The metaphorical wrecking ball analogy takes a physical form.

[Concerned American]

Have you ever been to the White House?

What I recall of the East Wing from my visit there in Sept, 2024, was old fashioned and very worn out. It was a disappointment, to say the least.

It was built in the middle of WWII during rationing. FDR didn't get as much pushback as Trump is getting.

 

[0311]

Trump is digging into his own pocket? Sure he is.

Anyone who believes that line of shit is welcome to make an offer on a bridge I have for sale in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

As the WH is government property, there has, by law a bidding process approved by Congress. The WH is NOT a private home. It is owned by the government and only the government can approve changes to that property.

 

[Concerned American]

Of course. If Trump got congressinal approval for taxpayer funding requiring a bidding process there wouldn't have been any graft in it for him & his W.H. goon squad. Kryptonite for all mobsters.

Btw, what's the story with all those cost overruns when the ******* building process hasen't even started yet? Where's the blueprints, architectural designs etc justifying the now over $300 million price tag? Hmmmm?

Not taxpayer money. Don't you think Gates, Bezos, Zuckerberg and the Google boys are keeping track of this project? They're paying for it. BTW, you don't know jack about what is going on with this project anymore than any other lib social media poster. If you have something concrete, post it. Don't just make unsubstantiated statements about your unhinged worries. LOL. I asked others on here, where was all of this indignation when Obama spent $306M $$$ of American TAXPAYER money on WH renovations that Mikey wanted.

 

[Concerned American]

As the WH is government property, there has, by law a bidding process approved by Congress. The WH is NOT a private home. It is owned by the government and only the government can approve changes to that property.

This is not funded with public money and it has already been scrutinized for legality. Too bad it sets off your TDS, no one GAF. BTW, you're more than welcome to link to any concerns that you don't think were properly followed. LOL Good Luck snowflake.

 

[egp320i]

Trump is digging into his own pocket? Sure he is.

Anyone who believes that line of shit is welcome to make an offer on a bridge I have for sale in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

trump is worth billions and it's not all him, it's called donations

kinda how gofundme works when some asshat gets into trouble

 

[Shamrock17]

It saddens me. It sickens me.

Trump is destroying an American treasure. He is destroying our history.

And the worst part? He is doing it without any Congressional approval at all.

A $350 million vanity project for a wannabe King while thousands of Federal workers are losing their jobs. It's just disgusting.

The White House starts demolishing part of the East Wing to build Trump's ballroom

The White House has started tearing down part of the East Wing to build the ballroom President Donald Trump wants added to the building. Demolition started Monday.

apnews.com

Trump’s East Wing demolition isn’t a normal White House renovation

The sudden destruction of the White House's East Wing to make way for a massive gilded ballroom is a huge departure from previous remodels and renovations.

www.msnbc.com

He doesn't need congressional approval. You know nothing but what the dorks at MSNBC tell you.
Like all presidents before him, Trump benefits from a decades-old exemption under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Section 107), which waives the usual Section 106 review for impacts on historic sites like the White House. This gives the president broad authority to proceed without that step and proceed with the construction of the ballroom.

 

[Shamrock17]

Of course.....it matters not to a total MAGA simp such as yourself that King Trump got absolutely no funding approval from Congress for his vanity project bullshit.

Trump does not need public funding but if he did need it they would have to pay for the ballroom, just like their paid for all of our previous presidents' construction projects.

 

[Mack The Finger]

Bullshit, Trump wants tax payers to pay it, by him writing a government check to himself and then "donating" it:

Thank you for the bump but that article has nothing to do with the OP.

If it is legal for OMB to file suit where's the beef ?

These MOFOs threw everything they had at him to bring him down.

Trump never could have been removed from office and the DEMs knew it.

Talking about wasting the taxpayers $$$.

 

[Shamrock17]

Changes to the white house have been done before.
Teddy Roosevelt added the west wing
FDR added a pool
Truman added a bowling alley
Clinton added a fellatiotorium
Obama added a basketball court

Obama also enlarged the kitchen area of the White House. All these projects were paid for by the taxpayers.

 

[Concerned American]

trump is worth billions and it's not all him, it's called donations

kinda how gofundme works when some asshat gets into trouble

Someplace in this thread I posted a list of the donors for another moron that thought he had a gotcha. I found someone else's list on post #792, just an FYI so you can direct the next moron that asks you.

 

[AntonToo]

If it is legal for OMB to file suit where's the beef ?

The beef is that Trump's personal lawyers will be the ones aproving this bullshit self-pay. They are not in the tell-him-no bussiness.

