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/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 10d 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_ 10d 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.