it's the we people's house not shithole.

To hell with history, tradition, and the symmetry of the White House as is.

If they ever start offering tours again, people should boycott them.

American. Everything.

Keep you G....d hand off of it!

The sooner slobfather is tagged and bagged, the better!

This needs to be stopped NOW!!!

TIA

There's no reason to save it, since it's getting ruined by Chump anyway.

It's costing the tax payers way too much for anyone to live there.
It's probably something DOGE forgot to look into, while they were tearing down everything else in the US.

This monstrosity will foul the White House, and cost how many billions?

now he wants to destroy the classic lines of the WH. The man has zero taste.

He deliberately destroyed artistically significant art deco friezes he had promised to give to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, then assumed his transparent persona of "John Barron" to claim falsely that they were of no value and not worth preserving. Once a lying, crass vulgarian, always one.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.artnet.com/art-world/donald-trump-bonwit-teller-friezes-met-2132673%3famp=1

..."Donald Trump’s relationship to the Metropolitan Museum of Art was permanently damaged early on. He refused to donate artworks that he had promised to the museum and instead had them destroyed, along with a venerable building that had played an important role in American art history.

At that site, the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 56th Street in Manhattan at which Trump constructed his prestige project Trump Tower between 1980 and 1982, the flagship store of the luxury department store chain Bonwit Teller and Co. had earlier stood. The 1929 building was the work of the same architects who had designed Grand Central Terminal, Whitney Warren and Charles Wetmore. It was intended originally to house the women’s department store Stewart. Bonwit Teller, who took over the building in 1930 and opened it anew, soon worked with world-famous artists. Starting in 1936, the Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí regularly decorated the windows with spectacular installations, for example in 1939, working with the theme “night and day.” In the 1950s, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg worked for the company on the side as window dressers, using the pseudonym “Matson Jones.” Among other things, Johns displayed his now iconic painting Flag on Orange Field behind a mannequin in the windows in 1957. That same year in the same place, Rauschenberg showed his Red Combine Painting along with others. Two years earlier, the large photographic work Blue Ceiling Matson Jones could be seen in the background of the Bonwit Teller windows.
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The New York Times and The Washington Post reconstructed what happened next. Their investigations demonstrated not just that Trump broke his promise and destroyed valuable art. The journalists discovered that, when his cultural crime caused an uproar, Trump hid behind a pseudonym and lied to the public: “What followed was a display of arrogance, excuse-making and avoidance of tough questions that is familiar to anyone who has observed Trump’s interactions with the media throughout his campaign for the White House.”

When journalists inquired of the Trump Organization about the existence of the two limestone Art Deco friezes, a spokesperson going by the name John Barron replied: three independent experts had found that the works had “no artistic value” and were worth at most an estimated $9,000. According to “Barron,” the removal would have cost $32,000 and would have meant a week and a half delay of the demolition work. The alleged costs for the delay were later calculated by Trump’s side to be $500,000. The next day “Barron” was quoted as saying that the bronze latticework that had hung over the entrance to the Bonwit Teller building was also missing: “We don’t know what happened to it.” The artist Otto J. Teegan, who had designed the piece in 1930, responded, “It’s not a thing you could slip in your coat and walk away with.” “It’s odd that a person like Trump, who is spending $80 million or $100 million on this building, should squirm that it might cost as much as $32,000 to take down those panels.”...(more)

I used to ride the train with my mother to go shopping in the city. I remember Bonwit Teller well.

The concept of building inspection and approval is to protect visitors and inhabitants (even trespassers) from inadvertently being harmed from construction that never should have been done.

Even in the fictional Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, inspectors were on site before construction began.

that horrible patio. I was looking at photos online of his golf courses and the patio furniture he stuck on that ugly slab is identical to the patio furniture on the patio there. I can't imagine what this "ballroom" might turn out to be.

This fucker just blows money like it's growing on his cankles.