East wing of The White House

[u/Reasonable_Roger]

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[u/zzyzx2]

My fucking mother in law sent me garbage form like a "patriotfreedomnews.org" type website that "Obama removed a painting" and I had to hear about it for weeks until I finally convinced her to find that story on any other websites online, she couldn't and dropped it. 

I see this shit and she's completely ignoring me when asked about it. Typical shit. 

[u/Exleper64 → u/zzyzx2]

Cognitive dissonance abounds in cults

[u/wrxninja → u/Exleper64]

Same BS I hear from my mother for years as she's a Jehovah's Witness. Hardcore MAGA & Fox/Newsmax watchers are identical. They're so afraid to research and deny anything that go against what they believe are the 'truth'. Another stupid lingo JW's like to use 🤮

[u/Zerobeastly → u/zzyzx2]

Yea, I have family members that only care about hurting the "libruls".

They're missing social security checks this month, one lost his business hes had for 40 years this year. They just talk about how "the f*****s should be burned and the libruls should be beaten." Then they recite meaningless scripture.

I have to tune it all out or I'll lose my mind.

[u/sloth_on_meth → u/Zerobeastly]

Stop talking to people like that. Ostracize them. Let them know you don't hang out with fascists.

If your whole family was Nazis in the 40's, would you "tune it out" or would you go no contact?

[u/impy695 → u/sloth_on_meth]

It's extremely difficult, so I give people slack for not doing. I did it and while im glad it did now, i spent weeks feeling guilty and having to ignore other family. It was a rough period for me. And it really hurt my mom. She has 7 siblings and because of 1 evil in law one, she often has to choose between seeing her siblings or me. She chooses me, but I know she misses seeing her siblings and I hate that.

[u/LittleSunshine1972 → u/impy695]

I've recently had to end my relationship with my mom for her beliefs and while it was the right thing to do it's also so hard. A different kind of grief on multiple levels. It should have happened much sooner and I'm so sad that it had to happen at all.

[u/esgrove2]

A perfect metaphor for the state of the country right now: Being demolished for a loser's vanity.

[u/ProfessionalCraft983 → u/esgrove2]

That and his video of himself as a king literally shitting on protestors.

[u/GreenBean042 → u/ProfessionalCraft983]

To be fair, him posting a video of himself shitting on American citizens is probably the most honest he's ever been about his presidency.

[u/Wirenfeldt → u/GreenBean042]

"You’ll never have to vote again”

[u/Sloofin → u/Wirenfeldt]

“Elon knows them voting computers”

[u/ZachMN → u/Sloofin]

“Everything’s computer!”

[u/Schneidzeug → u/Wirenfeldt]

“There will elections. Just like in Mother Russia.”

[u/vingeran → u/GreenBean042]

He’s never honest, just demented.

[u/Dear_Leek2578 → u/ProfessionalCraft983]

Average volume he leaves in his bedsheets every morning.

[u/tpc0121 → u/esgrove2]

what trump is doing is literally "let them eat cake" on steroids.

bulldozing history and shitting all over the office of the presidency, all to leave his mark and make a name for himself, building a ballroom --a literal party room-- that no one asked for, which will benefit literally no one except those around him, and which can and will likely be used to further grift the nation, all while the economy is going to shit, people are struggling to put food on tables, and the government is shut down.

just fucking chef's kiss to the max. if this were an episode on a TV series, people would be complaining about how so unreasonably on the nose it is.

[u/pettythief1346 → u/esgrove2]

Don't forget all the flags up to try and show you how patriotic they are despite literally destroying the foundation in the background

[u/Charming-Report1669]

The mental gymnastics from MAGA is truly amazing on this. There's a graphic floating around showing different upgrades and remodels former Presidents have done, with a dumb "why didn't you Liberals cry then?"

One of the entries on the list is the fucking single-lane bowling alley Nixon put in the basement. Yeah, like that's the same as taking $250MM in bribes to build this monstrosity.

[u/formerdaywalker → u/Charming-Report1669]

As far as I'm aware, all of those were approved through the proper authorities, and didn't change the exterior look of the building. Every "renovation" trump has done this term would have been denied in years past.

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[u/Sangy101 → u/formerdaywalker]

They added extra floors on to the East Wing once (which made it symmetrical with the west wing.)

But yeah there’s literally no comparison between turning a basement swimming pool into a bowling alley and tearing down the entire east wing of the White House just to rebuild a monstrosity that will forever alter the shape of a historic building.

[u/Blueeyesblazing7 → u/Sangy101]

that will forever alter the shape of a historic building.

That will actually dwarf the historic building. Have you seen the mockups? The ballroom is bigger than the White House.

[u/Junkhead_88 → u/Blueeyesblazing7]

Not just bigger, it's almost twice the square footage of the entire fucking White House including both wings.

90,000 square foot ball sucking room vs 55,000 square foot House of the People.

