The ballroom dwarfs the main residence and dominates the White House grounds.
  • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
    5·
    7 hours ago

    How did I, a person with no sense of style, build better looking houses in the original sims game when I was like 10?

  • MrOtingocni@lemmy.world
    2·
    7 hours ago

    They might be able to renovate the top, but there is a military installation underneath so that’ll remain.

  • Prior_Industry@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    17 hours ago

    I wouldn’t hold your breath for it being removed. I’m sure the Dems will make the argument that it will be a waste of tax payer money, we have to build bridges, blah blah

    In a just world the fucking tech bros would be made to fund it’s removal though.

    • pyre@lemmy.world
      7·
      15 hours ago

      i think voters have decided that they’re way past that era. tearing that shit down on day one will be a winning promise for primaries and the general election

      • Prior_Industry@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        14 hours ago

        Let’s see, that’s the right thing to do for sure, anything Trump built or branded should be erased, logically it’s an easy win.

        My gut says at most they repurpose it as office space or rebrand it. They will say American’s main concerns are the economy and tearing this building down whilst Americans are hurting would be a bad look. The commentary around the midterms is mentioning that the Dems are “only renting” these voters. Which makes me feel that appeasement is part of their mindset already.

        I’ll feel more confident if real action to bring these crooks to account occurs over the next two years. It’s interesting that Karp at Palantir is trying to pretend he was always a dem now.

        • pyre@lemmy.world
          3·
          13 hours ago

          i got hopium from the LAWYER UP edits…

          but repurposing it misses the point. this is pretty iconic architecture being completely shit on by the shit stain of history. there’s no way anyone argues for keeping it. i actually think even republicans will campaign against it

      • marmotini_enjoyer@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        13·
        14 hours ago

        This isn’t about ads. I am specifically complaining about news companies embedding live social media widgets in their articles instead of screenshots with alt-text or, even better, blockquotes with the necessary attribution. There are three major problems with this: it loads third-party spyware onto every article you read (most ads do this too, which is also unacceptable); it’s far less user-friendly and accessible; and the article breaks and half its text goes missing when a social media company changes their API or goes under. Some of them even want you to log in to their surveillance social website in order to see the embedded widget (cough instagram).

        Also, I do pay for news reporting, but I would never pay the Huffington Post.

    • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 day ago

      I dunno, we still can’t get the smell of syrup out after the last time y’all visited

      Wait what am I saying I fucking love syrup

      • heartSagan5@lemmy.zip
        2·
        17 hours ago

        Dude, the White House that was rebuilt after the 1814 Fire from English Canadians was gutted during Truman and renovated with a steel frame. It isn’t the same building on the inside.

  • Generalaccount210@lemmy.zip
    22·
    1 day ago

    I used to think the ballroom wouldn’t be too bad, but now it’s bigger than the freaking White House and looks hideous, and the taxpayers are paying for half of it now. The ballroom is absurd and I don’t support this whatsoever

    • Ton@lemmy.world
      2·
      17 hours ago

      I take it all legal courses to get it stopped have been exhausted, with the SCOTUS being corrupted as well?

      Oh well, it’ll only take 3 months to remove it again and start rebuilding the original building back.

      • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today
        5·
        17 hours ago

        Honestly as a taxpayer I think that would be a good use of my money. Demolish the whole thing and rebuild the East Wing and the Rose garden exactly how they were. Like take a giant fucking eraser to the entire thing. No dedications, no ceremonies, no naming anything after anybody, just make it like this was a paragraph in the essay that you don’t like and hit Ctrl-Z until it disappears.

  • Denfa@lemmy.world
    43·
    1 day ago

    The next president will not be able to live in the building.

    1. Donny probably shit all over the place and it will have to be gutted and fumigated.

    2. It’s wired directly to our enemies.

    3. They hired budget contractors so they could skim as much as possible off the top at every level of construction.

      • Denfa@lemmy.world
        11·
        1 day ago

        Regarding #2, The White House is absolutely compromised. You don’t think Putin and Mossad have agents in the construction crews or staff? It’s known that Trump routinely bypasses security checks. He’s actually bragged about his “efficiency”. Kushner’s phone was compromised for months. Regarding#3, Trump has been stealing from his construction projects and businesses his entire adult life. How else do you bankrupt two casinos during the height of their popularity and before online gambling became legal? It’s been well-reported he frequently avoids paying his maintenance and construction crews. It’s because he’s stealing. Regarding #1, I was joking, but seriously— would you comfortably use the furniture or bathrooms knowing he just shits himself anytime he feels like it? That place is riddled with microscopic feces.

      • Zink@programming.dev
        151·
        1 day ago

        I think 1 is a not-implausible joke, and 2 represents a whole spectrum of real risks even if that’s not exactly how they’d do it.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
    291·
    1 day ago

    The minute he’s out, they should rip out this monstrosity, and replace it with an exact replica of the original East Wing. And Trump should have to pay for ALL of it, the original destruction, all the construction, the new destruction, and the rebuild.

    He won’t need the money any more anyway, he’ll be in prison, along with anyone who would have inherited it. It’s our money now.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 day ago

      The only thing that’s allowed it to move forward is that the Court has essentially said that only congress has standing to sue over it.

