I am currently out of the loop and most likely making a wooosh here, but this picture looks very generated to me (flag in the lower left corner and the fence is pretty wonky as well…)
I guess, it is compression…
$300 million. Could build a skyscraper. Instead building a big, mostly empty room.
The grift
How do you even spend 300 million on a ballroom?
That’s been my question this whole time. 30 million I could see if you factor in bombproofing, bullet-proof glass, state-of-the-art engineering, and vetting all the contractors. But ten times that beggars belief. It’s clearly lining pockets.
step 1. give 299 million to your crony “construction company” friends
Hidden rape cellars don’t come cheap, my man.
The child predator meeting space
Is he building a church?
I think that’s what they call “networking”.
The first ladies office was in the east wing. At least nothing of importance was lost there
What do you want to bet the contractors currently working on it aren’t going to get paid?
Well since the construction project hasn’t actually been approved thru the official channels yet I would say the chances of this are pretty high because it gives him a great excuse to not pay them.
Mexico will pay for it.
They are going to have to pay Trump for the honour of constructing his
ballroomthrone roomThat’s how it always works when contractors get stiffed. All that labor and machinery is not cheap.
Not to mention hiring lawyers
Exactly. That’s why his gambit worked so often. He could always afford the lawyers and he knew they probably couldn’t
Either that or they are all owned by his friends.
If this is what it takes to get radicalized after everything that has happened thus far… well…
Glad you’re across that finish line I guess!
Hell if the house was that important the Canadians should have invaded in 2017 and burned it down again, maybe we’d be spared this timeline of stepping on the same Lego but harder this go round
People put historic buildings in a weird place above other things. I think it’s partly because they’re symbols but also because they’re massive. But yeah, if this really radicalizes someone, good. Better late than never.
Insider knowledge says he has been planning this a while to get back at his opponents and have something so large no one will be able to ignore it.
Donald gets off on people thinking about him, no matter if it’s negative or positive. By building this HUGE, UGLY, ILLEGAL ballroom, he is showing his opponents his legacy will be remembered forever.
I say we demolish that shit ASAP as soon as he dies so we can get rid of any changes he made to the PEOPLES HOUSE.
People’s House? You mean the Presidential Palace, right?
I mean, it’s kind of funny how many purported leftists are grieving the destruction of a building that has been, for my entire lifetime, a metonym for war, bigotry, and oppression. The place where the most powerful men in the world smugly claimed to be “for the people” while looting the wealth of poor Americans to buy bombs to drop on poor foreigners.
Any building that hosted Henry fucking Kissinger as an honored guest deserves to be torn down.
Fuck the White House. Let Trump pave it over, claim the square mile surrounding it by eminent domain, and build a four million square foot presidential palace like Dubai’s. At least then the appearance would honestly match the reality.
Even if you feel that the white house should stop being used as an active part of the USA government, it doesn’t make sense to tear it down.
Take Auschwitz for example - a horrible place, but worth preserving so that future generations can see history in person and learn from the past. At the very least, the whitehouse is worth preserving for its historical value, if nothing else.
Take Auschwitz for example - a horrible place, but worth preserving so that future generations can see history in person and learn from the past.
I understand your argument, and I see the merit in it, but I deeply disagree. Some history doesn’t deserve to be preserved. We can learn from the worst of our past - we can celebrate the lives of the Nazis’ victims, mourn their deaths, and learn about the evil that killed them and the apathy and bigotry that enabled it - without turning genocide into a tourist attraction.
They paved over Hitler’s bunker and put a parking lot on top of it. A much more fitting end.
Auschwitz became a museum because Auschwitz survivors made sure it was. Survivors fought to preserve it and created what we see today. Otherwise it would long have been paved. It’s a place to remember the victims but also the atrocities commited there.
It’s not so much a tourist attraction, rather a monument to warn about fascism. It’s very different to visit than to just read about it in a book. Also, it’s not for-profit. It’s publicly funded.
The parking lot was built specifically to keep Nazis from having a place of worship
By building this HUGE, UGLY, ILLEGAL ballroom
Aw fuck, I didn’t even think about that. So when he’s out of there, it’ll get rebuilt at taxpayer expense again. Meanwhile, you know it’s going to be gaudy trash.
I honestly cannot wait until this sack of shit is dead
One fat New York golfer doing in a matter of days what 19 of Saudi Arabia’s best and brightest couldn’t manage after planning for years.
