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White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
(www.washingtonpost.com)
this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2025
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Whether you like it or not, THIS is going to be a part of your history moving forward. If the US survives this nightmare I hope this ballroom will serve as a reminder that this bullshit happened.
My preference (if we must have a federal government) would be to tear the whole thing down and rethink the entire office of the President.
Congress is the original core of the US federal government. It didn't come into existence with the Constitution the way the President and Supreme Court did. It was here before the Declaration of Independence. In the strictest sense, it was here before there were states.
And if it wasn't such a do-nothing ass scratching committee, we could make it a parliament with executive power combined into the role of Prime Minister. Don't need a White House anymore. Almost all other modern democracies went that route rather than copying our bizarre system.