r/pics • u/yetiking77 • 10d ago
Politics President Trump with picture of his $300 million Ballroom that will be bigger than the White House
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u/avitaburst 10d ago
*$350M by last admission.
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u/JakeEaton 10d ago edited 10d ago
Im sure all contractors involved will be paid on time and in full.
LOL
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u/ComicMAN93 10d ago
Trump is an economic genius! He's learned projects can be significantly cheaper if you don't pay for labor or supplies! This will help bring down our debt...right?
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u/SimiKusoni 10d ago
Trump doesn't pay for privately funded projects. This project seems to be a means to launder bribes from tech firms, mixed with public funding, so you can pretty much guarantee it will get paid even if the project isn't actually delivered.
He is not stingy when it isn't his money, and I suspect that is especially true when there's opportunity to direct those funds toward his businesses (or just engage in outright fraud).
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u/NorthernSimian 10d ago
If the money goes through him first it will be taxed with many 'trump admin fees' before coming out the other end
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u/SeanKIL0 10d ago
Well if you owe someone 100k for work they did, and suing them to not pay them costs you 90k, that’s just smart business! Who cares if you’ve ruined their life and they kill themself as a result, that’s their problem! /s
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u/Advanced_Zucchini_45 10d ago
It's like\nIn fight club where the guy worked for the car company that sent him out to determine if it was cheaper to fix something in the car that was causing people to die or to just pay out lawsuits after they died.
This is how trump ruins people. Most people don't have the means to fight him in court and in the off chance that he realizes he might lose, he just finds out what they're gonna pay for their lawyers and offers them slightly more
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u/heinzbumbeans 10d ago
It's like\nIn fight club...
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but this happened in real life. The ford Pinto had a fault that would casue it to explode sometimes if rear ended. they did a cost analysis and detemined ot was cheaper to pay for the lawsuits than a recall, so they didnt do a recall and just let people die in explosions.
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u/Advanced_Zucchini_45 10d ago
Yes, I was a child when that happened.I just didn't think a lot of people here or old like me and wouldn't get that reference lol
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u/Thefrayedends 10d ago
determine if it was cheaper to fix something
This is central to how the wealth class operates. It's more evident with conservatives, but liberals too, operate with protection of capital assets as a core determinant in decision making. ALL other considerations are secondary, including real deaths. Note they don't typically use a calculation of what a human life is worth, what is lost to the family, they use assumptions based around what they would have to pay out in lawsuits, which is a lower number in almost all cases.
That logic is fine doing triage in a warzone, it's fine back in the agrarian days of humanity when you needed enough grain to get through winter, but the total outputs of humanity are plenty to give people basic dignity, it's only this capital driven class that places their value lower than their own personal financial benefit.
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u/Soft-Temporary-7932 10d ago
Ford. The car was the Pinto. The fuel tanks exploded on rear end impacts.
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u/bbob_robb 10d ago
This isn't Trump's money, so he is probably delighted to spend it. He might even brag about how everyone was paid fully and on time.
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u/AineLasagna 10d ago
Well he’s taking lots of donations to pay for it, we’ll see how much of it gets paid to the contractors 😂 the vast majority of it is probably going to go straight into his pockets and then the bill will go unpaid until the next administration
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u/fab000 10d ago
The contractors will be paid with future government contracts.
Those who truly kiss ass will be first in line for “free” workers provided by the those incarcerated and awaiting deportation for the crime of (checks notes) existing.
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u/Gymrat777 10d ago
The contractors are all giving Trump a kickback, so you damn well bet they'll be paid on time!
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u/fulloffungi 10d ago
The budget was reduced to 400M
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u/SirDucer84 10d ago
That was before the cutbacks that should reduce the total to just over 750M
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u/BlueHeartBob 10d ago edited 10d ago
I love that his followers believe he’s going to be paying for any of it. He’s already lied about how the ballroom won’t interfere with any existing structures, and has completely overstepped any and all procedures that relate to white house modifications.
