The metaphorical wrecking ball analogy takes a physical form.

[berg80]

No. I don't care about the parties. They're the problem. No dog in that fight.

I'm with him:

The prescience of the Founders to warn of trumpery in the form of......."foments occasionally riot and insurrection"........is stunning.

 

[Mac1958]

The prescience of the Founders to warn of trumpery in the form of......."foments occasionally riot and insurrection"........is stunning.

Yeah, that's a mind-blower.

The Founders came up with everything they could to avoid this, but even they couldn't think of everything.

 

[Etymology gaslight]

No. I don't care about the parties. They're the problem. No dog in that fight.

I'm with him:

Its a great quote
I read it 4 times.

Less changes than we think,
Every up and coming generation
is brought up to believe
"I/ we saw it first" Which is fine.

Its common man human nature.
The rest of the world is the same.

 

[Nostra]

His daddy’s money was the key.

By the time he went through that, he was laundering money for the Russians, who carried the mortgages on most of his properties.

Since then, he sold his office, as he is now.

Lies.

 

[Rawley]

The prescience of the Founders to warn of trumpery in the form of......."foments occasionally riot and insurrection"........is stunning.

Uh, It's your cult that is shooting at Federal LEOs and threatening to arrest them.

 

[Nostra]

That’s about right.

When Trump declared himself a billionaire in w015, Wall Street laughed.

Not on;y did he bankrupt casinos, he bankrupted an airline and a football team. his University and his Foundation were outright frauds.

He never “borrowed a million and made a billion”.

Now, he makes his money peddling the Presidency.

He took the biggest bribe in the history of the world.

Lies.

 

[Mack The Finger]

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

This is a automatic response...please do not reply as there is no one to read it.

Please post a link !

 

[Etymology gaslight]

Lies.

You are adorable.

Lottery winners win 100's of millions,
even billions don't change skylines, employ millions,
become the free president,

You excoriate
that he has come from means
that degrades the Kennedys,
and I assure you Joe kennedy
was no boy scout.

Trump brought his own money
to the American White House.
He'll leave it better than it was before.

Not many presidents
have
have done that,

I voted 4 times for one of the ones that did.

 

[AntonToo]

Please post a link !

"It’s interesting, ’cause I’m the one that makes the decision, right?"..."I’m suing myself" - Trump re. his 230 million demand from the gov.

Trump suggested he might donate any proceeds or use them to fund a ballroom he is building at the White House.

Trump says he has final say on paying himself $230m for past investigations

President says government owes him ‘a lot of money’ for federal investigations during and after first term

www.theguardian.com

 

[Delldude]

Trump suggested he might donate any proceeds or use them to fund a ballroom he is building at the White House.

So, taking Hunter's lessons to heart, He's shaking down a government?

 

[AntonToo]

So, taking Hunter's lessons to heart, He's shaking down a government?

Hunter never got paid by US or Ukraine's government.

What the hell are you talking about?

 

[Shamrock17]

That's the problem, NEEDED IMPROVEMENTS.
At this point in history, When so many are struggling

You didn't complain when Democrat Presidents made improvements and the taxpayers were on the hook. This is a privately funded project so quit your whining.

 

[Stann]

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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.

That photo is totally ridiculous , how gaudy and unbecoming of such a place of dignity. Trump obviously has very bad taste and no idea of proper decorum for hallowed ground.

 

[Shamrock17]

That photo is totally ridiculous , how gaudy and unbecoming of such a place of dignity. Trump obviously has very bad taste and no idea of proper decorum for hallowed ground.

This isn't hallowed ground. Good Lord.
Obviously, your own anti-Trump confirmation bias colors your world. All presidents are allowed to make reasonable improvements and construct without oversight. The WH needs a ballroom instead of shoving dignitaries into raggedy tents.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Ain't it great?
All these patriots stepping up to help the country they love.

Your list is short.

Robert Reich hasn't thought up anyone else. He is SUCH a democrat hack. The donor list should be quite obvious. Who has money to donate on the amounts necessary? And of course business leaders are going to have business interests. Mr. Reich should go down to Canal Street and take up donations from the "vendors".

 

[Concerned American]

That photo is totally ridiculous , how gaudy and unbecoming of such a place of dignity. Trump obviously has very bad taste and no idea of proper decorum for hallowed ground.

Like knee pads under the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, eh?

 

[sparky]

This has been a pattern with Trump businesses for forty years.

So why is he still a billionaire ?

~S~

 

[Stann]

This isn't hallowed ground. Good Lord.
Obviously, your own anti-Trump confirmation bias colors your world. All presidents are allowed to make reasonable improvements and construct without oversight. The WH needs a ballroom instead of shoving dignitaries into raggedy tents.

Right no one died protecting America and it's people's freedoms. What on earth do you value ?

 

[EvilCat Breath]

That photo is totally ridiculous , how gaudy and unbecoming of such a place of dignity. Trump obviously has very bad taste and no idea of proper decorum for hallowed ground.

The east wing is NOT hallowed ground! For crying out loud, this hyperbole is getting stratospheric. There was never a Battle of the East Wing. There were a few offices for the first lady, and most of it was unused.

 

[Stann]

The east wing is NOT hallowed ground! For crying out loud, this hyperbole is getting stratospheric. There was never a Battle of the East Wing. There were a few offices for the first lady, and most of it was unused.

Another good point total disrespect for women or when we finally have a gay president , his partner. If a terrorist destroyed the East Wing of the White House people would be calling for the death penalty but a president has the audacity to do so , breaking many federal laws, we look the other way. That's how you want to do this. Sorry , no go .