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White House’s East Wing partially demolished as work begins on Trump’s $250m ballroom
(www.theguardian.com)
No President should be allowed to do this.
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Burn that plantation house to the ground again.
Cool your tits, reverse-Sherman
Saw someone mention that this work would require govt contractors, who would be required to shut down due to the shutdown. So add it to the pile of illegality, in addition to archive and historical laws which are surely also being broken.
Mar-a-Lago 2.0. Where's the massage parlor gonna be?
In the basement
Next to the boxes of “Epstein files”…
Looks just like the constitution
Hopefully they build it better than Trumps condos.
I mean, him going lowest bidder and literally being crushed by a giant monument to his own fucking hubris would be rather poetic.
You know he's going to pocket the money and stiff the contractor.
Y’all remember when he said “It’ll be near it but not touching it and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of”. Just another lie. Go figure.
It's just a building. It's his demolition of the Constitution that matters.
It is visible representation of it.
If we want to go even deeper with the symbolism, the White House represents the power of the president and he is demolishing it in a shallow attempt to make it more grand.
He's demolishing it to make it fit his tacky af taste. Ain't no grandeur being developed.
Lots of brass and gold accents.
The very definition of trumpery.
I can't wait to see what the throne looks like.
At least Canada doesn't have to do it this time!
Well to be fair the whole place is going to need to be demolished after that shit stain finally croaks. It's going to smell to high fucking heaven and full of gaudy ugly tacky shit.
This time, it's a headline that isnt a metaphor, but I wish it was....
When I think of how this Nixon-era listening device was able to compromise the White House for so long it really makes me wonder if the whole building has been unsafe for a decade for any national security purposes.
That didn't compromise the White House building, from your own link? I can see saying it compromised the White House in the sense of the executive branch.
It hung in the ambassador's Moscow residential study at Spaso House for seven years, until it was exposed in 1952 during the tenure of Ambassador George F. Kennan.[7]
If they don't burn the whole wing to the ground after he leaves they aren't paying attention.
Just imagine if Obama had done this.
https://www.wonkette.com/p/sure-trump-tearing-down-white-house
Years later, when Kellyanne Conway was mocked for being photographed crouching on a couch in the Oval Office (with her shoes on), Dobbs was apoplectic at the “venom of the left,” shocked that the liberal media would criticize Conway after their “deplorable hypocrisy” in giving Obama s pass for putting his big Black feet on the desk. Little-known fact: JD Vance later fucked that very same couch.
Emphasis mine
thank you for clarifying that only the emphasis is yours
Do what I can
Wonkette truly is an under-appreciated national treasure. :)
This is my first time encountering them. Can definitely say it was a great read.
It annoys me the way he says himself and other donors when we all know he aint chipping in a dime.
Fucking ignorant vandal.
Is there really anyone who would be upset if the white house was burned down?
Why does anyone care about the desecration? The only story here is the huge waste of $$
Yes, I think it would upset quite a few people. A lot of great men and women have worked and lived within its walls. It's a pretty meaningful symbol to Americans.
Like who?
The chattel slaves who were forced with violence to build it may be great, but they didn't live in it.