Please explain to me why the ballroom has so many panties in a bunch.....

[Foxfyre]

The national historic society? Really? The East wing was not particularly historical. Now they want to dictate the architecture and take it back to Congress for approval or disapproval..... Objecting to the demolition of the east Wing is now moot and yet somehow or another they are wasting their time filing papers objecting to the demolition.

A little research produces the information that the East Wing was expanded in 1902 to house the first lady's staff. It was expanded further in the 1940s to cover up the presidential emergency operations center. So f****** what?

You want to tell me that the first lady staff now has no place to operate from? Hell, Trump hardly ever stays at the White House anyway..... I guess the last time he hosted a large international event with temporary tents and literally with porta potties.... It must have it must have dawned on him that the United States needed some type of formal reception area for international affairs. I can't see the president of France unbuttoning his sports jacket to step into a blue poop house in front of 300 international guests can you?

What is all the uproar really about? Naked politics I think..... I still haven't seen any reasonable statements by any organizations or individuals explaining why the historicity of the White House has now been damaged....

What I do see is yet another attempt to stop Trump from being as successful as he has been. Add to this the fact that it's all privately funded, basically excluding the bitching about money and you have an end around around the assholes who object to anything and everything attached to this presidency....just because.

Jo

They hate it because it is Trump's project. If it had been Biden's project they would be praising it to the rafters.

 

[Roshambo]

LOL, they can demand and be damned. LOL, lobbying is done in congress.

"Big donors" to the ballroom want some "play" for the "pay"; Chevron and ExxonMobil included.

The following is from the NYT

The Nobel Peace Prize winner made her pitch by live video to a business conference in Miami attended by American executives and politicians, including President Trump.

“I am talking about a $1.7 trillion opportunity,” María Corina Machado, Venezuela’s main opposition leader, said last month, weeks after winning the peace prize for challenging Nicolás Maduro, the country’s autocratic leader.

“We will open all, upstream, midstream, downstream, to all companies” — as well as its minerals and power infrastructure. Her message has been unwavering since early this year, when she boasted of her country’s “infinite potential” for U.S. companies on a podcast hosted by the president’s oldest son, Donald Trump Jr.

She has had a receptive audience.

The president and his aides have insisted publicly that their lethal military operations around Venezuela and pressure campaign against Mr. Maduro are mainly aimed at protecting Americans from drug trafficking. But Venezuela is not a drug producer, and narcotics smuggled through the country mostly go to Europe.

Behind the scenes, administration officials have also focused intently on Venezuela’s oil reserves, the largest in the world.

Their importance is evident in secret negotiations between U.S. officials and Mr. Maduro about oil, and in conversations that Mr. Trump’s aides and allies have had with Ms. Machado and other Venezuelan opposition figures.

Mr. Trump has publicly made clear his interest in control of Venezuela’s reserves. In a speech to Republicans in North Carolina in 2023, four years after he backed efforts during his first term to oust Mr. Maduro, Mr. Trump said, “When I left, Venezuela was ready to collapse. We would have taken it over, we would have gotten all that oil, it would have been right next door.”

“When President Trump has talked about Venezuela and other comparable countries, he has always emphasized the importance of having the U.S. have access to those oil resources,” said Francisco R. Rodríguez, a professor at the University of Denver who studies the political economy of Venezuela.

Mr. Trump has spoken repeatedly about getting oil and other natural resources as a reward for U.S. military intervention on foreign soil. “I’ve always said take the oil” was a favorite line in his 2016 presidential campaign.

In his first term, he said he would “keep the oil” in Syria because of U.S. troops there. He has said the United States should have taken oil from Iraq and Libya as payment for military interventions that toppled those governments.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/us/politics/trump-maduro-venezuela-oil-tanker.html

 

[Roshambo]

Whine whine whine, you want some cheese with that?

Quiet Piggy Quiet

Stop this corruption before it starts.
S.3191 - Stop Ballroom Bribery Act

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/3191/text/is?overview=closed&format=xml

 

[toobfreak]

YES!!!!!!!!!!
See post #12.
Panties in a bunch.

I normally don't read that idiot, but yes, case in point.

Yes, a ballroom at the WH to entertain dignitaries in a secure environment is sure to send the crime rate in DC soaring! I mean, it'll be BEDLAM I tell you! BEDLAM. A ballroom could collapse the entire nation sending our economy into the dumper. Even worse that it isn't even costing the taxpayers a dime. What example does this send for a Dem Party built on pilfering public funds?

What the real complaint here is:

1. Trump is not in prison as they had expected (Libturd Failure #1).
2. Trump actually WON a reelection in a free and fair election this time (Libturd Failure #2).
3. That Trump is succeeding in doing anything good which could both bolster his legacy as well as the GOP this next election (Libturd Failure #3).
4. That Trump might now do anything which might cement him into the pantheon of great presidents (Libturd Failure #4).

