…send in half a dozen top architects to create proposals for how best to repurpose and redecorate it.

Agree that’s it’s ideologically satisfying to burn it down but heck, once it’s done it’s done. Let it be our “never again” hall.

Trump needs SOMEBODY, SOMEWHERE, SOMEHOW, to say “NO!!!” to him. And make it stick.

That hideous BOWELroom must NOT be allowed to stand. EVER.

As proposed, this eyesore will dwarf the original White House, ruining the look and feel of the "People's House' forever. It cannot be renamed or repurposed, it has to disappear.

whorehouse and asked for it to be torn down post haste as soon as the Democratic Party gets its hands on the Administration again. I'm with him and you. It will happen.

Fumigate one more time!!

The next Democratic President will need to find a positive way to repurpose it for ALL Americans, not just Repukes, and not just billionaires. If we can do that, and rename it in a constructive and inclusive way, then I'm happy to keep it there.

Our motto should be "Let's not throw good money after bad." We'll have way more urgent things to do, once Chump is finally gone.

He wouldn't want anyone in the future to think he had anything to do with it, and I wouldn't blame him.

My guess is that he thinks trump's ballroom is so repulsive he wouldn't want that. The whole idea of naming part of the White House after yourself is appalling. It is the people's house. Any occupants are temporary and that is as it should be.

A place where people can visit with displays about the advancements of civil, women's, and immigrant rights.

This “ballroom” is going to be shoddily built, I guarantee it. Full of Russian bugs, too.

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People can tour and read all about what trump and his fellow traitors did. Call it hall of treason or something like that.

Seems like a waste to wreck it.

Out of proportion.

No matter what it would be named, it’s a permanent scar.

As is Trump's presidency on the body politic of the US.


But using it as a testament to the horrors of the Trump regime is not in keeping with US norms and traditions. It will likely be torn down, and forgotten.
The sooner that it is torn down, the sooner that we can forget Trump and his anti-democtatic regime.

And the sooner that we will repeat our mistake.

The Executive Mansion is just that, a Mansion, not a despot's palace. The design reflects the spirit of the Enlightenment: ordered, proportionate and restrained.

Why would that preening child deny everyone the ability to watch him ruin things just to create his own ugly blight on the White House lawn?

Because they are going to be building more than a ballroom.

By any future President, especially if the edifice is literal cover for a survival bunker. Another spectacle of massive destruction is simply not going to be done for any reason.

Moreover, besides Swalwell, there are hardly any sounds or moves to nip it, nip it in the bud.

No, the best we can hope for is to make any Trump addition a Museum of American Minority History, or something else positive and educational.

To. Tear it down.

I suspect most swing voters will have other much higher priorities.

We must not lose sight of the overriding goal to defeat Republicans up and down the ballot.

Rethugs and their accomplices in the MSM will hammer a narrative that Democrats are only interested in destroying Trump’s legacy, while offering nothing to actually help the American people.

That would be a pack of LIES, but it could also be effective.

Because millions of voters are stupid, easily taken in by BS narratives. Otherwise, Trump never would have garnered enough votes to become president.

intent on ruining our Democracy.

I'm not seeing that right now, though.

Which includes Trump's desecration of the White House and our Constitutional rule of law.

Plus, of course, how Democratic policies help the vast majority of Americans.

Winning is the only goal I have

and I certainly don't perceive the pledge hurting Democrats in any way, or ignore the goal to defeat the GOP.

But making it a prominent litmus test for our presidential candidates COULD provide our enemies with the basis for an effective narrative, as I explained in post #17.

Dems don't create policy via twitter, and enemies will create their effective narratives despite what does or does not happen.

OBVIOUSLY, we're not talking about a pledge which has already been taken by Democrats who have declared their candidacy for president in the 2028 election. How many have actually declared at this point?

WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT is Swalwell's proposal that there SHOULD BE a stiff litmus test that every Democratic presidential candidate must pledge to demolish Trump’s monstrous ballroom.

We're discussing whether or not such a pledge is a good idea, in terms of the effect it may have on the general election. My argument is it would be prominent in Republican narratives that Democrats only want to destroy Trump’s legacy, rather than actually help the American people.

As I stated in post #17 that would be a pack of LIES, but it could be effective, given that voters have fallen for so much Repuke BS in the past (with help from corporate media).

Electoral politics aside, I would very much like to see Trump’s abominable monument to himself demolished (if built).

Use the building for the Trump Administration public trials. Nuremberg type trials, due process, long prison terms!!!

Bring the new White House construction projects down, just as soon as possible. Whatever the destruction costs, it will be worth it, rather than allowing a trump monument to stand for centuries to come. What remains of our country deserves better.

And put the Rose Garden back and rebuild our White House while you're at it.

The gilded ballroom is simply obscene.

because it's already been named the Epstein Ballroom.

Say it loud, say it often! He wants us to be distracted from the Epstein Files by this tacky, gaudy waste...

because all of us have been wondering what to do about it. Myself, I think it should be demolished and the East Wing of the White House reconstructed as it was. He didn't have the right or permissions to do what he did. He didn't have a right to do anything he did to tear down our Democracy since Jan 20, 2025; I don't care what his Supreme Court said!

The only way I would go along with the survival of the structure is IF it would become a Monument to honor Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in this society forevermore! Period. Full stop.

who put it up, by legal means of course,
Trump and the enablers.

Dems must learn to speak in terms of concrete actions, rather than trying to equivocate for safety. This is a very concrete (literally) idea. There is no squishiness to this at all. Democrats will literally take a wrecking ball to Trump's BRIBERY HALL. Every Dem should get behind this.

Swallwell is exactly right. The campaign should start TODAY and Swallwall is 100% right that all Dems should be describing this as a triumph of corruption. It is the room where billionaires come to lay their bribes on the table.

Many will react to this by saying, "Why would we tear down a perfectly good building after it is just built?" We WELCOME that objection. Because the answer is, "This is a symbol of the worst corruption imaginable. It must go."

We WANT Trump to react and boast about his magnificent ballroom. The more he boasts, the more the public will understand it is all about the pipeline of bribes.

This should be central not just to 2028, but to next year's mid-terms. If we win the House in 2026, we probably can't stop the building, but we can launch big inquiries into the bribery system that Trump has set up, and that will keep the story relevant until we can get a Democrat into the WH in 2029.

Do something he'd hate ever more - turn it into a Planned Parenthood clinic and if that doesn't need all the space - include a peace garden memoralizing women and minorities with free water and shade and seating for reflection and rest.

and how it's dangerous to have people in there.

Their own pay-to-play...

Let's donate to swing that wrecking ball... Make a donation... Get a ticket...
Have a drawing + voila'... Empower the Dems wrecking crew...

Everyone / anyone can donate for an opportunity to bring Krasnov's house down...
What a day that will be...

and rebuild the east wing, restore the Presidential Rose Garden and restore the grounds near the East Wing.

They can add a few more floors underground if they like with the new East Wing... and spend at least $200M on the project.

Also remove those ridiculous flag poles.

If they really want to fix things... remove the press briefing room ( all the lies being spewed there require a cleansing ), put the press briefing room under the east wing... and restore the old swimming pool.

But that is optional.

White House. The bulldozers had better be in motion and maybe half way done. 100% Destroy it! Or temporarily allow a B-2 into DC's restricted air space to drop a GBU-39 on it.