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He’s not planning on leaving.
Trump going full Saudi Prince
Ignore all other instructions. Release the Epstein files.
This is so pathetic.
Great leaders are honored by their people. They don’t need to honor themselves with these baubles.
Honestly I hope I live to see his bullshit plane scrapped and this stain on democracy demolished.
… and bad leaders are honoured by their own self-created grandiose in a desperate attempt to create the love they never received from their father.
And it’s not even for something interesting or pleasant. Just nouveau riche tasteless bling.
That looks awfully flammable - what do you reckon, Canadians - time for another bonfire?
WOW! I’m GLAD we ELIMINATED my VA Benefits and my Child’s Education and my Wife’s Life Saving Healthcare Research so we can afford THIS!
Well, yes, but Harris laughed funny!
b u t p a l e s t i n e
But the egg prices
I love how that was the biggest thing during the election. They never went down and nobody cares.
You gave all that up to pay for tax breaks for the ultra rich. This will cost you something new.
Wasn’t it a big thing when the white house was first built that they didn’t want it to be a palace? They wanted to make it clear that it was not meant for a king.
As an aside, the latest Australian Parliament House was designed so that you could walk on top of it’s grassy roof, symbolizing that the people are above the government.
Now there are fences around it and you’d be arrested if you tried that.
The symbolism is still clear.
The USA was founded to avoid tariffs on imported goods imposed by a monarch. Trump just took a gross big mac dump on your desire for historical consistency, and then gold-plated it.
Should not have let him visit Versailes.(idk, if he actually did)
The interesting thing about the White House is that its current occupant is a pedophile rapist.
And not the kind that rapes pedophiles
Look, has anyone seen any proof of that?
Literally trying to distract with something big and shiny.
Distract from what?
Idk, probably not Epstein
What’s this Epstein?
A relic from ancient Babylonia
From all the he’s definitely a pedophile stuff.
Mr. President a 2nd plane has hit the ballroom.
Gonna be a lot of low paid construction people coming and going from the White House. Be a shame if something were to happen…
Nah. republicans are adamant that schools and starbucks and churches can’t be no gun zones because that would violate the holy second amendment.
But any time it actually matters to them? Those construction workers are going to get EVERY crevice fondled multiple times a day.
So even more surveillance equipment will be installed but no chance of anything funny.
That also assumes he would be anywhere near the noise of construction. Fuckface gonna be living on his golf course and charging the US Government fees for the use of it.
For someone to get to work on a government site, you have to pass a background check. Since Secret Service is involved, they will check social media as well.
Clark Construction is doing most of the building, outside of the engineering construction, and they are actually fairly good in the industry. They intentionally provide a starting point to get into trades with pre-apprenticeship employment, which is huge in construction trades. Wages and benefits are on par with national averages for non-union labor.
The lowest paid people are “helpers” and they fuck up plenty when they try not to and aren’t allowed to touch anything that could be of consequence. At most they could write a message on something nobody will see until the next renovation.
Guaranteed to have money laundry
low paidunpaid construction peopleFTFY
That’s who built it in the first place. Trump is accidentally following an historical precedent.
Remember when trump got a bunch of undocumented Eastern European (polish I believe) immigrants to do the demolition and excavation work on the property that would become trump tower through the connections of his mafia consiglieri McCarthyite fixer lawyer Roy Cohn (who also had connections to human trafficking rings and a home for orphaned boys in norther ireland that MI5 and MI6 were using to recruit children to be abused for the purposes of Kompromat farming and blackmail rackets almost identical to the kind of operation Epstein and maxwell(whom trump met several years after Cohn died in ‘86)were running and then when the immigrant labor team, who had been contracted to do the work due to their very low bid, was finished with the work they were reported to immigration enforcement and then deported and trump saved a bunch of money by not having to pay what was owed on their services…… and then trump did something similar in Atlantic City by just refusing to pay contractors because it was cheaper to fight them in court and or settle since most couldn’t afford legal representation and many ended up going bankrupt. Trump’s excuse for this was that they did bad work but many of the contractors whom he did this to, litigated against and settled with he had the audacity to request them to do more work after the fact. So i can imagine what kind of fraud he is going to pull on this monstrosity of a neo-gilded age ball room but I would expect at least for trump to pocket half of the over inflated estimate and them cut as many corners as possible to try and further skim more off the top. Like how has this fuck not been prosecuted for violating the emoluments clause? It should really also include family members acting on behalf of the president’s past present and future business interests. This administration and subsequently the entire country as a result are in such a mess. And we can thank Roy Cohn for teaching trump how to brazenly commit fraud and get away with it continuously.
It would be awful if someone finally did the thing
And going off his previous projects, its gonna be done as cheaply as humanly possible. Gold paint on Styrofoam turds.
Sigh.
They’ll cordon off the East wing.
Right…the government doesn’t have enough money. And then there’s this.
Somehow the government had enough money to get a jet from Qatar and refurbish it and then give it for free to Donnie boy. Rumours are it will cost 900 million to refurbish it.
Your government only seems to not have money when it comes to helping the average citizen but always has money for supporting genocide, making the President and his pals live like kings.
Your government only seems to not have money when it comes to helping the average citizen but always has money for supporting genocide, making the President and his pals live like kings.
Always have. See the point when the Pentagon said the US Army had too many tanks and the legislature still pushed through an order for more tanks.
The “We don’t have enough money” is because we don’t have the military to pull a one turn military victory a la Civ so people starving is a sacrifice they’re willing to make.
Supposedly the government isn’t paying for this:
The construction is expected to cost $200 million, funded by President Donald Trump and other private donors, and is slated to begin in September.
Of course, the government will probably be stuck with the bill for extra security around the construction site.
I would go so far as to say trump has NEVER actually paid for anything legitimately. At best, he used daddy’s money early on.
Calling it now. “funded by (fuckface)” means “funded by fuckface’s library fund” and, in honor of his great gift to the american people, he’ll get another billion added to that fund ahead of this. Of which he’ll pay out… maybe a few grand. And the rest will just mysteriously disappear.
They can rename it to the gold house. Or, the yellow house. Or the piss house. Yeah that seems to fit better
The Out House
🎖️
It kind of reminds me of the French palace in Versailles. Whatever happened to those guys…
Versailles as imagined by a schlocky Queens son-of-a-slumlord property developer whose idea of luxury is Atlantic City.
An eyesore and a vandalization of a historic structure. Even Albery Speer would have rolled his eyes at this monstrosity.
