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Public access to the White House has been suspended for about two months because tours started at the East Wing, and the demolition of parts of that wing and construction of the new ballroom have made the visits impossible, officials told CBS News.

White House officials said that although the tours are still paused, they expect to accommodate an updated tour route in coming days, as well as other public events, such as Halloween trick-or-treating.

Members of Congress, who receive White House tour requests from their constituents, told CBS News that bookings were suspended in late August.

The tours included public rooms in the East Wing as well as the Vermeil Room, Library, China Room, Blue Room, Red Room, Green Room and State Dining Room in the White House residence.

A message on the tour website, posted over the summer, says: "The White House Ballroom will be substantially separated from the main building of the White House, but at the same time, it's theme and architectural heritage will be almost identical. The site of the new ballroom will be where the small, heavily changed, and reconstructed East Wing currently sits."

During construction, first lady Melania Trump's office has moved to the ground floor of the White House. East Wing staffers' desks have been set up in the China Room, and aides now gather in the map room.

Staff from the calligraphy office, White House Military Office, legislative affairs and the visitors office have decamped to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building for now.

The White House Historical Association, a nonprofit organization that aims to protect, preserve and provide public access to the White House, confirmed that it took steps to document the White House East Wing this summer, prior to demolition.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ballroom-construction-white-house-tours/
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Then why were they leading tour groups of young children to the basement then?
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>>1450976
>Who is suppose to use this ballroom?!? Ants?!?!
The ladies & gentlemen of the New aristocracy will be using it. While the starving peasants will peer through the bars of the metal fence outside the White House hoping a chicken bone will be thrown to them
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This ballroom is mind breaking Democrats right now
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>>1451094
>White House being demolished for an increasingly expensive personal vanity project: "Dems are so mindbroken they care about this!"
>Statues to traitors being taken down because it honors slavers who tried to destroy the counry: "MY HERITAGE! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"
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>>1451094
Amazing that you're okay with the destruction of a historic property only because Trump did it.
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>>1451106
these people literally die of curable diseases to own the libs, it's just the new political reality
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>>1451106
Historic? It's just the facade of one side of a wing that was built during the cold war to cover up a bunker.
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>>1451132
And now we've moved on to "Who cares about the East Wing?"
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>>1451141
>Who cares about the East Wing?
*The eastern facade of the East Wing

Yeah I don't care. The purpose of that entire structure was to cover up a military bunker built during the Cold War.
Not really any historic or sentimental value to it, especially not the eastern facade of the building
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>>1451142
The whole wing is being torn down anon. Everything; not just the facade.
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>>1451143
You can't blame him for being uniformed, anon
Trump straight up lied and said they wouldn't be touching the structure of the building. Somebody who believes Trump is physically capable of telling the truth would surely be confused by this.
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>>1451228
They are, in fact, not touching the structure of the White House.
>Libshits remain confused as to what the East Wing actually is
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>>1451240
>Having to argue with a straight face that half of an enclosed building doesn't count as part of the structure of that building because the building is long.
Look at the fucking state of you.
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>>1451240
this is why people laugh at you when you larp as white and american
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>>1451090
i mean he right doe cause their ants living on the dirt and sht which is by the white house right now

matter afact hes makes a strong point
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No historical committee, no involvement from congress, no voting. Just the actions of one man doing whatever he wants to a house he does not own.

Surprised he didnt tear down the whole place desu.
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>>1451252
Who's going to stop him?
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>>1451253
No one, and that's the fucking problem. Trump is acting like a king and the other branches refuse to reign him in.
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>>1450786
OP has post, I think possibly, the absolute most retarded image I've ever seen, and I've been on this site since 1975.
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>>1451275
Oh come on newfriend, don't be that way
I've been visiting this site since Hitler founded it in 1944, and this image reminds me of the truly ancient days, when goofy, borderline incoherent schizo images like this were the norm.
Reminds me of better days.
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>>1451258
Was Obama a king when he did a 400 million remodel?
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>>1451319
Did he demolish a whole section of the White House to do it?

