I bet they can't get any contractor to work on that, because the Administration has already stiffed the demolition crew and nobody wants to touch a job they will never get paid for.
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You need to remember just how stupid some of his base is. There are pickme's out there who will 100% jump at the chance and think surely Trump won't stiff them.
I'm actually amazed how he keeps finding new suckers after decades of doing it in the private sector and almost 10 years of doing it as President. The only ones that really came out ahead are the criminals that bought their pardons. Everyone else gets screwed one way or another.
Same here. Even back in 2010 and 2011 when I first started to look him up I was surprised that anyone could have trusted him or taken him seriously once the 90s rolled around. He should have been remembered as that conman from the 80s who is barely hanging onto life financially today.
He was always that shadey “businessman”, but that stupid reality show really put him back in the spotlight.
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On a personal level sure, but this isn't a job for a random one man operation.
At the top level you need a business and as much as business leaders love Trump (who doesn't love a useful idiot) they would never risk their bottom line for it.
All that and the fact that you would likely need a whole bunch of credentials to be building parts of the white house, or at least you likely used to.
Actually on second thought I'm an idiot.
If he actually builds that stupid ballroom he would have to pay for it. Much easier to just take the donations and leave a hole in the ground.
How could I not see such an obvious grift.
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So many faces offering themselves to the leopards
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I bet they can't get any contractor to work on that, because the Administration has already stiffed the demolition crew
I wanted this to be true... https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-east-wing-demolition-congress/?collection=471833 Unfortunately it's not
Wow, when did snopes become an absolutely adfucked shithole. Besides, as far as I can tell that article is focused on Congress stopping the payments being false, not whether or not they've actually been paid, which wasn't clear to me.
I wonder what a demolition crew does if you don't pay them. Other tradies will typically just rip out their work, but it's not like a demo crew can easily rebuild something they tore down.
Maybe that's Trump's big plan: don't pay the demolition crew and hope that they build a massive ballroom in protest.
LMAO
A demo crew could keep working by mistake.
Most contractors put a lien on your house.
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That asshole hasnt paid any bills in decades, i cant believe anyone is still dumb enough to accept a job for this conman.
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Also, you try finding a construction crew on the east coast he hasn't personally stiffed already
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The fact that Trump just randomly tore down part of the White House still makes me laugh.
Wait until you see the shit stains on the constitution.
True patriot.
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They are very good at breaking things, but they don’t know how to create anything of value.
Typical fascists. It's all grandiose and talk. If one reads the history of Nazi and fascist policies, they tend to wing it. Fascism is a reaction and antithesis to rationalism. In that sense, why would they have a plan at all? Okay, maybe with Heritage Foundation, they have a plan, but overall it is about regression which ultimately doesn't make sense apart from being an emotional reaction to caring about lgbt, migrants and social welfare.
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That's because he isn't building a ballroom.
This reads as way too competent a plan and scheme for Trump's admin.
I can't decide which is scarier, that Trump's admin is so incompetent they can't build a ballroom, or competent enough to plan and build a project like this while hiding it from the public
Too competent for Trump, absolutely. But there are some pretty scary competent people behind him, whispering in his ear. As the video details, the people he's hired to work on his "ballroom", also happen to be some of the world's leading experts on building super secure, military grade data centers. There's not a lot of overlap between those things, so it's hard to imagine that it's just a random coincidence.
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LOL.
If you wanted a secret underground-anything why would you put it under the freakin whitehouse?
... and of all things a data centre, which would work the same if it were under sydney harbour, or you know... not underground at all, or well... just any of hundreds of existing data centres.
The article does give a reason, it says it's to allow "executive oversight." As if Trump is going to waddle on down there and work on the servers himself.
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Trump has a track record of not paying people. Even court records to prove it. Blows my mind the demo team agreed to do this and now they’re not getting paid. No money, no worky
Man who failed at casinos unable to build ballroom. Who could have forseen this!?!?!
Trump can’t focus long enough, even on his $400 million passion project
Didn't it start out under $100 million?
It started at $200M and as “not affecting the existing structure” and will end as a $900M donation to the Trump presidential library, which will also not be built.
Plot twist: the Trump Presidential library is built in place of the East Wing
Plot twist 2: The library will only be a small shelf because Trump is effectively illiterate and he will pocket the rest of the money.
In a just world the library would be filled with the Epstein files and all of his executive orders with explanations about how they were illegal attempts to legislate from the oval office.
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Not unexpected. He handed all kinds of government jobs to the terminally incompetent.
So he vandalized the Whitehouse for nothing?
No, he did it as a grift. I'm sure most of that money has already disappeared into his bank accounts.
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I think there's a pretty good argument laid out in this video that the ballroom is a literal cover for a bunkered database
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"There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery."
Is it grift? I wonder if it's grift. Nah, he's too upstanding of a guy to do that...
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Was actually wondering about this the other night.
Are there any pictures of the current state of it? I kind of assume they just half tore down the east wing and then wandered off.
But, regardless: This was always a scam. Even if they build something, expect trump and his cronies to pocket the vast majority of the money that was supposed to be dedicated to it. Wouldn't be shocked if it just collapsed the first time a hurricane reached DC.
Crazy, you're telling me it was always a distraction? As a side note; It's nice to see that his taste in interior design always looks identical, no matter what. He's really committed to the overly gaudy, B-rated, villainous anime aristocrat archetype. It's the one thing he's weirdly consistent about.
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They are very good at breaking things, but they don’t know how to create anything of value.
Yet they'll still come out richer than ever, what a world.
Did he "forget" to pay the contractors?
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