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[–] Generalaccount210@lemmy.zip 19 points 5 hours ago

I used to think the ballroom wouldn’t be too bad, but now it’s bigger than the freaking White House and looks hideous, and the taxpayers are paying for half of it now. The ballroom is absurd and I don’t support this whatsoever

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 30 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Hello, Canadian here. We happen to be experts on the subject of renovating white houses.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 9 points 6 hours ago

I dunno, we still can't get the smell of syrup out after the last time y'all visited

Wait what am I saying I fucking love syrup

[–] bunnybunny@lemmy.zip 7 points 7 hours ago

Because of the pedophile in the picture i assume

[–] Harissa_Beans@lemmy.world 11 points 8 hours ago

There’s definitely other legislative issues to handle first, but the next democratic president needs to spend a chunk of their early days undoing all the cosmetic damage trump has done to our shit.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 9 points 8 hours ago

Turning the White House into a sidekick for this gilded monstrosity.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 hours ago

Albert Speer's new line for WalMart.

[–] Denfa@lemmy.world 37 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (4 children)

The next president will not be able to live in the building.

  1. Donny probably shit all over the place and it will have to be gutted and fumigated.

  2. It’s wired directly to our enemies.

  3. They hired budget contractors so they could skim as much as possible off the top at every level of construction.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 28 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

The minute he's out, they should rip out this monstrosity, and replace it with an exact replica of the original East Wing. And Trump should have to pay for ALL of it, the original destruction, all the construction, the new destruction, and the rebuild.

He won't need the money any more anyway, he'll be in prison, along with anyone who would have inherited it. It's our money now.

[–] modus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

It's so cute that you have such faith in your government and the justice system.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

They should make a tiny model of the ballroom first. Out of like, Lincoln logs or something, and you can pay to knock it over yourself. Gets rebuilt every day by, idk, the irs?

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

The only thing that's allowed it to move forward is that the Court has essentially said that only congress has standing to sue over it.

Congress is changing in a few weeks, and they should sue over it.

[–] mHtt@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

at least 2 more years and 3 months of this shit.

[–] CedricWhaley@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 hours ago

Not necessarily. Heart disease could do the world a favor.

[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 8 points 11 hours ago

Ballroom aka Epsteins pedo party palace of child rape and other atrocities.

[–] undecidedyellow@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

Gon be a Spirit Halloween by next year

[–] YragNitram1956@feddit.uk 24 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

'His interior and architectural preferences lean heavily into Gilded Age excess, marble, polished glass, and gold fixtures-an aesthetic critics and analysts describe as "dictator chic" or grand-scale intimidation.' New York Times

[–] Gpennyhigh@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago

It leaned and fell over into gaudy.

[–] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 17 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Honestly what's worse is that it's all spray painted Styrofoam.

I'm sure he paid gold pieces for it though. It's so incredibly tacky and poorly executed.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 hours ago

Husseins palace and cheesecake factory use real decoration.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

They found the exact decorations on Temu.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

is this a joke or did they really.

i genuinely cant tell anymore.

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I mean kind of. But it's a chicken and egg situation

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

So they definitely got them off temu since eggs been around since way before chickens

[–] SippyCup@lemmy.world 11 points 12 hours ago

You know when Nero did that, they tore it down right after he killed himself* and built a the coliseum in its place.

*Note: he killed himself rather than let his own guards murder him.

'Like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory'

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 11 points 13 hours ago

Let's just repair the whitehouse and forget about that stupid ballroom. Send the repair bill to trump tower "Home of the Golden Escalator".

[–] genuineparts@infosec.pub 7 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Americans don't have balls.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

We cut all ours off to donate to transmasc pickup trucks

[–] Smaile@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 hours ago

They really don't, it's why the spend so much on weapons and still lose wars, they're blusterers and fake demons.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 18 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Wears a ton of make-up, likes to redecorate rooms, talks about ballrooms all the time, got aroused by a man’s ass. Hmmm 🤔

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[–] Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 13 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 10 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

Thanks Obama

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