That Donald J. Trump Is Walling off the White House

[MineralMan]

is clear evidence that his administration has utterly failed. A good and just President has no need to turn the White House into a fortress.

Most Presidents welcome visitors to White House tours. You, Donald John Trump, stopped allowing the public to take tours of the White House as soon as you were elected. [Note: I stand corrected. He re-instituted the tours in March of 2017. Due to Covid-19, they are no longer allowed, though. My mistake.]

You are afraid of American citizens. You are afraid of people in the Democratic Party. You are even afraid of the very people you once hired to be part of your administration.

Your fences and walls and concrete barriers are nothing but protections from your own fears.

You are a scared little man who believes a President of the United States must hide away from those being governed.

Resign, Mr. President. You are not suited for the job. If you cannot welcome U.S. citizens into the People's House, you do not belong there.

Pull up your Big Boy diaper and resign. Leave governing to those who don't need to live in fear.

[SoonerPride]

1. Is Mexico paying for it?

[milestogo]

26. Antifa is going to get the bill, if he can find them.

But its a lot cheaper than walling off Mexico.

[yellowdogintexas]

43. My First Response!! nt

[Zoonart]

2. This is the PEOPLES' HOUSE... not Trump's house.

He must RESIGN.

(I know he won't, but I think now is the time for that drumbeat.)

[malaise]

3. When you steal the WH you have to wall it off

Don the criminal Con stole the 2020 elections with help from ReTHUGs at all levels and the man who owns him in Russia.

[MineralMan]

4. He has barricaded himself into his own house.

Time to call SWAT.

[malaise]

6. He will learn

That's what happens when you hate books

[MineralMan]

9. I doubt that, really.

I do not think he is capable of learning.

[malaise]

12. Just wait until he's sitting in the dock

in a courtroom

[MineralMan]

13. I hope to see that day.

[Mariana]

5. The weird thing is, the White House is already a fortress.

Does any of this actually improve security at all?

[MineralMan]

7. No, it doesn't add any security really.

Not against any real threats against Trump. It only serves to make him feel less afraid.

How sad it is that a President of the United States lives in fear of his own constituents!

Panicky fear is not a good look for "the Leader of the Free World." Nope.

[Wounded Bear]

14. It moves protesters far enough away that Trump doesn't have to listen to them...

He figures if he can't hear them, they don't exist.

[MineralMan]

19. I suspect the White House is pretty soundproof to sounds

from outside. But, Donnie feels safer inside prison walls, apparently. We should help protect him by putting him inside a real prison.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. Is the White House Trump's spider hole?

[MineralMan]

11. No. That's underground beneath the White House.

He has a very fancy spider hole he can retreat into. It cost many, many millions of dollars to create. Soon, he may have to retreat into it as his fear and paranoia grow. He's already been down there once recently.

[lindysalsagal]

10. ...

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[Bengus81]

15. He could use this as an excuse to go to Mar-a-loco "for his safety" but it's too damn hot now.....

Aw shucks...

[MineralMan]

16. No decent President needs to fear for his safety.

That Trump feels that he needs protection from the people is a true sign of his lack of qualifications for his job.

He should resign and go into hiding somewhere else.

[Kota]

17. Scares me, I think he is planning on escalating things.

[MineralMan]

18. I think you might be correct.

We will have to wait and see, though.

[CrispyQ]

29. You can bet the bank that this is going to be the ugliest and most chaotic election ever.

He's got five months to disrupt and distract while Billy Barr works in the background to devise some bullshit to pull when the Con loses.

[HipChick]

20. I think it's a trial run from when he loses in Nov..and it's not his house

It's the people's WH..

[MineralMan]

21. I cannot see into Trump's brain.

Only madness can be found there.

[NewJeffCT]

22. Even Nixon met with protesters

Donny has to go hide in his bunker

https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/05/17/richard-nixon-kent-state-protests-white-house-lincoln-memorial/

[MineralMan]

24. True. Trump fears everyone at this point.

That makes him very dangerous, like a cornered animal.

[calimary]

56. don the bunker boy. Right there with other birds of a feather: Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein.

Like that tweet says - while they gas their own people.

Wow - you're in FINE company, donald, I must say.

[Dios Mio]

23. Sleep well, ass wipe in chief

[MineralMan]

25. He never sleeps well.

That's why he's up in the wee hours and using his Tweeter.