Price tag doesn't matter, even if this is already going over budget; you can't just put a fucking dollar amount for skipping every and all guardrail.
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>>1451319
Did Obama just do it with no approval whatsoever? [no]
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>>1451320
Trump hasnt demolished any of the White House to build the ballroom. You really, REAAAALY, need to look at a map of the building.
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>>1451360
>Guys it's just the east wing, that's basically not even part of the white house
Yeah no matter how much you downplay the East Wing, the point still stands there is an entire process towards making any kind of changes to a federal building, especially an important one, and Trump has followed none of it. Fucks sake he doesn't even have a plan for the ballroom yet beyond some test renders; no blueprints, no materials, just a fucking pile of rubble where a hundred years of history was.
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>>1451375
>just a fucking pile of rubble where a hundred years of history was.
East Wing was built in the 1940's. It was an office block. Get real.
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>>1451394
>East Wing was built in the 1940's
Remodeled in the 1940s (they added the upper floor). It was built in 1902.
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Maga just accepting destruction of their patriotic history because Trump wants a ballroom. I don't think patriot means what they think it means.
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>>1451438
MAGA hates America. They might say otherwise, they might insist that they just hate liberal woke America or whatever, but in practice that means everything that makes this country what it is.
Except for corruption and corporate control and all that shit. They love that.
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>>1451459
This sweet summer child is far past the point of saving.
Hopefully The Lord can save you.
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>>1451094
Because they're retards so full of TDS that the can't look up history and see all the renovations made to the White House over the years.

>>1451103
>>1451106
Did you have a problem with this when Teddy Roosevelt did it? Or FDR? Truman? Kennedy?
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>>1451475
Are you here to get shit on for your objectively wrong opinion again, shill?
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Who wins in a battle of wits? The entire Democrat party or a ballroom construction project?
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>>1450786
Friendly reminder that even if every price on this ballroom is actually paid for by private sources, and not whatever final sum Trump gives himself from his own DOJ, the maintenance costs of this ballroom will far eclipse that of the east wing and we will be paying for it for the rest of our lives until it is removed.
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>>1451486
Still absolutely melting down about the ballroom?
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>>1451487
>what, still mad about Trump's vanity project you're paying for liberal? I'll have you know I love watching my tax dollars get pissed down a drain while the government simultaneous explains they don't have enough to actually help US citizens in any way
Why are you such a cuck?
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>>1451494
If it pisses you off it is worth it lol. If it makes Trump happy it makes me happy. He deserves this after all the shit you things put him through.
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>>1451103
>Vanity project
Not a vanity project. It's about showing off the greatness and might of America. Why do you hate America?
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>>1451496
>The greatness and might of america takes the form of an overpriced and oversized ballroom that looks gaudy as fuck and almost all americans will never be able to even step foot in
Represents the Trump admin perfectly. By the way, the rest of the world is laughing at us.
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>>1451494
You're not paying for it, and its not a vanity project. The WH really needs an indoors area to host functions for diplomats and dignitaries.
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>>1451497
Oh absolutely — the entire world is in stitches because America added a ballroom. Paris can barely contain its laughter between riots, and London is rolling on the floor — clearly, marble floors and chandeliers are the ultimate sign of governmental collapse.

How dare a 200-year-old mansion used for state events have… a room for state events. Total embarrassment. Next thing you know, they’ll add — brace yourself — a kitchen.
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>>1451498
>>1451499
You will pay for it, if not for Trump's DOJ payment, for the billions it will require for maintenance.

And to say this implies the US has never had a area to host diplomats ever before. Obviously we've actually never been able to meet with anyone on US ground in the past, ever. Maybe this would be less insulting if he wasn't doing this at a time where millions of americans are losing their jobs, income, and healthcare. But hey, the White House said it themselves; this takes priority over those little things like "American lives".
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>>1451500
>billions for maintenance
bwaahhahahahah

>And to say this implies the US has never had a area to host diplomats ever before
Yes, we host them in a big tent on the WH lawn. Most powerful country in the history of man, craaming everyone in a tent
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>>1451502
>Yes, we host them in a big tent on the WH lawn. Most powerful country in the history of man, craaming everyone in a tent
Funny how this has never been a problem before. I thought we were the greatest country on earth; shouldn't any visitors feel honored to have so much as a tent on our grounds?
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>>1451500
>Maybe this would be less insulting if he wasn't doing this at a time where millions of americans are losing their jobs, income, and healthcare.
Because of Obama and Biden. But Trump is fixing this and he has to break a few eggs. The pain will be temporary, but for a decade of pain, we will have a century of prosperity.

