From now on, I’ll refer to it as the white wing, I hope the name sticks
He also doesn’t have to murder Venezuelan fishers, shoot/kidnap/torture Americans and our guests, rob the poor and deprive them of medical care and food to pay his wealthy loyalists, or rape children.
He does it because he wants to.
heres the secret reason in my theory: the east wing is where Trump gave a bj to Bill Clinton. ok who has the guest logs on when they were both present?
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He wanted to make distracting headlines, and he got them.
“Distracting headlines” as a canard gets a bit old. Everything is a distraction from everything else, because we have a heavily monopolized mass media and a shrinking pool of investigative journalists with any kind of budget.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_of_newspapers#United_States
When you had twice as many newspapers and half as many people, the idea of “distracting headlines” was more a matter of consumer choice (you could read serious news at the New York Times or junk pop-media at the New York Post). Now media functions as a cartel, with papers all echoing one another on topics of the day. Or deliberately remaining silent on embarrassments the business community owners would rather not talk about.
This isn’t a “Trump” problem, though. Its a problem of consolidation and privatization on a national scale.
This. Media consolidation has been going on for the last 40 years, with the numbers of owners going from around 40 in the 1980s to only 5 today. And if those 5 billionaires get together and decide something isn’t going to be talked about, then it’s NOT getting talked about.
This is also why the so-called “mainstream news media” is all lies, sanewashing and WrestleMania rage bait. It’s why the news loves to say, “things suck” but NONE of them want to talk about WHY things suck. This is by design. It’s a distraction so the owners can keep the lower classes fighting with each other while they, the rich, run off with all the farking money.
“Distracting headlines” is basically the symptom of the populace having the attention span of a gnat with ADHD using meth as a cure. We don’t focus on anything long enough to generate enough traffic and therefore money for these media companies. So the media end up producing a constant barrage of shit and drivel while ignoring the stuff that likely matters.
I don’t disagree this blame lies on the people producing the news but it’s also due to the consumers sliding into a character from Idiocracy.
it’s also due to the consumers sliding into a character from Idiocracy.
I’ve seen more intelligence from consumers in the modern landscape of bullshit and scams than the Reagan Era landscape we hold to such high esteem.
Well, look at lemmy anytime someone posts a link that requires you to pay for the journalism. Pitchforks and torches. People don’t want to pay for quality journalism, do they get whatever billionaires want to feed them.
I never thought about it this way but it makes total sense. We get fed what rich people buy for us to consume… <cough… cough … fox news>
Well, look at lemmy anytime someone posts a link that requires you to pay for the journalism. Pitchforks and torches.
People don’t want to pay for something they don’t think is quality.
It’s not like these companies would clean up their act if they got another viable revenue stream. We can see that because when companies do, they regularly just keep the extra cash.
What you’d need is a boot strapped organization that actually had standards people cared about and didn’t bend. Its an impossibly hard situation, yes, but that does not make your snark prescient or clever. More than that, it doesnt at all back up your conclusion that people don’t want to pay for quality journalism. It just doesnt exist, because it gets bought out by billionaires.
anytime someone posts a link that requires you to pay for the journalism
People subscribing to random newspapers via links on Lemmy would not be a sustainable model for funding local journalism. And - historically - plenty of people did subscribe to local outlets. Plenty still do. Hell, go on Patreon or Substack and see how well the nascent podcast journalism marketplace is doing.
What changed over the last 40 years was a wave of M&As targeting smaller papers to consolidate the news markets. Case in point, my own city of Houston had half a dozen different newspapers chugging along just fine for decades. But because they were small, they were also very cheap. Loose monetary policy in the 90s made buying up papers very cheap. So the Houston Chronicle went around town buying the smaller papers and shutting them down. Now its the only major newspaper of record remaining.
“Well, people on Lemmy should have paid for more subscriptions to the Houston Post” is a fucking asinine statement, given that their stated reason for failure was cost of newsprint rising in the early 90s and they stopped existing before most of the people on this site were even born.
I don’t thing the likes of wsj, nyt or similar are “random newspapers”, and they still get hate for asking for money. Bezos finds that useful.
The NYT is what billionaires want to tell me, and if they expect me to pay for the privilege they’re out of their minds. Oughta be paying me to read that trash.
If you were talking about actually independent sources providing other perspectives then you might have a point.
I’m talking about all sources, the average lemmy user doesn’t distinguish nuance, they complain about all paywalls. And billionaires take advantage of that and obviously buy the papers with the widest reach first, but with time they’ll reach everywhere.
I’m talking about all sources
Yet the only ones you listed are the billionaire backed ones. Curious.
