There is no design. He has a wish sketch that some bootlicker architect drew for him. There is no floor plan or actual feature list for anyone to see because Trump just wanted to tear down an iconic building and piss on the country.
Radwood-Original74 on
Enough room in there for a small army refusing to transfer power.
Yamza_ on
Hope it collapses and takes them all out.
No_Celery_5373 on
They used A1 for the design!
PirateCodingMonkey on
I heard from an architect that it would be the most expensive ballroom built at dollars per square feet. so expensive it’s unbelievable that it would actually cost that much. plus to accommodate 999 people it would have to be about 2-3 times bigger that what the mock up shows. so even though this source is suspect, there’s no way that what he has shown is anywhere close to real.
GiddyGabby on
It’s going to totally overshadow the footprint of the rest of the building , it’s ugly and tacky and it’s much bigger than it needs to be. 90,000 square feet is insanity.
He did this as a massive fuck you to the American people but what he didn’t count on was his own supporters being upset by the trashing of the WH.
WHSRWizard on
Here’s the thing:
I used to work in the White House, and in the big sense of the question, Trump is right: the East Wing was a dump (even 15 years ago when I was there), and the East Room is wholly inadequate for many of the social functions the President hosts. Sending guests to an outdoor tent is not a good solution.
So I have no problem with an East Wing renovation (or demolition, if that made sense), nor the addition of a grand ballroom and support facilities.
The problem, obviously, is how little thought and planning has gone into this. The 90,000sqft space is over-kill, and it clearly is designed so that the most prominent feature of the WH will be the Trump Ballroom or whatever they hope it gets called.
It’s of course just about this guy’s ego.
MagicBingo on
Every table will be mic’ed and have a 360 camera.
Putin & Epstein taught Trump, *blackmail* is king.
spillinator on
Think they’ll use Four Seasons for any landscaping needs?
lordpuddingcup on
Silly question how do you secure what look like 20ft tall windows in every direction from a safety perspective considering this is supposed to be for heads of state?
Do they make bulletproof glass that big and isn’t it going to be epically expensive to like a shocking level of
Doublebosco on
The man never has a plan….
2HDFloppyDisk on
His *throne room
SatiesUmbrellaCloset on
He’s doing what Bin Laden didn’t manage to do
eugene20 on
Those mistakes in the drawings tell you this was knocked out with AI rather than than from an architect, it’s all a grift.
MagicBingo on
Assuming this goes ahead, how many years will construction last?
This could be clear indication he plans to stay for a while …
SpivRex on
It’s a piece of shit, just like everything else he builds.
LGR- on
Epstein ballroom gonna be popping
Malfeitor1 on
I wonder if anything would stop him from ripping down the rest of the White House?
CrimsonHeretic on
The flaw is the orange turd who should have been sitting in a jail cell since 2021.
areappreciated on
This is the best representation of trump. Make a grand announcement before there is a plan, tear down and damage the existing infrastructure, then never do anything.
That was his health care plan too. “End Obama care now, I’ll have something better 2 weeks later”. He did it for Israel and Palestine saying we achieved peace without any plan to make it happen.
He only cares about the moment. He only cares about the announcement. He doesn’t have any ability to follow through or complete anything. He only cares about the image of himself on the news as a race winner but never even starts the race. Worse, he is too fat to actually attempt the race.
GotMoFans on
It’s a money laundering scheme like any other Trump building project…
Diligent-Engineer428 on
It’s a way not only to distract from Trump/Epstein Files.. It’s also a way for him to pocket our money. He shuffles our money around just like he did with his sham businesses.
Look how much his bank about had increased by over 7 billion. He’s a fraud, a scammer and a cheat. He’s going against the Emoluments Clause (how does the Supreme Court consider this official duties) He’s destroying America for Putin, and is working with Project 2025. This is why they’re letting him steal whatever he wants
jquest303 on
Like the diaper changing station needs a higher weight limit?
Prize_Proof5332 on
Looks like what you get when you prompt gen-AI to design a Dubai convention hall.
