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No plans filed for Trump’s new ballroom despite demolition being under way
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2025
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Took me easy too long to realise that wasn't an actual photo of the current state of the white house...
From Zombieland/2?
Idiocracy.
I won't hear a word against president camacho, guy was completely uneducated but actually pretty intelligent all things considered. Aknoweldged things were fucked but that he couldn't fix them, created a national program to find someone who could and upon finding that person immediately put them in charge. Better leader than most in the western world right now.
The most unbelievable part of that entire film is that President Dwayne Elizondo Mountian Dew Herbert Camacho didnt take credit for solving the crisis at the end of the movie.
That increasingly sounds like it is the current state of the White House.
The above ground pool tipped it off for me.
Idiocracy
Filing plans would signal that the administration was somehow beholden to something or someone.
Or they thought this through, beyond I'm gonna build a ballroom, start the backhoes!
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Oh! I get it. He's destroying the white house as a symbolic metaphor for him destroying America.
No. He's building himself a better bunker.
I just want to know how the hell it's supposed to cost $250 million. I searched for $250 million buildings and found a 25 storey tower, a SpaceX launch facility and the hangar that holds the entire fleet of Air Force One jets. A stupid ballroom should cost a few million tops.
Its supposed to cost $250 million because of corruption and fraud. Its just another grift.
They need to build pedo tunnels and an underground facility for transporting and raping children.
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This is actually surprising that this government building is just being torn down without any public information filings saying how much is being torn down...
Is this just shoddy incompetent engineering that is standard fare for anyone working for this administration, or is there something being hidden from us?
It's the "don't ask for permission, ask for forgiveness" policy.
When do they start asking for forgiveness?
Oh the Supreme Court has forgiven everything he has done so far.
When they're lined up against the wall and the firing squad is loading.
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FSB, MSS, Mossad and other foreign spy agencies must love this.
I wonder how good the security is.
Yeah, I can guarantee that at least one bug gets planted in a wall, floor, or ceiling somewhere important. Hell, with Trump acting like a Russian agent, that may actually have been coordinated right from the start.
He isn't acting anything. He is a Russian asset.
Ultimately, it’s irrelevant whether he is or isn’t. All that matters is that he’s doing everything a Russian asset would do.
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Rape now, apologise never.
Except this time it's a building he's raping instead of children and women.
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Putin..."I suggested it to him but I never thought he'd fuckin' do it!"
Can't have the secret rooms and wiretap infrastructure documented.
Well, the exits and command controls wouldn't be very secret if they filed them:
The East Wing was built on top of the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, a secure emergency underground shelter for the president.
Now that's interesting. (More info here.)
I wonder what fun listening devices and other random spy shit are being planted there. A future President should probably not use that bunker until the "ballroom" above it is replaced with a structure that wasnt built by someone so obviously under foreign influence.
Sounds a lot like Trump's presidency.
I had a girlfriend from New Jersey tell me the best way to use your turn signal on the highway is to turn it on after you already started merging. That way the person you're cutting off can't speed up to block you, and the cops won't pull you over for not signaling.
We were dating at age 19 maybe? She had already been in 2 car accidents.
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At my house, I got very little ball room. But I just scratch them if I'm not comfortable.
Anyway, I just sanded my whole car down with 80 grit sand paper. The house also looked like it needed it, so I sanded the garage. I'm going to go ask the dog what the plan is. My wife said the car could use a wash.
Are you having a stroke?
This is the most egregious neighborhood building code violation ever.
Busybody neighbors see obvious construction: "DO YOU HAVE A PERMIT FOR THAT??"
Trump: Mind yer own business.
Busybody neighbors: report it to municipal building code authorities
Trump: I suddenly need the govt to pay me $230 million settlement for the litigious mud they've dragged me through over the years, and that $230 million will come from taxpayers.
Methinks he owes the white house demolition crew $230 million, and you know how wealthy people refuse to ever pay for anything out of their own pocket.
Update: Trump stated that he's paying for the ballroom out of his own pocket $300 million and it's not coming from taxpayers. 🤷🏼♀️
While insisting the govt pay him $230 million from taxpayer dollars that he says he would donate to charity. Fuck you Trump. You're nothing but selfishness, greed, nonsense, while USA citizens are suffering because you've raised prices so high on everything we can no longer afford to live, while you decorate your oval office with gold trinkets. You cut Medicare & snap for your citizens who have no medical care or food, you waged war on Portland based on some fictional ai video you thought was real. I hope all those big macs you've been deep throating all your life wreak their ultimate havoc on your arteries ASAP.
I won't be surprised if the costs continue to increase past the first projected numbers, and somehow that money is... well, misplaced somewhere.
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He's going to submit the plans in 2 weeks.
He's going to submit a concept of a plan in 2 weeks.
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Unsurprising. Rules for thee but not for me.
it will be built by russian private contractors… best plans ever… no need to review them…
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I've got many problems with this asshole parasite refusing to use tax dollars as intended, instead using them as a slush fund for his fucking ego
I guess there was no other place in DC to build a ball room. Maybe even a dedicated one.
Where they're going, they don't need plans!
Sure seems like a distraction from the Epstein files.
I don't even wait. And when you're a ~~star~~ president, they let you do it. You can do anything
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