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appleannie1

(5,347 posts)
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 02:40 PM Thursday

Look at this totally unnecessary monstrosity messing up the WH lawn.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-white-house-ballroom-renderings-construction-details/?ftag=CNM-00-10aac3a

Can you imagine how many hungry people could be fed or how many homeless people could have living quarters built? What a waste of tax dollars. I think he is making sure no one can ever plant a garden there to provide food for DC food pantries again and the Easter egg rolls are a thing of the past too.
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Look at this totally unnecessary monstrosity messing up the WH lawn. (Original Post) appleannie1 Thursday OP
It looks F'ing soviet!!! MizLibby Thursday #1
Trump's ultimate Disaffected Thursday #2
Every king needs a throne room Arazi Thursday #3
He must really be full of it to need a porcelain throne that big struggle4progress Thursday #9
Albert Speer's dream come true The Blue Flower Thursday #4
Has he ordered a few more tons of gilt so he could out-kitsch Van Buren and Liberace? Ping Tung Thursday #5
Nauseating. Xavier Breath Thursday #6
Gold prices have increased 42% YTD. Abolishinist Thursday #7
That's not real gold. GoCubsGo Friday #23
85% Johnny2X2X Thursday #8
Corporate donors helped build it. From the link... ancianita Thursday #10
It does not say what was promised in return. Those fat cats don't do anything that does not benefit them. appleannie1 Friday #17
Exactly because that's what they pay for -- favors AND secrecy about the favors. ancianita Friday #20
Those oversized windows make it look like a high school gym newdeal2 Thursday #11
Those windows will make it a lot easier to tear down that eyesore. GoCubsGo Friday #21
Low-life trash. dalton99a Thursday #12
Think about how many paying donors you could fit in there JoseBalow Thursday #13
Were I the next president I would oder it demolished on Day One Stinky The Clown Thursday #14
Or convert it to the National Museum of Presidential Corruption. nt eppur_se_muova Thursday #15
That's what the Ukrainians did with former leader Yanukovych's palace. Tommy Carcetti Friday #19
I would probably have found that a memorable experience. It's one thing to know such things went on, but ... eppur_se_muova Friday #25
I think it would diminish the White House by scale and tackiness Stinky The Clown Friday #27
Yep. Especially since it's being paid for by trump and his pals. It would be glorious to watch them howl Hassin Bin Sober Thursday #16
Me too. Diamond_Dog Friday #26
I've seen enough...just one glance of pictures of this monstrosity was one too many... CTyankee Friday #18
The White House and its grounds DO NOT belong to the president Grim Chieftain Friday #22
I'm curious to find out how large the cost overruns will be. greatauntoftriplets Friday #24
Just what we need, huh? kentuck Friday #28
Maybe Park RobinA Friday #29

Ping Tung

(3,708 posts)
5. Has he ordered a few more tons of gilt so he could out-kitsch Van Buren and Liberace?
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 03:18 PM
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GoCubsGo

(34,373 posts)
23. That's not real gold.
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 01:17 PM
Friday

As with all of the "gold" shit in the Oval Office, it's gold Rust-o-leum. Gold has gone up because the "Buy Gold!" crowd has been pushing it it non-stop as insurance against inflation. That has created a supply-and-demand situation, which has driven the price higher.

Johnny2X2X

(23,436 posts)
8. 85%
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 03:38 PM
Thursday

85% chance we get a giant Gold Trump sign in 40 foot high letters on the front of the White House soon. Complete with twinkling lights.

ancianita

(41,998 posts)
10. Corporate donors helped build it. From the link...
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 05:44 PM
Thursday
...corporate and individual donors have pledged nearly $200 million to cover construction costs, and fundraising is ongoing.
Google,
R.J. Reynolds,
Booz Allen Hamilton,
Lockheed Martin,
Palantir and
NextEra Energy have donated, sources told CBS News, and so have firms in the tech, manufacturing, banking and health industries.


Guilded Age Corporatocracy = Fascism



As tens of millions of Americans lose their health care, they need to remember who built this.

appleannie1

(5,347 posts)
17. It does not say what was promised in return. Those fat cats don't do anything that does not benefit them.
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 11:30 AM
Friday

newdeal2

(4,206 posts)
11. Those oversized windows make it look like a high school gym
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 05:47 PM
Thursday

Really tacky. This should not be approved it is way too big and doesn’t fit with the rest of the historic White House. This will be hard to undue unfortunately.

GoCubsGo

(34,373 posts)
21. Those windows will make it a lot easier to tear down that eyesore.
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 01:09 PM
Friday

That's if the construction actually gets completed. At the rate Trump is deteriorating, he'll be gone before that happens, one can only hope. It looks like flimsy shit. The first big snowfall, and the roof caves in.

JoseBalow

(8,483 posts)
13. Think about how many paying donors you could fit in there
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 07:51 PM
Thursday

The Rose Garden abomination is just too small to be sufficiently lucrative for that greedy philistine.

Tommy Carcetti

(44,234 posts)
19. That's what the Ukrainians did with former leader Yanukovych's palace.
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 11:58 AM
Friday

I actually visited there.

They have all the tacky knickknacks he left behind before fleeing to Russia.

eppur_se_muova

(40,110 posts)
25. I would probably have found that a memorable experience. It's one thing to know such things went on, but ...
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 02:37 PM
Friday

... actually witnessing the sheer excess, and so often the tastelessness, shatters any doubts that such people succeeded on merit.

Oh, and one more sign that Ukrainians know their shit.

Hassin Bin Sober

(27,271 posts)
16. Yep. Especially since it's being paid for by trump and his pals. It would be glorious to watch them howl
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 11:55 PM
Thursday
Leavitt said the project would be paid for by private donors and the president himself,

Diamond_Dog

(38,583 posts)
26. Me too.
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 02:55 PM
Friday

I would order that everything he touched be taken down, thrown in the trash, or demolished,so the White House and Washington DC look as if he were never there. I want no trace of him left behind at all.

CTyankee

(67,111 posts)
18. I've seen enough...just one glance of pictures of this monstrosity was one too many...
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 11:55 AM
Friday

I refuse to look and I won't be visiting D.C. again, if ever, as I am now elderly. I truly will hate leaving this earth with America in his clutches so I hope to live long enough to see his ass get thrown out of it and the WH restored to its former self.


Grim Chieftain

(638 posts)
22. The White House and its grounds DO NOT belong to the president
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 01:14 PM
Friday

It is a temporary dwelling that belongs to the American people. It is not his to destroy at will. Will no one ever stand up and stop this evisceration of OUR White House and our democracy?

God, I am stunned by the unbridled control he has over every damn thing!

greatauntoftriplets

(178,304 posts)
24. I'm curious to find out how large the cost overruns will be.
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 01:50 PM
Friday

And will he used undocumented construction workers to avoid paying the union rate?

RobinA

(10,430 posts)
29. Maybe Park
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 04:15 PM
Friday

that damn 747 in there. The first exhibit (after the entire building) in a Monument To Corruption.

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