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And that’s basically it!
He also doesn’t have to murder Venezuelan fishers, shoot/kidnap/torture Americans and our guests, rob the poor and deprive them of medical care and food to pay his wealthy loyalists, or rape children.
He does it because he wants to.
heres the secret reason in my theory: the east wing is where Trump gave a bj to Bill Clinton. ok who has the guest logs on when they were both present?
He wanted to make distracting headlines, and he got them.
"Distracting headlines" as a canard gets a bit old. Everything is a distraction from everything else, because we have a heavily monopolized mass media and a shrinking pool of investigative journalists with any kind of budget.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_of_newspapers#United_States
When you had twice as many newspapers and half as many people, the idea of "distracting headlines" was more a matter of consumer choice (you could read serious news at the New York Times or junk pop-media at the New York Post). Now media functions as a cartel, with papers all echoing one another on topics of the day. Or deliberately remaining silent on embarrassments the business community owners would rather not talk about.
This isn't a "Trump" problem, though. Its a problem of consolidation and privatization on a national scale.
Well, look at lemmy anytime someone posts a link that requires you to pay for the journalism. Pitchforks and torches. People don't want to pay for quality journalism, do they get whatever billionaires want to feed them.
anytime someone posts a link that requires you to pay for the journalism
People subscribing to random newspapers via links on Lemmy would not be a sustainable model for funding local journalism. And - historically - plenty of people did subscribe to local outlets. Plenty still do. Hell, go on Patreon or Substack and see how well the nascent podcast journalism marketplace is doing.
What changed over the last 40 years was a wave of M&As targeting smaller papers to consolidate the news markets. Case in point, my own city of Houston had half a dozen different newspapers chugging along just fine for decades. But because they were small, they were also very cheap. Loose monetary policy in the 90s made buying up papers very cheap. So the Houston Chronicle went around town buying the smaller papers and shutting them down. Now its the only major newspaper of record remaining.
"Well, people on Lemmy should have paid for more subscriptions to the Houston Post" is a fucking asinine statement, given that their stated reason for failure was cost of newsprint rising in the early 90s and they stopped existing before most of the people on this site were even born.
I don't thing the likes of wsj, nyt or similar are "random newspapers", and they still get hate for asking for money. Bezos finds that useful.
Cracked has an article that points how Trump does know some things to a very high level. One of those things is how media attention works and also a complete and absolute lack of shame.
Him admitting that he tore down part of the white house because he just didn't like it and could have built around it is exactly those two things. He wanted to distract people and he legit does not give a damn.
I thought this was obvious from the start.
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Great, let's tear down a well-preserved historic building in pristine condition for no absolute reason at all!
But God help you if you want to remove a statue honoring a Confederate general
Might as well go back to the 1812 method of renovating at this point.
Probably less insulting to the concept of the USA than whatever the fuck this is.
I think the next president should tear down and start from scratch. Eho nlknows what kind of bugs that traitor has let his foreign 'pals' put wherever.
I didn't think about that. Given how lax their opsec is that is a very possibility.
The east wing was built in like 1902. It's historic but it's not super duper old and was rebuilt in the 40s to hide a bunker under it.
Was historic.
Honestly my biggest issue with this is that it seems to be a pretty clear sign (in addition to the other blatantly obvious signs like various public comments, selling Trump 2028 gear on his website, etc) that he has no intention of ever leaving the White House, term limits be damned. He's just not the type of person to do major work like that if he's expecting to move out and no longer be able to enjoy it himself in a few years.
Still is historic and well-preserved.
Aside from 80 years of constant renovation sure.
ngl I don't care about some old building but kind of want a society where thats the biggest problem
I'm with you, the issue is doing it on a whim with no plan to the people's property as he treats it like his own including his pathetic walk of fame.
Typical urban real estate mogul behavior.
old growth forest: *exists*
property developer: we got some undeveloped land here! let's pave it up, might make money having a parking lot.
This applies to everything he has ever done
TBH I couldn't give less of a shit about the renovations of the extremely privileged. Fuck their gross house.
So, quick question: what exactly does he need a ballroom for? It's not like he's any good at dancing, even though he is somewhat famous for his double-handed cock milker move.
What's more, he doesn't have any balls, either. Certainly not the kind that would require a dedicated room.
I really don't get these brain farts of his. But hey, I'm not the one with syphilis-induced dementia here.
God, I can't wait until you guys finally muster the courage to oust this wannabe dictator and his clique.
Because it is not so much a ball room as it is a throne room. He wants a giant hall where he can preside at a throne in the end, where people who wants to see him has to walk through the entire thing feeling humbled, just like his dictator pals does it.
What heads of state sit on a throne in a big room where petitioners walk across to address them in 2025?
Ones in fantasy novels