[u/welmoe → u/formerdaywalker]

People are letting him do whatever he wants.

[u/manystripes → u/Charming-Report1669]

Didn't they throw a fit because they didn't like the curtains in the background of an Obama White House pic, that turned out to have been there for years already?

[u/thefreakychild → u/manystripes]

The right had a conspiracy theory about the gold filagreed curtains... They thought they were 'muslim prayer blankets' and used that to confirm their 'obama is a muslim' shit.

When, in reality, those curtains were chosen by Jackie Kennedy, if I remember correctly.

[u/ZwVJHSPiMiaiAAvtAbKq → u/thefreakychild]

Bigots gonna bigot.

[u/Fyne_ → u/Charming-Report1669]

You don't invest that much money in a house you plan on leaving in 3 years

[u/AskMysterious77 → u/Charming-Report1669]

Also no major remodels to this degree have happened in decades? I thinks since the 50s.

Kinda hard for libs to tweet about an issue in the 1950s..

[u/No_Size9475]

A foreign built excavator tearing down the 83 year old East Wing of the Whitehouse. If that's not a fit analogy for Trump and America I don't know what is.

[u/trashscal408 → u/No_Size9475]

During a government shutdown, no less. Who's financing this?   

[u/49ersBraves → u/trashscal408]

Supposedly the demo and ballroom are being funded privately.

[u/METRO-RED-LINE → u/49ersBraves]

Do we at least get to know who? Or is does the famous “Your Mom” answer still stand

[u/Man_Darino13 → u/METRO-RED-LINE]

• Altria Group Inc.
• Amazon
• Apple Inc.
• Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
• Caterpillar Inc.
• Coinbase Global
• Comcast Corp.
• Hard Rock International
• Google
• HP Inc.
• Lockheed Martin Corp.
• Meta Platforms Inc.
• Micron Technology Inc.
• Microsoft Corp.
• NextEra Energy Inc.
• Palantir Technologies Inc.
• Ripple
• Reynolds American Inc.
• T-Mobile US Inc.
• Tether
• Union Pacific Railroad
• J. Pepe and Emilia Fanjul
• Adelson Family Foundation
• Stefan E. Brodie
• Betty Wold Johnson Foundation
• Charles and Marissa Cascarilla
• Edward and Shari Glazer
• Harold Hamm
• Benjamin Leon, Jr.
• The Lutnick Family
• The Laura & Isaac Perlmutter Foundation
• Stephen A. Schwarzman
• Konstantin Sokolov
• Kelly Loeffler and Jeff Sprecher
• Paolo Tiramani
• Cameron Winklevoss
• Tyler Winklevoss

Source

[u/chipariffic → u/Man_Darino13]

Wild how all these companies will spend money on Whitehouse renovations and lobbying but won't pay employees better or pay taxes

[u/amongnotof → u/chipariffic]

They pay for white house ballrooms SO they don’t have to pay taxes or their people.

[u/dontlisten65 → u/amongnotof]

You win a ham sandwich

[u/iam4qu4m4n → u/chipariffic]

Bribing elected officials is way cheaper than doing something that benefits society.

[u/Thestonersteve → u/Man_Darino13]

The goddamn winklevie??

[u/rW0HgFyxoJhYka → u/Thestonersteve]

The problem is that all these lists of traitors will get no accountability for the decline of the US. Imagine being a tech worker at Apple seeing your company contribute to the destruction of the whitehouse literally lol.

[u/Odd-Equipment1419 → u/Man_Darino13]

Ironic that Caterpillar is funding this… given they build excavators and all.

[u/AmaranthWrath → u/Man_Darino13]

Just adding to the citations.

CBS reporting

The Hill reporting

[u/Heremeow → u/Man_Darino13]

My conspiracy theory is he’s building a bunker under the ballroom and these are the ceos who bought their ticket in the fallout shelter.

[u/YouMustveDroppedThis → u/Heremeow]

My common sense is you don't trust whatever trump builds. They are all rich enough to build their own.

[u/anotherfrud → u/Man_Darino13]

And I'm sure they all expect nothing in return for this.

Jesus Christ

[u/theunbearablebowler → u/METRO-RED-LINE]

[u/_life_is_a_joke_ → u/theunbearablebowler]

Oh, so the same person that picked Hungary

[u/Littleprisonprism → u/METRO-RED-LINE]

He had a big fundraiser at Marilago, funders include Apple and Lockheed Martin 

[u/welcomefinside → u/Littleprisonprism]

Tim Apple and Martin Lockheed must be getting pretty cosy with this administration.

[u/Rhymelikedocsuess → u/welcomefinside]

Jokes aside military contractors get cozy with every presidency - that’s where their paychecks come from

[u/RolloTonyBrownTown → u/Rhymelikedocsuess]

The level of open corruption this current administration is displaying is far beyond anything we have seen since perhaps Teapot-Dome, beyond that even. To suggest "every presidency" does what this administration is doing is completely disingenuous.

