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Trump administration plans to demolish White House’s entire East Wing as ballroom cost grows to $300 million

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  1. Tetracropolis on

    It doesn’t matter how much of America they have to destroy to distract from the Epstein files.

  2. OkayComputer1701 on

    Already 50% over estimate and they haven’t even completed demo. Definitely a Trump construction project.

  4. MrLurid on

    It’s been a day, it was 250. What I said yesterday is happening even faster than I could’ve guessed.
    >Oh that price is lowballing it so bad. Before trump and his cronies have pocketed their share, it’s going to be at least four times that. That project is going to bleed money like a sieve.

  10. literallytwisted on

    The only good thing is that demolishing it will be cheaper since its likely being built using substandard construction.

    Its Trump! Most of the money will probably just be pocketed and only a small amount used in construction.

  12. Carnival_killian on

    I was in the east wing this time last year. Very historical and beautiful. Never would have guessed a year later this would be going on.

  13. Revolutionary-Tea165 on

    Besides all the optics and timing of this, the worst part is that these are not the actions someone is taking if they plan on leaving in ~3 years.

  14. Prestigious-Car-4877 on

    I read today that the east wing was built mainly to cover the bunker. Trump’s probably trying to make a crazy opulent bunker so he can go hide down there while the country burns.

  17. Corran22 on

    It somehow makes sense to me. Everything else is in shambles, so it’s a poignant symbol of where we are at.

  18. Confident-Breath2615 on

    The only good thing about these Trump monuments (assuming he also builds his ridiculous arch) is that it’ll give ‘the people’ something to tear down when this shit is all over.

  20. hoseramma on

    Huh. $300 million. That’s about the same amount Trump cut from cancer research. Weird priorities.

  21. GimmeDatSideHug on

    Ok, but what about the Epstein files? This is just a distraction of why Trump is *really* the worst president and a monster. You’re not going to get anywhere with republicans, raging about fucking renovations. But bringing up his protection of sexual predators can’t be dismissed like this can.

  25. Surprised-elephant on

    Soon the West wing and residential will be demolished. Trump is going to turn into the Gold House

  27. justbecauseyoumademe on

    Do these actions sound like something a President would do if he had 3 years left in his term?

    Wake up america. He isnt planning on leaving

  28. KneeDeepInThe-Hoopla on

    Ballroom aka Granny flat/in law suite will be some sight in all of its gaudy, gold tyrant chic. Really making himself at home, almost like he will never leave!

  30. just_another_citizen on

    Just a few months ago Donald Trump was saying golden enshrined s*** of a ballroom wasn’t even going to touch the existing buildings. Trump said the existing buildings would be untouched…

    A few weeks later we’re watching the demolition of the entire East wing….

  31. foomachoo on

    He will collect $900 million in bribes for it.

    Pay no contractor.

    Sue the contractor for libel.

    Spend $50 mill on construction.

    And it will be tackier than any mid level drug dealer’s leapord skin man cave.

  33. Suitable-Display-410 on

    The Trump family property should be seized when this is all over to pay for mitigation of at least a tiny fraction of the damage this criminal caused, and to pay somebody to scrub Trump’s stench out of the White House walls.

  34. Plastic-Kangaroo-354 on

    Is nobody else concerned that the people of the United States own The White House? It’s not his, votes should have been approved

  35. mcs5280 on

    Remember when he staged his visit to the Fed and tried to call Jerome Powell out for construction cost overruns *checks notes* a few months ago

  37. FalstaffsGhost on

    These cheap and tacky motherfuckers. They shut the government down and are trying to take Americans healthcare away to build the gross bullshit.

  38. OnePercentVisible on

    Pretty soon it will be 500 million and when they audit it 150 million will be missing funds!

  40. namastayhom33 on

    History will not remember the ballroom; it will remember the wreckage.
    The marble gleam, the music, the laughter—
    All built on borrowed hunger.
    While the President begs the public purse to fund his grand hall,
    SNAP benefits are cut at dawn—
    Families trading dignity for dinner,
    Counting coins as chandeliers are hung.

    Forty billion sails to Argentina,
    While American farmers kneel in fields of dust,
    Their hands empty, their harvest unsold.
    ICE sharpens its teeth,
    Two new jets crown Homeland’s vanity,
    And the nation’s soul shrinks behind steel and smoke.

    Inflation stalks the kitchen table,
    Turning wages into whispers,
    Dreams into debts.
    The government sleeps in its own silence—
    A shutdown masquerading as resolve.
    And abroad, the world watches, unamused,
    Trust splintered like glass beneath a gilded heel.

    Still, the music plays.
    They toast their triumph in the ballroom above the ruins,
    Oblivious to the ache below—
    All to “own the libs.”

  41. Ok-Chart-9307 on

    I’m sure it’ll hit $1B before everything is said and done with $150M going into the ballroom.

  43. Kevsbar123 on

    Once that ignorant prick is out/dead, I hope they turn this soon to be hideous ballroom into the newly minted Department of LGBTQIA+ Rights. Fuck this guy!!

  44. Jedi_Ninja on

    They say it’s being paid for by private donations, but knowing how often this administration lies, I’d be willing to bet that most of it is being paid for by the taxpayer.

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