Amid backlash over partial demolition of East Wing, White House reportedly intends to send blueprints
The White House has not submitted plans for Donald Trump’s new ballroom to the federal agency that oversees construction of federal buildings, though demolition is already under way.
On Tuesday, the White House told Reuters it intended to send plans to the National Capital Planning Commission, an agency that typically approves and monitors construction on federal buildings. Demolition began earlier this week, with reporters taking video of a backhoe ripping out chunks of the White House’s exterior.
The New York Times reported Wednesday, citing a senior administration official, that the ballroom plans will mean the demolition of the entire East Wing.
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snekerpimp@lemmy.world · 69 pts · 302d
Karjalan@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 302d
Took me easy too long to realise that wasn't an actual photo of the current state of the white house...
From Zombieland/2?
Bahnd@lemmy.world · 57 pts · 302d
Idiocracy.
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 302d
I won't hear a word against president camacho, guy was completely uneducated but actually pretty intelligent all things considered. Aknoweldged things were fucked but that he couldn't fix them, created a national program to find someone who could and upon finding that person immediately put them in charge. Better leader than most in the western world right now.
Bahnd@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 302d
The most unbelievable part of that entire film is that President Dwayne Elizondo Mountian Dew Herbert Camacho didnt take credit for solving the crisis at the end of the movie.
mcv@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 302d
That increasingly sounds like it is the current state of the White House.
FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io · 10 pts · 302d
The above ground pool tipped it off for me.
snekerpimp@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 302d
Idiocracy
aarch0x40@lemmy.world · 65 pts · 302d
Filing plans would signal that the administration was somehow beholden to something or someone.
TheMadCodger@piefed.social · 20 pts · 302d
Or they thought this through, beyond I'm gonna build a ballroom, start the backhoes!
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 302d
or that they actually had some kind of plan...
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 302d
FSB and Mossad haven't signed off on the plans yet.
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de · 37 pts · 302d
Concepts of a plan...
beemikeoak@lemmynsfw.com · 1 pts · 302d
It's National. That's a fantastic word for "I haven't the faintest idea from what rabbit asshole I will be pulling a full rolled up plan from, but believe me, I will."
I use it at work all the time. It only works when the thing you're doing hasn't ever been done before.
Sunflier@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 302d
Oh! I get it. He's destroying the white house as a symbolic metaphor for him destroying America.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 302d
No. He's building himself a better bunker.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca · 24 pts · 302d
This is actually surprising that this government building is just being torn down without any public information filings saying how much is being torn down...
Is this just shoddy incompetent engineering that is standard fare for anyone working for this administration, or is there something being hidden from us?
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 302d
It's the "don't ask for permission, ask for forgiveness" policy.
Makeitstop@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 302d
When do they start asking for forgiveness?
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 302d
Oh the Supreme Court has forgiven everything he has done so far.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 302d
When they're lined up against the wall and the firing squad is loading.
Soup@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 302d
And they’ll be complaining about people not being tolerant of them now that they’ve said a weak-ass “sorry” because they thought that once they said the magic word all the consequences would go away.
Samskara@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 302d
Trump said: „start building“ and someone made sure they got started.
ArtVandelay@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 302d
Yes
DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 302d
Well, the exits and command controls wouldn't be very secret if they filed them:
dhork@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 302d
Now that's interesting. (More info here.)
I wonder what fun listening devices and other random spy shit are being planted there. A future President should probably not use that bunker until the "ballroom" above it is replaced with a structure that wasnt built by someone so obviously under foreign influence.
sik0fewl@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 302d
FSB, MSS, Mossad and other foreign spy agencies must love this.
I wonder how good the security is.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 302d
Yeah, I can guarantee that at least one bug gets planted in a wall, floor, or ceiling somewhere important. Hell, with Trump acting like a Russian agent, that may actually have been coordinated right from the start.
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 302d
He isn't acting anything. He is a Russian asset.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 302d
Ultimately, it’s irrelevant whether he is or isn’t. All that matters is that he’s doing everything a Russian asset would do.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 302d
He is a Russian asset, but OP said he was acting like a Russian agent
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 302d
FSB and Mossad have to sign off on the plans before he can submit them
RattlerSix@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 302d
I just want to know how the hell it's supposed to cost $250 million. I searched for $250 million buildings and found a 25 storey tower, a SpaceX launch facility and the hangar that holds the entire fleet of Air Force One jets. A stupid ballroom should cost a few million tops.
Wilco@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 302d
Its supposed to cost $250 million because of corruption and fraud. Its just another grift.
b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 302d
They need to build pedo tunnels and an underground facility for transporting and raping children.
Revan343@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 302d
Have you seen the price of gold lately?
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 301d
They're adding something special for all the working parents: The Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Daycare.
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 302d
Rape now, apologise never.
Except this time it's a building he's raping instead of children and women.
BigBenis@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 301d
He never apologizes though. He just demands you accept he has a right to do whether the hell he wants.
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 12 pts · 302d
I won't be surprised if the costs continue to increase past the first projected numbers, and somehow that money is... well, misplaced somewhere.
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 302d
Oh absolutely. And these contractors are going to get stiffed if they haven't asked for payment upfront.
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org · 1 pts · 302d
It's gonna be some cheap mcmansion bullshit building that is still eating away billions after it's completet.
lectricleopard@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 302d
I had a girlfriend from New Jersey tell me the best way to use your turn signal on the highway is to turn it on after you already started merging. That way the person you're cutting off can't speed up to block you, and the cops won't pull you over for not signaling.
