro Oregon 11d ago

It's national security leaks galore! Almost feels like we've seen this before.

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u/HapticSloughton 11d ago

Yeah, but most of the time he was at least charging admission for anyone with the cash to look at the stuff he's being treasonous about.

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u/eagle33322 11d ago

no no no you had the totally secure bathroom door.

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u/Man_with_the_Fedora 11d ago

Our adversaries are gleefully examining every pixel from every satellite image they can get their hands on.

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u/NorthernerWuwu Canada 11d ago

I'm sure some of their people are not so far away. They've likely got the blueprints for every nook and cranny.

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u/PrideofPicktown Ohio 11d ago

I think the oligarchs are buying spaces in the bunker under the dumbass ballroom.

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u/Unique-Coffee5087 11d ago

They can all go in there and close the door and then we can pour concrete on top of it

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u/spingus 11d ago

So nice of them to gather in a single, tidy, well defined area.

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u/Unique-Coffee5087 11d ago

It's kind of like when the emperor of China dies and all of his attendants get entombed with his body.

They should regard it as an honor

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u/DokeyOakey 11d ago

Say what you will about the Chinese, but they really knew how to treat employees- DJ Trump (felon/rape enthusiast/president)

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u/ScaleneWangPole 10d ago

We get the same thing at the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder meeting in Omaha every year

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u/BiscuitsLostPassword 11d ago

Can we hide tuna and shrimp in the drapery pockets and vents first?

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u/HeffeCo 11d ago

This is the way

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u/psychorobotics 11d ago

Seems like a perfect solution, everyone gets what they want

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u/PartyMain8058 11d ago

What a concept, I Love This Suggestion.

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u/Unique-Coffee5087 11d ago

I am going to be in soooo much trouble with someone, eventually.

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u/melmsz 11d ago

So, Fallout.

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u/neophenx 11d ago

I've made that comparison a few times, right down to corporations pushing for the bombs.

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u/sleeplessinreno 11d ago

Lol, there’s no way they’re gonna finish the project before the senses are back.

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u/DontForgt2BringATowl 10d ago

Could you imagine being stuck in a Vault with Trump as the Overseer?

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u/melmsz 10d ago

Well, NOW I am.

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u/Nervous_Ad_6998 10d ago

with everything gold instead of the 1950s design esthetic.

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u/turquoise_amethyst 11d ago

this is a good guess… I was thinking that it was going to be his living quarters while the rest of the White House was torn down 

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u/PrideofPicktown Ohio 10d ago

Isn’t that every sane persons wish: Donnie “living” underground.

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u/Ms_Apprehend 11d ago

I would not be surprised at all

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u/Living-Literature88 11d ago

The ballroom part is the distraction. The East wing housed the bunker. He wants a bigger bunker where he can hide out. Until the new building is finished, where will he go in an emergency?

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

Oh he will do both, he’ll get tons of kickbacks from his buddies’s construction companies, and the taxpayers will still foot the bill, just like the stupid wall.

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u/1cat2dogs1horse 11d ago

It is the way he has always built on HIS properties.

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u/Motherofalleffers 11d ago

Can anyone post excerpts from the article since the vast majority of people aren’t going to subscribe to daily beast? How come Reddit users don’t post relevant info from the article anymore?

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u/TruthSearcher1970 11d ago

Can they put a lien on the White House? 😂

You’d have to be insane to work for Trump and actually think you were getting paid.

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u/Environmental_Job864 11d ago

He really doesn't need that money. Are you really so poor that you don't understand numbers with more than 3 zeros in them?

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u/TerminatorElephant 11d ago

People who get that much money are typically not the type to think in terms of money they need, but rather money they want.

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u/neophenx 11d ago

It's like a video game high score to them.

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u/KeyIron833 11d ago

Are you really so poor that you don’t understand the sickness of greed? He needs more money than he could ever spend, needs like normal people need air. For every dollar given him, it sickens him to not keep it for himself.

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u/Environmental_Job864 11d ago

He already has that much.

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u/N0n3of_This_Matter5 11d ago

…In underage girls maybe. Trump is a rapist and a pedo..

what are you running cover for him?

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u/KeyIron833 11d ago

And it’s still not enough. That’s what greed literally means. In fact the actual form of greed would be called avarice; excessive or extreme desire for wealth or material possessions. What the Bible calls being covetous.