>>1451497
>By the way, the rest of the world is laughing at us.
They were laughing at us under Biden. Now they fear us. They pay tribute to us. The shake in their boots when Trump says he will deploy the military against them.
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>>1451502
billionaires will never ejaculate riches into your mouth no matter how hard you fellate them. have a penny
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>>1451502
>>billions for maintenance
>bwaahhahahahah
idk why you're laughing; it's true.
>Massive event space for multiple diplomats = massive security costs
>Amount of gold covering it needs to maintained to not dull too
>Pretty much requires a massive amount of staff to use so we gotta pay all of them now too
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>>1451502
>craaming
You must have crammed before your English exam at that cram school in Calcutta.
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>>1451504
>Because of Obama and Biden. But Trump is fixing this and he has to break a few eggs. The pain will be temporary, but for a decade of pain, we will have a century of prosperity.
Honestly trump is making changes too quickly. That pretty much never goes well. There's like a dozen things right now he's doing that are causing turmoil, and each individually would have some degree of success if it were the only change happening, but he's making too many changes too quickly and it's not going to end well
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>>1451504
>a decade of pain
Holy shit. Please, start writing ads for Republicans. I want you to really advertise the Trump admin with "Trump will make you suffer for the next 10 years, but trust me it'll probably be worth it, eventually"

>Now they fear us. They pay tribute to us.
It's the opposite lmao. Countries canceled contracts with us and started moving trade deals away from us. We're paying Argentina 20 billion and letting them fuck our own beef and soy bean industries over because Trump wants to be friends with its leader even as Milei's own people call for his head. Meanwhile they make jokes about the insane guy in the white house who keeps claiming to have stopped wars between countries hundreds of miles away from each other.
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>>1451506
>billions in maintenance
You're not a serious person.
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>>1451509
Hitler totally transformed Germany in under 8 years from a third rate socialist country into one that could wage the largest war in human history against the liberal globo order, and Trump is as smart as Hitler.
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>>1451486
What fucking maintenance costs? You mean cleaning the floor and lightbulbs? It doesn't take shit to maintain a fucking ballroom
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>>1451512
learn2history
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>>1451513
The problem we are dealing with is that these people are going to be apoplectic about literally anything Trump does, not matter how innocuous or minor. Until next week, when there is a new thing to lose their shit over (this weeks thing being totally forgotten and never spoken of again).
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>>1451512
>Guys Hitler was able to turn Germany into a nation that promptly picked a fight with the entire world and lost so badly they're still paying for it a century later
>We should have Trump do that too
Reminder even if WW2 never happened, Germany under the Nazis would've fucking collapsed within a few years. Hitler was for all intents and purposes a terrible leader who put his government in such severe debt that they only possible way for them to not collapse was to start WW2 in the first place and win... which they couldn't do in part because the average Nazi commander was incompetent as fuck due to being selected for race and party loyalty over actual ability.

