White House ballroom project has become costlier and larger than originally anticipated
Donald Trump encouraged those working on the construction of his new White House ballroom project to disregard traditional permitting, zoning, and code requirements, according to a new report.
Since announcing the project in July, Trump’s ballroom has become larger, costlier and more destructive than initially thought – raising concerns about whether the president is following historical rules when it comes to a White House addition.
The ballroom’s capacity, initially thought to be 650, has been raised to 900. Its cost has nearly doubled from $200 million to $350 million. Its construction, which Trump initially said would not interfere with the integrity of the current White House, has led to the destruction of the East Wing.
This feels like a Nero burning Rome moment.
Funny thing is, even Nero wasn’t this blatantly corrupt and evil. Most of the myth of the ‘fiddling while Rome burned’ story came as propaganda from his enemies (long after he was dead too). What we’re seeing here is undeniable proof that Trump is the biggest POS in America
A DC burner instead of a CD burner.
Took me a second.
Bravo, sir.
Stop clutching your pearls and buy guns.
Americans and ignoring the obvious solutions- can’t think of a more on-brand way to handle this
He’s not going anywhere anytime soon, and all the checks and balances have signalled he’s got nothing to worry about.
White House ballroom project has become costlier and larger than originally anticipated
Sweeeeet.
Donald Trump encouraged those working on the construction of his new White House ballroom project to disregard traditional permitting, zoning, and code requirements, according to a new report.
Meh, screw those nerd pencil pushers. Some are born to scrutinize, some are born to boogy. A ballroom is for boogying, not scrutinizing.
Wouldn’t it be a shame if the Epstein Ballroom collapsed in on Donald?
That’s not going to happen because it’s not going to be built. The next president is going to inherit a demolition site and the Republicans are going to complain that the Democrats are denigrating the office of the president by failing to deal with the construction site.
He’ll blame THAT on Obama.
If the ceiling don’t land on him, which would be a horrifically ironic way to go
I’d say 60-40 Biden or Obama.
‘Historical’ rules? ‘Traditional’ requirements? The fuck is up with this word choice? This article’s making it sound like those are some quaint old family traditions.
so, same standards as his NY condos.
White House ballroom project has become costlier and larger than originally anticipated
You don’t say! And nobody except everybody expected this?
The only other unsurprising thing here is that they managed to balloon it like that while ignoring building permits and code, as many times those cause the ballooning in some way. Incompetence and corruption go far too with ballooning though
The Art of the Upsell.
Would be hilarious if the schematics of the ultra secret surveillance hardware in and around the wing get leaked to a foreign party.
Why?
Why would it have to? I mean, in pretty sure its designed and built by foreign parties, at this point
And how many listening devices?
Skipping fire permitting on a ballroom is an amazingly stupid idea. Hopefully they don’t all burn alive in the giant dumpster they’re building. crosses fingers
What if the Cybertruck was a building
I just hope it collapses around him, taking his largest donors with him. That would be a nice bit of poetic justice.
Look on the bright side; hopefully it’ll catch on fire due to an electric short, or Canada, or something, during one of Trump’s shindigs and him and nine hundred of his “friends” will get trapped inside due to overcrowding and insufficient emergency exits and will burn to death in abject agony.
🤌 GORLAMI
Amen. 🙏
Yes! Disregard the code! Don’t even think about the building code!
And don’t worry, the ballroom certainly won’t fall down with you inside it, piggy!
I have never been horny before in my life, on account of being asexual, but the thought of this ballroom collapsing under shitty building practices while housing the top thousand richest bastards in society, is certainly making me feel something hormonal.
Never in your life? I always assumed asexual meant very rarely horny, not literally never. Is that common?
Forty years old, still a virgin. Sex-repulsed. Doesn’t cause a problem in my life. Immune to most advertising. Watching people make the same stupid mistakes about birth control time and time again, and never understanding why. My line ends with me and that’s fine.
Edit: why did people downvote my answer, and not the question asked of me? Does that mean I shouldn’t have answered, or that I should have answered in a sex-positive way, or do they straight-up think ace people aren’t real?
It’s a spectrum, but there are people who are literally never horny. It’s not common though.
We should be so lucky.
It’ll probably collapse on a kindergarten tour group while piggy is in Europe meeting with Putin.
Along those same lines, they should have a Wizard of Oz ball using the original snow recipe from the movie.
Asbestos?
Yeah, and as an aside, that’s another Russian product for which he’s advocated.
Code requirements? Dude those are not just useless regulations. Those are for your safety and the soundness of the building. Only a complete moron signs off on a build that ignores building codes. But here we are.
I expect they’ll probably follow code anyway? Because you know as soon as dipshit is out of there, they’re going to have to inspect that thing for safety reasons. And the contractor probably doesn’t want the reputation of building absolute crap.
On the other hand, if he’s as good as picking construction contractors as he is at picking lawyers or cabinet positions, well…
I’m sure it will be built by a contracting company incorporated just for this purpose. And after this, it will be dissolved. They’ll have no reputation to defend.
Four Seasons Total Landscaping is about to land another big job
Shhhhhhh! Let him play in his castle. It keeps him quiet.
