Trump can’t focus long enough, even on his $400 million passion project
In October, Donald Trump traumatized all true patriots by tearing down the East Wing of the White House. The move, he claims, will clear the way for a ballroom for holding large events that are typically held in tents on the South Lawn. A debate immediately arose online over whether or not the next Democratic president should tear down the ballroom or keep it, albeit with the necessary extensive renovations to remove all the tackiness Trump brings to any project.
Two months later, it increasingly seems that such discussion was a wasted effort, as the chance this ballroom will actually be built is rapidly disappearing. Perhaps it could have if Trump had delegated the management of the project to someone competent, but that’s not what he did. Instead, the famously lazy and disorganized president decided to blow off his actual governance duties in favor of micromanaging a construction project he is incapable of handling. Finishing the ballroom in the next three years would be difficult for anyone, but it’s quickly becoming clear it will be nearly impossible for the famed real estate tycoon to pull it off.
The whole thing is a too-perfect symbol of Trump’s second administration: They are very good at breaking things, but they don’t know how to create anything of value.
I bet they can’t get any contractor to work on that, because the Administration has already stiffed the demolition crew and nobody wants to touch a job they will never get paid for.
That asshole hasnt paid any bills in decades, i cant believe anyone is still dumb enough to accept a job for this conman.
Also, you try finding a construction crew on the east coast he hasn’t personally stiffed already
Maybe he can order the army corps of engineers to do it.
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You need to remember just how stupid some of his base is. There are pickme’s out there who will 100% jump at the chance and think surely Trump won’t stiff them.
I’m actually amazed how he keeps finding new suckers after decades of doing it in the private sector and almost 10 years of doing it as President. The only ones that really came out ahead are the criminals that bought their pardons. Everyone else gets screwed one way or another.
Same here. Even back in 2010 and 2011 when I first started to look him up I was surprised that anyone could have trusted him or taken him seriously once the 90s rolled around. He should have been remembered as that conman from the 80s who is barely hanging onto life financially today.
It’s why he has “the worst fucking lawyers”
He was always that shadey “businessman”, but that stupid reality show really put him back in the spotlight.
10 years doing it as President?
He announced his intentions in 2015, so it’s a cromulent statement.
Not to mention his whining overshadowed anything Biden had going on administratively. This, it’s been about about that idiot for a decade…and is still ongoing.
A lot of the work is shoddy. The businesses doing the work have some kind of quid pro quo. Financing is involved, so the real bag holders will be lenders pitched a job they can never collect on.
There’s a lot of different ways to pass the bill around in the modern economy, such that landing a $300M job on-paper can be leveraged to cheat and swindle people down the line.
On a personal level sure, but this isn’t a job for a random one man operation.
At the top level you need a business and as much as business leaders love Trump (who doesn’t love a useful idiot) they would never risk their bottom line for it.
All that and the fact that you would likely need a whole bunch of credentials to be building parts of the white house, or at least you likely used to.
Actually on second thought I’m an idiot.
If he actually builds that stupid ballroom he would have to pay for it. Much easier to just take the donations and leave a hole in the ground.
How could I not see such an obvious grift.
He’ll just hire a Russian firm. No security issues there.
So many faces offering themselves to the leopards
I wanted this to be true… https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-east-wing-demolition-congress/?collection=471833 Unfortunately it’s not
Wow, when did snopes become an absolutely adfucked shithole. Besides, as far as I can tell that article is focused on Congress stopping the payments being false, not whether or not they’ve actually been paid, which wasn’t clear to me.
I wonder what a demolition crew does if you don’t pay them. Other tradies will typically just rip out their work, but it’s not like a demo crew can easily rebuild something they tore down.
Maybe that’s Trump’s big plan: don’t pay the demolition crew, and hope that they build a massive ballroom in protest.
LMAO
Thats silly. Its a lot of extra work, and a crime.
They would file a lien on the property.
…so they can get paid when the property is sold? Just when do you think that’s going to happen?
Thats how it works, yes.
So the property that hasn’t been sold in 200 years. That’s the one you want to put a lien on? Would you like a shit sandwich to go with it so you at least get something?
Sometimes getting shafted is the end of the story
Most contractors put a lien on your house.
A demo crew could keep working by mistake.
I’m a big fan of “you paid us to remove your shit, you didn’t pay us, here’s your shit/equivalent of your shit back”
That doesn’t mean he hasn’t stiffed them, just that particular story about congress blocking funds is fake.
For real? They didn’t pay the demo crew? Or os this speculation?
I bet the “I bet” at the start of the statement was meant to indicate that it’s not for real, just an example of one of the myriad things Trump has done over the years that might lead a contractor to be wary of taking on a job for him and which would be good rationale to avoid being next in line to be burned.
I’ll take your bet but I want terrible odds
But have you considered building it for exposure?