• A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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    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.

    This is the gist of it.

    Some more:

    Trump keeps changing things, driven by a short-sighted impulsiveness that keeps pushing him to expand the scope of the project. Initially, it was supposed to seat 650 people in 90,000 square feet, but he kept throwing tantrums about how he wanted it bigger. Earlier this month, he even ran off the initial architect, and odds are that will happen again.

    The projected price tag has already ballooned from $200 million to $400 million, but those numbers have almost no meaning since they don’t correlate to any plans that would generate an estimate.

    Then there’s the red tape. Even though a judge ruled against the National Trust for Historic Preservation in their lawsuit to temporarily halt construction, he required the White House to avoid building anything foundational and demanded plans for the structure be submitted by the end of the year. But as the White House hasn’t even scheduled meetings with the National Capital Planning Commission to start the process, meeting that deadline appears unlikely.

    I am all out of snark.

  • DandomRude@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    It is quite a feat to save people from embarrassment, namely from a golden abomination of trashiness, through another embarrassment such as this.

    Let anyone say they don’t make progress - quite the contrary: every day brings new lows.

  • AstaKask@lemmy.cafe
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    4 hours ago

    “They are very good at breaking things, but they don’t know how to create anything of value.”

    That’s just every conservative ever.

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    5 hours ago

    So he just destroyed half the White House, one of the biggest symbols of America?

    Just like he bankrupted casinos?

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      If in some alternate universe, I were in a creative writing class and tasked with writing a story full of cliche metaphors, and handed in a story about the past year here…that’s a solid B+/A-.

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      He didn’t bankrupt to those casinos by tearing their sides off. So, no, not quite like that.

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      America must come to grips with what they thought he was versus what he actually is. This is sadly part of the healing process, or so I hope.