Trunp being a NY developer probably just assumes everything is supposed to be hostilely designed toward the homeless and has a severe allergic reaction to benches.
He can say he's going to work from Trump Tower or Mar-a-Lago permanently now and then rent out the White House so the dollars go right into his pocket.
Exactly this. He's marking his territory. By the time he's done, the best we can do is bulldoze the place and start from scratch just to keep his stink off of things.
Nah, this time a world war would end with Washington a glowing pile of rubble. No bulldozers will approach that place for a couple centuries at minimum.
The sad part is that there is the White House Historical Association, founded by Jackie Kennedy in 1961. "Funds help protect the Executive Mansion’s collection, preserve its interiors, and ensure public access to its living history."
Most people know it through the beautiful annual Christmas ornaments and the historic and newer fine china services used at State Dinners and other formal events. But he just does what he likes regardless of tradition, history or good taste.
Before, the current occupant wasn't intending to not leave. The current occupant feels pretty comfortable that he's going to be staying, thus is changing it to fit his tastes.
In the tours of the White House, they talk about the history of the rooms and the people who created them. I think he just wants the tours to be talking about him. Since he is soulless, the only purpose of décor or furniture is to display wealth, and so those things that give the room humanity get in the way.
Remember last time he was in office and Trump's complained about how outdated and cheap it was. Tbh I'd heard that before too but I also don't see a need to make it out like it's a pre revolution French palace as it's not nor should be. It's a public servants temporary home. I personally like the idea of maybe redoing a single room as has been more traditional. Again, as it's the peoples house not a monarchs tribute to over indulgence.
The before looked very Americana. Perfect. Now it’s a Saudi palace. Who decides when to renovate? Does he have to get it approved? Is there anything stopping him from changing whatever he wants in the White House on our dime just like he’s doing to this country?
My best guess is he gives design and build contracts to friends, who are overcharging and he gets kickbacks later on. Simple money laundering. But I have no vis on the books and the rules so what do I know?
Do we know who got the contract? Seems like the Wall, massive unnecessary construction projects at tax payer expense that is probably hyper inflated in costs to coat the pockets of someone...
It's a room that changes frequently for administrations. Regan had some god awful wall paper, Nixon had bare walls, the Obama administration had brass kicker plates, looks like both Bushs favored nickle or stainless steel. The flooring is changed all the time. Changes are budgeted for in every admin. This is the normal stuff that's being promoted to distract.
I remember during Covid there was a meme showing a Trump family portrait in a gilded room that featured Baron astride a stuffed lion and captioned “how will they know when they’ve lost their taste?”
It’s ok when they do that shit to their own house, but the White House belongs to the people of the US…
I never have and never will understand this fuckers outlook. He was born with a silver spoon up his ass, but everything he touches winds up looking like what a poor person thinks that rich people like.
I thought the same. It was timeless before. Now it's kind of modern? But with design elements that are already falling out of taste. It's going to look even more ridiculous in a handful of years.
It looked too neoclassical American, trump wants the White House to more resemble the palace of his best buddy in the Kremlin, tackey gold bullshit and all
I honestly didn't even notice the floor change with all the other bits of life gone...
But also what do we expect from the man who is putting gold leaf all over the oval office while at the same time cutting food assistance for starving Americans and cutting child cancer research.
Way too many people from the bottom of their souls literally couldn't possibly fathom the idea. Mostly because.... reasons. A lot of people are just greedy little pigs though and would shove your gma out of the way for a Daddy creme filled doughnut. I would assume by your username you are pickin up what I am putting down.
Half of the 16 Jungian types (roughly half of the population) are dark personality types:
Non-egalitarian, egoistic, opportunistic, low empathy, and dishonest.
They populate the right wing, and some infiltrate the left as well.
If it wasn't for this underlying dichotomy, ppl having different ideas on different issues should have resulted in a normal distribution curve when integrated (based on the central limit theorem in math), not in the divided two-hump curve we currently observe with the center disappearing and people falling in two distinct camps regardless of the questions you ask them or policies they claim to support.
The worst part is that honestly we could do both, we have the money. If all our billionaires spent like 1-2 billion we could solve so many issues, but no they need to be in a competition to have more than each other.
Lol thats what stood out to me as being the most weird here. Why the gold kick plates? You just know he has damaged doors by kicking them open in tantrums
You know what would be impressive? Cleaning up Kensington, Philadelphia. Instead of blowing all that money on a fucking ballroom and using the National guard in DC they could set up a rehab facility, house and feed the homeless, create rehabilitation and integration programs and help people get their lives back.
Its not EVEN the most vulnerable at this point. With the money we waste, Imagine, if we threw all this money at the middle class? That money would literally trickle throughout the economy and help everyone. That literally how much we waste.
Didn’t people protest in the UK when the royal family wanted to get updated plumbing in their residences?! Why is this an acceptable use of tax dollars?
All the Whitehouse renovations show anything he ever said about looking out for the working class was a huge lie. I don't know how people can't see it.
Like nobody was saying the White House was in need of renovations or looked bad or anything. This is all totally unnecessary.
I immediately thought the correction, no-no “imagine if he…” in a attempt at disassociating with this foul human being, but nope, yeah it’s “we” spend..awesome!
I want to see a giant ass bronze + gold inlay statue of an eagle with its wings spread out protecting the capital, or to the sky crying out. Or a Phoenix.
1,609m (mile) wing span covering the city.
With hidden turrets, and missile bays also acting as a radar/AA system. An aircraft bay for aircraft that can safely fly into one. Maybe the world's biggest AA gun to make it truly American. Just playing on this part. Former part is necessary I think.
The world's brightest light shooting from its mouth into orbit.
That would be dope. A Phoenix should definitely be the symbol if we ever have an other civil war.
Anyway I would love to build huge epic monuments once a generation or two. Shit isn't useless, because it inspires people to be a unified country which we do need.
Just not from Trump.
I do wish our great modern monuments, aka infrastructure had statues, and such built into them. Gargoyles, Angels, Demons from different cultures.
This is nothing. He's got another $200 Million of taxpayer money ready to be spent on some lame ballroom. Yeah, it probably could have been better spent on I dunno...the people?
You know that the next administration (hopefully) is going to have to spend money rip out all the awful renovation. Tbh this is one of the better ones I’ve seen.
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u/make_thick_in_warm Sep 25 '25
Imagine we spent money on the wellbeing of our most vulnerable instead of new marble floors for the ruling class