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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 71 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Looks like the methy neighbor's house who is always starting a project but can't finish any of them.

[–] zd9@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's really such a beautiful visual metaphor of our country now.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You know... The older I get, the more I find myself rooting for the aliens in that movie.

[–] thirstyhyena@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

The aliens did a lot less damage than the current administration

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

The aliens were just an allegory for imperialism. Basically what we did to the natives and what the wealthy now do to us.

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The left looks fine on the surface but is actually ineffective, the right is a huge mess of grifting and the center is much more fascist than they will admit?

[–] zd9@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

and the whole thing is built upon the bones and bodies of natives in a burial ground, yep

TBH I never even thought of the left/right metaphor in this

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Obama's rusty old Suburban, up on blocks in the front yard, grass growing up around it...

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

JUST WAITING ON PARTS

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 months ago

This isn't the behavior of a man who is planning on leaving anytime soon

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[–] Asafum@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago

This man has no intention of ever leaving the white house

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

He's not building it, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin is building it. Come on, why would he pay for it when he can corrupt his way through it.

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/trump-says-sikorsky-fund-white-house-helicopter-landing-pad-2026-07-06/

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 2 months ago

Site does not load

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

So less than a month ago Trump held a UFC fight on this very lawn.

ScottsMiracle-Gro said it will donate “a combination of monetary and product support” to the National Park Service, including plans to re-sod the lawn and use a special blend of turfgrass chosen by Trump to reseed it. The company expects the lawn to be fully restored by spring of next year.

Per TheHill.

Now that lawn is turning into a helipad? What happened to the company that said they're going to fix it? What happened to that money?

I know the obvious answer is someone just pocketed $1 million dollars, but who?

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 months ago (4 children)

The Trump White House looks like it should be in a trailer park.

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

With all the other mouth breathing racists

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

At this point, I'm reminded of that song on an almost daily basis.

The whole MAGA anti-trans thing is just about pure "what the queers are doing to the soil" energy.

[–] obvs@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

How dare you imply people living in trailer parks are low class enough to have the Trump White House in them!

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[–] santa@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When someone makes these many improvements to a temporary residence — they may not be planning on moving out.

J6v2 is knocking…

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago

Equal chance they're just insane/demented.

[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago (13 children)

A helipad is far from the worst thing he's done. I'm sure it'll come with the usual Trump flair of fraud and circumventing process, but I can absolutely buy the argument that Marine 1 should have somewhere consistent to land that isn't just grass--not that it can't land in grass, but that it'll fuck up the grass.

[–] BeanGoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 2 months ago

I don't see how you can fuck up the grass more than ripping it up and paving it over.

[–] Canajan@piefed.ca 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It’s not for the helicopter, it’s for the Orange Turd, because his plumped up ankles can’t support him walking on the uneven grass.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I hope they finish that granite so that it's really slippery when it rains. I want to see Pig Man faceplant and knock out a few front teeth, ideally with a soundtrack of Yakity Sax.

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[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Is he gonna try to put his face/name on it

[–] tburkhol@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Doesn't every WH renovation get named for the president who did it? Lincoln bedroom. Roosevelt theater. Truman bowling alley.

Trump Ballroom is obviously an occasional use facility, but "Trump heliport" is something they'll say on the news every day for a thousand years.

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Should keep the gold bathroom so there is more use of the phrase"Trump toilet"

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

Bloom county had Trump nailed 40 years ago.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

While that may be traditional there's also a solid chance Trumps presidency gets more or less scrubbed by successors be it following presidents or US successor states. Assuming the site isn't just abandoned out of spite and left to rot.

[–] Curious_Canid@piefed.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Given the trouble he has walking, he will almost certainly put his face on it. Or did you mean, like, a picture of his face?

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

Nice place for dogs to pinch a loaf.

[–] slickgoat@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

But does it have to land in that exact spot and ugly up one of the most beautiful and iconic views in the world? I say this not even being American.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

How often does it land. Seems odd to have a permanent pad.

[–] TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com 1 points 2 months ago

They would put out three big metal plates for the thing to land on; so not only aiming for the right section of lawn, but getting the wheels exactly on the plates. And the new helicopters vented their exhaust downward, so burning the grass became a thing.

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[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago

The vandalism continues. Maybe a helicopter will land on his head

[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

he’s still building the ball room despite the court orders?!

[–] Catma@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

I for one am shocked. Shocked I tell you.

Well not that shocked

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 months ago

It seems like he fucked up the lawn with the UFC fight on purpose so he could slip this in.

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 months ago

Clearly the actions of a man determined on the peaceful transfer of power.

[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We don't even get a warning anymore. He just wakes us and starts "renovating". I am surprised the east wing is still standing.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

I'm surprised his country is still standing

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is he not just damaging the property repeatedly and often because Putin tells him to, otherwise Putin is releasing some Epstein videos?

[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 2 points 2 months ago

there is nothing that could come out about trump that would affect him in any meaningful way.

[–] Major_Tsiom@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago

I hope it says "Sikorsky" on it in big bold letters covering the whole thing. That would be perfect.

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