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White House's East Wing partially demolished as work begins on $250M ballroom
- blitzar 11mo agoThank god they got rid of fraud, waste and/or abuse.
- xnx 11mo agoAnd lowered the price of groceries
- chromehearts 11mo agoGlad the average American's tax money is well spent on servicing the public good
- nailer 11mo agoThe source of funding is mentioned in the article.
- Humorist2290 11mo agoThe president is quoted as saying The White House Ballroom is being privately funded by many generous Patriots, Great American Companies, and, yours truly. Whether that is credible, and whether there is an obligation of financial transparency, is apparently too politicized to dig deeper for The Guardian.
- defrost 11mo agoMore accurately, the article quotes White House officials: Officials said it would be paid for by Trump and unnamed donors. So far there's been 200+ days of statements by White House officials of the current administration to the press. Some of those statements have had questionable accuracy, some have been undeniably at odds with reality.
- almostgotcaught 11mo agoApparently it's incredible that Biden wasn't a body-double his entire presidency but it's credible that "anonymous donors" are sponsoring a ballroom at the Whitehouse. I call this Schrodinger's presidency...
- bryanlarsen 11mo agoBeing paid for by bribes means it will cost the American populace even more than the $250 billion sticker price.
- mcphage 11mo agoThe source for the source of funding is also mentioned in the article.
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- metalman 11mo agothey cut down 250 year old trees for this when there exist simple reliable methods to transplant very large old trees I wonder if now there will be an accident™, and the whole place will burn down and then they have no choice but to build something "better"..... edit:....temporarily in florida
- norome 11mo agoKind of fitting as the presidency has been radically reshaped in so many other ways.
- hermannj314 11mo agoYou're telling me Trump is destroying the foundation of a centuries old institution to satisfy personal ego and fleeting desire? To be fair, that is the platform he ran on. I am starting to lose trust in the safety of my tap water, but a ballroom would be a fun thing for a few hundred people to enjoy.
- votepaunchy 11mo agoThe East Wing is less than 100 years old. The White House is a living building in the same way that the Constitution a living document.
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- jaybrendansmith 11mo agook so only 100 years of precedent. Because really what did the US accomplish in the last 100 years?
- defrost 11mo agoDamn near bankrupted itself with tariff's that spawned a global depression, then Steven Bradbury'd itself to the head of the world order on the coat tails of the World War(s) cluster fuck?
- jaybrendansmith 11mo agoI think you are missing a few things. Saved the world from fascism for one.
- defrost 11mo agoWaited to the last minute to pick a side, after a few million Russians cut the Germans in half, you mean? Maybe "saved facism, on ICE, for the world, in order to bring it back later". Fun thing about history, so many varied perspectives from different PoV's.
- kjsingh 11mo agoNot to be confused with Demolition of Democracy
- xtiansimon 11mo agoNPR Morning Edition today reported: 01:45 “The National Capital Planning Commission would typically have a role in approving a project like this. But the newly appointed chair of that commission. A top Trump appointee names Will Scharf (sp?) said in September the commission doesn’t have jurisdiction over demolition. […] And the commission is currently closed because of the government shutdown.” https://www.npr.org/2025/10/22/nx-s1-5581433/parts-of-the-white-houses-east-wing-demolished-to-begin-ballroom-construction https://www.npr.org/2025/10/22/nx-s1-5581433/parts-of-the-wh...
- disposition2 11mo agoThe GOP being mum about the razing (with zero outside review) of a building built during the administration of Teddy Roosevelt…to build a ballroom that only one man wishes for…is probably one of the more apropos events regarding our current affairs.
- zippyman55 11mo agoI was upset at the destruction in Gaza and then I realized the pictures were of the East Wing.