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.
Would be hilarious if the schematics of the ultra secret surveillance hardware in and around the wing get leaked to a foreign party.
You can bet they’re Israeli and Russian contractors working on planting as many bugs as they can
Why?
Why would it have to? I mean, in pretty sure its designed and built by foreign parties, at this point
They’ll have to tear it down inside of ten years, I guarantee it.
I’d be surprised if he didn’t
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!
We should be so lucky.
It’ll probably collapse on a kindergarten tour group while piggy is in Europe meeting with Putin.
Along those same lines, they should have a Wizard of Oz ball using the original snow recipe from the movie.
Asbestos?
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.
Never in your life? I always assumed asexual meant very rarely horny, not literally never. Is that common?
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Forty years old, still a virgin. Sex-repulsed. Doesn’t cause a problem in my life. Immune to most advertising. Watching people make the same stupid mistakes about birth control time and time again, and never understanding why. My line ends with me and that’s fine.
The people who downvoted are stupid, thanks for sharing :)
What about sexual pleasure like from touch and orgasm?
You already know what the answer is.
And besides, I’m intersex. Loads of people take for granted that their genitals formed well-enough.
I’m not invested in sex or discussions about it. It actually skeeves me out.
being sex-repulsed doesn’t necessarily mean you don’t enjoy self-pleasure. there’s not one “kind” of asexuality, there’s a spectrum
But also yeah, I can’t have self-pleasure. Doesn’t work. Grosses me out besides. People act like sexual pleasure is the most important thing ever. I’m doing just fine without it. I’m not a problem to be fixed.
If that ballroom is finished by the end of his term, I’ll eat my shoes.
If the US gets a new president in 2029, I’ll be devastated if they don’t take the opportunity to do a major speach or something against the backdrop of a half derelict East Wing - it would be iconic.
If Trump leaves office willingly before it’s completed, I’ll eat mine.
I’m sure he’s demanding all the kickbacks up front. That’s half the point of this monstrosity after all.
Sure, but he’s not going to leave office willingly regardless.
That, and immunity.
This is a non sequitur
Sorry, I thought you were talking about his whole presidency, like the comment you were replying to, not just the ballroom specifically.
It’s moving right along, just like the wall.
You don’t get immunity for this.
Please let this end the way I hope it will……
With an electrical fire in a ballroom full of 900 of Trump’s enablers and the doors fail to open due to corner cutting?
One major part of fire code in most areas I’ve ever worked in is that the door access control system must be tied into the fire alarm so an alarm event will kill power to any doors with maglocks. Every door also needs its own exit button to again directly cut power if the automatic motion detector fails to let anyone out. Let’s hope those were the things missed.
Were megacorp CEOs/biggest owners invited too?
Skipping fire permitting on a ballroom is an amazingly stupid idea. Hopefully they don’t all burn alive in the giant dumpster they’re building. crosses fingers
What if the Cybertruck was a building
Oh no. A bunch of billionaires died in a fire with the President.
I think I should have soup for dinner tonight.
The mad King’s Follies.
And how many listening devices?
Burned down, fell over, sank into the swamp
I am confused, what ballroom is this talking about? Do you mean the Epstein ball room? That makes sense…
Might even have something to do with bubbas balls
Yes, the Trump-Epstein Friendship Ballroom
With extra gold trimmed glory holes in the men’s toilet.
What a surprise? Trump is cheating again! Who woulda thunk it, other than EVERYBODY?
And in this case, cheating is even stupider. He’s not a normal developer in this case, he’s not paying for this, he doesn’t have to wait for anything, he can expedite anything he wants. There is no reason to not do this by the book, but Trump is one of those guys (I’ve known several) who when offered a choice between the honest way, and the dishonest way, they will take the dishonest way every time, because they think that somehow it will get them something extra, even if it doesn’t. It’s just their nature to cheat at everything.
But the Dems assure us that the 2024 election was totally “fair & square,” and Donald Trump didn’t cheat in the only election that would literally keep him from a life sentence in prison. Sure, he’s cheated on literally EVERYTHING ELSE IN HIS LIFE, just for fun, but he didn’t cheat to keep himself out of prison. Makes sense.
No wonder Democrats lose every election.
White House ballroom project has become costlier and larger than originally anticipated
You don’t say! And nobody except everybody expected this?
The only other unsurprising thing here is that they managed to balloon it like that while ignoring building permits and code, as many times those cause the ballooning in some way. Incompetence and corruption go far too with ballooning though
The Art of the Upsell.
Wouldn’t it be a shame if the Epstein Ballroom collapsed in on Donald?
He’ll blame THAT on Obama.
I’d say 60-40 Biden or Obama.
If the ceiling don’t land on him, which would be a horrifically ironic way to go
That’s not going to happen because it’s not going to be built. The next president is going to inherit a demolition site and the Republicans are going to complain that the Democrats are denigrating the office of the president by failing to deal with the construction site.
