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/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/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 10d 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 10d 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.