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In July, the ballroom was going to cost 200 million.
In September, he said 250 million.
In October, the cost became 300 million.
SNAP food benefits cost 100 billion for the entire fiscal year of 2024. However, due to the government shut down (because they cannot agree on health care btw; give you two guesses who want to take it away), SNAP benefits will not be paid out to hungry families for November.
A small skyscraper can be built for 300 million. This is a ballroom.
Americans, you're not angry enough.
Edited to add: Forgot to add! He has given the go ahead on this project without the proper permits being approved.
He is also going to seek 250 million from DOJ for them investigating him. That's taxpayer dollars, to be clear
Edited to correct 100 million to 100 billion.
But wouldn’t you rather have a ballroom that only elites will ever get to see? Hungry people are going to be hungry whether or not they get food. The Elites, though, how are they gonna get their ball without a room?
Frankly, the elites can take their ball and go home.
They keep threatening to do that if democrats raise their taxes I want to see it happen.
Let them eat ballroom. /s
How do you build ANYTHIING without a BLUEPRINT or a PERMIT???
I have to get a building permit to change my front door.
Your absolute monarch doesn't need those things. He'd proudly state "l'état c'est moi" if he was able to.
Right, good reminder.
He started this process without the proper permits, because a king needs no one else's approval.
Demo doesn’t need a blueprint I guess.
Yes, it does. How else do you know what to demolish? Source: am former engineering draftsman.
I can only assume the plans were drawn up a long time ago, well before any announcement.
Simple. You get in your excavator and start digging.
And then have a big problem when you hit a sewer pipe or electrical cable.
I'm sure that "problem" only needs another few million dollars to fix. No one is getting paid anyway.
Blueprints aren't needed if the project is going to be a boondoggle to swindle more cash out of investors. Just keep adding stuff, just keep claiming you NEED to add more stuff, and eventually you wind up with The Big Dig.
You walk in, say a bunch of words, approve all variances, and do it again the next day.
That's how you spend unlimited money
Just change the door and store the old one in the shed or attic in case they tell you to revert your changes. -That's what we always did.
“If you build it, he will come”
He actually just let slip it could be as much as $350M, but then backtracked.
A ballroom of this magnitude and extravagance should have an equally fitting name, something classy like Epstein Hall
Coincidentally also sounds like the Epstein Hole, which is just as sickening as he is
trump funnels money out of every building project that he is involved in.
And has never paid the bill.
He's also probably digging up the FDR bunker and replacing it with a bigger one with guns, an elevator and a stripper pole.
Don’t forget a McDonalds
Off by a couple orders of magnitude on the cost of SNAP benefits. 100 Billion. Source https://usafacts.org/answers/how-much-does-the-federal-government-spend-on-snap-every-year/country/united-states/
Very embarrassing typo! Thank you for the correction!
For 300M one could build a pretty spiff bunker, with a ballroom on top. There's always a distraction, and there's always a place where the fascist doesn't want you to look.
Already a bunker below the east wing, I believe one of it's main purposes is military planning. How much of that 300 mil is for survalence equipment installation? Who knows without permits!
Listen, it's hard to give quotes when you are actively devaluing the dollar.
He's also wanting to use the construction as a smokescreen to expand the ~~Fuhrerbunker~~ Presidential bunker.