What has Trump done now?

[red750]

BREAKING: Turmp’s Press Secretary makes a SHOCKING ADMISSION about his “main priority”!

Donald Trump has done a lot of outrageous things in office — but tearing down the East Wing of the White House during a government shutdown to build himself a $300 million ballroom might be his most obscene yet. 

While millions of federal workers go unpaid and veterans line up at food banks, Trump’s top priority isn’t reopening the government — it’s adding a golden monument to himself right next to the Oval Office.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt let the mask slip this week when she admitted that “the ballroom is really the president’s main priority.” Not feeding families. Not paying soldiers. Not protecting democracy. A ballroom.

And if that wasn’t bad enough, she also revealed that Trump is interpreting long-held federal planning laws to mean he can “tear down whatever he wants” on the White House grounds — without oversight. When pressed by reporters if that meant Trump could bulldoze national landmarks like the Jefferson Memorial, Leavitt didn’t deny it. She just smirked and said it’s up to him.
Welcome to the Trump era — where the self-proclaimed “builder” treats the People’s House like one of his tacky golf resorts.

Meanwhile, a majority of Americans are furious. A new YouGov poll found that 53% of Americans disapprove of Trump demolishing the East Wing for his pet project, and a full 77% of Democrats say the plans are an outrage. Even among Republicans, cracks are showing — nearly a third disapprove of the destruction. Independents? They’re siding with Democrats. The message is loud and clear: the American people don’t want Trump’s White House makeover.

But Trump, ever the wannabe king, doesn’t care. From his gilded Mar-a-Lago throne, he boasted that the East Wing “wasn’t much,” sneering that “it was never thought of as being much” — as if one of the most iconic parts of the White House was just some cheap casino annex waiting for his “brand upgrade.”

The important thing to do now is to follow the money. Trump claims the project is being paid for “100 percent by me and some friends of mine.” Right. Because nothing says “trustworthy” like a secret donor list tied to a construction project overseen by a man whose businesses have gone bankrupt six times.

[old man emu]

It is reported in several places that the demolishing of the East Wing is contrary to a number of regulations etc., including those relating to the preservation of historic structures. Trump has attacked the White House in the same way that Netinyahu hs destroyed Gaza.

 

There have been calls for Trump to stop the demolision, but what's the point? The damage has been done. If someone put a bullet into Trump, the person coudld reasonably argue that it was not murder, but the application of the spitir of the 2nd Amendment.

[old man emu]

Trump has displayed artists' impressions of the interior of the ballroom. I wonder if there are any actual plan drawings for the construction of the building. I mean the sort of plans that show how coponents fit together to make the building and for the routing of power and water. 

 

Given the size of the building, is it possible for it to be constructed within the next three years remaining of Trump's presidency? What happens if he should die, which is something that comes to all of us? Once commenced, the job would have to be carried on to completion, otherwise the national symbolism of the White House will be lost. If the next President is a Democrat, the ballroom will be a millstone around the neck of the next Administration.

 

Did you know that there was a security bunker under the East Wing, sort of a war room. Has that been demolished? 

[old man emu]

Remember this?

[facthunter]

WE would not be told where the Bunker is. Nev

[old man emu]

Its presence was referenced in a reporter's question to Levitt. She said it would be made better.

[octave]

2 minutes ago, old man emu said:

Its presence was referenced in a reporter's question to Levitt. She said it would be made better.

Yep, unless this is a red herring

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Emergency_Operations_Center

[old man emu]

20 minutes ago, octave said:

Yep, unless this is a red herring

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Emergency_Operations_Center

No, not a red herring. Your reference confirms its presence. The inferrence was that, while construction ws going on, the bunker might not be in service. Obviously a temporary facility would be available.

[nomadpete]

3 hours ago, old man emu said:

Its presence was referenced in a reporter's question to Levitt. She said it would be made better.

Of course it would need a lot of cheap glitz to make it better.