How did I, a person with no sense of style, build better looking houses in the original sims game when I was like 10?
They might be able to renovate the top, but there is a military installation underneath so that’ll remain.
Murikkkans, lolololololololololololol!
cheer up you can make it a museum of fascism and idiocy after he is gone
I wouldn’t hold your breath for it being removed. I’m sure the Dems will make the argument that it will be a waste of tax payer money, we have to build bridges, blah blah
In a just world the fucking tech bros would be made to fund it’s removal though.
i think voters have decided that they’re way past that era. tearing that shit down on day one will be a winning promise for primaries and the general election
Let’s see, that’s the right thing to do for sure, anything Trump built or branded should be erased, logically it’s an easy win.
My gut says at most they repurpose it as office space or rebrand it. They will say American’s main concerns are the economy and tearing this building down whilst Americans are hurting would be a bad look. The commentary around the midterms is mentioning that the Dems are “only renting” these voters. Which makes me feel that appeasement is part of their mindset already.
I’ll feel more confident if real action to bring these crooks to account occurs over the next two years. It’s interesting that Karp at Palantir is trying to pretend he was always a dem now.
i got hopium from the LAWYER UP edits…
but repurposing it misses the point. this is pretty iconic architecture being completely shit on by the shit stain of history. there’s no way anyone argues for keeping it. i actually think even republicans will campaign against it
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Wow, what a great article
Is it huffingtons fault that x is blocked by you?
it’s 2026 and we’re still treating “here’s a list of tweets” as journalism is the issue
Then pay for fucking news reporting.
the lemmy community continues to amaze me with their short sightedness
This isn’t about ads. I am specifically complaining about news companies embedding live social media widgets in their articles instead of screenshots with alt-text or, even better, blockquotes with the necessary attribution. There are three major problems with this: it loads third-party spyware onto every article you read (most ads do this too, which is also unacceptable); it’s far less user-friendly and accessible; and the article breaks and half its text goes missing when a social media company changes their API or goes under. Some of them even want you to log in to their surveillance social website in order to see the embedded widget (cough instagram).
Also, I do pay for news reporting, but I would never pay the Huffington Post.
that has nothing to do with it, they’re not complaining about ads
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
it will of course be completely compromised to many different nations. so won’t be fit for purpose.
I take it all legal courses to get it stopped have been exhausted, with the SCOTUS being corrupted as well?
Oh well, it’ll only take 3 months to remove it again and start rebuilding the original building back.
Honestly as a taxpayer I think that would be a good use of my money. Demolish the whole thing and rebuild the East Wing and the Rose garden exactly how they were. Like take a giant fucking eraser to the entire thing. No dedications, no ceremonies, no naming anything after anybody, just make it like this was a paragraph in the essay that you don’t like and hit Ctrl-Z until it disappears.
Demolish the whole thing
At Trump’s family expense, like a car parked in an unzoned stall.
I’d love that, but it’s never going to happen. IMHO More important to just get it done.
Hello, Canadian here. We happen to be experts on the subject of renovating white houses.
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
Dude, the White House that was rebuilt after the 1814 Fire from English Canadians was gutted during Truman and renovated with a steel frame. It isn’t the same building on the inside.
The next president will not be able to live in the building.
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Donny probably shit all over the place and it will have to be gutted and fumigated.
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It’s wired directly to our enemies.
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They hired budget contractors so they could skim as much as possible off the top at every level of construction.
3 is correct, 1 and 2 is a mental health issue.
3 is incorrect. Trump has never paid his contractors.
Regarding #2, The White House is absolutely compromised. You don’t think Putin and Mossad have agents in the construction crews or staff? It’s known that Trump routinely bypasses security checks. He’s actually bragged about his “efficiency”. Kushner’s phone was compromised for months. Regarding#3, Trump has been stealing from his construction projects and businesses his entire adult life. How else do you bankrupt two casinos during the height of their popularity and before online gambling became legal? It’s been well-reported he frequently avoids paying his maintenance and construction crews. It’s because he’s stealing. Regarding #1, I was joking, but seriously— would you comfortably use the furniture or bathrooms knowing he just shits himself anytime he feels like it? That place is riddled with microscopic feces.
I think 1 is a not-implausible joke, and 2 represents a whole spectrum of real risks even if that’s not exactly how they’d do it.
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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.
It’s so cute that you have such faith in your government and the justice system.
And while we’re at it, unicorns for everyone!
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.
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?
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.
Turning the White House into a sidekick for this gilded monstrosity.
Because of the pedophile in the picture i assume
‘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
It also looks like the same shit in Russia.
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.
Husseins palace and cheesecake factory use real decoration.
They found the exact decorations on Temu.
is this a joke or did they really.
i genuinely cant tell anymore.
I mean kind of. But it’s a chicken and egg situation
So they definitely got them off temu since eggs been around since way before chickens
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.
It leaned and fell over into gaudy.
‘Like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory’
The whole ballroom thing does not matter at all and the article is just random tweets and the tweets are shit like:
The fact that a felonious madman who incited an attack on our Capitol could turn around a few years later and desecrate the White House like this, will forever be one of the most shameful stains this nation has ever known.
“One of the most shameful stains this nation has ever known?” Are you fucking kidding me? It’s a fucking building.
I find it more shameful that the US has killed 38 million people in the last 50 years by enforcing economic sanctions that block access to food, medicine, and resources.
There are obviously huge black marks in US history from that to slavery to the genocide of the natives to overthrowing democratically elected governments around the world to things like MK-ULTRA, Jim Crow, redlining, etc. etc. But even among purely symbolic things that don’t materially impact people’s lives, it pales in comparison to Mt. Rushmore, which was a thousand times more gaudy, more narcissistic, and which destroyed something a thousand times more valuable. “The most shameful stains,” come on.
I don’t know what’s going on in the minds of these people. Some combination of ignorance of history, partisan brainworms, and misplaced pride in the symbols of our shitty government. It’s so cringe, it’s peak liberalism and shit like this validates the whole “Trump derangement syndrome” line, because there’s no way in hell any of these people would give half a shit if someone else was doing it.