We were dating at age 19 maybe? She had already been in 2 car accidents.
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org · 3 pts · 302d
I do know people like that and it's blowing my mind every single time. They don't use turn signals if possible, if they do in roundabouts for example, they don't do it to keep traffic going, they use it on the way out to not get a ticket. Somehow these people never get pulled over or get a fine. I got pulled over randomly and had to take drug tests and whatever. When i asked them why they pulled me over, they just shrugged. My girlfriend who was not a terrible driver, but far from a good one, was once followed by the police for a few kilometres, with the lights on and "pull over" sign and whatever. She just didn't know, because she hardly ever uses her mirrors, no over the shoulder look etc. when they did finally overtook her and pulled her over, they all just had a good laugh about how bad she was at keeping an eye at her surroundings. I swear if that was me, i would be in jail.
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social · 2 pts · 302d
The logic also falls through not only on safety grounds, but on the fact that legally in most places you technically have to signal for three full seconds before changing lanes, and maintain signaling until you have been in the lane for a couple seconds. So in total you have to be signaling for like 6 seconds minimum, otherwise you could still be ticketed for it.
Although realistically the only time you would see a ticket is if you caused an accident by not doing it
ruuster13@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 302d
Is she now 34 (F)?
lectricleopard@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 301d
No, but she has a younger sister.
ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 302d
it will be built by russian private contractors… best plans ever… no need to review them…
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 302d
Given how he usually treats contractors, Russian ones are probably the only ones who would do it - at least they would get paid by someone for their work.
ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 302d
ah yes, the Rembrandt master stroke of “don’t pay contractors until you’re sued”
what a true Artist, of the deal.
frmrm@peachpie.theatl.social · 3 pts · 302d
We only hire the best contractors…
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 302d
Putin..."I suggested it to him but I never thought he'd fuckin' do it!"
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 302d
Sounds a lot like Trump's presidency.
londos@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 302d
Can't have the secret rooms and wiretap infrastructure documented.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 302d
Where they're going, they don't need plans!
relativestranger@feddit.nl · 7 pts · 302d
demolishing the entire east wing was the plan all along.
hateisreality@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 301d
Why?
Heikki2@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 301d
East wing has the 1st ladies office and they both look like they've had enough of each other.
altphoto@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 302d
At my house, I got very little ball room. But I just scratch them if I'm not comfortable.
Anyway, I just sanded my whole car down with 80 grit sand paper. The house also looked like it needed it, so I sanded the garage. I'm going to go ask the dog what the plan is. My wife said the car could use a wash.
eru777@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 302d
Are you having a stroke?
altphoto@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 302d
Nah, just starting my presidential mental exercises.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 301d
I got a good chuckle from it
mech@feddit.org · 7 pts · 302d
He's going to submit the plans in 2 weeks.
Denalduh@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 302d
He's going to submit a concept of a plan in 2 weeks.
Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 302d
I heard they are going to submit the plans for the white house and healthcare at the same time. Lol
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 302d
Trump also promises to release the Epstein files in 2 weeks.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 302d
This is the most egregious neighborhood building code violation ever.
Busybody neighbors see obvious construction: "DO YOU HAVE A PERMIT FOR THAT??"
Trump: Mind yer own business.
Busybody neighbors: report it to municipal building code authorities
Trump: I suddenly need the govt to pay me $230 million settlement for the litigious mud they've dragged me through over the years, and that $230 million will come from taxpayers.
Methinks he owes the white house demolition crew $230 million, and you know how wealthy people refuse to ever pay for anything out of their own pocket.
Update: Trump stated that he's paying for the ballroom out of his own pocket $300 million and it's not coming from taxpayers. 🤷🏼♀️
While insisting the govt pay him $230 million from taxpayer dollars that he says he would donate to charity. Fuck you Trump. You're nothing but selfishness, greed, nonsense, while USA citizens are suffering because you've raised prices so high on everything we can no longer afford to live, while you decorate your oval office with gold trinkets. You cut Medicare & snap for your citizens who have no medical care or food, you waged war on Portland based on some fictional ai video you thought was real. I hope all those big macs you've been deep throating all your life wreak their ultimate havoc on your arteries ASAP.
barkingspiders@infosec.pub · 6 pts · 302d
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 302d
I guess there was no other place in DC to build a ball room. Maybe even a dedicated one.
IzzyScissor@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 302d
Sure seems like a distraction from the Epstein files.
Sunflier@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 302d
AmericanEconomicThinkTank@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 302d
Seems about right.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 302d
Idiots doing idiot things. I wish he had more than one brain cell.
BassTurd@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 302d
Someone should arrest the construction crew.
hateisreality@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 301d
I've got many problems with this asshole parasite refusing to use tax dollars as intended, instead using them as a slush fund for his fucking ego
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 4 pts · 302d
Have they at least filed the concept for a plan?
over_clox@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 302d
Probably something along the lines of..
'It's gonna have the bigliest best ballroom like nobody has ever seen before. I'll have the biggest best balls and all the young girls will have a blast!'
Madison420@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 302d
No, he doesn't like the building so he's gonna bulldoze it bit by bit while he stays at his golf course golfing.
SoloCritical@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 302d
It’s just gonna end up being another concentration camp
CPMSP@midwest.social · 1 pts · 302d
Don't worry, I'm sure we'll see it in two weeks.
xia@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 300d
Unsurprising. Rules for thee but not for me.