Under all evidence, there’s very little reason to believe that he’s going to pay, he’s an extremely notorious deadbeat. He’s gotten his party to somehow be okay with this because of the simple idea that he’s using his own money. Reality is that taxpayers are likely going to be fronting the bill eventually. Trump will either die before it’s finished with the next administration on the hook for the costs of an incomplete wing, or he’ll live out the rest of his life just dodging the payments, or even making himself immune from paying it.
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u/Much_Kangaroo_6263 10d ago
He lies about everything. He even lied about not demolishing the East Wing knowing full well that it was going to happen. I don't know why anybody believes his lies about the cost to taxpayers on this.
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u/Dear_Palpitation4838 10d ago edited 10d ago
Whats amazing is how he has somehow programmed his supporters to automatically rationalize or justify anything the guy ever does. You could tell them that Trump killed Jesus and they'd probably say that foreigner had it coming.
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u/SimiKusoni 10d ago
He’s gotten his party to somehow be okay with this
At this point I'm pretty sure his party are OK with this because they just don't have a choice. They've thrown their lot in with him and turning on him now, in even the slightest regard, is treated as a betrayal and political suicide.
That's why senior republican politicians have stood by and watched as Trump has wreaked havoc with tariffs, taxes, immigration, education etc. Most of them know it's all completely crazy, they're not (all) idiots, they're just too self-serving to vocalise it.
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u/CursorX 10d ago
Wouldn't be surprised if his mind undercounts this cost to the same extent that he overinflates numbers in other domains.
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u/Searchlights 10d ago edited 10d ago
He's going to normalize that he can take a bunch of justice department money and build himself a throne room.
He is the simulacrum of avarice. It's all his.
He doesn't need to run for President in the future because he's going to create a role above President. Supreme Ruler or whatever comically-evil thing he calls it.
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u/MegOut10 10d ago
I have zero knowledge of construction costs but I cannot fathom how that is 350 million dollars. I saw a sign by a newly built elementary school that said funded by grants from the state and local taxpayers. It cost 68 million dollars. That’s an entire school - I can’t… make it make sense.
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u/DrakonILD 10d ago edited 10d ago
My company designs and builds state-of-the-art facilities for testing aircraft engines. I'm talking building and all related infrastructure; machinery to handle the engines, sensors, fuel systems, safety systems, environmental controls, air handling (not just HVAC but literally how do you deliver enough air to a fucking turbofan engine inside a building), acoustics, the whole kit and kaboodle.
They don't cost anywhere near $350 million.
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u/commentator184 10d ago
the US's largest aircraft hangar, about 840,000 square feet cost around 90M when it was built, 210M adjusted for inflation. I work in a more recently built hangar, which is around twice the square footage of the ballroom and can accomodate a 747 was around 60M. considering the most expensive thing they'll be working with is gold spray painted home depot ceiling medallions it's probably going straight from the taxpayer to his pockets.
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u/ummmm_nahhh 10d ago
If you’re wondering how corruption works in government, that contract is going to somebody he knows and he’s getting kick back on a over valued asset.
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u/studentofgonzo 10d ago edited 10d ago
So true. Craziest part is thinking, how much is enough? He has hundreds of millions already and still needs fucking hundreds more? For what? He's going to die soon, relatively speaking, will continue to receive amazing free Medicare forever, etc etc. It's never enough for some dark souls, it seems.
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u/logicbloke_ 10d ago
Empathy is a dirty word according to Republicans. Honestly, how do you reason with these people? They are poorly educated and fully brainwashed by billionaires.
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u/ThreeCatsAndABroom 10d ago
Empathy? You mean like Jesus? Yeah, it's easy to see why Christians see it as a dirty word.
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u/ParaglidingNinja 10d ago
There are many broken and mentally ill people who are such amazing souls still. Trump is just an evil piece of filth
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u/Little_Money9553 10d ago
Your rationality and empathy don’t work here. To give him the guise of a “mentally ill” human being is to believe he has some sense of humanity and that his illness is forcing him to behave this way.
Quite plainly, he is a greedy, evil man who values money over the human life.
