White House ballroom project has become costlier and larger than originally anticipated

Donald Trump encouraged those working on the construction of his new White House ballroom project to disregard traditional permitting, zoning, and code requirements, according to a new report.

Since announcing the project in July, Trump’s ballroom has become larger, costlier and more destructive than initially thought – raising concerns about whether the president is following historical rules when it comes to a White House addition.

The ballroom’s capacity, initially thought to be 650, has been raised to 900. Its cost has nearly doubled from $200 million to $350 million. Its construction, which Trump initially said would not interfere with the integrity of the current White House, has led to the destruction of the East Wing.

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    Look on the bright side; hopefully it’ll catch on fire due to an electric short, or Canada, or something, during one of Trump’s shindigs and him and nine hundred of his “friends” will get trapped inside due to overcrowding and insufficient emergency exits and will burn to death in abject agony.

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    I think we Canadians would be happy to help with any extensive remodeling your White House requires.

    Maybe you can paint it orange this time.

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    Code requirements? Dude those are not just useless regulations. Those are for your safety and the soundness of the building. Only a complete moron signs off on a build that ignores building codes. But here we are.

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      Seriously. i get ignoring zoning and permitting because fuck everyone else, but skipping CODE requirements just means your building fucking sucks.

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        I’ve seen what happens when a construction guy gets to build their own buildings out of sight of inspectors. It’s not pretty.

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      I expect they’ll probably follow code anyway? Because you know as soon as dipshit is out of there, they’re going to have to inspect that thing for safety reasons. And the contractor probably doesn’t want the reputation of building absolute crap.

      On the other hand, if he’s as good as picking construction contractors as he is at picking lawyers or cabinet positions, well…

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    Taking others land without permission is on brand of “American values” tho.

    He’s only going back to its roots

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    Headline says he told them to disregard but the first sentence says he encouraged them to disregard.

    Pick one and make it accurate…

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    All he’s doing is giving a future president an excuse to tear it down. Plus, visiting politicians and influential businesspeople usually don’t like to hang out in unsafe buildings.

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      Hey, Canada, that’s kind of your thing isn’t it? Seriously, though, please just burn the while fucking White House to the ground! (again) Cause we’re never gonna be able to get Diaper Donnie’s stench out, anyway…

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      probably certainly

      FTFY.

      Even if by some miracle it isn’t an unsafe, condemned piece of shit, it’s still a blight and a travesty of historical proportions that will need to be corrected by restoring it to the previous design.

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    Yes! Disregard the code! Don’t even think about the building code!

    And don’t worry, the ballroom certainly won’t fall down with you inside it, piggy!

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      I have never been horny before in my life, on account of being asexual, but the thought of this ballroom collapsing under shitty building practices while housing the top thousand richest bastards in society, is certainly making me feel something hormonal.

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      We should be so lucky.

      It’ll probably collapse on a kindergarten tour group while piggy is in Europe meeting with Putin.

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    It’s probably filled with foreign listening devices anyway and will need to be completely destroyed