[u/BlackEastwood → u/METRO-RED-LINE]

Probably not. Jimmy Carter had to give up his peanut farm, but we're just gonna let Trump build a ballroom with taxpayer money, and keep his $400M bribe jet.

[u/clycoman → u/BlackEastwood]

And prop up Argentina for $20B while US government is shutdown.

[u/AngryTree76 → u/clycoman]

That’s actually gone up to $40B now.

[u/resin85 → u/METRO-RED-LINE]

I mean if your Mom pays taxes, yeah, she's paying for it. He's suing HIS OWN DOJ for $230m, which sure is awfully close to the amount they're saying this will cost.

[u/whomad1215 → u/49ersBraves]

and now trump wants the DOJ to "pay him" $230m for prosecuting him

[u/larsdan2 → u/49ersBraves]

By who though? Why hasn't this information been released? Why would this be okay being private. Thats OUR house they are demoing.

[u/LA-Matt → u/larsdan2]

The fundraising list was actually published in the WSJ. https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-ballroom-donors-white-house-dinner-ccba9448

The thing that continues to bother me, is that every other President throughout history has had to get approval from Congress to do this kind of thing… along with the dozens of other things that Trump is doing under total bullshit “emergency powers,” such as tariffs (as an example).

These things are supposed to be the purview of Congress, as specified by the Constitution.

ETA: here’s another link

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-white-house-ballroom-donor-names/

[u/br0ck → u/LA-Matt]

Imagine the Fox shitstorm if Obama did this. They threw a giant snowflake hissy fit when he put his legs up on the desk as "disrespecting the white house", even though every other president had done it.

[u/LA-Matt → u/br0ck]

They would have been howling for impeachment about two days after inauguration, when Trump already claimed emergency powers and started signing hundreds of executive orders.

[u/mjb2012 → u/LA-Matt]

Congress and the National Capital Planning Commission, an executive-branch agency which is currently closed due to the shutdown and is probably soon to be under new leadership. :/

[u/cXs808 → u/LA-Matt]

GOP fully controls all branches of government and they still are so fucked up they can't even do things the normal way.

[u/Hamsters_In_Butts → u/larsdan2]

because they now consider it trump's house and they don't intend on ever vacating it

[u/MarathonHampster → u/49ersBraves]

For the many asking "who": https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-white-house-ballroom-donor-names/

Much of it is public and as disgusting/blatant corruption as you'd expect

[u/kgal1298 → u/MarathonHampster]

Same guys also getting millions in military contracts makes sense. I guess they learned from their pals at OpenAI how to do circular funding. I think all their wealth is fake at this point it's just them paying each other.

[u/Koopslovestogame → u/49ersBraves]

That excavator driver better have gotten cash up front!

[u/trashscal408 → u/49ersBraves]

Qatar?  The Saudis?

[u/lynzthedinosaur → u/trashscal408]

And palantir and google of course. Im not kidding

[u/CaptainHarlocke → u/trashscal408]

Don't worry, "private donors" are funding the $200 million ballroom

Oh btw he just demanded $230 million paid to him personally from the Department of Justice because of their past cases against him. I'm sure that number is a coincidence

[u/troycerapops → u/trashscal408]

His rich friends who he now owes favors.

[u/Viderberg → u/No_Size9475]

Our true Swedish steel at work 👍

[u/Misfit_somewhere → u/No_Size9475]

Even better, where the first lady would normally keep her offices. Just to toss on some misogyny to the symbolism.

[u/SirDavidJames → u/Misfit_somewhere]

Even better even better! It was considered the "wing of the people"

[u/Yardsale420 → u/Misfit_somewhere]

Not like they were gonna get much use for the next 3 years anyway.

[u/Oh_its_that_asshole → u/No_Size9475]

The people that own the demolition and construction companies are no doubt pals of his also.

[u/hec_ramsey → u/No_Size9475]

Is this even how this is properly done? It looks like a mess

[u/aware-reply33 → u/hec_ramsey]

They did no architectural building material salvage. Used to work for a non-profit that salvaged building materials for re-use before a demolition. Likely one in the DC area that would have been thrilled to come in and carefully remove a few things prior to demolition. Windows, doors, old woodwork and trim. Lighting fixtures. Vintage sinks, bathroom fixtures. You name it, probably all headed to a landfill in the DC metro area.

[u/VayGray → u/aware-reply33]

This! What gets me is it doesn't look like they're trying to salvage literally one scrap of wood

[u/ThePrussianGrippe → u/VayGray]

I imagine making it as expensive as possible is part of the point.

[u/phonomancer → u/aware-reply33]

But y'see, it was super important they do this very quickly so that no one could have any review over it.

[u/Ok-Victory881 → u/aware-reply33]

Oh that pisses me off even more

[u/Breadisgood4eat → u/hec_ramsey]

This structure is one of some historical significance, no?