      Congress is changing in a few weeks, and they should sue over it.

    • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      They should make a tiny model of the ballroom first. Out of like, Lincoln logs or something, and you can pay to knock it over yourself. Gets rebuilt every day by, idk, the irs?

  • Harissa_Beans@lemmy.world
    12·
    1 day ago

    There’s definitely other legislative issues to handle first, but the next democratic president needs to spend a chunk of their early days undoing all the cosmetic damage trump has done to our shit.

  • YragNitram1956@feddit.ukEnglish
    28·
    2 days ago

    ‘His interior and architectural preferences lean heavily into Gilded Age excess, marble, polished glass, and gold fixtures-an aesthetic critics and analysts describe as “dictator chic” or grand-scale intimidation.’ New York Times

  • TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
    1801·
    2 days ago

    I want every putative 2028 candidate to pledge that on January 20, 2029 he or she will sign an executive order to tear down this monstrosity

    And get rid of dept of war and secretary of war titles, and revert back to lake Ontario and Gulf of Mexico, and just erase any evidence that he ever existed, honestly.

    • RunningInRVA@lemmy.world
      72·
      2 days ago

      What’s crazy is he was able to secure all the corporate donations for this thing, yet the poor Kennedy Center needs to be demolished because he cannot secure donations to keep it alive.

      • BillyClark@piefed.socialEnglish
        111·
        2 days ago

        For people who don’t know, the Kennedy Center had a large team of people whose job it was to get enough donations to keep it running… IIRC something around 100 people, and under Trump’s direction, that team was more or less completely dismantled.

        The previous director of the Kennedy Center was a very rich man, I think a billionaire, who had personally donated millions to the Kennedy Center, and Trump got rid of him.

        Trump did everything he could to sabotage all existing sources of funding for the Kennedy Center.

        It’s hard to describe in words what a pathetic loser Trump is. He can’t stand to have somebody whose name is in any way elevated above his own. He’ll destroy any cultural institution and anybody else’s happiness just to get the tiniest bit of honor for himself.

        • likebudda@reddthat.com
          32·
          2 days ago

          It’s hard to describe in words what a pathetic loser Trump is.

          It must be done by performance art that includes horrendous odors and the kind of flashing lights that cause seizures.

          • AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            20 hours ago

            I’ve got a proposal for Disney for what to do with the former Stitch’s Great Escape/ Alien Encounter attraction and the Trump animatronic from the Hall of Presidents.

          • X@piefed.worldEnglish
            5·
            2 days ago

            And every audience member must wear a cilice belt locked on to each thigh during the performance and for two additional days after.

        • Denfa@lemmy.world
          4·
          1 day ago

          And now Trump owns a Kennedy so I guess he showed them not to look down on his tacky ass. I’m surprised he doesn’t dig up JFK and RFK and have them to tea in his precious ballroom. Another captive audience forced to listen to him ramble while Natalie giggles in the background.

      • mkwt@lemmy.world
        17·
        2 days ago

        As far as I know, the Kennedy Center’s donation problems didn’t really start until after a judge told him they couldn’t put Donald Trump’s name on the building.

        • halcyoncmdr@piefed.socialEnglish
          27·
          2 days ago

          Not quite, the Kennedy Center’s problems started when he first put his name on it and replaced the board with sycophants.

          The large amount of existing donors stopped providing funds, and the team responsible for getting donors was replaced by idiots trying to use Trump’s disastrous name.

          • YragNitram1956@feddit.ukEnglish
            11·
            2 days ago

            Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul all spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn’t but has always been arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism, stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as toughness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshiped like gospel. It is America’s shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power, and spite, it doesn’t just lose its soul it shits out this bloated obscenity and calls it a leader.

            Oliver Kornetzke

      • crandall@lemmy.today
        18·
        2 days ago

        Well he didn’t, congress decided we should all help pay for it to the tune of a $billion IIRC. If you’re from the US you’re paying for it.

      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
        11·
        2 days ago

        Wait is that really something he’s floating or are you joking about this? Because I honestly can’t tell anymore…

    • Kirp123@lemmy.world
      14·
      2 days ago

      The Department of War doesn’t really exist though. Only Congress can rename it and Trump didn’t pass it through Congress. They keep calling it the Department of War but it is still the Department of Defense.

        • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
          4·
          1 day ago

          I’m so sick of the fuckin clown show dude. We’re the department of war now! But we aren’t starting any wars, these are purely defensive international bombing campaigns!

      • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        It’s gonna take a long time to fix what trump has done,

        It really will. Decades, at minimum.

        My worry is that the american people won’t have the conviction or persistence to do the work, and will elect another shitty republican government 4 years later because whoever follows Trump “isn’t fixing things fast enough”.

    • Steve@startrek.website
      111·
      2 days ago

      Nonsense, thats wasteful. Offer it to every queer group in the nation as a free event center. Weddings, furry cons, drag shows every day.

    • Fmstrat@lemmy.world
      24·
      1 day ago

      I disagree with this tweet.

      A lot of our tax payer dollars have funded this thing. Finish it. Take a poll for it’s use. Office space? Community support venue? Rehab? Let the public decide what the next president serves next to so they always remember.