How would you add a $300 million ballroom to the White House?
I would put one underground. The fact he isn't doing this is proof that there's something already down there. And we all know that Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself, so it must be him down there, having sex parties with Trump.
>>2952821>nondescript golden shoeboxFuck that shit, make it some crazy art deco outta the ass
Jfc look at all that rebar. Quite insane modern machinery can easily demolish something like that, just goes to show how useless passive security is.
pick a fucking museum most of their shit is likly on loan from the goverment, you could just put tables in the air and space museum. fuck a chandiler have a saturn 5 rocket. i humble accept my bann for foul language
>>2952821I wouldn't, I'm not a politician so I don't believe in frivolous spending when there are things that need to be taken care of first
>>2952919This is why president trump carries a concealed side arm at all times. Ain't nobody taking down the most important president we've had for 50 years
>>2952821Trump cgaf about no ballroom.He's JUST creating a distraction while he empties the Treasury via the tunnel, ala Die Hard III
>>2952821your picrel won't be that far off tbf.
>>2953113This is where trump will live when vance wins the presidency in 2018. Vance the president, trump the mentor. It's gonna be a great 8 years. Drill baby drill.
>>2952953exactly3 portable 40ft jobshacks with telephones and desktop computers would more than cover all the actual official business needs. anything beyond that is a frivolous waste of the publics money
>>2952821typical narcissist spending.
>>2952885That's where the president's bunker is. The thing they tore down was built to replace the original east wing
Hes taking the loot to germoney
>>2952821The design is reasonable for a state residence to add functionality, and will probably be remembered as a good change despite the memes, the (not very) old wing was very forgettable. The gilding of the plasterwork may not be added judiciously, but redecorating is normal, it can always be improved in the edit. It's worth making projects like this happen to keep skilled trades alive.
>>2953161I, for one, support elected or appointed officials working in the most basic conditions possible that do not interfere with their operations. They should also be paid the median wage for the jurisdiction they claim to represent, and any non-salary income from any source should be taxed on a sliding scale that increases logarithmically towards 100%. Don't like it? Don't take the job.
>>2953567Right now politics attracts the greedy but your way would attract the domineering which is far worse. Greed can be channeled into something productive. Control for the sake of control is never good
>>2953567Also lower grade civil officials should be conscripted for a fixed term rather than hired because a) this would make people get at least a basic idea and experience how government works from the inside and b) disrupt nepotism and corruption. And only those who served should be allowed to vote.Too bad people like that will never vote the current politicians into power so that will never happen.
>>2952885>>2953233I have a strong suspicion that this whole thing is basically just cover for an upgrade/expansion of the bunker. The current one was built 80 years ago and at this point there have to be structural and infrastructure issues (as well as just different needs, shit the current one predates nukes) that can't be resolved without serious excavation. Trump's ballroom is probably just a convenient excuse to tear the East Wing down.
>>2952821drop it from space. then all will become clean.
>>2953113i think the ballroom is a good idea but maybe not quite that large.
>>2954295Bunkers don't work in 2025.
>>2953567A good start
>>2954295There is a legitimate need for a large indoor venue. The current practice is to set up tents on the lawn.
>>2952821i wouldnt do it. i would use existing facilities in bumfuck nowhere "insert my country here" to do the same job and tell them thats how it is. you desired to be elected, now you are, here is the cost of being so. show up or loose your job.
>>2954461Depends on what the threat is. Maybe not for an adversary country attacking but they can absolutely still be relevant in a terrorist situation or a chimpout.
Embezzle $299m and then build a ballroom. EZ PZ
>>2954493>terrorist situation or a chimpoutIf it gets so bad the president has to go hide in a hole underground like Saddam Hussein then the country has already fallen rendering the bunker useless.
>>2953567I just want foreign lobbies outlawed, propaganda to be illegal again, dual citizens and anyone with suspiciously close ties to any country outside the US banned from high power federal government positions and politicians income to be a ballot measure
>>2954647Even under ideal conditions with no finish work in a cheap area, that building would cost $10+ million, probably closer to 30That doesn't include the safety measures for politicians or working the foundations in around whatever atrocities lay beneath
>>2953567I think it should all be on a volunteer basis and every politician should have a real job waiting for them back home. Provide cheap flights to meetings if necessary. Otherwise they can attend by zoom. Give them 2 weeks a year to figure shit out. If they cant in that amount of time then nothing changes and no new laws are added to the books. One law must be removed from the books before any new one is added in. One clear and concise law per ballot measure without a bunch of shady backdoor bullshit tied to it.Do you think the forefathers were full time politicians? If we didn't need them then, then why do we need them now?
>>2953159This is where they'll double team Erika kirk now that Jeffrey is out of the fresh meat delivery business
>>2954649Reminder that Trump cowered in the basement of the Whitehouse during BLM.
>>2954947Reminder that trump has stopped like 8 wars since he started his second term by himself. Now that's what I call doing it yourself.
>>2954947No fucking way? Did he really?