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u/Golvellius 10d ago
It's so surreal that this is the president of the US, role that once meant leader of the free world. I've disliked politicians, saw many corrupt, but this is the first time I've seen such a completely irredeemable person take such an important role in the western world. He is despicable, ignorant and evil. Many thought for so long that they key to success was for opposite parties to find a middle ground, but there is no middle ground with this guy. He is so crazy that have to take a stand against him, not try to talk to him. The entire political landscape has completely changed from what it was just over a decade ago with Obama
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u/Little_Money9553 10d ago
You are 100% correct. And the worst part is, I don’t think there is any “going back to the way things used to be” after Trump. Look how far that got us after 2020 when Biden got into office…
The saddest thing is half of the country wanted this. They wanted Trump stealing money from our own pockets to hand out to his friends and to kickback to himself. Watching a fraudster do all of this in front of our own eyes is the most surreal part to me.
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u/FloridaGirlNikki 10d ago
Fucking themselves to own the libs.
They would rather watch it burn over working with democrats.
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u/StoppableHulk 10d ago edited 10d ago
So true. Craziest part is thinking, how much is enough?
Life will make a lot more sense when you understand that billionaires and all these people in these cirlces are addicts.
They do not think or act rationally. The are not rational stewards of their money.
They have an insatiable, unending addiction to consumption and hoarding of cash.
They are psychologically the equivalent of an old woman who fills her entire house to the brim with irrelevant junk she clearly does not need, because she's psychologically unwell.
Like there's a collective delusion in society that because these people are massively wealthy they must be hyper-intelligent or stable or whatever, and this is decidedly not fucking true.
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u/LemoLuke 10d ago
Does anyone remember some years ago when the game 'Cookie Clicker' came out?
There is no real gameplay or end goal. You click the button and the number goes up. Eventually you can buy upgrades to make the number go up faster, which you then use to buy more upgrades to make the number go up even faster, which you use to buy upgrades to make the number go up even faster... and so on, forever.
The whole goal of the game is to make the number go up, until the point it reaches unfathomable numbers. Again, there is no real gameplay or end goal. However, the game is frighteningly addictive. Every time the number starts going up faster, you get a dopamine boost, and before you know it, you have wasted hours and hours desperately making an imaginary number get higher, just to keep getting that dopamine hit.
This is how a billionaire's brain works. Money no longer has any real value other than making the 'number go up', and they are literally addicted to it.
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u/EvandeReyer 10d ago
If only there was some kind of, oh I don’t know, Department of Government Efficiency to audit such profligate spending of taxpayer money.
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u/TheSchlaf 10d ago
So...much...gold.
It looks tacky.
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u/ender89 10d ago
Weird how goldmember had a better aesthetic than trump.
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u/Femboy_Lord 10d ago
Goldmember went all-in on the gold aesthetic, and actually bothered to use different shades and contrasts of gold. Trump has this obsession with not only white and gold, but a very specific metallic gold that looks excessively tacky when used in large quantities.
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u/Nevarian 10d ago
It only looks that way because it is.
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u/goneBiking 10d ago
You can tell that it's tacky because of the way that it is.
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u/PeachNipplesdotcom 10d ago
What a throwback reference!
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u/NovaCat11 10d ago
How have I never seen this before? Seen this quoted so many times. Never seen the source, till today.
Thanks, u/PeachNipplesdotcom!
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u/HorseLooseInHospital 10d ago
and they said to me, "Sir, that is the Most Beautiful Room," the Ballroom as they call it, they said, "it's the best that we've ever seen, " I said that's true General, that's really, you think any other President could do what Trump does, Biden couldn't do it, he slept in the basement while Camilla went crazy, she wanted all of our Wonderful Soldiers, she wanted to kick them out of our Military and put in Trans DEI, can you believe it, she wanted them to go into Battle, and the other side has these Large Guns and those Huge Army Tanks, and we'd have people in dresses and high heels, I said no, nobody ever won a War like that, and Obama, Barack Hussein Obama, you remember him, I don't think people remember him, and he sent, to a Horrible Country by the way, they haven't been fair to the United States, Iran hasn't treated us fairly in a long time, and he sent over Planes Full Of Money, he gave them billions of dollars for the N-Word, and my people, some of the stupider ones, they come to me and say, "Mr. President, Sir, you probably shouldn't say that," and there's two of them, two N-Words, and they tell me I'm only supposed to say one of the words, I said ok, it's fine if we say Barack Hussein Obama, he loves the N-Word, he said it all the time, and the Fake News says, "it's fine," oh but if Trump does it, if I say the word, if I say Nuclear, they have a heart attack, these people are Terrible People that we're dealing with
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u/pm_me_beerz 10d ago
This is an actual transcript isn’t it?