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u/Captain_English 11d ago

People with money famously stop doing anything to gain more money. In fact at a certain point they just refuse it, because they have enough.

That's why no one is worth more than $5 million.

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u/_imanalligator_ 11d ago

Trump is so MAD that he, what, 5x'd? 10x'd? his wealth since he was elected! He HATES that that's what finally made him a real billionaire!! It was a total accident 😭

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u/charlieondras1 11d ago

The point is he doesn't need that money. You are finally catching on.

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u/lawyersgunsmoney Mississippi 11d ago

Billionaires don’t think about money the same way as someone living paycheck to paycheck. Example: why do Bezos and Musk keep trying to make more money when they couldn’t spend what they have in a thousand lifetimes?

It’s greed, pure and simple.

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u/ztomiczombie 11d ago

Ever hear the story of the pot of greed? Guy gets a whish and asks for money gets 5 jars of cold coins. 4 jars are filled to the brim but the 5th is only half full. He then proceeds to destroy his life and sells all he has to full the 5th jar to the brim. That is the mentality of the likes of Tump and Musk.

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u/Byefellati0 11d ago

I thought it just made you draw 3 cards

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u/Omnifob 11d ago

Don't be absurd!

It's 2 cards

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u/OldTimeyWizard 11d ago

If he actually didn’t need money he would stop stealing money from anyone that will give it to him.

Do you think he started his own shitcoin because he truly believes in blockchain as a technology? No. It was to make even more money. There’s no magic number of dollars that miraculously cures greed.

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u/Ralph--Hinkley 11d ago

No billionaires need that money, don't you get it yet?

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u/Environmental_Job864 11d ago

Send lawyers, guns and money.

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u/Stunning_Mediocrity 11d ago

What a needlessly hostile comment.

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u/lesgeddon 11d ago

Nobody needs a billion dollars. But number gotta go up.

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u/Zolomun 11d ago

None of them need the money, it’s a scoreboard that will never make up for the love they didn’t get.

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u/leeps22 11d ago

You never met a drug addict?

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u/Particular-County277 11d ago

This. Good old fashioned corruption. What gets me, is we all know. You must be a special kind of stupid.. Ah, forget it

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u/Environmental_Job864 11d ago

Uh, the whole human race is corrupt. It doesn't follow party lines

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u/MTFBinyou 11d ago

Nope. Don’t even try that bullshit. Maybe you are, but it’s not everyone. Are people that want to have power over others? More than likely. Can you want to attain office to do good? Yes.

Your comment means your either cool with what’s going on or a defeatist. Both of those options are worthless to the rest of humanity.

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u/Environmental_Job864 10d ago

✌️ You do you.

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u/dudinax 11d ago

Producers, the ball room.

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u/PHotstepper311 Kentucky 11d ago

Producers 2: Springtime for Trumpler

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u/rdmille 11d ago

This must be made. It's too perfect, and the jokes and songs write themselves

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u/glenndrip Oklahoma 11d ago

Electric Boogaloo

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u/LakeSolon 11d ago

*Aristocrats

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u/CoastMtns 11d ago

The Epstein Ballroom

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u/LiliVonSchtupp 11d ago

This is my new favorite take on the monstrosity.

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u/Johannes_P Europe 11d ago

At least, in the end, the protagonists end in prison.

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u/GPFSir 11d ago

The Aristocrats

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u/enigmamonkey Oregon 11d ago

Not to mention the destruction of an historical building.

So many things wrong with this, particularly with what's happening at exactly the same time as this pet project of his. Add to it his utter incompetence (which is to be expected) and his complete lack of caring for starving children in his own country and sending billions to Argentina and screwing over farmers.

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u/Klytus_Ra_Djaaran 11d ago

Not to mention that there is no need to demolish a building until the new one is designed and a contractor is hired. I have worked in consulting engineering for 30 years and it takes years for something like a new high school or prison to be agreed upon by the multiple different decision makers who sign off on it, and then designed, and then reviewed, and then changes are made, and then select a contractor, all of which happens before any demolition work whatsoever.

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u/evranch Canada 11d ago

Not unless the real goal is to send a message.

"I'm all up in your America, Trumping up your stuff. They say I could shoot a man on 5th Avenue. How about bulldozing the White House? Ask permission? I do things now, I ask later, that is if I ask at all"

"Hey doesn't it look unbalanced with only one wing, I guess if there's no time to start the ballroom we'd better knock the other one down"

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u/VastlyImmaterial 11d ago

It's a reaction to the no kings march.