>>2954476Use the Ronnie Reagan Ballroom around the corner.
>>2952821Basket ball courts for my tranny husband>>2953216I agree. Obama gay af.
>>2953113That south side staircase can't be real. It's like 60 degrees at the second flight.
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>>2952821i would make a dirt rc track
>>2952821give them something to fly into next time, nice
>>2954959If the secret service deems there to be a threat to the president they will drag him forcibly to safety and keep him there until the threat passes.He doesn't get a say in it.
>>2952821I'd spend 1 million hiring a well rated construction company to do it and pocket or return the rest. I swear to god this graft is so blatant. If I was doing it myself, I'd just remodel an existing room to be dual purpose so you can just swap out the furniture. If I was really forced to do an addition? I don't know, it's the white house, I probably wouldn't be able to do it justice.
>>2956121>1 million>$11 per square foot for new construction>for a secure facility intended to give a good impression to visiting diplomats and heads of state>I'd just remodel an existing room to be dual purposeThe White House doesn't have an existing room large enough. That's why the current practice has been to hold events in tents on the lawn.
>>2952919Yeah this is why I scoff when people say "billionaires will just retreat into their bunkers if shit gets bad">>2953103You realize the treasury can't be emptied, right? Our currency is mostly virtual and created by incrementing numbers in someone's bank account...
>>2956214Billionaires will have ai robots and drone walls protecting them not just passive security.
>>2956209>That's why the current practice has been to hold events in tents on the lawn.Ok why not keep doing that iinstead of stealing our money for a personal vanity project
How big of a shop does the White house have? Seems like I'd rather have a a big ol shop than some stupid ball room.
>>2956588>Ok why not keep doing thatIt seems that getting shot prompted Trump to pursue a venue with bulletproof walls. Plus the whole "giving a good impression to visiting diplomats and heads of state" thing. State dinners in other countries generally aren't held in tents on the lawn.>iinstead of stealing our money for a personal vanity projectThat description is almost diametrically opposed to what's actually going on. How did you arrive there?
>>2956613>How did you arrive there?Because they are a gaslighting reality-inverting communist. It's what they do.
>>2954766Cool it with the antisemitism
>>2952821I know an interior/exterior designer with just the right taste.
>>2956613No, he wants the WH to be bigger than the kremlen
>>2957422How did you reach this conclusion? For reference, surpassing the Kremlin's square footage would require a six-story building that covers the entire White House grounds (18 acres). That wouldn't be as big as the Pentagon, but it wouldn't be very far from it.
>>2956214>Our currency is mostly virtual and created by incrementing numbers in someone's bank account...Not to mention banks do most of the money printing through loans and interest. People rag on the Fed but it takes two to tango (creditor and debtor).The most responsible way to use money is to not need it, but that kinda defeats the purpose of money magick.
>>2957419I think this will do.
>>2957525Go on, anon. Explain the joke. See if it makes sense outside your head.
>>2952821>How would you add a $300 million ballroom to the White House?The ballroom will only cost $50 million. The other $250 million is going to another country, with the rest of our tax dollars.
>>2955906>adding basket ball hoops to a tennis court is comparable stop watching faux news
>>2957525HahNoice
>>2957752If the criticism is a President making changes to the White House, funded by private donations, it absolutely is. That's what it means to compare two things. Further, much of Obama's other renovations were taxpayer-funded, so that criticism actually applies to his situation, unlike the ballroom.
>>2957783Obama will have to stand in 2028 noone else can stop trump getting a third term
>>2957842A third term would require 60 votes in the Senate and a House majority. I don't think the Democrats have that.
>>2957525lel
>>2954295Trump has been pushing for a ballroom since Obama was president, even offering some of his own money to do itNot everything is a conspiracy
>>2957433Look he's just the bad orange man ok? It's that simple
>he's tearing down the Whitehouse because he wants to destroy the UShe's removing a facade to attach an addition, pretty standard>he's wasting taxpayers money on vanity project!it's privately funded>it's to cover up nefarious underground work!unlikely he will only be there 3 more years not worth the effort>ballroom is bad because Trumpcrying wolf over nothing is dumb when even as a Republican I have legitimate criticism of how tariffs are being implemented in a way that hurts the economy and kills any investment the tarriffs could have created because he keeps threatening to change them causing instability, or his pro corporation policies or how he hasn't moved forward with progun promises like national concealed carry reciprocity, and Bondi is even fighting in the courts for the NFAanywaytake it to /pol/
>>2958239>he keeps threatening to change them causing instabilityThat's the point. They're leverage for trade negotiations.
>>2958427>That's the point. They're leverage for trade negotiations.I wish he'd shut the fuck up about beef and just let cattle prices be high for a while.
>>2958239Trump will easily be in power for the next 7 years
>>2958612How do you figure that?
>>2958635Because he is the bad orange man
>>2958635Just there's no more popular politician than him in the US right now or anytime soon. Noone out there that can dethrone him.