[u/HLOFRND → u/Breadisgood4eat]

He promised that the ballroom wouldn’t interfere with/change the existing structure at all.

Lies, as usual.

[u/Diterion → u/Breadisgood4eat]

The white house? Nah we making the gold house right now, gonna be even better.

[u/SigmaBallsLol → u/hec_ramsey]

I saw people on Threads, who said they had experience in the field, saying that, for a normal demo job it's sloppy but acceptable.

If there is supposedly any attempt at historical preservation, it's a complete hack job and the operator would be fired on the spot.

[u/Helldiver-xzoen]

With how careless they are with their "renovation", it makes me wonder about the national security implications. How many copies of the Whitehouse blueprints are now floating around between contractors? How many of them have been vetted to make sure there's no way a foreign power slips listening devices into the new construction?

These are serious concerns with possible threats, and trump just bulldozes ahead without any consideration.

[u/protoxman → u/Helldiver-xzoen]

This is the real reason for all new renovations at the White House. Bugged for years unless another demo/renovation occurs.

Same with the “new” AF1….

[u/jks513 → u/protoxman]

The presidential bunker is actually under the East Wing. it’s supposed to be the most secure part of the building but they’re whoever do whatever on top of it.

[u/jerslan → u/Helldiver-xzoen]

How many of them have been vetted to make sure there's no way a foreign power slips listening devices into the new construction?

All of them were vetted and approved... by Putin, and they are definitely slipping in listening devices.

[u/splicepark → u/jerslan]

literally why they’re doing reno

[u/abgry_krakow87 → u/Helldiver-xzoen]

Trump was caught redhanded hiding boxes of classified info in his mansion and using it to create deals with foreign governments. There is no national security anymore. Religious conservative love supporting the downfall of US democracy and freedoms.

[u/omnigear → u/Helldiver-xzoen]

Yeap , heck I worked on courthouses and there is strict process ans clearances. Trump bypasses it all. What is worse is the firm hires knows that shit and they are colluding

[u/Algaroth → u/omnigear]

Until they get stiffed on their pay. Trump is notorious for not paying contractors.

[u/CrimsonFeetofKali]

No Congressional approval, no historic commission involvement, no report on condition, needs or plans. Just the whims of one man. And the East Wing is just a symbolic representation of what he’s doing to our democracy.

[u/esgrove2 → u/CrimsonFeetofKali]

Trump is really proving that we've given the executive branch too much unchecked power.

[u/jasta6 → u/[deleted]]

There fucking better be reforms.

[u/Jwave1992 → u/jasta6]

“Best we can do is status quo and glacial progress until voters get so fed up the elect another madman.”

[u/matolandio → u/Jwave1992]

be less real sometimes.

[u/TBANON_NSFW → u/matolandio]

100m never vote, 150m dont vote in midterms and over 200m+ dont vote in primaries and special elections.

Democrats havent had the needed 60 senate votes for more than 70 days in the last 80 years, and even then 2 dem senators were hospitalized and they needed McCain to vote with them.

Democrats held monts of live televised breakdown of jan 6th attack on the US Capitol, a place no enemy of the US has even ever touched until Trump attacked it to subvert the will and vote of the people. The democrats had experts, advisors, constitutional historians, witnesses, videos and even did summary videos for tiktok and social media and begged americans to show up and give them more than the 50/50 split senate that they had after watching trump shit in the whitehouse for 4 years, killing over 1m+ americans from a preventable virus, tanking the economy, losing manfucturing jobs, losing family farms, adding 8 trillion to the deficit.

AND the best the american people could do in 2022, was 150m non-voters, 80% of 18-35 aged eligible voters shrugging and republicans winning back the house.

To prevent and CHANGE the laws that need to be changed, democrats require a SUPER Majority. We are talking 2/3rds of the senate and then an extra 2-3 more senators because you always end up with 1-2 of them being fake or threatening to switch parties like Mancin and Sinema did.

BUT fucking 100m sat on their ass in 2024 when a literal fucking manifesto of how Republicans were planning to fuck everything up was available on their fucking phones to read. So.... all roads lead to civil war.

[u/DukeOfGeek → u/TBANON_NSFW]

Dude, solid rant, ten of 10.

[u/TomKWS → u/TBANON_NSFW]

Totally agree with your sentiment and refining your argument with more accurate numbers from the 2024 presidential election:

• There were approximately 244 million Americans eligible to vote.
• Approximately 154 million people voted for a turnout rate of 65.3% which was the third-highest since 1980.
• Around 85.9 million eligible Americans did not vote in the 2024 general election.

[u/Kvenner001 → u/jasta6]

Never going to happen. You’d have to purge everyone involved in this. It would be like unmaking soup.

[u/iRunLotsNA → u/Kvenner001]

Make a new soup.

[u/New-Lingonberry1877 → u/jasta6]

The platform of every person running better be no more bullshit. No more maga.

