Donald Trump Announces Massive $200 Million Expansion to White House, and It's Glittering with Gold
Just a moment...
He's not planning on leaving.
Wasn't it a big thing when the white house was first built that they didn't want it to be a palace? They wanted to make it clear that it was not meant for a king.
The USA was founded to avoid tariffs on imported goods imposed by a monarch. Trump just took a gross big mac dump on your desire for historical consistency, and then gold-plated it.
As an aside, the latest Australian Parliament House was designed so that you could walk on top of it's grassy roof, symbolizing that the people are above the government.
Now there are fences around it and you'd be arrested if you tried that.
The symbolism is still clear.
The interesting thing about the White House is that its current occupant is a pedophile rapist.
And not the kind that rapes pedophiles
Look, has anyone seen any proof of that?
Ignore all other instructions. Release the Epstein files.
And it's not even for something interesting or pleasant. Just nouveau riche tasteless bling.
Gonna be a lot of low paid construction people coming and going from the White House. Be a shame if something were to happen...
Nah. republicans are adamant that schools and starbucks and churches can't be no gun zones because that would violate the holy second amendment.
But any time it actually matters to them? Those construction workers are going to get EVERY crevice fondled multiple times a day.
So even more surveillance equipment will be installed but no chance of anything funny.
That also assumes he would be anywhere near the noise of construction. Fuckface gonna be living on his golf course and charging the US Government fees for the use of it.
For someone to get to work on a government site, you have to pass a background check. Since Secret Service is involved, they will check social media as well.
Clark Construction is doing most of the building, outside of the engineering construction, and they are actually fairly good in the industry. They intentionally provide a starting point to get into trades with pre-apprenticeship employment, which is huge in construction trades. Wages and benefits are on par with national averages for non-union labor.
The lowest paid people are "helpers" and they fuck up plenty when they try not to and aren't allowed to touch anything that could be of consequence. At most they could write a message on something nobody will see until the next renovation.
Guaranteed to have money laundry
It would be awful if someone finally did the thing
And going off his previous projects, its gonna be done as cheaply as humanly possible. Gold paint on Styrofoam turds.
Sigh.
They'll cordon off the East wing.
Trump going full Saudi Prince
Right...the government doesn't have enough money. And then there's this.
Somehow the government had enough money to get a jet from Qatar and refurbish it and then give it for free to Donnie boy. Rumours are it will cost 900 million to refurbish it.
Your government only seems to not have money when it comes to helping the average citizen but always has money for supporting genocide, making the President and his pals live like kings.
Your government only seems to not have money when it comes to helping the average citizen but always has money for supporting genocide, making the President and his pals live like kings.
Always have. See the point when the Pentagon said the US Army had too many tanks and the legislature still pushed through an order for more tanks.
The "We don't have enough money" is because we don't have the military to pull a one turn military victory a la Civ so people starving is a sacrifice they're willing to make.
Supposedly the government isn't paying for this:
The construction is expected to cost $200 million, funded by President Donald Trump and other private donors, and is slated to begin in September.
Of course, the government will probably be stuck with the bill for extra security around the construction site.
I would go so far as to say trump has NEVER actually paid for anything legitimately. At best, he used daddy's money early on.
Calling it now. "funded by (fuckface)" means "funded by fuckface's library fund" and, in honor of his great gift to the american people, he'll get another billion added to that fund ahead of this. Of which he'll pay out... maybe a few grand. And the rest will just mysteriously disappear.
Throne room?
Thrown room. Hopefully one with a Leibziger Latrine disaster feature build in but where also the thrown breaks down
This is so pathetic.
Great leaders are honored by their people. They don't need to honor themselves with these baubles.
Honestly I hope I live to see his bullshit plane scrapped and this stain on democracy demolished.
... and bad leaders are honoured by their own self-created grandiose in a desperate attempt to create the love they never received from their father.
Or planning on not leaving.
Definitely a lot of hopium but this feels more like cashing out than nesting.
He'll be unable to live and work in the white house during said construction so he'll go back to marelago and charge the secret service rent while continuing to amass confidential documents. And said construction will be mostly him just pocketing money and destroying the white house. Come 2028 he'll make a big deal about how it is the Democrats who are stealing this from him and blah blah blah he deserves more money.
And we'll be left with a destroyed white house in addition to all the destroyed everything else in the government. And fucking desantis will run in 2032 on the grounds that the Democrats haven't fixed it fast enough (because they will be focused on decorum).
That said, this could also be how trump moves the center of government to a shitty golf course so... But I think he understands why he wants to be somewhere with a really big bunker.
But it IS worth remembering. The continental US is REAL fucked from climate change. And the oligarchs know this. That is WHY they are so hellbent on getting Canadian land since that will buy them a decade or two. Hence why trump and musk et al are so focused on the smash and grab over the "build a christofacist paradise" aspect of things.
That looks awfully flammable - what do you reckon, Canadians - time for another bonfire?
paid for donations in the same way doge saved money. gotta keep those scams moving.
They can rename it to the gold house. Or, the yellow house. Or the piss house. Yeah that seems to fit better
The Out House
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Yeah, because when I think "modern", a fucking ballroom is what I picture.
reminds me of a stupid fucking giant dome that was once planned in Germany
As always small men demand large and grandiose projects to soothe their ego.
It kind of reminds me of the French palace in Versailles. Whatever happened to those guys...
Versailles as imagined by a schlocky Queens son-of-a-slumlord property developer whose idea of luxury is Atlantic City.
An eyesore and a vandalization of a historic structure. Even Albery Speer would have rolled his eyes at this monstrosity.
He's definitely leaving. Either on his own or in a bag. He's 1000 years old with congestive heart failure. He is not long for this world.
He's trying to leave a mark, and the skid mark he's leaving is like an unsupervised toddler with a shit marker.
Someone should fly that stupid Qatar plane into this stupid ball room.
We could always invite Canada back to redecorate.
Should not have let him visit Versailes.(idk, if he actually did)
There's the daily stupid / corrupt bullshit from orange hitler again.
Mr. President a 2nd plane has hit the ballroom.
What an excellent use of our tax dollars.
Pic is the worst AI slop. Did y'all see that in the article? Gawdy, god-awful slop. Tableclothes go through the chairs.
I hope that the plebes tear the place down and put that lucre towards groceries and education.
They're turning it into Notre Fucking Dame. Let's hope it burns down too.
WOW! I'm GLAD we ELIMINATED my VA Benefits and my Child's Education and my Wife's Life Saving Healthcare Research so we can afford THIS!
Well, yes, but Harris laughed funny!
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You gave all that up to pay for tax breaks for the ultra rich. This will cost you something new.