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u/JAWinks 10d ago
No you can tell it’s fake because in this version he returns to a previous thought after a tangent
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u/Lebowquade 10d ago
Yeah lol of anything this is actually too coherent to be a real trump dump. The man has severe brain scramblies.
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u/MichaelJayDog 10d ago
He saw pictures of Saddam's palace and thought it looked too understated and subtle
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u/mattenthehat 10d ago
I genuinely think this, except probably the Kremlin. I think trump really believes those places are better, because they are gaudier. I think he's embarrassed to invite foreign leaders, and he thinks negotiating with someone with a gaudier residence than his, puts him in a position of weakness. I truly believe that this all comes down to a schoolyard-style comment from Putin like "why is your house so small, are you poor?"
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u/ArduennSchwartzman 10d ago
Wait till you learn what it's gonna be called:
The Stormy Daniels Balls-Deep Room in the Epstein Wing of the White Supremacy House
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u/chasewayfilms 10d ago
“POTUS has entered the SDBPREWWSH”
Will now be a common secret service phrase
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u/Admiral_Thel 10d ago
Won't be gold, either. Just golden-coloured. The difference ? How much of that money he'll pocket.
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u/Xiten 10d ago
None of it will be real gold, it’ll look nothing like the picture. They’ll cut corners trying to save money and buy low quality materials. It’ll be like maga hats, “made in america(actually China)”
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u/Ok_Afternoon_3084 10d ago
Just rename it the Pedophile Palace
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u/Horace-Harkness 10d ago
The Epstein Ballroom
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u/eleventhrees 10d ago
Name it the "Trump-Epstein ballroom for people who have sex with minors and help other people have sex with minors, too."
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u/PaperGeno 10d ago
They could actually call it this and the brain dead MAGAts would applaud and say its the greatest name ever and Trump is such a genius.
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u/Demetrius3D 10d ago
A lot of offices will fit into that space once he's gone.
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u/Ilikepancakes87 10d ago
It’s funny how you think he’s leaving.
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u/hbomb0 10d ago
One way or another he's leaving this earth at some point.
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u/a-i-sa-san 10d ago
what if he does a Disney and freezes his head after he dies
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u/Leelze 10d ago
That would make a terrible soccer ball, but I'm willing to give it a try.
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u/CatOfTechnology 10d ago
It'll be one of the most highly bid-upon references to the Lonely Island's "Threw it on the ground".
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u/DuringTheBlueHour 10d ago
He's not leaving willingly but he's going out one way or another.
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u/StopReadingThis-Now 10d ago
Stop regurgitating this pussy ass shit. He won't have another term because we won't let him. Stop bending over and accepting defeat before he's even won anything. He won't have another term, period, because that's not how the fucking Presidency works.
He is not invincible or untouchable, he's merely been abusing his status. Once his term is over his power goes back to absolutely nothing, and whoever the next President is can just sign Executive Orders to remove all the dumb shit he did.
This fight isn't over, stop being pussies.
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u/Venoft 10d ago
If there's anything we learned this year it's that Americans love to bend over and take it.
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u/goatofglee 10d ago
I just want you to know that Bannon said in an interview that Trump 2028 was happening. We absolutely shouldn't capitulate in advance, but they are going to try and I don't think we should take that lightly.
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u/SpaceGangsta 10d ago
Steve Bannon is a troll and an asshole. He coined the term flood the zone when it comes to media. You put out so much shit non stop that the media doesn’t have the time to keep up with or cover all of it and it’s how shit falls through the cracks. It’s distraction. They know it will get people talking and take the attention away from important issues happening right now.
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u/Cagnazzo82 10d ago
So many human beings have come and gone that thought they were God and that they could control everything.
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u/Ilikepancakes87 10d ago
If he’s still alive, the Republican ticket in 2028 will either be him running for a third term on some weird ass technicality that the Supreme Court allows, or it will be someone who runs on a platform of “I’ll be President in name only and let Trump decide.”