Almost as if your argument is in bad faith because you yourself don’t have any great examples of the sort of thing people would want to support that are also news outlets with reporters, and so you are forced to use bad examples.
Ill give you an example though, just like the other person pointed out, there are smaller sources popping up everywhere. Even youtube journalism such as HowTown are pockets of not yet corporate information sources that people are fine with supporting.
Cracked has an article that points how Trump does know some things to a very high level. One of those things is how media attention works and also a complete and absolute lack of shame.
Him admitting that he tore down part of the white house because he just didn’t like it and could have built around it is exactly those two things. He wanted to distract people and he legit does not give a damn.
I thought this was obvious from the start.
Great, let’s tear down a well-preserved historic building in pristine condition for no absolute reason at all!
But God help you if you want to remove a statue honoring a Confederate general
Might as well go back to the 1812 method of renovating at this point.
Probably less insulting to the concept of the USA than whatever the fuck this is.I think the next president should tear down and start from scratch. Eho nlknows what kind of bugs that traitor has let his foreign ‘pals’ put wherever.
I didn’t think about that. Given how lax their opsec is that is a very possibility.
The east wing was built in like 1902. It’s historic but it’s not super duper old and was rebuilt in the 40s to hide a bunker under it.
Still is historic and well-preserved.
Aside from 80 years of constant renovation sure.
ngl I don’t care about some old building but kind of want a society where thats the biggest problem
I’m with you, the issue is doing it on a whim with no plan to the people’s property as he treats it like his own including his pathetic walk of fame.
Was historic.
Honestly my biggest issue with this is that it seems to be a pretty clear sign (in addition to the other blatantly obvious signs like various public comments, selling Trump 2028 gear on his website, etc) that he has no intention of ever leaving the White House, term limits be damned. He’s just not the type of person to do major work like that if he’s expecting to move out and no longer be able to enjoy it himself in a few years.
Typical urban real estate mogul behavior.
old growth forest: *exists*
property developer: we got some undeveloped land here! let’s pave it up, might make money having a parking lot.
This applies to everything he has ever done
Man… Seriously! Fuck this guy. I hope when the Epstein files finally get released he fucking burns
He led an insurrection on live TV, got away with it, and got reelected. Nothing is going to happen until the propaganda machine is torn down; or, more likely, the whole system just caves in on itself under the weight of its own greed and mismanagement.
I’d say the evangelical base won’t appreciate sex with teens but… given their track record they’ll probably say well actually sex with teens is just a-ok with us now
They’re already priming this pump with Megyn Kelly questioning “well if the kids had started puberty, was it really pedophilia”. There’s a shocking amount that are also being led either to “well what if the child consents” and the more common “children shouldn’t have any rights at all so it’s effectively a property crime”.
They’re already influencing the idea with Megan Kelly. It’s amazing to me how they’ve moved the goalposts so far that the general populace are now becoming apologists for so many things they once vehemently condemned. I’m not talking politicians who are projecting. I’m talking regular folks that are allowing outside influence to convince them that abuse is ok. I was raised by bigots. I was taught inequality and mistrust as a child. Thankfully it was never outright hatred, but it could have easily gone there. But pedophilia, that was the vilest of vile, the atrocity that could not stand. Now those same family members would be of the group to most likely defend this, were they alive today.
Christians are decrying Jesus Christ as “too woke” now. All bets are off
At that point you can’t even call yourself a Christian
And yet they will continue to do so
God will judge them
Matthew 7:21-23
[21] “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. [22] On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ [23] And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
Yahweh is a sadist. Of the possible deities to worship Jeebus’ dad is the worst.
God does not exist, and will not be judging anyone
They’ve started to distinguish between pedophiles and ephebophiles, just so they can continue to say that Trump isn’t a pedo.
I’d have said the Evangelical base wouldn’t appreciate him having sex with porn stars either, but here we are
Or the groping, adultery, several divorces and remarriage, platforming kenneth copeland or flip flopping between being pro and anti abortion. Or him preaching works-based salvation recently.
I dunno… I think there’s a timeline where he winds up like Il Duche
LOL at this rate, the only time this guy will burn will be in hell
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Good joke
I hope the next President makes two changes to the WH:
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Restore the previous incarnation of the East Wing, but with a plaque listing all the people and companies that supposedly paid for it, labeled “In remembrance of these individuals that bribed the President.”
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Leave the paved-over Rose Garden, and rename it to the Donald J. Trump Memorial Concrete Slab.
I’m with you on 1.
But can’t on 2.
Everything he did to the White House needs to be reversed.
