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Did people really expect something sophisticated or classy from this man? I assumed from the jump it would be horrendous and gaudy.
How did I, a person with no sense of style, build better looking houses in the original sims game when I was like 10?
cheer up you can make it a museum of fascism and idiocy after he is gone
I wouldn't hold your breath for it being removed. I'm sure the Dems will make the argument that it will be a waste of tax payer money, we have to build bridges, blah blah
In a just world the fucking tech bros would be made to fund it's removal though.
i think voters have decided that they're way past that era. tearing that shit down on day one will be a winning promise for primaries and the general election
Let's see, that's the right thing to do for sure, anything Trump built or branded should be erased, logically it's an easy win.
My gut says at most they repurpose it as office space or rebrand it. They will say American's main concerns are the economy and tearing this building down whilst Americans are hurting would be a bad look. The commentary around the midterms is mentioning that the Dems are "only renting" these voters. Which makes me feel that appeasement is part of their mindset already.
I'll feel more confident if real action to bring these crooks to account occurs over the next two years. It's interesting that Karp at Palantir is trying to pretend he was always a dem now.
Make it a homeless shelter, or a factory that creates building materials for low income people. Don't tear it down. Being wasteful is irresponsible.
i got hopium from the LAWYER UP edits...
but repurposing it misses the point. this is pretty iconic architecture being completely shit on by the shit stain of history. there's no way anyone argues for keeping it. i actually think even republicans will campaign against it
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They might be able to renovate the top, but there is a military installation underneath so that'll remain.
Hello, Canadian here. We happen to be experts on the subject of renovating white houses.
I dunno, we still can't get the smell of syrup out after the last time y'all visited
Wait what am I saying I fucking love syrup
Dude, the White House that was rebuilt after the 1814 Fire from English Canadians was gutted during Truman and renovated with a steel frame. It isn't the same building on the inside.
Wow, what a great article
Is it huffingtons fault that x is blocked by you?
it's 2026 and we're still treating "here's a list of tweets" as journalism is the issue
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I used to think the ballroom wouldn’t be too bad, but now it’s bigger than the freaking White House and looks hideous, and the taxpayers are paying for half of it now. The ballroom is absurd and I don’t support this whatsoever
I take it all legal courses to get it stopped have been exhausted, with the SCOTUS being corrupted as well?
Oh well, it'll only take 3 months to remove it again and start rebuilding the original building back.
Honestly as a taxpayer I think that would be a good use of my money. Demolish the whole thing and rebuild the East Wing and the Rose garden exactly how they were. Like take a giant fucking eraser to the entire thing. No dedications, no ceremonies, no naming anything after anybody, just make it like this was a paragraph in the essay that you don't like and hit Ctrl-Z until it disappears.
Demolish the whole thing
At Trump's family expense, like a car parked in an unzoned stall.
I'd love that, but it's never going to happen. IMHO More important to just get it done.
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The next president will not be able to live in the building.
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Donny probably shit all over the place and it will have to be gutted and fumigated.
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It’s wired directly to our enemies.
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They hired budget contractors so they could skim as much as possible off the top at every level of construction.
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The minute he's out, they should rip out this monstrosity, and replace it with an exact replica of the original East Wing. And Trump should have to pay for ALL of it, the original destruction, all the construction, the new destruction, and the rebuild.
He won't need the money any more anyway, he'll be in prison, along with anyone who would have inherited it. It's our money now.
It's so cute that you have such faith in your government and the justice system.
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I want every putative 2028 candidate to pledge that on January 20, 2029 he or she will sign an executive order to tear down this monstrosity
And get rid of dept of war and secretary of war titles, and revert back to lake Ontario and Gulf of Mexico, and just erase any evidence that he ever existed, honestly.
What’s crazy is he was able to secure all the corporate donations for this thing, yet the poor Kennedy Center needs to be demolished because he cannot secure donations to keep it alive.
For people who don't know, the Kennedy Center had a large team of people whose job it was to get enough donations to keep it running.... IIRC something around 100 people, and under Trump's direction, that team was more or less completely dismantled.
The previous director of the Kennedy Center was a very rich man, I think a billionaire, who had personally donated millions to the Kennedy Center, and Trump got rid of him.
Trump did everything he could to sabotage all existing sources of funding for the Kennedy Center.
It's hard to describe in words what a pathetic loser Trump is. He can't stand to have somebody whose name is in any way elevated above his own. He'll destroy any cultural institution and anybody else's happiness just to get the tiniest bit of honor for himself.
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'His interior and architectural preferences lean heavily into Gilded Age excess, marble, polished glass, and gold fixtures-an aesthetic critics and analysts describe as "dictator chic" or grand-scale intimidation.' New York Times
Honestly what's worse is that it's all spray painted Styrofoam.
I'm sure he paid gold pieces for it though. It's so incredibly tacky and poorly executed.
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It also looks like the same shit in Russia.
You know when Nero did that, they tore it down right after he killed himself* and built a the coliseum in its place.
*Note: he killed himself rather than let his own guards murder him.
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There’s definitely other legislative issues to handle first, but the next democratic president needs to spend a chunk of their early days undoing all the cosmetic damage trump has done to our shit.
Any corporation that donated to this administration should be nationalized or shuttered
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Wears a ton of make-up, likes to redecorate rooms, talks about ballrooms all the time, got aroused by a man’s ass. Hmmm 🤔
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Turning the White House into a sidekick for this gilded monstrosity.
This is my fist time seeing photos of the ballroom location… and I’m absolutely blown away how unbelievably tacky it looks. They could’ve put it anywhere, and they ruined the symmetry of the White House plot and couldn’t even be bothered to build in the same style?
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Because of the pedophile in the picture i assume
Murikkkans, lolololololololololololol!
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