Let's release all the files properly:
this post was submitted on 20 Dec 2025
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Trump is the worst thing to happen to the reputation of Wharton Business School. And the worst thing to happen to the reputation of America.
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.
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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.
So he just destroyed half the White House, one of the biggest symbols of America?
Just like he bankrupted casinos?
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-.
The Gasby party while they withheld snap, tearing down the Whitehouse, the hunger games... It's so on the nose a grade schooler would pick up on the symbolism
Seriously... They can stop physically performing metaphors, we get it!
He didn’t bankrupt to those casinos by tearing their sides off. So, no, not quite like that.
"They are very good at breaking things, but they don’t know how to create anything of value."
That's just every conservative ever.
He couldn't even build a wall
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.
That's not the problem. America is just desperate for change, and the Democrats are allergic to using power
Obama won on promising change, but did nothing except put healthcare into a death spiral (the ACA came from the heritage foundation, also known for hits like project 2025)
Biden won because of the pandemic, and then the Democratic party quietly fiddled with the dials a little. But they were still so allergic to rocking the boat they didn't prosecute Trump for attempting a coup
Then Biden/Kamala ran on the platform "everything is actually already perfect, you're just too stupid to realize it"
Recently they refused to release the autopsy of the election, because it said the one thing they refuse to try... Meaningful change. To take a stand against the billionaires and make some enemies
Trump is different. He got up there and said "our county is on fire, and I'm going to fix it". And then he said the most incoherent meaningless shit, which was then sane washed through the billionaire controlled media to say dozens of different things
But he's already spent the trust of the people too now. They're not going to buy into that kind of rhetoric again for a while, but they're also done with the gaslighting and empty posturing
What we need is someone who will use their power for good. No more empty promises or consultant pilled drivel. Clear, simple to understand plans. Crisp messaging. Explicit promises.
The current Democratic establishment is floundering in their attempts to find some formula where they can copy the energy of change, but still do the centrist uniparty bullshit.
We don't need to get over Trump, we need to get past the Democratic party leaders and their ratfucking of progressives
This better not be true. This was the whole reason I voted for him.
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.
Okay, but what about the data center underneath it?
That is all that matters to them