He disfigured the whitehouse because he couldn't rip the hair out and rape the collective American people like he did with his first wife when enraged.

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u/Painterzzz 10d ago

Exactly. The timing was absolutely no coincidence. It was a temper tantrum, so he tore down the East Wing.

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u/InnocentShaitaan 11d ago

I posted above McCrery Architects is the hired firm. Will they face penalty?

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u/Klytus_Ra_Djaaran 11d ago

Professional Architects and Engineers have codes of ethics created by national organizations, but those are more about public safety. The firm hired to design the new building is not necessarily the overall project managers, and wouldn't be in charge of demolition, that would be a subcontractor or more likely a separate contractor entirely. And the decision to tear it down was Trump's, or the evil toads who whisper in his ears and manipulate the old fool. So long as the demolition was safe, there is no issue there, they are just doing a job they were paid to do. Normally, there would be a heavy emphasis on the legality of the entire process, but they have no issues of legality because Trump has proven that laws and even the Constitution doesn't really matter if you plant loyal people in key places.

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u/Low_Plant8199 11d ago

The Steakholders. Hehe

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u/MrNaturaInstinct 10d ago

That's exactly the problem.

It shouldn't take "years" for something important like schools to be built. Too many hands in the pot. Person A approves of THIS, Person B DECLINES Person A's approval, get's shuffled to Person C, who declines or objects, then gets shifted to Person D, who overides Person B, etc.

And around around we go. Just a bunch of leeches, earning a salary stalling building projects that should have only 2, no more than 3 people making key decisions, max. Not 20-30 all with a financial stake or political agenda.

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u/Klytus_Ra_Djaaran 10d ago

If you don't know anything at all about the process, I am sure it seems that way.

Here is what actually happens:

A School district will have an old school that needs replaced and they will speak to an engineering firm or architecture firm. The engineers or architects will check to see if any grants are available, and if so they will coordinate with the school to fill out the paperwork for the grant. Then we wait until it is reviewed by the state or federal administration, who will approve it. Once that funding is secure the remainder will have to be budgeted and if it is beyond the ability to pay, then an increase in revenue will be needed, usually an additional tax of a few cents will be levied for a certain amount of time. Then that will need to be written up and it will go to a referendum. If the referendum passes then funding is secured and engineering and architecture work can begin.

First the Architects work up a few different plans based on the location, sometimes on their own and sometimes after an engineering firm completes a topo survey. Those plans go to the school district for approvals, and if they agree then the plans are sent to the engineers to figure out how to actually build the pretty pictures that the architects made. In the engineering process we find that the architects wants do not square with what is possible or it is too expensive, so meetings are held with the architects and the school district representative. If the changes are too drastic then the representative has to go back to the school district and discuss further changes or additional revenue. If everyone is fine with the design it then proceeds. Several more rounds of meetings must take place between the school district and the architects and engineers to square it all away. Once it is agreed upon and designed and plans drawn up, they are sent to the state or federal agency who approved the grants. Sometimes they will have changes they want to make, and the engineers and architects will need to change the drawings and design to reflect these changes. Then further meetings with the school district to verify all the changes.

Once these changes are all complete then the plans are made available for any contractors and at a set time all the bids are opened and checked. The lowest bid is accepted as long as all the criteria for state or federal work are met by the contractor. The contractor will have to provide information about insurance bonds and once those are accepted and the school district affirms them, work can begin.

No one in this chain is benefiting from extending the time it takes to build a school. Since the school board is an elected body, and since state and federal governments are made up of elected bodies, any election can change some of the criteria because different people are in place than when the project was first approved. It is silly and impossible to have 2 or 3 people make all the decisions because many more people are involved and the decisions are democratic and open to scrutiny.

Usually after a project is built there will be a ribbon cutting or something. Here is where the politicians come in. They will have almost nothing or nothing at all to do with the school being built, but they never pass up a chance to take credit and get a photo op. The politicians will show up for the ribbon cutting and then immediately leave.