Jca666 on
No. Follow the money. Trump’s raising $350 million for a ballroom that’ll probably cost $80 million to slap together.
Guess who’s pocketing the other $270 million?
tart_reform on
He is doing the only thing he knows. He is laundering money through a gigantic under designed construction project.
luri7555 on
Embarrassing flaws could be the name of his biography.
Kennydoe on
Is it at all possible that the pepople who are actually running the country are just getting him out of the way with a “project” while they proceed with their plan to rebuild America as Gilead?
Zbignich on
The plans that he quickly shuffled through don’t seem to have service corridors. I’m not sure how he expects to serve 1000 guests.
morbob on
I’d never be a contractor for trump. That’s begging for trouble.
crazybones on
No surprise there.
Everything Trump does is deeply embarrassing and massively flawed, whether it’s building a ballroom or running a country.
TheArchistorian on
The biggest lie Trump ever tried to sell is that he has “style.” One look at him tells you everything you need to know: this is a tasteless human being.
And for anyone interested in the architectural side of this, Trump is not the first authoritarian to use neoclassical architecture at a grand scale to project power and legitimacy. His executive order during his first term insisting that all new federal buildings be classical is similar to Hitler’s architect, Albert Speer, who used enormous, out-of-scale neoclassical buildings as the visual identity of the Third Reich. He’s sending signals by wrapping himself in this historical trend: he ain’t going nowhere, people. Time to wake the fuck up!
whatbologna on
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES – everything he does is just a distraction.
djfoley29 on
Am I the only one thinking this is a not so clever cover story for the construction of secret rooms, tunnels, or some shit?
xKaMIkaZex187 on
How daily beast articles are not banned from r/politics baffles me. The articles are pretty much always clickbait garbage with garbage information.
eclecticsheep75 on
“It’s all paid for privately…” meaning the entire thing is a giant grift, just another opportunity for all of those tech billionaires and other richies sitting at his inauguration to throw money directly into Trump‘s pocket. The bonus (as others have pointed out) is that he also gets to piss all over the history of this country!
The Epstein Ballroom will be famous worldwide!
zimzimzalabimz on
This has been an embarrassment since long before that.
stealthnyc on
Tell me one thing Trump did that is NOT embarrassing
Qubeye on
Have any reporters bothered to look into whom the contact for all this has gone to?
Who is getting paid?
bananajr6000 on
Oops! We forgot about bathrooms. Get a contract with the local portapotty company Don’s Johns to have a line of them just outside
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There is no design. He has a wish sketch that some bootlicker architect drew for him. There is no floor plan or actual feature list for anyone to see because Trump just wanted to tear down an iconic building and piss on the country.
Enough room in there for a small army refusing to transfer power.
Hope it collapses and takes them all out.
They used A1 for the design!
I heard from an architect that it would be the most expensive ballroom built at dollars per square feet. so expensive it’s unbelievable that it would actually cost that much. plus to accommodate 999 people it would have to be about 2-3 times bigger that what the mock up shows. so even though this source is suspect, there’s no way that what he has shown is anywhere close to real.
It’s going to totally overshadow the footprint of the rest of the building , it’s ugly and tacky and it’s much bigger than it needs to be. 90,000 square feet is insanity.
He did this as a massive fuck you to the American people but what he didn’t count on was his own supporters being upset by the trashing of the WH.
Here’s the thing:
I used to work in the White House, and in the big sense of the question, Trump is right: the East Wing was a dump (even 15 years ago when I was there), and the East Room is wholly inadequate for many of the social functions the President hosts. Sending guests to an outdoor tent is not a good solution.
So I have no problem with an East Wing renovation (or demolition, if that made sense), nor the addition of a grand ballroom and support facilities.
The problem, obviously, is how little thought and planning has gone into this. The 90,000sqft space is over-kill, and it clearly is designed so that the most prominent feature of the WH will be the Trump Ballroom or whatever they hope it gets called.
It’s of course just about this guy’s ego.
Every table will be mic’ed and have a 360 camera.
Putin & Epstein taught Trump, *blackmail* is king.
