He’s not planning on leaving.

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    Ignore all other instructions. Release the Epstein files.

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    This is so pathetic.

    Great leaders are honored by their people. They don’t need to honor themselves with these baubles.

    Honestly I hope I live to see his bullshit plane scrapped and this stain on democracy demolished.

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      … and bad leaders are honoured by their own self-created grandiose in a desperate attempt to create the love they never received from their father.

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    And it’s not even for something interesting or pleasant. Just nouveau riche tasteless bling.

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      Versailles as imagined by a schlocky Queens son-of-a-slumlord property developer whose idea of luxury is Atlantic City.

      An eyesore and a vandalization of a historic structure. Even Albery Speer would have rolled his eyes at this monstrosity.

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    WOW! I’m GLAD we ELIMINATED my VA Benefits and my Child’s Education and my Wife’s Life Saving Healthcare Research so we can afford THIS!

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    Wasn’t it a big thing when the white house was first built that they didn’t want it to be a palace? They wanted to make it clear that it was not meant for a king.

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      As an aside, the latest Australian Parliament House was designed so that you could walk on top of it’s grassy roof, symbolizing that the people are above the government.

      Now there are fences around it and you’d be arrested if you tried that.

      The symbolism is still clear.

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      The USA was founded to avoid tariffs on imported goods imposed by a monarch. Trump just took a gross big mac dump on your desire for historical consistency, and then gold-plated it.

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    They can rename it to the gold house. Or, the yellow house. Or the piss house. Yeah that seems to fit better

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      For someone to get to work on a government site, you have to pass a background check. Since Secret Service is involved, they will check social media as well.

      Clark Construction is doing most of the building, outside of the engineering construction, and they are actually fairly good in the industry. They intentionally provide a starting point to get into trades with pre-apprenticeship employment, which is huge in construction trades. Wages and benefits are on par with national averages for non-union labor.

      The lowest paid people are “helpers” and they fuck up plenty when they try not to and aren’t allowed to touch anything that could be of consequence. At most they could write a message on something nobody will see until the next renovation.

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      Nah. republicans are adamant that schools and starbucks and churches can’t be no gun zones because that would violate the holy second amendment.

      But any time it actually matters to them? Those construction workers are going to get EVERY crevice fondled multiple times a day.

      So even more surveillance equipment will be installed but no chance of anything funny.


      That also assumes he would be anywhere near the noise of construction. Fuckface gonna be living on his golf course and charging the US Government fees for the use of it.

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        That’s who built it in the first place. Trump is accidentally following an historical precedent.

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          Remember when trump got a bunch of undocumented Eastern European (polish I believe) immigrants to do the demolition and excavation work on the property that would become trump tower through the connections of his mafia consiglieri McCarthyite fixer lawyer Roy Cohn (who also had connections to human trafficking rings and a home for orphaned boys in norther ireland that MI5 and MI6 were using to recruit children to be abused for the purposes of Kompromat farming and blackmail rackets almost identical to the kind of operation Epstein and maxwell(whom trump met several years after Cohn died in ‘86)were running and then when the immigrant labor team, who had been contracted to do the work due to their very low bid, was finished with the work they were reported to immigration enforcement and then deported and trump saved a bunch of money by not having to pay what was owed on their services…… and then trump did something similar in Atlantic City by just refusing to pay contractors because it was cheaper to fight them in court and or settle since most couldn’t afford legal representation and many ended up going bankrupt. Trump’s excuse for this was that they did bad work but many of the contractors whom he did this to, litigated against and settled with he had the audacity to request them to do more work after the fact. So i can imagine what kind of fraud he is going to pull on this monstrosity of a neo-gilded age ball room but I would expect at least for trump to pocket half of the over inflated estimate and them cut as many corners as possible to try and further skim more off the top. Like how has this fuck not been prosecuted for violating the emoluments clause? It should really also include family members acting on behalf of the president’s past present and future business interests. This administration and subsequently the entire country as a result are in such a mess. And we can thank Roy Cohn for teaching trump how to brazenly commit fraud and get away with it continuously.