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RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to News@lemmy.world · 7 days ago

White House East Wing demolished as Trump moves forward with ballroom construction, AP photos show

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White House East Wing demolished as Trump moves forward with ballroom construction, AP photos show

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Associated Press photos show the entire White House East Wing has been demolished as President Donald Trump moves ahead with building a ballroom.
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    You know, I’m glad he’s doing it. It’s a great metaphor, not just for the damage he’s doing to the country, but also how it will have enduring, irreversible consequences. The East Wing won’t just go back to normal when he’s gone. We’ve permanently lost something, and even if we stop that stupid fucking ballroom from taking it’s place, we will have to build something new there.

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      Once trump is gone they should seriously demolish all of his changes and revert it to exactly how it was before.

      Just make it as he has never been there.

      Then, in a corner room somewhere, add a publicly accessible space as a museum showing what shit will happen is you let fascists loose

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        If it were up to me we’d demolish the ballroom and leave it there, just a rotting pile of rubble lying on the White House lawn. Let it sit there as a reminder of all the damage our nation caused, even to ourselves, and how it can never be undone.

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    I cannot imagine the outrage if Biden had done this. There’d be actual violence from magats. It would be the only thing on all news radio and tv 24/7

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    The new Epstein Ballroom?

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    Big brain play.

    Canada can’t come and burn it down again if its demolished first.

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    Trump building the Epstein ballroom.

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      The cornerstone will be a vault with the Epstein files.

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        I imagine some of the documents Trump stole were the Epstein files that incriminate him

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    I really don’t care much for America… But it’s an absolute travesty… I’m genuinely surprised that it seems Americans are happy to be treated like utter shit by their own government.

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      Not all Americans. Unfortunately, both law enforcement and military are mostly complicit due to blind obedience, and yet a widescale mutiny is no longer an impossibility.

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      Its very unpopular, but the media wont frame it that way, so you wouldn’t know it unless you spoke to people in person and asked their opinions.

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    Trump, after seeing the demolition on TV, now wants the ballroom on the other side.

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    The brilliant minds behind this:

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    2 trillion dollars in debt added, and still no trimp/Epstein files!

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    Bin Laden wasn’t able to invade the capitol. Wasn’t able to demolish the White House.

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      Probably because Trump warned Hegseth about that bin laden guy a year ago

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        “‘Bin Laden determined to strike within the US’? Someone should probably do something about that!”

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    So, like, what happens with it when he dies before it is finished?

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      What happened with the pyramids?

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        What?

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      This; but instead of balls it’s human trafficking

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      Piss in the ball pit!

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    Can’t wait to see the Presidential pole dancers.

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    My prediction: he will visit that ballroom once, and never use it again.

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    Surebound the bastard still has some weight with the mobsters, who are likely to get his monument built.

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