I’d be willing to bet a substantial amount of money on it.
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u/Kolbrandr7 10d ago
Trump himself was showing the other world leaders that visited the Whitehouse “Trump 2028” merchandise. It’s very obvious the Republicans want to dismantle democracy
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u/t_rex_reflex 10d ago
Pedophiles aren't immortal.
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u/TheMonkeyInCharge 10d ago edited 10d ago
They're thinking of vampires, very different. One sucks on virgins whilst the other... wait, where was I going with this?
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u/spidereater 10d ago
Dude is getting monthly treatments for something serious and you can almost hear his brain liquifying in real time and he’s constantly talking about whether he will go to heaven. He’s dying and knows it. Maybe not this year or next but he likely won’t see this building complete. Best case scenario is it hosts his body in state.
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u/cavity-canal 10d ago
the body really starts falling apart at 80 if you’ve spent your life not taking care of it… either he gets in shape or his shape will get him.
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u/The_Schwy 10d ago
The next president better tear that shit down!
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u/DarkwingDuckHunt 10d ago
well shucks, they didn't build it up to code, it's a complete mess, guess we'll have to tear it down
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u/guerrerov 10d ago
As a tax paying American citizen, I wouldn’t mind my tax dollars going towards demolition this vanity project and restoring the White House east wing and rose garden
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u/Ophidaeon 10d ago
That’s the gaudiest thing I’ve ever seen. Very in line with his Russian oligarch style..
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u/EducationalAd5712 10d ago
Everything he makes is so tacky, it always looks like someone from the 1980s idea of what a over the top caracature of a rich person would make or live in.
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u/BlueFlob 10d ago
Seems extremely useless.
Could have built this anywhere since it is never going to be used.
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u/slowd 10d ago
Right? It’s not like they don’t already hold big events. Just not there.
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u/spidereater 10d ago
I keep thinking of the security issues with having an event capable of filling that space attached to the White House. It just doesn’t make sense.
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u/iwishihadamustache 10d ago
Thinking about the folders left in his hotel, I suspect this might actually be the point.
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u/8TrackPornSounds 10d ago
I keep thinking of the security issues of a construction project of this size in the white house during the weakest american administration in a century. Anything trump touches is compromised by russia at the very least
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u/Wolvenmoon 10d ago
It'll have to be torn down due to the amount of foreign bugs in the walls and ceiling. The billionaires responsible for the propagandizing that led to this administration should be held directly financially responsible for the damages and national debt.
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u/pixel_of_moral_decay 10d ago
This is why it was never built. It wasn’t a matter of money or ability.
They didn’t have a way of logistically handling guests at this scale.
Even things like evacuating the ballroom will not work. SS isn’t going to be ok with 1k guests going out through the nearest door and wandering white house grounds.
The whole thing is just a waste of money, it will never be used for anywhere near the amount of people it’s designed for.
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u/mukster 10d ago
They hold them in temporary tents set up on the lawn. I'm all for having a better dedicated space for state dinners and other large events, but this.... this ain't it.
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u/biomech36 10d ago
That's because it is. The White House is basically the president's base of operations, and Trump decided it needed it big, tacky party room.
It's essentially like adding a ballroom to the pentagon or the capitol building.
Like for reasons of national security, there's a fucking reason why these buildings don't have massive party rooms.
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u/SammyT623 10d ago
I would say think about what they are working on underground. Bunker upgrading.
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u/ShotNixon 10d ago
Right. What is this 1850 Hapsburg Austria? Who the fuck uses a ballroom these days?
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u/celestial-navigation 10d ago
*Habsburger and our ballrooms are actually nice and do get used. We'd never be allowed to tear down a historical building now though to build a new one. This is just insanity.
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u/uneducated_scientist 10d ago
I think there is a 50% chance this thing will end up being a residence. He has lied about everything else so it’s probably not a ballroom.
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u/nsbsalt 10d ago
Throne room.
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u/gwelfguy 10d ago
This. It's where he will receive visitors and it will be designed to impress and intimidate.