[bucolic_frolic]

27. I think the walls indicate plans to steal the White House and sell it as commercial real estate

which by the way, he could try to do with more liquid federal assets.

[MineralMan]

28. More likely he wants to transfer the deed into his own name

and turn it into a fancy bed and breakfast place.

[bucolic_frolic]

30. lol, yes

and taxpayers are paying for the wall and all!

I am just so angry about this. What a waste of resources on the dregs of humanity.

[MineralMan]

32. On the other hand, "Trump's White House Wall"

can serve as a symbol of his cowardice and fear. We can help make that happen.

[Aviation Pro]

31. Trudeau being prescient again

https://readingdoonesbury.com/2019/12/29/even-richard-nixon-has-got-soul-comparing-watergate-and-the-trump-impeachment-in-doonesbury/

[MineralMan]

33. Very good!

Thanks!

[crickets]

61. Thanks for that - I adore Trudeau. nt

[Gothmog]

34. trump is losing it

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[MineralMan]

35. So it seems.

Of course, he has been doing that systematically since January of 2017.

It's also prophetic for this November, I think.

[onenote]

36. A bit of an overstatement.

While WH tours were suspended right after Trump was inaugurated in January 2017, they resumed around seven weeks later (in March 2017) and were ongoing until they were suspended again due to the pandemic. So I wouldn't cite that as an example of Trump walling off the WH.

That's not to suggest Trump isn't afraid of pretty much everything. He most clearly is.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

44. Are those the daytime tours or the ones of the West Wing in the evening? NT

[onenote]

52. As in the past, West Wing tours are available, but very hard to get

[mahatmakanejeeves]

58. I went on one of those, I suppose about ten years ago.

I had a coworker who was detailed to work in the Executive Office Building. He arranged for his old office mates to apply for the tour. We all passed the test, so we got to take the tour of the West Wing one evening.

There were a lot of people in line, so it couldn't have taken that many connections.

I've never been on the daytime tour.

[MineralMan]

57. I corrected my OP.

[FakeNoose]

37. Remember last August in Puerto Rico?

It took 9 or 10 days of protest marches and civil unrest (mostly non-violent) but Puerto Ricans were successful in getting their corrupt, ineffective Governor to finally resign.

Here's a quick reminder: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212292102

[geardaddy]

38. He's a paranoid sociopath

He always thinks people are out to get him. He needs to resign now!

[Dukkha]

39. This is Howard Hughes level of paranoia

Except in 45's case the people really are out to get him.

[soothsayer]

40. Pennsylvania Avenue is the new Wall Street

[BlueJac]

41. He is reinforcing his defense for his final stage of destroying America

The signs are everywhere! Buckle up for the election

[mahatmakanejeeves]

42. "Trump stopped allowing the public to take tours of the White House as soon as [he was] elected."

He did? I don't remember that.

[brooklynite]

46. Because he didn't...

Tours were ended only when the COVID-19 pandemic started.

[onenote]

54. to be precise, they were suspended until March 7, 2017

They were available from March 7 2017 until they recently were suspended due to the pandemic.

I don't know if other incoming administrations have paused public tours for the first few weeks, but it wouldn't surprise me if they had.

[MineralMan]

59. I was incorrect. I have corrected the OP.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

60. No problem. Thanks. NT

[ismnotwasm]

45. He didn't like the term Bunkerboy I take it.

So now he pretends he’s not in one

[relayerbob]

47. He has no Big Boy diapers

You can tell by the giant piles of crap laying around the country

[kimbutgar]

48. I wake up every morning hoping to hear he died of a massive heart attack

He is such an evil lying pos. I curse him everyday for the spite he has brought upon America.

[George II]

49. They're selling this along with the "trumpy bear" :

[classof56]

55. Good one!

[shelshaw]

50. It is now the American Wailing Wall

Everyone should immediately begin leaving prayer notes

[orangecrush]

51. Well said.

[Sogo]

53. Resign...Yes!

[Rabrrrrrr]

62. He is the snowflakiest of all the snowflakes in the MAGA movement!

And he's a complete and utter goddamn shitstain of a human being.

[Blue Owl]

63. Donald "Dumb as a Fencepost" Trump

The Chief Executive Orafice...