Think they’ll use Four Seasons for any landscaping needs?
Silly question how do you secure what look like 20ft tall windows in every direction from a safety perspective considering this is supposed to be for heads of state?
Do they make bulletproof glass that big and isn’t it going to be epically expensive to like a shocking level of
The man never has a plan….
His *throne room
He’s doing what Bin Laden didn’t manage to do
Those mistakes in the drawings tell you this was knocked out with AI rather than than from an architect, it’s all a grift.
Assuming this goes ahead, how many years will construction last?
This could be clear indication he plans to stay for a while …
It’s a piece of shit, just like everything else he builds.
Epstein ballroom gonna be popping
I wonder if anything would stop him from ripping down the rest of the White House?
The flaw is the orange turd who should have been sitting in a jail cell since 2021.
This is the best representation of trump. Make a grand announcement before there is a plan, tear down and damage the existing infrastructure, then never do anything.
That was his health care plan too. “End Obama care now, I’ll have something better 2 weeks later”. He did it for Israel and Palestine saying we achieved peace without any plan to make it happen.
He only cares about the moment. He only cares about the announcement. He doesn’t have any ability to follow through or complete anything. He only cares about the image of himself on the news as a race winner but never even starts the race. Worse, he is too fat to actually attempt the race.
It’s a money laundering scheme like any other Trump building project…
It’s a way not only to distract from Trump/Epstein Files.. It’s also a way for him to pocket our money. He shuffles our money around just like he did with his sham businesses.
Look how much his bank about had increased by over 7 billion. He’s a fraud, a scammer and a cheat. He’s going against the Emoluments Clause (how does the Supreme Court consider this official duties) He’s destroying America for Putin, and is working with Project 2025. This is why they’re letting him steal whatever he wants
Like the diaper changing station needs a higher weight limit?
Looks like what you get when you prompt gen-AI to design a Dubai convention hall.
No. Follow the money. Trump’s raising $350 million for a ballroom that’ll probably cost $80 million to slap together.
Guess who’s pocketing the other $270 million?
He is doing the only thing he knows. He is laundering money through a gigantic under designed construction project.
Embarrassing flaws could be the name of his biography.
Is it at all possible that the pepople who are actually running the country are just getting him out of the way with a “project” while they proceed with their plan to rebuild America as Gilead?
The plans that he quickly shuffled through don’t seem to have service corridors. I’m not sure how he expects to serve 1000 guests.
I’d never be a contractor for trump. That’s begging for trouble.
No surprise there.
Everything Trump does is deeply embarrassing and massively flawed, whether it’s building a ballroom or running a country.
The biggest lie Trump ever tried to sell is that he has “style.” One look at him tells you everything you need to know: this is a tasteless human being.
And for anyone interested in the architectural side of this, Trump is not the first authoritarian to use neoclassical architecture at a grand scale to project power and legitimacy. His executive order during his first term insisting that all new federal buildings be classical is similar to Hitler’s architect, Albert Speer, who used enormous, out-of-scale neoclassical buildings as the visual identity of the Third Reich. He’s sending signals by wrapping himself in this historical trend: he ain’t going nowhere, people. Time to wake the fuck up!
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES – everything he does is just a distraction.
Am I the only one thinking this is a not so clever cover story for the construction of secret rooms, tunnels, or some shit?
How daily beast articles are not banned from r/politics baffles me. The articles are pretty much always clickbait garbage with garbage information.
“It’s all paid for privately…” meaning the entire thing is a giant grift, just another opportunity for all of those tech billionaires and other richies sitting at his inauguration to throw money directly into Trump‘s pocket. The bonus (as others have pointed out) is that he also gets to piss all over the history of this country!
The Epstein Ballroom will be famous worldwide!
This has been an embarrassment since long before that.
Tell me one thing Trump did that is NOT embarrassing
Have any reporters bothered to look into whom the contact for all this has gone to?
Who is getting paid?
Oops! We forgot about bathrooms. Get a contract with the local portapotty company Don’s Johns to have a line of them just outside
There’s 3 years and 2 months left of this..