Not the tearing down the White House I wished for, but we take the gift horses we get
Destroying iconic architecture is his hobby. Trump Tower in NYC replaced the iconic Bonwit Teller building, which was one of the last standing examples of its distinctive architectural style.
He announced his intention to tear it down, and historians went nuts. The Metropolitan Museum of Art offered to take the famous bas relief sculptures from the facade, and he agreed.
Then one morning, NYC woke up to Trump simply destroying the building, including the iconic friezes that he had promised to save.
So destroying iconic architecture is just standard Trump behavior.
He’s such worthless fucking filth.
He is the personification of everything that makes humans bad
Honestly say this point be is everything the usa deserves. They deserve every pain every heartache and every atrocity they is happening.
There is no reason this should have ever been allowed. So the checks and balances have been eroded for years by all parties involved and the people are actively letting it happen.
It is absolutely terrible for many individual people who don’t deserve the horror they find themselves facing but the people en masse are to blame.
Burn it to the ground and start over. Such a disgrace
The problem with the idea of burning it all to the ground and starting over is that’s exactly the Republican plan. Destroy so many institutions and cultural beliefs that there’s nothing left to stop them. Meanwhile Democrats are writing a strongly worded letter to the person swinging the sledgehammer.
The better plan would be to fix what’s broken, I admit it may be too late though.
If the rest of America is going to let it happen then again that’s what they deserve
You are horrible for wishing this on us when the majority of us didn’t vote for this and never have voted for this. Your ignorance is embarrassing.
You’ve had how many years to fix this bullshit. Your methods have only produced failure and further enshtification. Now you gave the world another Hitler.
That’s on the masses who don’t vote
Who bury their head in the sand and say I’m not into politics.
Enough is enough
I never wanted it to go this way but your country has failed at every opportunity to hold your leaders accountable.
Yes it’s horrible
But when less than 35% of you bother to do your fucking job (voting) then this is what you get after decades of it.
You have only yourselves to blame and I’ve heard many of you say as much.
Take responsibility finally or accept your fate.
My own country isn’t innocent either in our own bullshit
Well the USians have always been content to limp on a broken system, impotent to change it to a modern democracy. It’s not something that happened overnight or something we can blame ‘the Democrats’ for. It’s a failure of the people
I would like to take this opportunity to remind people that Trump got less than 50% of the popular vote, more than half the country wants nothing to do with him. The GOP has been playing the gerrymandering game to great effect to the degree that their candidates can lose the popular vote but still win the election.
He even got less votes than he did in 2016, and that’s including the suspected rigged votes.
You have to put the fucking stupid loser asshats who didn’t vote because <pearl clutching reason> into that basket of people who voted for him. We, the voters, have to do a better fucking job voting, specifically in the primaries. Something is really broken when 80% of voters don’t like the job congress is doing…then they reelect the same god damn awful representatives.
So he agreed to give the sculptures but then destroyed them anyway?
He has a tell when he is lying. It’s a bit tricky to spot, but when he opens his mouth you can tell he is lying
Not always true. He told the world he wanted to be a dictator. That he had help rigging the election. That he was going to deport all the immigrants, legal or otherwise.
All true, and all happening. A lot of his followers thought those were lies though, because that was more convenient than admitting they had been had by a conman.
Agreed. I think a better summary would be to say if that he tells you what he is going to do, it’s usually true. Everything else before and after that is usually a lie.
I’d say, if what he says he’s going to do is going to benefit him personally in any way. He’s going to do it. If it doesn’t, it’s complete bullshit.
Fuck… you’re right. I apologize
Someone needs to sue to draw out the construction and leave this gaping mess as a metaphor for the administration as long as possible
Given the fact that he’s sure as shit not using union labor, that’s almost garaunteed
Why not? He’s not paying for it. U.S. citizens are.
He supposedly is paying for it along with
donationsbribes.He coincidently is demanding 230m from the DOJ for past cases and said he’d even potentially donate it…sooo yeah.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/us/politics/trump-justice-department-compensation.html
Yup. We are 100% paying for it.
Principle, I would imagine. And the fact that paying bottom dollar labor means more grift for his contractor buddy doing the job
I doubt he’ll pay the bills. Why change the habit of a lifetime?
Once the workers checks start bouncing that’ll happen. Remember, a Trump never pays their debts.