 

[BluesLegend]

Obama got Congressional approval, shit-for-brains.

King Trump has not.

Of course, the dimwit frequently needed other people to tell him what to do.

 

[Dagoth-Ur]

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Part of White House Is Reduced to Rubble. Trump’s Ballroom Will Rise in Its Place.​

The facade of the East Wing of the White House came crumbling down on Monday as construction began on President Trump’s 90,000-square-foot ballroom, a project that will transform one of the most recognizable buildings in the world and nearly double the size of the existing structure.

Having already changed so much about the way Washington works, he is increasingly changing the way Washington looks.

The East Wing was one of the last pieces of the White House complex he hadn’t yet started to make over in his own image. The Oval Office is dripping in gold and so is the Cabinet Room. The Rose Garden looks like Mar-a-Lago. There are massive flag poles in the backyard and in the front. He’s been tweaking the White House residence upstairs, too. He’s directing renovations at the Kennedy Center, and now he wants an Arc de Triomphe-style arch built on the other side of the Potomac.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/us/politics/trump-white-house-east-wing-demolition-ballroom.html

It has been referred to as the "people's house." But as with everything else in the country trump is trying to rebrand it. Words can not express my disgust.

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It's apparently not enough that he's tearing down the legal and ethical foundation of the country. He wants to destroy a physical manifestation of our history as well.

Your ok with giving the country away to illegals, but you expect us to care that you care about this?

 

[Mack The Finger]

Bullshit, Trump wants tax payers to pay it, by him writing a government check to himself and then "donating" it:

Thank you for the bump but that article...well what if he is entitled to the $$$ ?

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

Did you watch the CNN video I included?

Yes, I did and it's BS.

No? Then you must be a ....

Sure...........

George W. Bush is the president who made that request in 2008 and congress approved allocated the $$$ and approved by the General Services Administration.

The work was to take place over for years for electrical, plumbing and underground water lines.
Some were over 100 years old.

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

Be thankful severe stupidity is not painful to those who are afflicted....

I wish it were, you would be in ICU, DUMB ASS.

"The White House Big Dig was the name used in press reports to describe a multi-year construction project at the White House that began in September 2010 and temporarily concluded in 2012, with a second phase planned for the future. According to the General Services Administration (GSA), the $376-million project, which involved a multi-story excavation adjacent to the West Wing, was to replace electrical wiring and update air conditioning. A second phase of the project, with an unannounced start date, will involve a similar excavation adjacent to the East Wing. Funds for the White House Big Dig were allocated by a congressional appropriation made in late 2001."

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Construction started in 2010, idiot .

The $$$ was allocated in 2008.

Home Improvement at the White House: $376 Million and 4 ...​

Bloomberg.com
https://www.bloomberg.com › news › articles › home-im...
May 21, 2010 — Congress approved funding for the project in 2008 after some of the systems in the White House were deemed to be approaching the end of their “ ...

 

[Mac1958]

It's a modern-day "Gilded Age".

And the useful idiots just keep cheering it on.

We've learned nothing.

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

your innocence is adorable.

Saving Wollman Rink made Trump a New York City hero

In the context of Donald Trump’s globe-girdling career, his repair job 30 years ago on an old ice skating rink might seem to merit a mere footnote. But Trump’s reopening of Central Park’s Wollman R…

nypost.com

Yours isn't.

Trump did it for, just like he does everything else......... headlines.

Trump let this beloved ice rink fall to pieces. A new ...​

Fast Company
https://www.fastcompany.com › Design
Nov 12, 2021 — Wollman Rink fell into disrepair under the Trump Organization. This weekend, it reopens with a new look.

The New York City ice rink run by former President Donald Trump’s business organization was a visible wreck. Located in Central Park, Wollman Rink has been a staple of wintertime recreation in the city since 1950, but in the years since being taken over by the Trump Organization in the 1980s, maintenance had fallen by the wayside.

The clubhouse where you rent skates and lockers was a jumble of crowded spaces and decaying storage facilities. Some of its bathrooms lacked basic plumbing. Its exterior trellis was falling apart. Of more than 50 doors in the clubhouse and concessions building, only three worked.

Gushee says updating the rink was no small task. “It was run with very little maintenance, no [capital expenditures] for many, many years. So it went downhill,” he says. “We basically gutted the inside.”

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

Yea, but he can't run his yap about his "formerly nicotine stained fingers" anymore can he, Cletus?

Karma? It's a real *****.

Doesn’t matter. He inspired a new generation to destroy leftism. It’s working quite well.

 

[Frankenstein]

What dp they want ?

For the country no to have Dignitaries, and events in a tent on the lawn