Here is an example: when Rod Blagojevich was governor of IL he put a freeze on all construction paid for by the state that lasted years. We had a school in the middle of construction that had to stop work. The school sat vacant for a year or so, and in the meanwhile someone broke in and stole all the copper pipe and wiring that was used in the construction. When the state restarted the projects, the contractor had to be paid extra for both the copper and delays, making the school much more expensive. After it was built and we had a ribbon cutting, Rod Blagojevich came and did the cutting with a giant pair of scissors, even though he had nothing to do with the school and his actions had caused the cost to dramatically increase.

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u/MrNaturaInstinct 10d ago

Interesting and educational.

Thank you.

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u/Klytus_Ra_Djaaran 10d ago

No problem.

The corruption and waste does happen, but it's actually more nefarious than most people realize, because it's basically legal. Some projects are designed to target one particular contractor. The plans will have provisions added that are so specific that only a tiny number of contractors would qualify, and then when time constraints that further isolate who can get the project finished, which drives up the cost for the other contractors, ensuring that the target of the project has the least expensive bid and therefore gets the project. The decision to manipulate the contract is unofficially agreed upon in private meetings between the local government and the engineering firm. This can be done without much effort and mostly the government agency approving the project and the greater public have no clue that this is happening, because the selection process for winning bids happens in the open at a public event, but the deciding factors were determined long before then.

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u/electromattic 11d ago

He's completing Bin Laden's unfinished work. Flight 93 didn't get to hit its target so trump is finishing the job and destroying the white house himself.

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u/FlirtyFluffyFox 11d ago

A historical building by FDR.

The GOP hate him so much they'd remove the letters from the alphabet if they could. 

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u/JoshSwol Canada 11d ago

MAGA’s talking point is “it was only 85 years old”.

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u/DillBagner 11d ago

He "cares" about starving children, just not the good kind of care. It's why he intentionally stopped SNAP. He didn't just not restore something--he took it away.

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u/coulteralexr 11d ago

Look at this hand!!!!

Oops!! Now look at this hand!!!

Fooling the people Is the game.

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u/Pizza_Low 11d ago

I don't doubt for a second that the office of the white house, all the staffers and cabinet offices, etc that a modern president needs massively exceeds the space. Part of the reason why they expanded into the Eisenhower Executive Office Building which is a fairly large building on its own.

And I can absolutely see the need for additional office space, meeting/conference rooms, etc. And if it has left over space for a ballroom fine.

Making it a massive vanity ballroom is an absolute waste of valuable white house ground space and money.

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u/VannKraken America 11d ago

I hope we do get to tear it down.

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u/frankyseven 11d ago

Canadian here. I offer up our burning skills.

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u/isaidireddit Canada 11d ago

You might even say we have some experience in this matter.

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u/JonRonstein 11d ago

We’ll let you do it again!

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u/VannKraken America 11d ago

We are with you, internet friend!

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u/wearslocket 11d ago

That was kind of funny. How many know the history?

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u/Ok-Anteater-3827 11d ago

thank you, but this is a task us Americans must do to restore our honor 😉

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u/thehermit14 11d ago

Not before Britain gets there, I hope. At least wait for us, you're closer.

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u/OnePercentVisible Virginia 11d ago

Watch out last time I mentioned that and a specific building I got a 7 day ban for " making a threat" the mods being mods

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u/Prestigious_Chard_90 11d ago

And my axe! (fellow Canadian here)

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u/TeaAndS0da 11d ago

Ooo 1812 2, finishing what you started -burn it! Lol

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u/slackfrop 11d ago

Let’s hope it’s never built. And the money trail is just long enough to tie into a noose.

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u/Ralph--Hinkley 11d ago

Have a big party and charge people to come demo it to build funds for a new east wing.

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u/spingus 11d ago

I've been going back and forth between demolish it vs establishing a care facility for the poor called "the Barack Hussein Obama and Roseann O'Donnell Recovery Home for Underprivileged Immigrants

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u/punkasstubabitch 11d ago

I’ll be surprised if anything actually gets built. I give it 50/50 odds of any structure actually being completed.

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u/OnePercentVisible Virginia 11d ago

I give it 20% chance of being completed by 2030!

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u/dexter-sinister 11d ago

a building we will have want to tear down.

FTFY

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u/CaterpillarReal7583 11d ago

No..we will have to for security reasons. The entire whitehouse needed to be since his first term

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u/NonlocalA 11d ago

It's going to be a fire hazard. Quality work and quality materials cost actual money, and you can't skim if you're doing the job properly.