But hey, I fully approve of Trump following Hitler's lead. I just hope when he does so, he live streams it so we can mock you with an image of your dear leader blowing his own brains out.
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>>1451515
The camps can't be built soon enough. The conquest of Canada can't happen soon enough. Trump is doing what any rational man would do to clean up this country and make America great again.
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>>1451502
>billions for maintenance
>bwaahhahahahah
A previous Olympics host city was able to complete event stadia six months ahead of schedule and over $500 million under budget because of some events sites being temporary and/or being repurposed for other sports etc.
It works out cheaper for events to be hosted outside with tents in case of inclement weather.
A ballroom won't be used 24/7. The maintenance costs will be through the roof. Again, why other places hold social events outside with tents.
Nobody laughed at that particular Olympics. But that host country & other parts of the world are laughing at Trump and his schizo cultist glazers, though.
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>>1451519
>Billion dollars to maintain a ballroom
It costs $700 million per year to maintain an Nimitz Class carrier you fucking retard.
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>>1451517
To be fair, Slovakia, and the Soviets also attacked Poland, but no one ever remembers any other participants.
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>>1451517
>because the average Nazi commander was incompetent as fuck due to being selected for race and party loyalty over actual ability.
So, it's like Democrats?
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>>1451517
>But hey, I fully approve of Trump following Hitler's lead. I just hope when he does so, he live streams it so we can mock you with an image of your dear leader blowing his own brains out.
Cept we have nukes now. Hitler totally would have murder-suicided the world had the WW2 powers had the nuclear arsenals of their modern counterparts. He talked about how he wanted to bring about Götterdämmerung (Ragnarok) a lot towards the end of the war. Also, I don't think Trump is anywhere near as delusional as Hitler. Some of his advisors are, but Trump just wants to call the shots and make money. He isn't a fanatic.
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>>1451524
>Götterdämmerung (Ragnarok)
That's actually a collapse of a regime, not the mythical Ragnarok.
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>>1451517
>Hitler was for all intents and purposes a terrible leader who put his government in such severe debt
A certain scheme that was part of his Kraft durch Freude movement.
Those who participated paid five Reichmarks every week for a stamp which went into a book: to the end of having that which Hitler forced Ferdinand Porsche to produce for no than a thousand RM: a method of transportation for the masses. There was one catch: if so much as one week was missed, the whole thing was null & void, with all monies going into government coffers regardless. Not one person received their KdF-wagen. Did I say 'scheme'? I meant Scam.
At least people in the Soviet Union were able to obtain Lada cars, and those in East Germany were able to obtain Trabant & Wartburg cars. So much for 'NSDAP = Leftists'. Hitler was nothing more than a scamming rightard. Just like an orange thing that has just pardoned the money laundering billionaire founder of Binance. Only a terrible leader worshiped by schizos would do that.
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>It costs $700 million per year to maintain an Nimitz Class carrier
the retard that is 1451521 thinks a ballroom has more use than an aircraft carrier that is mostly in use 24/7 in defense
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>>1451523
A quote for you:
'Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children'
Was that quote by a Democrat or Republican president: certainly one who participated in WWII?
Democrat or Republican. Choose wisely.
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>>1451519
You need to seek professional help
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>>1451523
I'm sorry, who put RFK in charge of public health solely to get him off the campaign trail? Or put an alcoholic fox news host who never made it above commanding a dozen men when he was in the military in charge of the entire DOD? Or put a fucking podcaster in charge of the FBI?
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>here's 1451537 having a melty
I accept your concession
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>>1451538
>who put RFK in charge of public health solely to get him off the campaign trail?
>implying that RFK isn't the best public health leader in decades and one of Trump's most based picks

>Or put an alcoholic fox news host who never made it above commanding a dozen men when he was in the military in charge of the entire DOD?
He drinks a few beers, so what? Hegseth has a great track record and has proven his commitment to this nation. He is shaking things up, getting rid of all the liberal nonsense that makes our soldiers soft, like drill sgts getting court marshalled for hitting soldiers. We're training killers here, not carebears! Hegseth is somebody the troops can respect. He's great, and had an amazing sense of humor when he was on FoX.

>Or put a fucking podcaster in charge of the FBI?
He's doing a great job so far. You leftist think that you need a degree to do a job when going to school shows how dumb you are. You just need common sense and heart and you will do better than any dumbass with a diploma.