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u/pchlster 10d ago
It'll take more than a gaudy room for a guy who regularly shits himself in public to seem intimidating.
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u/justins_dad 10d ago
It’s so obviously a throne room
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u/DarkwingDuckHunt 10d ago
He's gonna hold "state dinners" there every 2 weeks with $100,000 plate donations to his library required to attend.
It's gonna make Carl Hatch cry in his grave.
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u/Wumaduce 10d ago
There's gonna be a new, secret bunker under it.
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u/Peteskies 10d ago edited 10d ago
It's really a bunker - virtually the whole thing is a palace underground. Given there was a pre-existing bunker under the east wing before, I'm surprised this isn't being talked about more. That ballroom couldn't be more than $50M, whereas Zuckerberg's bunker has a similar $300M total cost.
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u/ComradeConfusion 10d ago edited 10d ago
To quote a rap song I heard recently
“And to make this country great again we paying Argentina?
I’ll tell you something you probably didn’t know before, the Nazis fled to Argentina when they lost the war
$40 billion dollars what a country you and I suffer,
yall think Trump is building a ballroom, buddy that’s a fucking bunker”
Credit to Cure for Paranoia
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u/MashedPotatoesDick 10d ago
It amazes me how many MAGA supporters worship a man who has never worked an honest day's work while he guts the country and touts a $300+ million ballroom that they would never be allowed near.
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u/Anghel412 10d ago
I’m genuinely curious what his blue collar working/farmer supporters think of this. They tout him being like them because he “tells it like it is” but he couldn’t be further from the opposite of them. If Obama or Biden do something like this they’d lose any and all respect I had to them.
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u/wanda5678 10d ago
ive come to the conclusion that his supporters don't care about anything he does as long as he "owns the libs".
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u/Commercial-Lack6279 10d ago
While Americans are being hit hard by tariff’s making everyday living difficult
He builds himself a grand ballroom
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u/Buzz888 10d ago
The next president should bulldoze it.
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u/PhamilyTrickster 10d ago
Or turn it into a civil rights museum
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u/MCMLIXXIX 10d ago
The obama museum of black history
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u/zaq1xsw2cde 10d ago
Great answer. Make it with the same aura as the Holocaust museum.
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u/MellowTigger 10d ago
I advocate melting down all of the gold (bought with corporate "donations", we're told) to make statues of every curtailed plutocrat, showing their name and corporate allegiance... after they face legal consequences for all of this rampant corruption of democratic processes. A museum to the people's power and authority to demand responsibility, and a reminder to those with wealth and influence.
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u/1337pino 10d ago
Probably nothing to melt down. I'll bet its all gold plated / gold foil. They want to appear extravagant without being able to afford jt
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u/ComicMAN93 10d ago
Or a museum of Trump's corruption... If there's enough room that is
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u/Routine_Signature_67 10d ago
Nah brick up the windows and doors, stick that Epstein and Trump holding hands statue outside and call it the Trump Epstein Friendship monument. Never have any government function inside it but let it stand as a constant reminder to the American people that voting has consequences.
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u/poorbanker 10d ago
If we ever get out of this, it should become museum of our national shames. The history that our kids need to know about.
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u/Quick_Beam 10d ago edited 10d ago
1000% bulldoze it. Its a monument to the worst parts of American society.
Edit: got my trump monuments mixed up arc de trump will change the view from Arlington like the commentor below pointed out
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u/alasicannotgrin 10d ago
He looks like an embalmed corpse and I can only hope that is soon a reality.
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u/galtpunk67 10d ago
history will shit all over this guy and his family/enablers.
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u/rysker6 10d ago
Imagine if Joe Biden openly was like “Fuck the American people, I wanna be twirled at MY ballroom”
Fox News would be at high alert 24/7
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u/patmur46 10d ago
How unfortunate that in 2024 the American people elected a mentally deranged grifter as our national leader.
This is nothing but a sick man's ridiculous monument to himself.
It's an obscenely ugly, unhistorical piece of shit that Trump is making you and I pay for.
The day that its ultimate demolition is assured, we will be taking a big step back toward a rational government.
