One fat New York golfer doing in a matter of days what 19 of Saudi Arabia’s best and brightest couldn’t manage after planning for years.
What do you want to bet the contractors currently working on it aren’t going to get paid?
Well since the construction project hasn’t actually been approved thru the official channels yet I would say the chances of this are pretty high because it gives him a great excuse to not pay them.
They are going to have to pay Trump for the honour of constructing his
ballroomthrone room
Gavin Newsom go away, you are the fakest, most superficial, visionless resistance fighter I can possibly imagine.
Newsom would have been fully on board with the demolition if it had been a homeless shelter.
$300 million. Could build a skyscraper. Instead building a big, mostly empty room.
The grift
Insider knowledge says he has been planning this a while to get back at his opponents and have something so large no one will be able to ignore it.
Donald gets off on people thinking about him, no matter if it’s negative or positive. By building this HUGE, UGLY, ILLEGAL ballroom, he is showing his opponents his legacy will be remembered forever.
I say we demolish that shit ASAP as soon as he dies so we can get rid of any changes he made to the PEOPLES HOUSE.
People’s House? You mean the Presidential Palace, right?
I mean, it’s kind of funny how many purported leftists are grieving the destruction of a building that has been, for my entire lifetime, a metonym for war, bigotry, and oppression. The place where the most powerful men in the world smugly claimed to be “for the people” while looting the wealth of poor Americans to buy bombs to drop on poor foreigners.
Any building that hosted Henry fucking Kissinger as an honored guest deserves to be torn down.
Fuck the White House. Let Trump pave it over, claim the square mile surrounding it by eminent domain, and build a four million square foot presidential palace like Dubai’s. At least then the appearance would honestly match the reality.
Looks like construction / renovation. Is that a big deal?
Its a big deal because, aside from everything else, any construction on any government owned buildings requires a approval process that has not been done. This approval process is because the US taxpayers own this building, the president does not. They (the administration) are claiming that only “construction” needs to be approved and “demolition” does not, this is why they went ahead and started this project without approval.
Understood, thanks.
Depends—do you often hire companies to perform construction or renovation on houses you don’t own?
Afaik they have not put in the plans to the planning board or whatever. Basically they did not go through the right procedures but literally just started demolishing the building.
I see. Thanks!
Cool, I’ll tell that to my landlord when I demolish the living room with no plans to fix it.
Can wait for the day they fix this shit. No one needs a ballroom.
If only he cuts his finger on it and dies of a fat embolism.
I mean… the dude is a total dick for sure. Seeing the current state of USA politics though – the entire building should be demolished and replaced by a gray castle. Do it right.
They never should have rebuilt it after 1814.
Naw dude.
Black.
Isn’t that the NSAs headquarters?
Fuck yeah, just keep that excavator going until it goes all the way through the Lincoln Bedroom window.
We don’t need that building anymore. Raze it. We need something else after this motherfucker.
This is all about humiliation. How much humiliation will the US take before they get violent and allow him to declare martial law with the insurrection act?
He does want you to see it. Otherwise it would be visually blocked like most historical buildings do in D.C. when going through reconstruction.
Destroying iconic architecture is his hobby. Trump Tower in NYC replaced the iconic Bonwit Teller building, which was one of the last standing examples of its distinctive architectural style.
He announced his intention to tear it down, and historians went nuts. The Metropolitan Museum of Art offered to take the famous bas relief sculptures from the facade, and he agreed.
Then one morning, NYC woke up to Trump simply destroying the building, including the iconic friezes that he had promised to save.
So destroying iconic architecture is just standard Trump behavior.
He’s such worthless fucking filth.
Honestly say this point be is everything the usa deserves. They deserve every pain every heartache and every atrocity they is happening.
There is no reason this should have ever been allowed. So the checks and balances have been eroded for years by all parties involved and the people are actively letting it happen.
It is absolutely terrible for many individual people who don’t deserve the horror they find themselves facing but the people en masse are to blame.
Burn it to the ground and start over. Such a disgrace
The problem with the idea of burning it all to the ground and starting over is that’s exactly the Republican plan. Destroy so many institutions and cultural beliefs that there’s nothing left to stop them. Meanwhile Democrats are writing a strongly worded letter to the person swinging the sledgehammer.
The better plan would be to fix what’s broken, I admit it may be too late though.
If the rest of America is going to let it happen then again that’s what they deserve
You are horrible for wishing this on us when the majority of us didn’t vote for this and never have voted for this. Your ignorance is embarrassing.
Well the USians have always been content to limp on a broken system, impotent to change it to a modern democracy. It’s not something that happened overnight or something we can blame ‘the Democrats’ for. It’s a failure of the people
I would like to take this opportunity to remind people that Trump got less than 50% of the popular vote, more than half the country wants nothing to do with him. The GOP has been playing the gerrymandering game to great effect to the degree that their candidates can lose the popular vote but still win the election.
