The White House has announced that it will vastly expand the East Wing to include a massive new ballroom. The 'exquisite addition' is slated to cost $200 million from private donors, and will begin construction in September 2025
Definitely a lot of hopium but this feels more like cashing out than nesting.
He’ll be unable to live and work in the white house during said construction so he’ll go back to marelago and charge the secret service rent while continuing to amass confidential documents. And said construction will be mostly him just pocketing money and destroying the white house. Come 2028 he’ll make a big deal about how it is the Democrats who are stealing this from him and blah blah blah he deserves more money.
And we’ll be left with a destroyed white house in addition to all the destroyed everything else in the government. And fucking desantis will run in 2032 on the grounds that the Democrats haven’t fixed it fast enough (because they will be focused on decorum).
That said, this could also be how trump moves the center of government to a shitty golf course so… But I think he understands why he wants to be somewhere with a really big bunker.
But it IS worth remembering. The continental US is REAL fucked from climate change. And the oligarchs know this. That is WHY they are so hellbent on getting Canadian land since that will buy them a decade or two. Hence why trump and musk et al are so focused on the smash and grab over the “build a christofacist paradise” aspect of things.
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Or planning on not leaving.
Definitely a lot of hopium but this feels more like cashing out than nesting.
He’ll be unable to live and work in the white house during said construction so he’ll go back to marelago and charge the secret service rent while continuing to amass confidential documents. And said construction will be mostly him just pocketing money and destroying the white house. Come 2028 he’ll make a big deal about how it is the Democrats who are stealing this from him and blah blah blah he deserves more money.
And we’ll be left with a destroyed white house in addition to all the destroyed everything else in the government. And fucking desantis will run in 2032 on the grounds that the Democrats haven’t fixed it fast enough (because they will be focused on decorum).
That said, this could also be how trump moves the center of government to a shitty golf course so… But I think he understands why he wants to be somewhere with a really big bunker.
But it IS worth remembering. The continental US is REAL fucked from climate change. And the oligarchs know this. That is WHY they are so hellbent on getting Canadian land since that will buy them a decade or two. Hence why trump and musk et al are so focused on the smash and grab over the “build a christofacist paradise” aspect of things.