JimofPennsylvan
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President Trump demolishing and rebuilding the east wing of the White House isn't a catastrophe in my eyes contrary to what many Americans think. It would have been much better if he just extended the current east wing south to make room for the thousand person ballroom he believes the nation needs because that would have preserved our nation's history embodied in the current east wing. But that is President Donald Trump he doesn't see the President's role as a steward of America's riches and history and should be careful about only trying to improve things and always show a high degree of care to try not to destroy good things; elections have consequences and this is what the American people chose so we will have to bear it for three more years until President Trump's second term ends! I don't see one major public criticism of the new east wing that it will dwarf the White House itself; the fact that the new east wing's layout will be dramatically larger than the current east wing doesn't mean it dwarfs the White House as long as the height of the new east wing is what it has been purported to be which is about the same height of the current White House. I do buy into the view that the design competes too much with the White House and is in danger of drawing away the majesty and greatness of the White House; to alleviate this problem I would do the following get rid of the Arc windows floor to ceiling go with standard rectangular windows that start three to four feet from the floor and end three to four feet from the ceiling, on the balcony don't hold it up with so many columns hold it up with the same design that holds up the back patio to the White House a wall with arched carve out (all these columns make the new east wing too decorative of a building) and I would get rid of the stylish staircase on the south side of the new east wing again it makes the new building too decorative. The White House is a humble building these changes to the new east wing design would go a long way to conforming the new design to a similar humble building. I don't care about the inside of the new east wing future Presidents can make it more humble or make it more palatial as they see fit! The one thing that I would do is try to hide the east wing construction site it is too gut wrenching watching what is going on there; maybe just install three story poles that could hold up a tarp like fabric that could block the view of the worksite!
On a completely different subject I am really surprised that the media isn't referencing the five hundred pound gorilla in the room over the matter that President Trump wants the Department of Justice to pay him $230 million essentially his legal costs for all the investigations and prosecutions the DOJ put him through over the past nine years. The media should be calling him out for the fact that Donald Trump himself did not pay his legal costs he got most of that money from his campaign account and funding from the Republican Party and solicitations from the public to help him pay his legal costs. On these grounds Donald Trump should not see any reimbursement from the DOJ here. Even on the issue of reimbursements the Trump administration should leave it to the next Presidential administration to resolve this issue because there is way too much of a conflict of an interest here because the people that would currently be making the decision are people President Trump could directly or indirectly have fired so the America public can have no confidence that fairness is being upheld here!
On a completely different subject I am really surprised that the media isn't referencing the five hundred pound gorilla in the room over the matter that President Trump wants the Department of Justice to pay him $230 million essentially his legal costs for all the investigations and prosecutions the DOJ put him through over the past nine years. The media should be calling him out for the fact that Donald Trump himself did not pay his legal costs he got most of that money from his campaign account and funding from the Republican Party and solicitations from the public to help him pay his legal costs. On these grounds Donald Trump should not see any reimbursement from the DOJ here. Even on the issue of reimbursements the Trump administration should leave it to the next Presidential administration to resolve this issue because there is way too much of a conflict of an interest here because the people that would currently be making the decision are people President Trump could directly or indirectly have fired so the America public can have no confidence that fairness is being upheld here!