He even got less votes than he did in 2016, and that’s including the suspected rigged votes.
So he agreed to give the sculptures but then destroyed them anyway?
He has a tell when he is lying. It’s a bit tricky to spot, but when he opens his mouth you can tell he is lying
Not always true. He told the world he wanted to be a dictator. That he had help rigging the election. That he was going to deport all the immigrants, legal or otherwise.
All true, and all happening. A lot of his followers thought those were lies though, because that was more convenient than admitting they had been had by a conman.
Agreed. I think a better summary would be to say if that he tells you what he is going to do, it’s usually true. Everything else before and after that is usually a lie.
I’d say, if what he says he’s going to do is going to benefit him personally in any way. He’s going to do it. If it doesn’t, it’s complete bullshit.
Fuck… you’re right. I apologize
Good. Finish what we started. 🇬🇧
Credit where credit is due. 🇨🇦
To be clear, the White House was destroyed the moment a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and literal insurrectionist made it his home.
So this is just finishing the job.
To be clear, the White House was destroyed the moment a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and literal insurrectionist made it his home.
Unfortunately, crooks and rapists and insurrectionists are the norm for occupying the White House over its history. Like, if you want to apply this standard, the White House was destroyed back under the Jefferson administration.
Trump is a fascist pedophile who will probably have to be killed to leave. The White House has been home to genociders and rapists many times before though. To occlude the historical brutality of the United States is self-destructive and makes you less curious about how and why a pedophile rapist is right at home in the White House.
Tear it down with him in it.
Right, because it was fine when it was the home of slave owners, rapists, racists, genociders, imperialists, war criminals?
Americans need to learn their own history better.
The pages of mankind’s history are written in blood by the victors. Provide us with one example of a sovereign nation that does not have a violent, oppressive history.
“Unless someone else is perfect, I refuse to stop killing children😤”
That’s a fair response but my point was if we intend to tear down buildings because of dark pages in history we’d be rebuilding every nation from the ground up
Sounds good
If you’re too cowardly to try, then step aside.
Tell me more about how much you don’t read history.
Given that he is now making his gestapo work without pay, I think Trump now essentially falls into every one of those categories.
That’s not what it represents to any actual Americans. Yes shitty people moved through its halls, but so did national and international heroes. Reducing it as you have done isn’t going to do shit but annoy people.
Based on the .au instance I’d assume you’re from Australia, it’d be mighty silly to throw stones while living in a glass house.
That’s not what it represents to any actual Americans.
North or South? or the people in the middle that stole that for themselves?
I think it represents their values quite well.
Burn it to the ground.
Of course, because why would it represent reality to Americans when it can represent a mass delusion.
Every US president is a war criminal to some degree, they are not heroes.
And really? You think because my own country is shit that I can’t point out others issues? What a weak arse attempt at whataboutism.
Sometimes it feels like every time an American laments the shitty state of our country someone has to come along to remind us that it has always been shitty to make us feel worse.
Because you’re not, you’re lamenting the shitty state of Trump. If he was gone or not here, you would not be here commenting on the shitty state of your country at all.
And how about instead of feeling bad about your history, you learn from it, recognise it’s an issue that goes far beyond Trump and fight to ensure it never repeats itself?
You do understand that there are massive protests going on around the country right now? Telling a single person you don’t know that they should fight to fix their country does nothing, we already know the country is fucked.
And do you blame Trump for fucking your country or do you accept your country was fucked before Trump and will remain fucked after Trump?
Lol it’s not whataboutism, it’s pointing out the hypocrisy of your statement. I didn’t attempt to downplay the US’ checkered past or even say what in particular I was referencing, just making an observation that our countries have both done fucking awful things.
Don’t bother responding, I won’t read your reply.
You will read this.
Almost like this narrative is a way to salvage US imperialism in light of the undeniable immorality of its current leader.
Someone needs to sue to draw out the construction and leave this gaping mess as a metaphor for the administration as long as possible
Given the fact that he’s sure as shit not using union labor, that’s almost garaunteed
Why not? He’s not paying for it. U.S. citizens are.
He supposedly is paying for it along with
donationsbribes.He coincidently is demanding 230m from the DOJ for past cases and said he’d even potentially donate it…sooo yeah.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/us/politics/trump-justice-department-compensation.html
Yup. We are 100% paying for it.
Principle, I would imagine. And the fact that paying bottom dollar labor means more grift for his contractor buddy doing the job
I doubt he’ll pay the bills. Why change the habit of a lifetime?
Once the workers checks start bouncing that’ll happen. Remember, a Trump never pays their debts.
It’s not his money he’s spending though, he’ll happily pay his debts with our money
He’s claimed he will cover the 250 million dollar bill himself. (And then immediately asked for 230 million in retribution from the JD for investigating him).
He won’t mind. It’s not like he’s planning on leaving.