Trump needs outsiders because everything is compromised. The whole government and economy needs to be uprooted and remake, like Hitler remake Germany or Putin remake Russia or Pinochet remake Argentina, if we are to fix things so that America is great again and the world fears us again. The ultimate goal is an America of 100 million people again.
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>>1451530
>>1451517
Hitler and a lot of his staff were also methheads. Granted, back then, meth was seen as a wonder drug with zero drawbacks. It's always drugs + politics or drugs + economics that always leads to crazy times.
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>>1451545
lmao none of these are doing a great job. RFK gutted the CDC, Hegseth can't operate opsec to save his life, and Patel literally followed two false leads on the Kirk shooter and the guy would've probably gotten away with it had his dad not turned him in.
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>>1451545
>like Hitler remake Germany
Into rubble?
>Putin remake Russia
Into a pariah state with a failing economy built around a war it's losing?
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>>1451538
They was literally a tranny in there before him.
>Troon was more qualified
It was a man dressed up as a woman. Get fucked
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>>1451553
>It was a man dressed up as a woman. Get fucked
...and still more qualified.
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>>1451553
>they was
esl shill, why do you always expose yourself as not just a brown non american, but a fetishist who can't stop thinking about trans people
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>>1451555
Bot, recite the Indian national anthem
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>>1451554
No one that mentally ill is qualified for anything
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double posting esl shill is triggered again
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>>1451572
Why does a ballroom live rent free in your mind?
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>>1451579
I need Republicans gone so I have better access to school boy's anuses.
I'm trans BTW if that matters.
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>>1451567
>I can't attack their record in the role so I have to attack their identity instead
Well she didn't share classified info on upcoming military strikes on an app you can get off the app store, for one.
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>>1451581
>She
It was a biological man wearing a dress
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>>1451580
Are they hogging them all?
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>>1451590
Cool
Pete Hegeseth is less competent than a mentally ill troon. I don't see how that helps your case.
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Does the USA have any "cultural heritage management" that just prevents sudden "improvements" on historical buildings? And if not, where is the good old fashioned bureaucracy that prevents basically everything (stupid) you want to do sudden and fast? I mean, in some countries you need tons of permits and paperwork to even move a stone from a historic building... Now within a blink, the whole freakin East Wing is done in one quick *poof*...
Is this really legally secure what Trump does to the White House?
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>>1451612
Yeah, we do. No, it's not legal. He did it anyway.
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>>1451612
>Is this really legally secure what Trump does to the White House?
Probably. We'll dump the left over shit from the East Wing on McCain's grave so you can double mourn.
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>>1451614
Source?
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>>1451616
>https://sah.org/2025/10/16/statement-on-theproposed-ballroom-addition-at-the-white-house/
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>>1451621
This mentions nothing about the legality, faget.
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>>1451631
>Federal regulations and best practices now mandate careful study and mitigation of the impacts of new additions and changes to historic buildings.
>Evaluate Impacts to the White House Grounds: The proposed addition appears to significantly extend into the landscape south of the existing East Wing. This impacts not only the layout and configuration of the buildings, but also the surrounding landscape that is equally important to the historic character of the White House and the President’s Park (including Lafayette Park and the Ellipse). As such, any changes to the White House grounds should be carefully deliberated and involve appropriate landscape experts.
Oh, and if that wasn't enough:
>https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-sued-east-wing-demolition-10931917
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>>1451634
Go ahead and cite a federal law. I'll wait.
>b...but
Chief Executive is not bound by the decisions of the executive unless its a law duly passed by congress.
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>>1451640
>https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2013-title40/html/USCODE-2013-title40-subtitleII-partD-chap87.htm#:~:text=(e)%20Principal%20Duties%20.%E2%80%94,(h)%20Fees%20.
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>>1451640
>Chief Executive is not bound by the decisions of the executive unless its a law duly passed by congress.
Where do you people get this shit from?
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>>1451734
Arrogant ignorance.
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>>1451634
We already tore it down, so your cuck ass can cry for three more years
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>>1451771
>w-well we did it anyway, so there!
These conversations would go a lot faster if you people would just admit to not caring about the law from the start.
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>>1451538
To be fair, Joe Biden appointed all these 'very competent' people and fucked shit up so bad the US is absolutely fucked.
I doubt anyone could've done worse even if they tried.
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>>1451565
Ohhhhh, saar can I see bobs and vagene~
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>>1451799
>To be fair, Joe Biden appointed all these 'very competent' people and fucked shit up so bad the US is absolutely fucked.
The US wasn't fucked until Trump came into office again.
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>>1451801
Untrue and no one will allow your prolapsed anus to fart out wet sloppy brown lies.
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>>1451799
No, he didn’t. Those are Trump appointees. Christ, are you people even trying anymore?
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>>1451816
no, they're fully committed to their kaleidoscopic false reality. it's quite strange
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>>1451827
The need for a larger event space is not untrue...
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1451811 has weird sexual fetishes
Is there something you want to tell us, 1451811?
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>>1451533
Eisenhower. The man who also predicted the influence of the military industrial complex, the basis for the health and insurance industrial complex and other shit.
But also the man who started it all. He also spoke against deficit spending.
But overall this speech was an appeal to end a war, empty and yearning. This quote has no bearing on my post which is rebuke of Democrats and leftists celebrating race and party loyalty over ability.
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>>1451634
Just so you know, anyone can file a lawsuit against anyone else for any reason right.
>A Virginia couple, Charles and Judith Voorhees
Just in time for Halloween, huh?
Haven't you become tired of nothingburgering?
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1451887
Yet Eisenhower - who had served in the military - was still the last decent Republican president: compared to an orange draft-dodging coward that only cares about itself
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Just read they destroyed the painting of Michelle Obama. That alone is worth the price tag of this project
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I can't wait until the new rape room is done. Trump deserves the mantle that Epstein dropped. Excellent work, Mr. President. Those kids wont rape themselves.



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