There was already a bunker under the East Wing. If Trump chose to bulldoze it, that’s his own doing.
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Yeah sounds like this is the perfect time for a missile attack. God damn he’s stupid
lets see if it can withstand a MT warhead.
Why would you launch a warhead with nothing in it? Like, it's completely mt?
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Look, there's got to be a rational explanation for this. Have you considered the old East Wing bunker might have just been haunted as all fuck? Who knows what horrible atrocities past presidents committed down in that dungeon! Who knows how many hookers Nixon tortured to death down there. How many old captured Nazis did Eisenhower personally flay alive in that basement? How many girls did Clinton simply have disappeared down there? That placed was probably cursed long before Trump got there. The only way to get the bad juju out was to completely tear it down to bare soil. It's no good as a defense bunker if you get torn apart by ghosts when you try to seek shelter there!
well, now, I've never been more against it
Bunkers don’t need ballrooms.
Yeah build the bunker and put some grass on top
The difference between a bunker and an oubliette is what the people on the outside decide to do with the entrance/exit.
Just make sure there's some amontillado inside.
As if we needed any further confirmation that the bunker beneath it was the actually important part of the project.
(Can we please ensure that the bunker is stocked with at least one Luger pistol? For tradition's sake.)
Does Donald have aspirations of finally becoming a painter as well?
Hopefully he is inspired to paint the wall of his bunker in bright red
Hitler shot himself with a Walther PPK
Give them a Nambo instead. They don't deserve the build quality of Luger.
Slow acting but irreversible poison.
Nah I want the thing to blow up in their hand. I'm more of a maim until they wish for death kinda guy. Then you can ensure they eat through a tube for years to come.
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The Nambu has a notoriously weak cartridge. With a skull like his he'd be liable to botch it badly and probably wake up with a full diaper and a headache.
Not sure if that'd be better or worse than the alternative really.
Also contrary to popular belief they're generally really well made unless it's an extremely late one. 8x22 is just really really weak.
"I can't be expected to live in this glass house. Not after all these rocks I've been throwing."
Sounds like quite the waste of money then.
It won't even be started before Trump pops his clogs.
Imagine being the poor bastards stuck in there with him. The smell alone ... !
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Add the cost of ripping it up to the cost of restoring the white house for the next admin. Start with restoring the rose garden and getting the vegas decorations out.
As if there aren't dozens of steps before another country strikes upon the U.S.
He's not worried about another country. He's worried about a well-earned military coup.
Or civil war and/or federal dissolutionment, if those happened it's almost garunteed federal control of DC would fall almost immediately. He would need a bunker to hide in for possibly weeks in such a case. Assuming he isn't killed immediately.
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Will this $600m ballroom be finished before the end of president?
The 1.6 billion ballroom will probably not be finished, but the money is somehow gone.
I dunno, 2.2 billion for a ballroom seems like a great deal.
Yeah, almost a steal at 3.6 billion. I can’t believe they got such a good deal. They’re practically saving trillions.
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No,the 800 million dollar facility won't be finished in time for that
I'd argue that Trump being hit by a missile attack would IMPROVE the USA national security.
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Fuck that. President starts a war that results in missiles falling on DC he can go down with the ship.
Maybe be the kind of person who doesn't fear people shooting missiles at them.
If I had access to a missile I would have fired it at him long ago
Maybe if you were decent person you could have not caused people to want to lob missiles at you.
Build it, let him tour it, then lock it...and toss away the key
Donald...I have a cask of very special wine I'd like you to try. It's an Amontillado. Do come down into the bunker and have a taste.
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you guys are trying to protect them?
He's trying to protect himself, family and staff optional.
Others are more sanguine. Paul Eckloff, a former Secret Service agent who served on Trump's detail and previously on Barack Obama's, argued that what has emerged in court so far does not amount to a 'genuine security breach,' saying operationally sensitive information remains classified.
He was more worried about the practical effect of having a giant dig site inside a secure perimeter. An open pit next to the Executive Residence, he said, inevitably alters the calculus for agents tasked with keeping intruders out and the president alive. 'The longer this is an active construction site, the more concerning it is from a general security posture,' Eckloff said.
I don't think it matters much from a national security standpoint, specifically because of this:
Judge Leon has not hidden his scepticism. At an earlier hearing, he dismissed the idea that Trump's safety required the ballroom to go ahead, describing the 'large hole' next to the White House as a 'problem of the President's own making.'
We don't protect the President because the President is some sort of exceptional, irreplaceable figure. The President is just some guy. If Trump gets shot, then Vance gets dropped into the slot and things keep on trucking. Hell, personally I think that the US would very probably be better-off with just about any other major politician at the wheel.
We protect the President because we don't want it to be viable to coerce the President via physical threat. We don't want a country to say "do X on Policy Y or maybe we kill you" and have that be something that can affect the President's policy-making.
In this case, Trump decided that he was going to go right ahead and create the security risk, so he's probably not especially concerned about it. If he wanted it to stop, which presumably he would if he were worried about being killed, he could stop it. Ergo, cocercion isn't a factor.
If Trump decides tomorrow that he wants to go wingsuit BASE jumping or something, I mean, okay, sure, whatever. The Secret Service can just sit around and munch popcorn and watch him face-plant into a hillside, as far as I'm concerned. The problem isn't the President dying, but him being affected by threats of him being killed.
That's also why we have lifetime Secret Service protection for the President after he leaves office. It's not like he's being President then, not like we'd lose whatever he's bringing to the table. But you don't want other parties to be able to threaten the guy in office with retribution after he leaves office.
Will it protect him from the Hauge?
I am seriously not the least bit concerned.
The Trump-Epstein Scrotum of Interred Security, or TESTIS.
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