When Trump initially talked about building his grotesque Ball Room, the image he was holding up to show it had the Ball Room sort of plopped in between the wings out the back where the rose garden was.
It looked ugly and I couldn’t work out why he’d destroy a great rose garden for a Ball Room, but hey, who knows why the Christ this Orange arsehole does anything other than make it gold gilded tacky like a Dictator desperately trying to look rich.
There is a grotesqueness between his gaudy gold everything and his love affair with mass produced American Fast Food.
That he has a golden toilet seems to sum up his aesthetics.
Turns out that early vision of the Ball Room was bullshit and he has bewilderingly smashed the East Wing to pieces to build his fucking Ball Room.
I’m not sure why, but him destroying the White House for a tacky Ball Room really surprised me, because I simply assumed there was now way he could do this because I thought the White House was a historic building and you couldn’t just start ripping it down for shits and giggles…
Entire White House East Wing to go as cost rises on Trump ballroom project
United States President Donald Trump confirmed today that the White House’s iconic East Wing is being torn down in its entirety to make way for a huge US$300 million ($522m) ballroom – a far more extensive demolition than previously announced.
Trump told reporters at an Oval Office event that he had decided after consulting architects that “really knocking it down” was preferable to a partial demolition.
The President was asked about the work at an event alongside Nato Secretary-General Mark Rutte, after a mechanical excavator was photographed ripping through the East Wing’s facade, leaving a tangle of broken masonry, rubble and steel wires.
The East Wing is where US first ladies have traditionally had their offices. The President works in the West Wing and the couple live in the Executive Mansion.
Trump says the new 90,000sqft (8360sqm) ballroom with a capacity of 1000 people is needed to host large state dinners and other events that currently have to be held in a tent.
…destroying a Historic site because he doesn’t like Tents is almost Taliban meeting. statue from a different religion level ignorance.
It’s not just the destruction of the East Wing of the White House, it’s also who the hell are those who are funding his $300m vanity project and what they expect in return for being so generous?
Add his $400m Jet that he was given as a ‘gift’ and the level of corruption is staggering.
Did I say staggering?
I meant stupefy because also add in the crypto scandals…
…and this new madness of him taking a $100m claim against the Justice Department for doing its job that will be signed off by 4 of his former lawyers who he has appointed!!!
Trump has claimed millions from the US Government. He has power to order payment
Ever since his inauguration in January, President Donald Trump has sat uncharacteristically silent in the face of a potential windfall of more than US$100 million ($170m) from United States taxpayers.
As a private citizen, he claimed he was entitled to money to compensate him for what he calls politicised investigations he underwent.
As president, he could now, in effect, order that government to pay him.
If the payment came in the form of a settlement, the White House might be under no immediate legal obligation to disclose it to the public.
This is pure corruption at a level never seen before, and that’s why MAGA supporters and fanatics are pro-fascist.
Just imagine if a Democrat had done just one of these things, the outcry would never cease, but Trump is the middle of a billion dollar corruption scandal and not a fucking whisper!
Feral MAGA fanatics are fascist because they are enabling this and because they elected him.
His venal corruption and abuse of power is on them, yet they still spew their endless praise and shallow gratitude.
I don’t believe there is any coming back after the damage Trump will have caused America.
Trump is the President Amerika deserves.
Tomorrow will be fought on the streets.
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” I don’t believe there is any coming back after the damage Trump will have caused America ”
His influence has spread much further than the US of A. Take our own political right who are using Trump and the GOP’s tactics here. Its no coincidence that our current government and its financial supporters are behaving like they own this country and everyone in it while there are no consequences for their blatant corruption and greed.