Ex-congressman calls major renovation ‘utter desecration’ as demolition in East Wing reportedly under way
Construction crews have started demolishing part of the East Wing of the White House to make way for Donald Trump’s planned ballroom, prompting widespread criticism on social media and beyond.
One former lawmaker even called the renovation an “utter desecration”.
The Washington Post, which obtained and published photos of the demolition activity and cited two eyewitnesses, reported on Monday that demolition was under way, and shared an image showing construction in progress and parts of the exterior ripped down.
39 Comments
Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip · 64 pts · 297d
No President should be allowed to do this.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · -1 pts · 296d
Disagree.
Burn that plantation house to the ground again.
FenrirIII@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 295d
Cool your tits, reverse-Sherman
Kalon@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 297d
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com · 9 pts · 297d
He is doing it so he can troll the libs who say he is trying to be king even harder! He is building it ironically!
Nasan@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 297d
For some reason this led my mind towards thinking we should give him The Mummy treatment. Mummify him alive and stick the sarcophagus under a statue of Robert E. Lee.
KnitWit@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 297d
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.
gnomesaiyan@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 297d
Mar-a-Lago 2.0. Where's the massage parlor gonna be?
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 296d
In the basement
Plurrbear@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 296d
Next to the boxes of “Epstein files”…
kingofras@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 297d
smeenz@lemmy.nz · 17 pts · 297d
Looks just like the constitution
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 296d
Hopefully they build it better than Trumps condos.
mister_flibble@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 296d
I mean, him going lowest bidder and literally being crushed by a giant monument to his own fucking hubris would be rather poetic.
smeenz@lemmy.nz · 6 pts · 296d
You know he's going to pocket the money and stiff the contractor.
myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip · 21 pts · 296d
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.
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 297d
It's just a building. It's his demolition of the Constitution that matters.
phdepressed@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 297d
It is visible representation of it.
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 297d
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.
phdepressed@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 297d
He's demolishing it to make it fit his tacky af taste. Ain't no grandeur being developed.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 296d
Lots of brass and gold accents.
harmbugler@piefed.social · 3 pts · 296d
The very definition of trumpery.
Glide@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 297d
I can't wait to see what the throne looks like.
PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 296d
guyoverthere123@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 297d
At least Canada doesn't have to do it this time!
selkiesidhe@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 296d
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.
Asidonhopo@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 297d
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)
SqueakySpider@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 296d
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.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 1 pts · 296d
If they don't burn the whole wing to the ground after he leaves they aren't paying attention.
dhork@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 297d
This time, it's a headline that isnt a metaphor, but I wish it was....
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 296d
Just imagine if Obama had done this.
https://www.wonkette.com/p/sure-trump-tearing-down-white-house
Sturgist@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 296d
Emphasis mine
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 296d
thank you for clarifying that only the emphasis is yours
Sturgist@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 296d
Do what I can
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 296d
Wonkette truly is an under-appreciated national treasure. :)
Sturgist@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 296d
This is my first time encountering them. Can definitely say it was a great read.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 4 pts · 297d
It annoys me the way he says himself and other donors when we all know he aint chipping in a dime.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 296d
Fucking ignorant vandal.
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 295d
quick_snail@feddit.nl · -5 pts · 296d
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 $$
bobaworld@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 295d
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 295d
Like who?
The chattel slaves who were forced with violence to build it may be great, but they didn't live in it.