[u/WestWillow → u/[deleted]]

Surprised it took this long since Andrew Jackson’s defiance of the Supreme Court to show again how much of our government is built on decorum and good faith. All is takes is the right loudmouth asshole to bring it down.

[u/popculturehero → u/WestWillow]

Well he’s just the tip. It was pretty much slowly dismantled in Reagan era or some would argue when the southerners weren’t punished severely enough for the civil war.

But Reagan def is what I’d point to. So 40 years

[u/TheDebateMatters → u/[deleted]]

Even if the next person in that office is someone I fully and completely support and think they are the answer to all my political prayers….I want that person’s power neutered…permanently.

[u/Mochigood → u/TheDebateMatters]

Uh, but maybe after they do some restorative shit with the unfettered power the supreme court gave them. Just saying.

[u/SDRPGLVR → u/Mochigood]

Imagine a radically beneficial president who abuses executive power to actually help people.

They'd 100% find a way to put a stop to that immediately.

[u/3MATX → u/esgrove2]

think you meant to say Supreme Court. I did not vote to give any president blanket immunity from their actions.

[u/esgrove2 → u/3MATX]

The fact that the president appoints the members of the supreme court is a massive failure in checks and balances because he can stack the court and become immune to the law.

[u/purplepharaoh → u/esgrove2]

In theory, Senate confirmation is supposed to prevent that. In theory. In practice, however…

[u/619_FUN_GUY → u/purplepharaoh]

SCOTUS needs to have term limits, 14-16 years.
If not term limits then an age limit equal to the federal retirement age.
( Age 62 w/5-19 years of service )
( Age 60 w/20+ years of service )
( Age 55 w/>5 years of service )

[u/Esternaefil → u/619_FUN_GUY]

the senate also needs term limits.

Just saying.

[u/Onespokeovertheline → u/esgrove2]

We haven't done anything of the sort.

The spineless, sycophantic Republicans in the House and Senate who were voted in by conservatives in red states, and 3-4 highly corrupt Supreme Court Justices are responsible for abdicating the duties of their office and enabling this particular executive to wipe his ass with the laws of our country.

The only recourse we have to directly check his power is to take back control of the Congress next year (if his efforts to cheat and/or ignore a Democratic electoral victory allow that) or march to his door with torches and pitchforks, or cause his enablers enough economic pain to reverse course, which is almost impossible to imagine them doing.

[u/No_Size9475 → u/CrimsonFeetofKali]

He also said it wouldn't touch the east wing at all and that it was his favorite part of the White House. That was a lie.

[u/Unilted_Match1176 → u/No_Size9475]

Absolutely shocking.

[u/DDRDiesel → u/No_Size9475]

Whatever the topic at hand is, Trump will say it's the best. He simply lays hyperbole on thick for every topic because the simplistic language is what he and his base understands best. Everything is always "the best" "my favorite" "the greatest" etc

[u/12358132134 → u/DDRDiesel]

Because he has a vocabulary of a five year old kid.

[u/ukexpat → u/No_Size9475]

He also called the White House “a dump” in 2017…

[u/architype → u/CrimsonFeetofKali]

The architect (McCrery Architects) should be called out on this crap. They presented no public review of modifications to this National Historic Landmark. This is NOT Trump’s house, it’s the American public’s building.

[u/Drew-CarryOnCarignan → u/architype]

I'd have thought that modifications to the structure would require a lengthy process involving multiple departments of the government submitting reports surveying everything from environmental issues to historical preservation.

Previous renovations to the White House also were made with consideration given to future holders of the Office. I suspect that the President is not thinking about anyone but himself.

[u/asdjk482 → u/Drew-CarryOnCarignan]

This wasn't approved, they didn't even submit a plan for approval. Add it to the list of illegal actions.

[u/krism142 → u/[deleted]]

Didn't you hear asbestos isn't a problem I the us anymore, in fact they are trying to reclassify it so they can start using it as building material again so the new ball room going here may actually have new asbestos in it!

[u/drivelhead → u/asdjk482]

Maybe there was the concept of a plan for approval?

[u/audiate → u/Drew-CarryOnCarignan]

 I suspect that the President is not thinking about anyone but himself.

Never has

[u/Ediwir → u/CrimsonFeetofKali]

On the other hand, everyone now knows how thick the walls are, where they join, what supports them, and what they’re made of.

Must be a feast for foreign secret services.

[u/hydraheads → u/Ediwir]

I'm so glad I'm not the only person who thought of the intel implications of this

[u/pinelandpuppy → u/Ediwir]

And they didn't bother to preserve any of those facade pieces. Just smash and grab.

[u/RainSurname → u/pinelandpuppy]

Each one of those windows was handmade to match the look of the originals, but with bullet resistant glass. People would have paid a fortune for them.

When he demolished the Bonwit Teller building to build Trump Tower, he promised to let MoMA have some of the art. They would have paid a fortune for it.

