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.
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idgaf about the white house
They are very good at breaking things, but they don’t know how to create anything of value.
Typical fascists. It’s all grandiose and talk. If one reads the history of Nazi and fascist policies, they tend to wing it. Fascism is a reaction and antithesis to rationalism. In that sense, why would they have a plan at all? Okay, maybe with Heritage Foundation, they have a plan, but overall it is about regression which ultimately doesn’t make sense apart from being an emotional reaction to caring about lgbt, migrants and social welfare.
Trump has a track record of not paying people. Even court records to prove it. Blows my mind the demo team agreed to do this and now they’re not getting paid. No money, no worky
That’s because he isn’t building a ballroom.
LOL.
If you wanted a secret underground-anything why would you put it under the freakin whitehouse?
… and of all things a data centre, which would work the same if it were under sydney harbour, or you know… not underground at all, or well… just any of hundreds of existing data centres.
The article does give a reason, it says it’s to allow “executive oversight.” As if Trump is going to waddle on down there and work on the servers himself.
This reads as way too competent a plan and scheme for Trump’s admin.
I can’t decide which is scarier, that Trump’s admin is so incompetent they can’t build a ballroom, or competent enough to plan and build a project like this while hiding it from the public
Too competent for Trump, absolutely. But there are some pretty scary competent people behind him, whispering in his ear. As the video details, the people he’s hired to work on his “ballroom”, also happen to be some of the world’s leading experts on building super secure, military grade data centers. There’s not a lot of overlap between those things, so it’s hard to imagine that it’s just a random coincidence.
Fascinating read, thanks for that.
Not sure why she shoehorned crypto in there.
Because data centers also make great crypto mines. And guess who’s currently trying to build their very own crypto empire?
Good luck getting hardware in this market
You can buy anything with a bottomless pocketbook
So he vandalized the Whitehouse for nothing?
No, he did it as a grift. I’m sure most of that money has already disappeared into his bank accounts.
They’re building a new Fuhrerbunker for Vance and the next one. Trump doesn’t even know.
The fact that Trump just randomly tore down part of the White House still makes me laugh.
True patriot.
Wait until you see the shit stains on the constitution.
Nah he’ll build it, he said he finds this kind of work soothing. The world can burn down and he’ll be happy as a clam in his old real estate ways and gold trim. This is what he wants to be remembered for, fancy buildings.
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.
Instructions unclear they installed a dam
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 bet they can’t get any contractor to work on that, because the Administration has already stiffed the demolition crew
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?
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?
Not unexpected. He handed all kinds of government jobs to the terminally incompetent.
Man who failed at casinos unable to build ballroom. Who could have forseen this!?!?!
Trump can’t focus long enough, even on his $400 million passion project
Didn’t it start out under $100 million?
It started at $200M and as “not affecting the existing structure” and will end as a $900M donation to the Trump presidential library, which will also not be built.
Oh, wow, really? Now I do wonder where all that money will end up…? Hmmm, I bet he will just return it and definitely not pocket it! Oh, no.
Plot twist: the Trump Presidential library is built in place of the East Wing
Plot twist 2: The library will only be a small shelf because Trump is effectively illiterate and he will pocket the rest of the money.
In a just world the library would be filled with the Epstein files and all of his executive orders with explanations about how they were illegal attempts to legislate from the oval office.
Instead, it probably going to be scrap books of under age girls he raped, a bible (for photo ops while holding it upside down), and Mein Kampf for anti-virtue signaling.
That actually seems completely plausible
I think there’s a pretty good argument laid out in this video that the ballroom is a literal cover for a bunkered database
Can’t watch the video now, but why build it next to the white house instead of literally anywhere else?
Executive privilege, potentially.
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We can’t have elections in the middle of a ballroom renovation!!
They are very good at breaking things, but they don’t know how to create anything of value.
Yet they’ll still come out richer than ever, what a world.
Was actually wondering about this the other night.
Are there any pictures of the current state of it? I kind of assume they just half tore down the east wing and then wandered off.
But, regardless: This was always a scam. Even if they build something, expect trump and his cronies to pocket the vast majority of the money that was supposed to be dedicated to it. Wouldn’t be shocked if it just collapsed the first time a hurricane reached DC.
