Donald Trump’s massive East Wing ballroom project is poised to get its final approval from a government commission that oversees planning for federal buildings and land in the nation’s capital, despite receiving over 32,000 comments from the public overwhelmingly opposing the construction.
The National Capital Planning Commission is expected to take a final vote to approve plans for the ballroom on Thursday, marking the latest clearance for the project in a process that has been on a fast track since Trump suddenly demolished the East Wing last October.
Some 9,000 pages of public comments to the NCPC released ahead of the meeting detailed major objections from Americans who expressed concerns about the project’s size and scope, cost and destruction of history, among other complaints.
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shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works · 42 pts · 182d
Is this about the Epstein ballroom?
redsand@infosec.pub · 19 pts · 182d
The one they're building on top of a
skynetstargate data center yes. It's a giant dogshit AI cluster for Oracle to run Grok in.xenomor@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 182d
Some democrat should run for president on the platform that they will completely dismantle this thing starting on day one. As trivial as that would be relative to the shitshow that is this country’s overall status, I believe it would meaningfully move support. Of course, no democrat will ever do that because they are more concerned with appearing decorous than winning or ever accomplishing anything.
Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 182d
mister_flibble@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 182d
Honestly damn thing probably isn't even built to code.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 182d
It would be a powerful symbolic gesture of healing. anyone who isn't willing to do this is too weak to be the candidate America needs to heal.
nocturne@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 182d
Dismantling it would be a further waste of money. The best thing they could do is rename it the Barrack Hussein Obama Ballroom.
ceenote@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 182d
It would be worth the loss of money to deter future presidential vanity projects.
If Trump's still alive to see the ballroom finished, hopefully he's still alive to see it knocked down.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 182d
Rebuild the Whitehouse and make Trump pay for it
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 182d
I would love to see that being a prominent part of the platform. Along with many more kitchen table issues, yes, but I hate it when Democrats are such pussies about stuff like this.
bluegreenpurplepink@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 182d
Let's not waste even more money tearing it down, just show the public the bunker underneath, maybe open it up to tourists, and get some decent designers to zhuzh up the ballroom after we've used it for the tribunals for this entire administration and their collaborators.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 182d
Repossess trump's assets and sell them off to cover the cost of restoring the Whitehouse.
frog_brawler@lemmy.world · -7 pts · 182d
SkavarSharraddas@gehirneimer.de · 10 pts · 182d
The soullessness of pedo-fascism.
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 182d
Ngl that looks like shit.
MushuChupacabra@piefed.world · 7 pts · 182d
‘Soulless hotel conference space’: Trump’s Jeffrey Epstein Memorial ballroom is poised for approval despite scathing public feedback
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 182d
Who knew something associated with Epstein would be soulless?
YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 182d
I wonder if they took any influences from nazi architecture.
Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 168d
The ballroom is just a superstructure for deception, it's an underground data center which will be built there:
https://youtu.be/VbJ4ilDvGyc
justalittleguy@lemdro.id · 1 pts · 181d
Postponed to April 2nd