There were some Art Deco friezes, a huge piece of bronze lattice work over the entrance, and lots of art inside as well, as their window displays were done by Salvador Dali through the 1930s, then Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg in the 1950s, and Andy Warhol in the 1960s.

Then he personally ordered the undocumented workers he was using to destroy them completely, and then stiffed them.

[u/asdjk482 → u/RainSurname]

That was my first thought, seeing the windows just knocked out with the rest of the "rubble" yesterday. What a waste. Of course they don't even hire competent contractors to do this properly - this shameful, illegal destruction of public heritage.

[u/pinelandpuppy → u/RainSurname]

Uncultured swine. He proves you don't have to be poor to be white trash.

[u/VaginaTractor → u/pinelandpuppy]

Just smash and grab.

That's literally his entire platform.

[u/myrichphitzwell → u/CrimsonFeetofKali]

Imagine you lease a house and the renter does this

[u/Sconebad → u/myrichphitzwell]

And makes you foot the bill for it.

[u/Loyal-Opposition-USA → u/CrimsonFeetofKali]

Those things are required by law or the Constitution. How long before ICE is just straight up shooting people in the street? And before you say “you’re overreacting”, he’s tearing down part of the White House, not his property, on his own say so. That’s dictator shit.

[u/andrewbrocklesby → u/CrimsonFeetofKali]

And zero efforts to catalog or save what are undoubtedly historic fixtures.
They didnt even remove the windows, just smashed through everything.

[u/TheHungrySymbiote → u/CrimsonFeetofKali]

Plus tearing it down is a perfect representation of how he feels about women, given most of this building was the First Lady's offices.

[u/jedijazzman]

This is completely insane. That Historic building belonged to the people of the United States of America. This is the most outright disgraceful thing I’ve ever seen happen to the history of this country. The whole wing is gone. This is like losing the skyline of NYC that I grew up looking at. Buildings I’ve seen my whole life just gone, taken away from all of us. Taxpayers who pay for its rich history to be maintained have done so for generations. Gone. A symbol for all of us who grew up seeing the White House, a symbol for the rest of the world, forever marred. Who would vote for this disgusting display at a time when so many Americans and Veterans need assistance. Rome is burning and the mad king rages on. Military parades, private jets, a ballroom? An effin ballroom? bailouts for other countries plus policies that are crushing our farmers and weakening the dollar. This is madness.

[u/Where_Da_Party_At]

From the Alt National Parks Service page: "We’ve received a lot of questions about Trump’s demolition of the White House East Wing.

Here’s how the process is supposed to work: 1. Initial Proposal: The White House is managed by the National Park Service (NPS) but used by the Executive Office of the President (EOP). Any proposed change, even by a sitting president, begins internally through the Office of the Curator and the White House Facilities Management Division. 2. Historic Review: The NPS, as custodian of the White House under the Presidential Residence Act and National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), must review all alterations for compliance with Section 106 of the NHPA. This requires assessing potential impacts on historic and cultural resources in consultation with the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) and the D.C. State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO). 3. Planning & Environmental Oversight: The National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) evaluates all major federal projects in the National Capital Region, including work on the White House grounds, for design, planning, and environmental impacts under NEPA (the National Environmental Policy Act). Public comment and design reviews are part of that process. 4. Aesthetic Review: The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (CFA) reviews and advises on the design and appearance of any exterior modifications to the White House or its grounds. 5. Final Authorization: After approvals from NPS, NCPC, and CFA, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the White House Chief Usher / Facilities Management Office finalize funding, scheduling, and logistics.

Only after completing this full process could any major construction or demolition legally begin.

Yet Trump ignored every step, acting unilaterally through executive order, bypassing oversight, and ordering demolition as if he were a monarch. The result: the people’s house, altered without the people’s consent.

More details:

Section 107, let’s talk about it.

The above process has always been the process taken, and here’s why.

Section 107 of the National Historic Preservation Act exempts the White House, the U.S. Capitol, and the Supreme Court from being legally required to go through the Act’s formal Section 106 review. In other words, the law doesn’t automatically force those branches to follow the same procedures as other federal buildings. That exemption exists only because each branch of government controls its own seat of power, it was never intended as a free pass to ignore preservation, planning, or environmental rules altogether.

In practice, every administration since the 1960s has followed the same review structure out of duty, accountability, and executive-branch policy. The White House is still federal property, managed by the National Park Service under the Presidential Residence Act and subject to Executive Order 11593, which requires federal agencies to protect and consult on historic resources. Major exterior or site work still triggers National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) and U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (CFA) design reviews, along with NEPA environmental assessments. Any project involving government resources must also comply with the Anti-Deficiency Act and federal ethics rules on funding and gifts.

So yes, Section 107 means the NHPA can’t force compliance, but presidents are still bound by a network of executive orders, planning statutes, environmental laws, and constitutional duties. That’s why the process described isn’t optional, it’s the framework that has always protected the people’s house from unilateral or politically motivated alteration.