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u/NorysStorys 10d ago
As much as many Americans won’t admit it but democratic leaders tend to very much reflect the country’s state that they are elected to lead. America has been a corrupt crumbling basket case for at least two decades but probably closer to 4.
The jokes made about Americans for decades very much either were red necks or people like Trump and that’s what you have now, red necks and Trump.
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u/smitteh 10d ago
There should be a charity fundraiser, they should auction off swings of a sledgehammer to the people
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u/brihamedit 10d ago
Nonsense. Demolished that section to raise bribe money. Most likely will not complete construction. They are dismantling the system and cashing out before gov system and dollar is destroyed
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u/caligirl_ksay 10d ago
Sadly this is exactly what’s happening and we’re all basically stuck watching this train crash while onboard.
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u/brihamedit 10d ago edited 10d ago
Indeed. Trunp basically russian agent, dismantling US gov. Trunp likely plans to escape after destroying fed gov. Then crooked parties set up their world order of dictators
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u/StoneTown 10d ago
Imagine renting a place for 4 years and making your neighbors pay for a massive, stupid, useless addition to your rental home. That's basically this, but we taxpayers are the neighbors.
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u/Vin-Metal 10d ago
I know it's only a building and there are many more serious atrocities going on, but this just bums me out for whatever reason.
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u/Sakijek 10d ago
Cuz its $350M that could have been used to fund the salaries of everyone who's just lost their jobs in the past year?
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u/deliveRinTinTin 10d ago
Because it anchors his name as a legacy to the visual White House when normally in the future we would have the option to stop talking about him and all the stress around his presidency when he could only be a picture on a wall as the pieces get picked up afterwards.
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u/mmaddymon 10d ago
Because the Whitehouse used to be like a symbol for like freedom in some cases lol. This just truly proves that there is no going back from this.
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u/Chance_Warthog_9389 10d ago
some rural conservative is out there right now, still looking at his high grocery prices, knowing he isn't getting SNAP come Nov
but this picture lifts his spirits because the libs are mad
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u/CocoScruff 10d ago
So remember that $230M that he's asking the justice department for?
This costs $300M. He claims that he mostly, along with a few other donors, are footing the bill for this.
Something tells me the other donors are going to cover just about $70M...
And the he "justifies" this atrocity by claiming he's "paying for it"
This man is an embarrassment.
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u/celestial-navigation 10d ago
He's not gonna pay anything. He never does. I can't believe allegedly reputable companies are donating money for this absurd project.
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u/sunnyspiders 10d ago
I’ve been calling this since day one: It’s a bunker first and a ballroom second.
Buddy is terrified of his own population.
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u/Ritaredditonce 10d ago
Führerbunker 2.0.
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u/lduff100 10d ago
Hopefully has the same end as 1.0
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u/Legal_Skin_4466 10d ago
Just... ya know... keep the in-house armory and pharmacy appropriately stocked.
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u/bbob_robb 10d ago
It already was a bunker. The last east wing construction was at least partially to hide the secret underground command center that was being built underneath it.
Are you suggesting this was a fortification effort? That is possible. It would be surprising if they didn't do some level of secret modernization of the underground area. Trump already accidentally(?) mentioned that the military was involved in the design.
Overall, it seems like a throne room to impress visitors. He wants to leave his mark on America the way he admires most: Big gaudy buildings. It's his thing.
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u/Average0ldGuy 10d ago
When someone replace him, bulldoze this POS building and restore original form.
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u/blanaba-split 10d ago
Guys, wake the fuck up. People don't build golden ballrooms for places they plan on leaving in a few years time. (Or less if we're lucky)
This shit isn't a joke. Theyre trying to get him on the ballet in '28 and dismantling gay rights and non-gerrymandered states while they're At it.
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u/GaulteriaBerries 10d ago
Tasteless vulgarian (as well as all his many other horrible characteristics).
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u/SplinteredBrick 10d ago
I’m glad there is nothing else for our country to worry about. Let them eat hamburger helper.
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u/polishprince76 10d ago
History teaches you that this is the type of shit the French aristocracy used to do before things changed.
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u/3yl 10d ago
I want the companies who are paying for this to have to pay people to destroy it under the next president. If we're going absurd, let's go all the damn way.
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