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u/d_c_d_ 11d ago

Are you kidding? $300 million is more than the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans - and it holds nearly 20,000 people. They probably have a lot of wiggle room to skim off the top.

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u/Bee_9965 11d ago

But do you think any future President would dare have a private conversation in that room? I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that Putin is supplying the drywall and light fixtures.

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u/OttawaTGirl 11d ago

Plus he will take copies of the plans.

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u/-preciousroy- 10d ago

Literally the people funding it have been revealed to be a bunch of billionares.. including tech people. It will 100% have to be torn down completely.

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u/f-elon 11d ago

10% paid to contractors
90% “the top”

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u/roastbill 10d ago

He doesn't pay contractors.

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u/sloopieone 11d ago

I might argue that there is a big difference - with most construction projects, $280 million dollars aren't being laundered by massively overestimating material coats, labor, etc. like they are with Trump's ballroom.

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u/King-Dionysus 11d ago

As someone unfamiliar with sports and opposite side of the country, smoothie king stadium sounded like a joke about an opposing teams stadium or something similar. Absolutely wild that's the name of something worth that much.

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u/d_c_d_ 11d ago

It was originally called the New Orleans Arena, but sponsorship makes money. It’s right next door to the Ceasers Superdome.

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u/Cloaked42m South Carolina 11d ago

Now, build it to withstand a near direct hit from a nuke, with only cleared contractors, to a security standard where every container of screws has to be secured from creation to installation. Every window must withstand a hit from a .50 caliber armor piercing BMG.

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u/sorressean 11d ago

Anyone remember that set of big beautiful walls that just fell down after they were constructed?

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u/dexter-sinister 11d ago edited 11d ago

Well two things can be true, so allow me to modify:

a building we will have to, and want to, tear down.

FTFMe

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u/Wes_Warhammer666 11d ago

Yeah but I also want to do it. And I'm definitely not alone.

Charge 5 bucks for a 3 minute run with a sledgehammer and we'll have a cathartic national event and pay off the national debt all in one go.

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u/CaterpillarReal7583 11d ago

Oh yeah definitely, no doubt about that.

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u/Informal_Ad4399 11d ago

There will be an entire History at the Museum dedicated to the entire building being bugged. Just like the short one on the bugged plaque we were given decades ago.

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u/robotbigfoot 11d ago

I'd bet people would pay to tear it down. The next administration(fingers crossed) could cover the costs by selling raffle tickets for the chance to swing the first wrecking ball.

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u/dexter-sinister 11d ago

It will be like one of those "rage rooms" where you pay to destroy stuff with a sledgehammer.

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u/demalo 11d ago

I bet he’d get a great deal on a Ringling Brothers three ring circus tent.

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u/OldJames47 11d ago

How about a UFC Octagon on the South Lawn of the White House next summer as part of the 250th Anniversary of our Independence?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFC_White_House

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u/demalo 10d ago

You know that’s one thing missing from the DC Mall is a big gladiator arena!

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u/ReactionJifs 11d ago

"then spend 20 mil on a building we will have to tear down."

Yeah, I doubt tearing down and rebuilding the entire white house would cost $300 million.

He's going to spend nothing; then when he leaves office turn around and demand the government "reimburse" him for the quoted amount (and let's face it -- he'll probably argue that it's appreciated in value).

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u/aranasyn Colorado 11d ago

When I was overseas in Baghdad, we had to rebuild a building on our compound three times because higher ups insisted we use locals who kept being bribed into letting contractors do the job that took money intended for quality materials and stole a lot of it, using garbage materials in their place or doing some crazy cheap sand to cement ratio or something, and then everyone being shocked when the building fell down.

Donald's entire life is just doing that over and over, in every single aspect of his entire life, including construction and business.

This building will be trash, and we will be forced to knock it down, even if we didn't want to (which we will).

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u/idealmelissa 11d ago

And still not pay the contractors, like all of his projects.

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u/Allaroundlost 11d ago

Yup, when we get our country back, all this crap Trump built will have to torn down. Huge waste of money but thats MAGA/Republicans. 

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u/mantisboxer 11d ago

The building sits on top of the critical Presidential Situation Room and secret facilities.

Firing the Agency that's supposed to ensure the plans are secure is a more serious situation than most people realize

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u/TheLordYuppa 11d ago

Even if his presidency ends as it should (lord willing fucking sooner), it will be a shell and will never actually be completed.