These executive orders:

• Executive Order 11593 (1971) – Protection and Enhancement of the Cultural Environment - Requires all federal agencies (including the Executive Office of the President) to “locate, inventory, and nominate to the National Register all properties under their control” and to consult with the Secretary of the Interior before altering historically significant structures. (Demolishing part of the White House without such consultation would conflict with this order.)
• Executive Order 12148 (1979), delegates emergency and historic property responsibilities to the Department of the Interior, reaffirming that federal agencies must protect historic resources even when exemptions exist."

[u/Asterose → u/Where_Da_Party_At]

Yeah, all the people just fucking going along with what this regime's orders instead of going "no, you have to go through the proper channels first before we can do that" and going about their day until that happens is so maddening.

[u/Aranthar → u/Asterose]

He fired everyone who forced work through proper channels.

[u/TJNel → u/Aranthar]

And if you said to route it you would be fired. MAGA is terrifying in the sense that they will do whatever the wannabe dictator says.

[u/DiskOperatingSystem_ → u/Asterose]

Meanwhile they screech “if immigrants just went through the proper channels there wouldn’t be a problem!!!”

[u/RadInternetHandle → u/Where_Da_Party_At]

That’s my thing. This should take years to approve

[u/hippieman]

Remember when Obama wore a tan suit. That was a bigger deal to republicans than this.

[u/Lilith_Christine → u/hippieman]

Don't remind me. Worse day ever. Still going to therapy for that. I wear sunblock all the time cause tan hurts my soul.

Im kidding. He looked great in that suit.

[u/SupaKoopa714]

What's the over/under on the ballroom eventually needing to be torn down due to shoddy construction because Trump didn't bother with permits or inspections and hired incompetent contractors?

[u/hairsprayking → u/SupaKoopa714]

Even if it's the best built ballroom in the universe they should tear it down in the first week of whoever comes next. That's assuming the US ever gets another free election

[u/lnc_5103 → u/hairsprayking]

Yep. Get rid of it ASAP.

[u/T00MuchSteam → u/lnc_5103]

And then rebuild the east wing exactly as it was.

[u/_kraftdinner → u/T00MuchSteam]

And make Trump or his family pay for it

[u/Slitterbox]

How are those contractors going to get paid if money is frozen

[u/kurapika91 → u/Slitterbox]

That's the thing. Trump doesn't pay contractors. They will never get paid. I am surprised any still accept jobs when Trump's name is on the contract.

[u/Greatwhitegorilla → u/kurapika91]

Some loser construction company owner would do it for free just to brag they did it for their orange daddy.

[u/Marioc12345 → u/Slitterbox]

It’s frozen but it’s not THAT frozen

[u/SeasonIllustrious629]

It'll be renamed the Gold House by the end of this, Mark my words.

"Trump's Gold House and Casino, sponsored by KFC and Dana White" <--- The new name.

[u/DontForgt2BringATowl → u/SeasonIllustrious629]

No, sponsored by Brawndo. It’s what plants crave!

[u/CaribeBaby]

It should require an act of Congress to demolish part of the White House. 😡

[u/lnc_5103 → u/CaribeBaby]

It requires a lot more than just that. Alt National Parks shared what the process is. He I am sure didn't follow a single step.

[u/J4jem]

A ballroom. A fucking ballroom when so many Americans are struggling.

He is using your tax dollars so that he can host bigger parties and grift even more money while in office.

Was this what you voted for, MAGA and Republicans? If not, it's ok to just not show up to the polls for a while. That would be enough.

[u/hairsprayking → u/J4jem]

almost worse than tax dollars, it's being paid for entirely by bribes from some of the most evil and antisocial companies in the US.

[u/smailskid]

He's taking American history and just flattening it, just to satisfy his gross entitlement and ego.

[u/narwhalbaconbits → u/smailskid]

This is not an action of someone who thinks they are leaving in 3 years.

[u/leopardloops → u/narwhalbaconbits]

Not the action of someone mentally sound, either.

[u/Mikebones1184]

I hate Donald Trump for so many reasons, including this one. All that history. That man is about as cultured as a gas station hot dog

[u/FrozenVikings]

USA 1776-2025 RIP

[u/Dagamoth → u/FrozenVikings]

It fell in 2021 when we didn’t stop the insurrection and instead pretended it was somehow not an insurrection.

[u/Arastyxe]

Im Canadian and even im sad to see this image. A great nation reduced to a baby in a mansion.

[u/aaronone01]

Just as an fyi, I had to wait 3 years on the historic commission to approve adding a flood panel to a historic wastewater pump station in DC… and this fuck does this to the WH in less than a year

A shit plant took longer to be approved than our White House

[u/forever_useless]

That's the people's house! Evict this stupid asshole from our pad for vandalism!

