This is all completely normal, right?! No Congressional oversight, no historic commission involvement, no report on condition, needs or plans. We don’t even have blueprints of a new building. Just the whims of one man. And the East Wing is just a symbolic representation of what he’s doing to our democracy. Torn down for golden idols.
MRtokeALOT420 on
July 31, 2025, Donald Trump: It’ll be built over on the east side, and it will be beautiful. It’ll be views of the Washington Monument. It won’t interfere with the current building. It’ll be near it but not touching it. And pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of. It’s my favorite. It’s my favorite place. I love it. But they’ve wanted it. And you know, when they have big events, you entertain the president of China or the president of any place…..
I like that no one is stepping up to preserve this historic building, one that predates all of us.
OneTrackLover721 on
On July 31st, Trump said of his ballroom: “It won’t interfere with the current building. It’ll be near it, but not touching it, and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of.”
Right now-
The entire east wing of the White House will be demolished in days.
PhilosopherMoist7737 on
Turning the White House into an Orlando convention hotel. So gross.
Ohuigin on
Putin is *literally* destroying the White House without firing a single shot.
Waste-Time-2440 on
He’s going to replace the White House entirely with a new Presidential Palace. Watch it happen in rapidly unfolding steps.
Ozzdo on
This isn’t something you do when your housing situation is temporary. If you’re only going to be staying somewhere for a set amount of time (like 4 years) in a building you don’t own and have to vacate when that time ends, you don’t do things like tear down an entire section of the building and put up a new massive addition so you can have parties with your friends. He’s basically showing us that he has no intention of leaving.
BabyYodaX on
This is awful.
Wimpy14 on
Its almost as if everyone who should have checks and balances over the office of the president has been horribly compromised.
ET2-SW on
This would have been taken as satire if you read it a year ago.
meowmeowgang44 on
Isn’t the white house our house? We need to stop talking about the problem online and move to solutions IRL
Corran22 on
The fact that he’s a liar is not new information
Public-Summer-4281 on
$250,000,000 should buy more than a room… Just sayin’
uchideshi94 on
I’m pretty sure he is doing this so he can eventually claim it belongs to him and his family after he is inevitably dead and buried.
He’s making a big deal of having it paid for by himself (meaning, his cronies) so he can claim it was not built by the government, so thus he outright owns it. It will be connected to the White House by some kind of glass bridge thing so he can claim is not “part” of the White House, just “adjacent” to it. He then will come up with some way for the land under it to be leased to Trump Co. for $1 a year for one thousand years.
He will rent it out for national and international functions at ridiculous rates paid for by our taxes. That way, the Trump family will always have their filthy little fingers in the pot and will forever be part of the White House grounds.
NoCoffee6754 on
This is going to end with him tearing it all down and creating a palace like the Kremlin isn’t it?
FloodPlainsDrifter on
Trump to demolish America by end of 2025. FIFY
Own-Werewolf8875 on
What is taking so long? Hurry up use the West wing for excavators. What dictatorship looks like.
theroastedghost on
One step closer to America becoming the Biff governed country timeline in Back to The Future II
spacewithoutstars on
Why isn’t anyone doing anything? Watching this get worse and worse is not a strategy.
Juice_Stanton on
Mark my words. They will find dry rot, or asbestos, or lead, and say, “Welp, we’re gonna have to raze the old girl and start over.”
Trump will rebuild the whole thing in his image. I’m picturing Biff’s tower. An incomprehensible loss…
Treestwigs on
It’s a coup. It’s always been a coup.
Prior-Present-7764 on
Fuck trump. Right up the ass with the entire GOP
minigopher on
And using non union labor WTF
jbranchau78 on
imagine if obama..🙄
Less_Weather7091 on
This should be enough to impeach him!
EnglishMatron on
He destroys everything he touches.
JA_MD_311 on
He’s just a narcissistic maniac who wants to make his mark. He loves buildings with his name on it and will want it to be known as the Trump Ballroom. It’s not about him staying there or not, it’s about putting his stamp on the place. People really overthink Trump. It’s not some 3D message about him staying or leaving.
SoligDag on
And his conservative cult is probably fine with it.
kummer5peck on
Heads need to roll over this. When the time comes demolish this atrocious manifestation of Trump’s distain for democracy.
blackvariant on
ELI5, how can a project of this magnitude be designed, funded, and go for bid all within 10 or so months?
coldglasseliminate on
This is so embarrassing. These people have surrendered their power to a septuagenarian with the self-control of a 4-year-old and the world’s most fragile ego. I truly do not know how they get even a moment’s sleep knowing that they are sitting by while this country gets sold for parts to supervillains. I can hardly believe this is real life and not some fucked up fever dream. They haven’t killed my hope yet, but damn I am tired.
woody630 on
I know this is absolutely meaningless considering the direct harm he is causing the citizens of this country and of the world, but this is just fucking crazy. How is he allowed to completely demolish a massive part of one the most iconic landmarks in America and is “the people’s house.”
badwolf1013 on
Just less that we have to burn down when we finally get that criminal out of there.
The whole White House is tainted now. We should knock it all down and build a new legacy. This one has too much stink on it.
bEErgrEMlin12 on
Is that even legal? Uh fuck… why do I even ask?
kpeterson159 on
Has anybody else seen the plans? The White House is about 55,000 square feet. The new proposed plans for the ballroom are 90,000 square feet. It dwarfs the White House. All in the middle of a national shutdown. Come on people.