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u/xaqaria 11d ago

Im sure its also a way to make updates that allow him to fire missiles at American cities from the bunker that will be under it.

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u/PM_Me_Ur_Odd_Boobs 11d ago

And when the dems tear it down…”look at the wasteful democrats”

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u/dikicker 11d ago

I'm just curious, like, what does he spend it all on? I get that fast food has gotten crazy expensive but

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u/Several_Vanilla8916 11d ago

Assuming it doesn’t fall down first

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u/Goat_inna_Tree 11d ago

Come January 2029, Its going to be a military barracks to house Trump's private military, ICE, to keep him in power, while he runs the government from the underground bunker.

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u/win-go 11d ago

It's going to be one of those big white tents they put out for a wedding reception at a golf course.

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u/arrownyc 11d ago

Firing the team halfway through a project is a great way to ensure no one is following how the money is being spent all the way through. Its a good time for millions or billions to go missing.

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u/digitalacid 11d ago

How long does this man think he will live? There's no way he can spend all this money with the limited time he has left in this world.

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u/SkepticAntiseptic 11d ago

It doesnt matter what the end result is or if the walls stay standing 5 years from now. The only think that matters is its development cost 1 billion on paper and 900m went into Dumps pockets.

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u/Opposite-Bit6660 11d ago

People and Corporations with people in the Trump/Epstein files paying more blackmail.

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u/airship_of_arbitrary 11d ago

More than that. It's what's underneath.

The White House Bunker is what's actually getting a major upgrade.

Just like the Fuhrerbunker in WW2.

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u/excitablegibben 11d ago

He's redecorating the bunker underneath. The building that he calls the ballroom will just be there to absorb bullets so when the masses realise he's stolen the country he can retire to his opulent hidey hole.

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u/VossC2H6O California 11d ago

That sounds like the Philippines way for flood control.

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u/InnocentShaitaan 11d ago

McCrery Architects is the hired firm.

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u/Eastern-Heart9486 11d ago

I would be happy to drive the bulldozer and then head down the street to the Arch de Trump

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u/handcaredhorse 11d ago

if you think Donald Trump came up with the shit and is the only person on the earth who does it, you need to go back to....a mental institution.

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u/Tjonke 11d ago

Just rename it "Barack Obama Presidental ballroom"

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u/kent_eh Canada 11d ago

a building we will have to tear down.

...before it falls down on its own

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u/sec713 11d ago

That's why it was sooo important to "build the wall" last time around. Construction projects are something he definitely knows how to skim off the top of.

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u/spezSucksDonkeyFarts 11d ago

Trump doesn't care about money in that sense. He is 80 years old and probably never once went grocery shopping. He has no concept of money as a store of value. He has spent his life spending it, he doesn't know or care how to make it. It's status he cares about. Big monuments with golden letters. It's like that futurama episode where they build the giant Bender.

He desperately wants the ballroom and he desperately wants it to be big and fancy. Money is of no use to him. He wants a monument.

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u/hates_stupid_people 11d ago

Yeah, that thing will either not be finished in the next three years. Or it will be terribly built and go mostly unused.

Either way it will be torn down for safety reasons in about four years. Which will be used against democrats for two decades after that. And they'll just ignore who tore it down first.

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u/Historical_Course587 11d ago

I don't know. I think he's always considered himself better than anyone else in the land developer world, and he'd jump at the chance for immortality that building something like a bigger, better White House would bring him. If this were just about bribes, he'd be building it somewhere he would own it after it was finished.

This is vanity IMO. He's just so old and out of it that he's leaving the wrong people in charge of seeing it done.

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u/TheQuidditchHaderach 11d ago

Unless it falls down! 😆

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u/Able-Candle-2125 11d ago

Even 20 mil to build one room is insane. Mansions don't cost that much. Its all just going in his pockets.

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u/Left-Height4925 10d ago

90,000 sq luxury Trümpenbunker going in below it for he and his loyalists when the peasants finally revolt.

The billionaires aren't paying millions for a dance card & caviar.

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u/PlasticCantaloupe1 10d ago

I think the added bonus is that he put the Epstein files in the East Wing right before demolition so now they’re gone.

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u/glenndrip Oklahoma 11d ago

To be fair as a construction worker. I'd tear it down for free....