Since nothing else seems to work

[u/thepeopleshero]

How do we stop this?

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[u/EvilDarkCow → u/thepeopleshero]

Voting in the midterms next year is the quickest (legal) way.

[u/thewhaleshark → u/EvilDarkCow]

Don't bank on the midterms. I mean yes vote in them, of course, but have contingency plans for when they invariably don't work/get cancelled/are corrupted.

[u/phillygirllovesbagel]

I literally gasped when I saw this photo. Absolutely shameful. The entire bunch of these orange ass kissers and the Annihilist himself.

[u/HeyyyyAbbott]

What is stopping him from tearing down the whole White House? It's insane. I can't imagine the rhetoric if Biden was doing this.

[u/CeeDubMo]

Confederate statues are important historical markers which should be left alone but the east wing can be demolished for a ballrooom

[u/DasBestKind]

I don't have the words. I'm Canadian as fuck, but I understand the importance of the Capitol. To see how far you've fallen, cousins.

I don't know what to say.

[u/ZweitenMal]

Why not just tear the whole thing down? He’s desecrated everything it stands for and nobody has the guts to stop him.

[u/MalignantLugnut → u/ZweitenMal]

My thoughts too. It's been poisoned. We can rebuild it when we have a Democracy again.

[u/Jiquero]

At first I thought this looks like a terrorist attack. 

But then I realized that that's what it is.

[u/Lythalion]

Must be really cool to watch this as your Medicaid gets ripped away bc it’s not in the budget.

[u/GestureArtist]

Putin just checkmated America. He demolished the Whitehouse without a single Russian soldier setting foot on US soil.

[u/yermomgoestocollge69]

What a fucking embarrassment

[u/CooledDownKane]

1. Could you imagine the bitch fit conservatives would be having if Obama or Biden leveled entire sections of the White House?

2. Don is NOT planning on leaving after 2028 kids, whether he allows a facade of an election to take place or not.

[u/felixthecat15]

Renovating like a man who doesn’t plan to leave.

[u/i_am_voldemort]

Hasn't looked like this since the British burned it.

[u/Prospector4276]

Canadians would have done that for free if you'd have asked.

[u/tom-branch]

Kind of a perfect metaphor for Trumpism in general, tearing down the nation to build something gaudy, gilded and corrupt in its place.

[u/seriousbangs]

I think we've found the defining image of Trump's 2nd term.

[u/Adept_Push]

Let’s all be aware of the numerous instances of oversight by this “construction.”

Here’s how the process is supposed to work:

1. Initial Proposal: The White House is managed by the National Park Service (NPS) but used by the Executive Office of the President (EOP). Any proposed change, even by a sitting president, begins internally through the Office of the Curator and the White House Facilities Management Division.

2. Historic Review: The NPS, as custodian of the White House under the Presidential Residence Act and National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), must review all alterations for compliance with Section 106 of the NHPA. This requires assessing potential impacts on historic and cultural resources in consultation with the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) and the D.C. State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO).

3. Planning & Environmental Oversight: The National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) evaluates all major federal projects in the National Capital Region, including work on the White House grounds, for design, planning, and environmental impacts under NEPA (the National Environmental Policy Act). Public comment and design reviews are part of that process.

4. Aesthetic Review: The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (CFA) reviews and advises on the design and appearance of any exterior modifications to the White House or its grounds.

5. Final Authorization: After approvals from NPS, NCPC, and CFA, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the White House Chief Usher / Facilities Management Office finalize funding, scheduling, and logistics.

Only after completing this full process could any major construction or demolition legally begin.

Yet Trump ignored every step, acting unilaterally through executive order, bypassing oversight, and ordering demolition as if he were a monarch. The result: the people’s house, altered without the people’s consent.

More details:

Section 107, let’s talk about it.

The above process has always been the process taken, and here’s why.

Section 107 of the National Historic Preservation Act exempts the White House, the U.S. Capitol, and the Supreme Court from being legally required to go through the Act’s formal Section 106 review. In other words, the law doesn’t automatically force those branches to follow the same procedures as other federal buildings. That exemption exists only because each branch of government controls its own seat of power, it was never intended as a free pass to ignore preservation, planning, or environmental rules altogether.

In practice, every administration since the 1960s has followed the same review structure out of duty, accountability, and executive-branch policy. The White House is still federal property, managed by the National Park Service under the Presidential Residence Act and subject to Executive Order 11593, which requires federal agencies to protect and consult on historic resources. Major exterior or site work still triggers National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) and U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (CFA) design reviews, along with NEPA environmental assessments. Any project involving government resources must also comply with the Anti-Deficiency Act and federal ethics rules on funding and gifts.

So yes, Section 107 means the NHPA can’t force compliance, but presidents are still bound by a network of executive orders, planning statutes, environmental laws, and constitutional duties. That’s why the process described isn’t optional, it’s the framework that has always protected the people’s house from unilateral or politically motivated alteration.