Proof again that Demspawn care nothing for the law, nothing for the people, it is all just a power game to them.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

I normally don't read that idiot, but yes, case in point.

Yes, a ballroom at the WH to entertain dignitaries in a secure environment is sure to send the crime rate in DC soaring! I mean, it'll be BEDLAM I tell you! BEDLAM. A ballroom could collapse the entire nation sending our economy into the dumper.

What the real complaint is here is:

1. Trump is not in prison as they had expected (Libturd Failure #1).
2. Trump actually WON a reelection in a free and fair election this time (Libturd Failure #2).
3. That Trump is succeeding in doing anything good which could both bolster his legacy as well as the GOP this next election (Libturd Failure #3).
4. That Trump might now do anything which might cement him into the pantheon of great presidents (Libturd Failure #4).

Proof again that Demspawn care nothing for the law, nothing for the people, it is all just a power game to them.

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Very well said.

Thank you!

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[petro]

If Obama added a ballroom there would be no complaints.

Imagine if Obama did it?
It would be in that gray, drab, confining Communist design chic that liberals are so fond of, like in the case of the hideous Obama library.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Imagine if Obama did it?
It would be in that gray, drab, confining Communist chic that liberals are so fond of, like in the case of the hideous Obama library.
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That's one ugly structure

 

[Concerned American]

Regime change and gaining access to the country’s vast oil reserves is the priority.
"Big donors" to the ballroom want some "play" for the "pay"; Chevron and ExxonMobil included.

Nice fairy tale. I've heard it before numerous times--every time the US ever defended itself in the middle east. How do you reconcile your assertion with the fact that what you suggest has never happened? Quite the opposite, as was clearly pointed out in "The Mouse that Roared" The best way a country can advance is by making war with the US. SMH, you're certainly not a student of history.

“We will open all, upstream, midstream, downstream, to all companies” — as well as its minerals and power infrastructure. Her message has been unwavering since early this year, when she boasted of her country’s “infinite potential” for U.S. companies

Kind of contradictory to your claim the Chevron and ExxonMobil will profit---multi-nationals. Hmmmm.

But Venezuela is not a drug producer, and narcotics smuggled through the country mostly go to Europe.

Fake News

“When President Trump has talked about Venezuela and other comparable countries, he has always emphasized the importance of having the U.S. have access to those oil resources,” said Francisco R. Rodríguez, a professor at the University of Denver who studies the political economy of Venezuela.

Gee, stop the OPEC monopoly that has been used against the world economy, such a terrible thing, eh? SMH

In his first term, he said he would “keep the oil” in Syria because of U.S. troops there. He has said the United States should have taken oil from Iraq and Libya as payment for military interventions that toppled those governments.

LOL, and after all of that rhetoric, it has never happened. Try again.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Imagine if Obama did it?
It would be in that gray, drab, confining Communist chic that liberals are so fond of, like in the case of the hideous Obama library.
View attachment 1197811

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I knew it was the end of Seattle when we started seeing this kind of architecture there in the early 2000's.

Ugly enough to puke at.

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[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

That's one ugly structure

Imagine being in the Obama library and having it catch on fire! It would turn into the world's largest smoker!

 

[Concerned American]

Quiet Piggy Quiet

Stop this corruption before it starts.
S.3191 - Stop Ballroom Bribery Act

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/3191/text/is?overview=closed&format=xml

There's Clipper, couldn't stay hidden very long. LOL, keep digging.

 

[Thinker101]

Six words

Pay to Play, Quid Pro Quo

I did not endorse Biden's actions at that time, and I similarly do not endorse Trump's actions now.
Neither should you. These "Donors" are going to demand something in return.

Damn, you been hanging out with the Bidens?

 

[petro]

That's one ugly structure

I like this shot the best

 

[SassyIrishLass]

I like this shot the best
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Seriously, who designed that crap and who approved it?

 

[toobfreak]

Imagine if Obama did it?
It would be in that gray, drab, confining Communist design chic that liberals are so fond of, like in the case of the hideous Obama library.

THAT is the Obama Library? That is the most hideous building I have ever seen. The architect ought to be sued.

 

[Concerned American]

THAT is the Obama Library? That is the most hideous building I have ever seen. The architect ought to be sued.

Reminds me of something that might be in Chernobyl.

 

[mudwhistle]

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Simple.

EVERYTHING he does gets their panties in a bunch.

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Either that or they just make up a bunch of shit to be pissed about.

 

[toobfreak]

Reminds me of something that might be in Chernobyl.

So then, it PERFECTLY fits the Obumma Administration.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Either that or they just make up a bunch of shit to be pissed about.

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Very likely so.

BTW, Merry Christmas to you!

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[justoffal]

Six words

Pay to Play, Quid Pro Quo

I did not endorse Biden's actions at that time, and I similarly do not endorse Trump's actions now.
Neither should you. These "Donors" are going to demand something in return.

Interesting