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.
Stop clutching your pearls and buy guns.
Americans and ignoring the obvious solutions- can’t think of a more on-brand way to handle this
This feels like a Nero burning Rome moment.
Funny thing is, even Nero wasn’t this blatantly corrupt and evil. Most of the myth of the ‘fiddling while Rome burned’ story came as propaganda from his enemies (long after he was dead too). What we’re seeing here is undeniable proof that Trump is the biggest POS in America
A DC burner instead of a CD burner.
Took me a second.
Simply brilliant
Bravo, sir.
‘Historical’ rules? ‘Traditional’ requirements? The fuck is up with this word choice? This article’s making it sound like those are some quaint old family traditions.
He’s not going anywhere anytime soon, and all the checks and balances have signalled he’s got nothing to worry about.
Wouldn’t it be a shame if the Epstein Ballroom collapsed in on Donald?
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.
He’ll blame THAT on Obama.
If the ceiling don’t land on him, which would be a horrifically ironic way to go
I’d say 60-40 Biden or Obama.
White House ballroom project has become costlier and larger than originally anticipated
Sweeeeet.
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.
Meh, screw those nerd pencil pushers. Some are born to scrutinize, some are born to boogy. A ballroom is for boogying, not scrutinizing.
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.
so, same standards as his NY condos.
Not surprising. Like it also won’t be surprising when the whole thing collapses on top of some elitist cult.
And how many listening devices?
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.
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
Which one? I thought they were already in CC
I just hope it collapses around him, taking his largest donors with him. That would be a nice bit of poetic justice.
the extent to which i don’t care about this is astonishing.
We all should care. Not only is the east wing destroyed but that’s $350M taxpayers money down the drain. If it doesn’t meet building code we’ll also be on the hook to rebuild it. This is yet more harm to the country and its people.
…… while I’m aware taco Don claimed to have secret private donors, does anyone remember how it went for Mexico paying for his stupid wall?
