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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLook 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-00-10aac3aCan 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.

MizLibby
(381 posts)but what can you expect???
Disaffected
(5,916 posts)"Let them eat cake" moment. For now at least....
Arazi
(8,391 posts)struggle4progress
(124,642 posts)The Blue Flower
(6,185 posts)He died too soon.
Ping Tung
(3,708 posts)Last edited Thu Sep 25, 2025, 04:21 PM - Edit history (1)
Xavier Breath
(6,150 posts)
Abolishinist
(2,771 posts)Coinkydink?
GoCubsGo
(34,373 posts)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)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)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)ancianita
(41,998 posts)newdeal2
(4,206 posts)Really tacky. This should not be approved it is way too big and doesnt fit with the rest of the historic White House. This will be hard to undue unfortunately.
GoCubsGo
(34,373 posts)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.
dalton99a
(90,403 posts)JoseBalow
(8,483 posts)The Rose Garden abomination is just too small to be sufficiently lucrative for that greedy philistine.
Stinky The Clown
(68,810 posts)eppur_se_muova
(40,110 posts)Tommy Carcetti
(44,234 posts)I actually visited there.
They have all the tacky knickknacks he left behind before fleeing to Russia.
eppur_se_muova
(40,110 posts)... 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.
Stinky The Clown
(68,810 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(27,271 posts)Diamond_Dog
(38,583 posts)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)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)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)And will he used undocumented construction workers to avoid paying the union rate?
kentuck
(114,710 posts)Then everyone will be asking, "why didn't someone stop him?????"
RobinA
(10,430 posts)that damn 747 in there. The first exhibit (after the entire building) in a Monument To Corruption.