Then also to the rest of the country.Plus eradicate his name from everything. Remove “Trump” from any building his family owns. Redact his names from donations and fundraisers, anonymize them. Basically remove him from history. Undo anything he did and make sure people cannot even know something was undone.
Make his name synonymous with evil, just like Hitler. Make it so toxic no one names their kid Donald for a generation.
I want people to remember he was in the Epstein files… so leave that aspect of his legacy intact.
leave his name on the public toilet that his grave will become at least
The US could pay off the national debt by charging admission to use that toilet!
Mr Bones Wild Toilet
That’s definitely an E ticket!
I want to get off Mr Bones Wild Toilet
I’d keep “trump” (lower case, without any reference to where it came from) as a certain general use word, though.
By the way, I’m writing this in the toilet, while dropping a massive stinking trump.
we could probably lift the slab and put it someplace. like his library, maybe. Or one of his golf courses.
THAT’S A GREAT IDEA!
I’ll get it for my museum of all Rumps failures. It’s something I’ve been dreaming of. Exhibits covering all his horrendus and failed buisness. From casinos and condos to steaks and sneakers.Great idea for his library. Since you know… he won’t put books in it.
We should save the slab, drill some holes in it, place it over his grave and call it the Pedo Trump Memorial Toilet
Works for me.
Followed by actually radically and fundamentally overhauling your entire nation so that it’s better than it was before Trump?
Yah. That’s on the list.
Good list.
I’d like to do more than reverse what he did. I’d like to reverse up to Reagan
Rename the ballroom to the Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Ballroom.
You forget another huge thing.
Rip out all the tacky gold fittings that Trump has added all over.
Nah. The only place where trump would be acceptable is as a footnote in a history book. Get that filth out of the way.
We do not deserve this kindness. We should always be reminded of our horrible mistake.
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So, quick question: what exactly does he need a ballroom for? It’s not like he’s any good at dancing, even though he is somewhat famous for his double-handed cock milker move.
What’s more, he doesn’t have any balls, either. Certainly not the kind that would require a dedicated room.
I really don’t get these brain farts of his. But hey, I’m not the one with syphilis-induced dementia here.
God, I can’t wait until you guys finally muster the courage to oust this wannabe dictator and his clique.
Because it is not so much a ball room as it is a throne room. He wants a giant hall where he can preside at a throne in the end, where people who wants to see him has to walk through the entire thing feeling humbled, just like his dictator pals does it.
What heads of state sit on a throne in a big room where petitioners walk across to address them in 2025?
Ones in fantasy novels
His entire life has been based around his perception of what people above him think of him. That’s why he plastered the oval office with garish gold leaf everywhere. He thinks it will impress people like putin and erdoğan and kim . Even more so because he’s showing that he has the power to spend lavishly on stuff the country doesn’t want or need because that’s what dictators do.
That’s what this is for
You missed another thing he loves doing. He smashed an historical building in the early '70s in NYC during the starting of his “real estate” career. He smashed an historical building while other people were offering to pay to have the historical artifacts properly recovered. His excuse at the time? “It would have been too expensive.” Meanwhile he knew it would have been free to him, it just would have taken 6-8 months later for him to break ground.
He’s continued desecrating any historical site he can get his hands on, to this day.
He gets off on destroying historical monuments.
Not even that long. According to “John Baron”, it was 2 weeks.
Trump surprised New York’s art community on June 5, 1980 when a demolition crew jackhammered the sculptures off of the building. In addition, the intricate grillwork was removed. The destruction drew a public outcry. The Met received no advance notice.
Trump initially avoided any comment about the Bonwit Teller artwork. But John Baron, a spokesperson with the Trump Organization, contacted the New York Daily News to discuss the situation. Baron informed the Daily News that “the merit of the stones was not great enough to justify the effort to save them.” Baron stated that the removal process could have set back Trump Tower’s construction timeline by two weeks. Baron also told the New York Times that he had no idea what happened to the ornate grillwork.
He smashed an historical building
This immediately made me read your comment in a strong French accent
(At least in my dialect, word-initial h’s are pronounced as a consonant. That means it would be “a historical” instead of “an”)
…because he can. And nobody will stop him.
Because the Kremlin has one.
Where else would he have pedo parties.
ah, the ‘just because i feel like it’ defense. truly inspiring architecture, really. imagine the white house tour: ‘and over here, we have the ballroom, built purely on a whim. truly a testament to… something.’
Rumors says they are working into a shelter under it. I am not sure if true or not
The right and Trump’s own base really didn’t like him doing this. This will do as much if not more harm to him from his own side than the goddamn Epstein files.
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Obama’s going to DESTROY the White HouseTrump is doing What NEEDS to be Done with the Old House!