It’s not his money he’s spending though, he’ll happily pay his debts with our money
He’s claimed he will cover the 250 million dollar bill himself. (And then immediately asked for 230 million in retribution from the JD for investigating him).
He won’t mind. It’s not like he’s planning on leaving.
Just a friendly reminder trump said in July the ballroom wouldn’t touch the existing building and everything would remain intact. Add it to the pile.
He’s not known for telling truths.
To be clear, the White House was destroyed the moment a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and literal insurrectionist made it his home.
So this is just finishing the job.
To be clear, the White House was destroyed the moment a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and literal insurrectionist made it his home.
Unfortunately, crooks and rapists and insurrectionists are the norm for occupying the White House over its history. Like, if you want to apply this standard, the White House was destroyed back under the Jefferson administration.
Trump is a fascist pedophile who will probably have to be killed to leave. The White House has been home to genociders and rapists many times before though. To occlude the historical brutality of the United States is self-destructive and makes you less curious about how and why a pedophile rapist is right at home in the White House.
Tear it down with him in it.
Right, because it was fine when it was the home of slave owners, rapists, racists, genociders, imperialists, war criminals?
Americans need to learn their own history better.
The pages of mankind’s history are written in blood by the victors. Provide us with one example of a sovereign nation that does not have a violent, oppressive history.
“Unless someone else is perfect, I refuse to stop killing children😤”
That’s a fair response but my point was if we intend to tear down buildings because of dark pages in history we’d be rebuilding every nation from the ground up
Sounds good
If you’re too cowardly to try, then step aside.
Oh? And what are you doing?
Haven’t you heard? I blew up the White House all on my own with the MQ-9 reaper drone I keep in my garage.
Tell me more about how much you don’t read history.
Given that he is now making his gestapo work without pay, I think Trump now essentially falls into every one of those categories.
That’s not what it represents to any actual Americans. Yes shitty people moved through its halls, but so did national and international heroes. Reducing it as you have done isn’t going to do shit but annoy people.
Based on the .au instance I’d assume you’re from Australia, it’d be mighty silly to throw stones while living in a glass house.
That’s not what it represents to any actual Americans.
North or South? or the people in the middle that stole that for themselves?
I think it represents their values quite well.
Burn it to the ground.
Of course, because why would it represent reality to Americans when it can represent a mass delusion.
Every US president is a war criminal to some degree, they are not heroes.
And really? You think because my own country is shit that I can’t point out others issues? What a weak arse attempt at whataboutism.
Sometimes it feels like every time an American laments the shitty state of our country someone has to come along to remind us that it has always been shitty to make us feel worse.
Because you’re not, you’re lamenting the shitty state of Trump. If he was gone or not here, you would not be here commenting on the shitty state of your country at all.
And how about instead of feeling bad about your history, you learn from it, recognise it’s an issue that goes far beyond Trump and fight to ensure it never repeats itself?
You do understand that there are massive protests going on around the country right now? Telling a single person you don’t know that they should fight to fix their country does nothing, we already know the country is fucked.
And do you blame Trump for fucking your country or do you accept your country was fucked before Trump and will remain fucked after Trump?
Lol it’s not whataboutism, it’s pointing out the hypocrisy of your statement. I didn’t attempt to downplay the US’ checkered past or even say what in particular I was referencing, just making an observation that our countries have both done fucking awful things.
Don’t bother responding, I won’t read your reply.
You will read this.
Almost like this narrative is a way to salvage US imperialism in light of the undeniable immorality of its current leader.
This is HORRIBLE! I TOLD you Obama hated America SO MUCH he would Literally DESTROY the White House!
Trump did this? GOOD! The White House NEEDED a Renovation!
-Free Thinking Republicans!
Anderson Cooper once said to Mr. Lord in the first term 2017 during the Russian concerns:
“If he took a dump on his desk, you would defend it.”
Good. Finish what we started. 🇬🇧
Credit where credit is due. 🇨🇦
I mean… the dude is a total dick for sure. Seeing the current state of USA politics though – the entire building should be demolished and replaced by a gray castle. Do it right.
Naw dude.
Black.
Isn’t that the NSAs headquarters?
Fuck yeah, just keep that excavator going until it goes all the way through the Lincoln Bedroom window.
We don’t need that building anymore. Raze it. We need something else after this motherfucker.
They never should have rebuilt it after 1814.
This timeline is so comically stupid