VoodooS0ldier on
I seriously think we are witnessing the downfall of the United States of America. I really don’t believe we are going to make it, as a country, through the next 3 years of this. Made it 250 years only to fall to fascism to a dumbass reality tv star.
NJrose20 on
I mean, he’s destroying the country so why not a building too?
GaimeGuy on
Fuck this piece of shit, fuck his family, fuck his supporters
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Something tells me he won’t stop there….
A King move.
This is all completely normal, right?! No Congressional oversight, no historic commission involvement, no report on condition, needs or plans. We don’t even have blueprints of a new building. Just the whims of one man. And the East Wing is just a symbolic representation of what he’s doing to our democracy. Torn down for golden idols.
July 31, 2025, Donald Trump: It’ll be built over on the east side, and it will be beautiful. It’ll be views of the Washington Monument. It won’t interfere with the current building. It’ll be near it but not touching it. And pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of. It’s my favorite. It’s my favorite place. I love it. But they’ve wanted it. And you know, when they have big events, you entertain the president of China or the president of any place…..
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe3AnhH9PY0&t=1313s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe3AnhH9PY0&t=1313s) .. straight from the horse’s mouth.
He’s a fucking parasite.
I like that no one is stepping up to preserve this historic building, one that predates all of us.
On July 31st, Trump said of his ballroom: “It won’t interfere with the current building. It’ll be near it, but not touching it, and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of.”
Right now-
The entire east wing of the White House will be demolished in days.
Turning the White House into an Orlando convention hotel. So gross.
Putin is *literally* destroying the White House without firing a single shot.
He’s going to replace the White House entirely with a new Presidential Palace. Watch it happen in rapidly unfolding steps.
This isn’t something you do when your housing situation is temporary. If you’re only going to be staying somewhere for a set amount of time (like 4 years) in a building you don’t own and have to vacate when that time ends, you don’t do things like tear down an entire section of the building and put up a new massive addition so you can have parties with your friends. He’s basically showing us that he has no intention of leaving.
This is awful.
Its almost as if everyone who should have checks and balances over the office of the president has been horribly compromised.
This would have been taken as satire if you read it a year ago.
Isn’t the white house our house? We need to stop talking about the problem online and move to solutions IRL
The fact that he’s a liar is not new information
$250,000,000 should buy more than a room… Just sayin’
I’m pretty sure he is doing this so he can eventually claim it belongs to him and his family after he is inevitably dead and buried.
He’s making a big deal of having it paid for by himself (meaning, his cronies) so he can claim it was not built by the government, so thus he outright owns it. It will be connected to the White House by some kind of glass bridge thing so he can claim is not “part” of the White House, just “adjacent” to it. He then will come up with some way for the land under it to be leased to Trump Co. for $1 a year for one thousand years.
He will rent it out for national and international functions at ridiculous rates paid for by our taxes. That way, the Trump family will always have their filthy little fingers in the pot and will forever be part of the White House grounds.
This is going to end with him tearing it all down and creating a palace like the Kremlin isn’t it?
Trump to demolish America by end of 2025. FIFY
What is taking so long? Hurry up use the West wing for excavators. What dictatorship looks like.
One step closer to America becoming the Biff governed country timeline in Back to The Future II
Why isn’t anyone doing anything? Watching this get worse and worse is not a strategy.
Mark my words. They will find dry rot, or asbestos, or lead, and say, “Welp, we’re gonna have to raze the old girl and start over.”
Trump will rebuild the whole thing in his image. I’m picturing Biff’s tower. An incomprehensible loss…
It’s a coup. It’s always been a coup.
Fuck trump. Right up the ass with the entire GOP
And using non union labor WTF
imagine if obama..🙄
This should be enough to impeach him!
He destroys everything he touches.
He’s just a narcissistic maniac who wants to make his mark. He loves buildings with his name on it and will want it to be known as the Trump Ballroom. It’s not about him staying there or not, it’s about putting his stamp on the place. People really overthink Trump. It’s not some 3D message about him staying or leaving.
And his conservative cult is probably fine with it.
Heads need to roll over this. When the time comes demolish this atrocious manifestation of Trump’s distain for democracy.
ELI5, how can a project of this magnitude be designed, funded, and go for bid all within 10 or so months?
This is so embarrassing. These people have surrendered their power to a septuagenarian with the self-control of a 4-year-old and the world’s most fragile ego. I truly do not know how they get even a moment’s sleep knowing that they are sitting by while this country gets sold for parts to supervillains. I can hardly believe this is real life and not some fucked up fever dream. They haven’t killed my hope yet, but damn I am tired.
I know this is absolutely meaningless considering the direct harm he is causing the citizens of this country and of the world, but this is just fucking crazy. How is he allowed to completely demolish a massive part of one the most iconic landmarks in America and is “the people’s house.”
Just less that we have to burn down when we finally get that criminal out of there.
The whole White House is tainted now. We should knock it all down and build a new legacy. This one has too much stink on it.
Is that even legal? Uh fuck… why do I even ask?
Has anybody else seen the plans? The White House is about 55,000 square feet. The new proposed plans for the ballroom are 90,000 square feet. It dwarfs the White House. All in the middle of a national shutdown. Come on people.
I seriously think we are witnessing the downfall of the United States of America. I really don’t believe we are going to make it, as a country, through the next 3 years of this. Made it 250 years only to fall to fascism to a dumbass reality tv star.
I mean, he’s destroying the country so why not a building too?
Fuck this piece of shit, fuck his family, fuck his supporters