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Kingofalldems

(40,004 posts)
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 09:16 AM Sep 2025

Objects being thrown from White House window:

Is this a normal White House operation? I have never thrown anything from my upstairs window. Does anyone else here do this sort of thing?



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Objects being thrown from White House window: (Original Post) Kingofalldems Sep 2025 OP
Which room of the White House is that? Does anyone have a floorplan? sop Sep 2025 #1
It is the East Room jmbar2 Sep 2025 #14
The East Room is located on the State Floor of the White House, which is the first floor of the residence. sop Sep 2025 #20
Disposing of debris during the renovation of the White House (1950) Donkees Sep 2025 #24
The thrown objects look like small trash bags. yardwork Sep 2025 #25
They are not going to fit a 90,000-square-foot ballroom in the east room. Autumn Sep 2025 #27
Despite... GiqueCee Sep 2025 #42
I'm guessing the Queen's Bedroom underpants Sep 2025 #32
That's what I thought. 70sEraVet Sep 2025 #33
I think it's the "B" room ybbor Sep 2025 #41
I agree, it looks like the stuff came out of the "b" room (bathroom?) window in the sitting room. sop Sep 2025 #45
🤣 ybbor Sep 2025 #48
I see what you're saying but it's to the left underpants Sep 2025 #52
Look again ybbor Sep 2025 #78
It's the East side AceIsThePlace Sep 2025 #87
Looks like a big bouquet of flowers? Drum Sep 2025 #2
Knowing this bunch it's probably the U.S. Constitution in a garbage bag!!!!!!! n/t Ars Longa Sep 2025 #94
Vance throwing out a dead body Ferrets are Cool Sep 2025 #3
Someone better count the dissenting journalists. n/t Hugin Sep 2025 #21
Are there actually ANY of those? I can't tell. AZ8theist Sep 2025 #72
They're all on substack. n/t Hugin Sep 2025 #74
Pootin shoved someone? SheltieLover Sep 2025 #4
Clothing? WTH? tanyev Sep 2025 #5
What sane person would work for Herr Poopy Pants? paleotn Sep 2025 #68
I'll take temper tantrum for $400, Alex. -nt CrispyQ Sep 2025 #6
Maybe the domestic help changed his bedsheets again. Norbert Sep 2025 #19
this gets my vote NJCher Sep 2025 #46
Astute insight! SheltieLover Sep 2025 #49
Looks like small JustAnotherGen Sep 2025 #7
Pieces of a corpse? Jilly_in_VA Sep 2025 #60
I wish JustAnotherGen Sep 2025 #69
Has anyone seen Melanoma today? Totally Tunsie Sep 2025 #102
Depends. sheshe2 Sep 2025 #8
Too big to be a ketchup bottle.... yardwork Sep 2025 #9
⬇️🤣 underpants Sep 2025 #11
I knew you'd see that, underpants! yardwork Sep 2025 #15
The ketchup alert status has been raised to KETCHCON 1! LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2025 #23
🤣 underpants Sep 2025 #30
Have fun with this meme LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2025 #76
Run!!! underpants Sep 2025 #10
That's what I was thinking, too! SheltieLover Sep 2025 #12
This message was self-deleted by its author jmbar2 Sep 2025 #13
Unverified reports confirm that Doodley Sep 2025 #16
Oh, my! Were these people raised in a barn? Hugin Sep 2025 #17
Why is there a "Queen's Bedroom"? milestogo Sep 2025 #18
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip stayed at yorkster Sep 2025 #63
Testing the heights?... MiHale Sep 2025 #22
Melania throwing his bum ass out newdeal2 Sep 2025 #26
Next is sheets tided together... rubbersole Sep 2025 #65
JD redecorating C_U_L8R Sep 2025 #28
👍 underpants Sep 2025 #31
Eeeeuuuuuuwww!!! calimary Sep 2025 #36
Yikes! Joinfortmill Sep 2025 #40
This may mean that trump is not in the White House LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2025 #29
Not to mention, would they be working on Labor day Weekend? I think nnot... FirstLight Sep 2025 #50
Probably a "Chamber Pot" being emptied. milestogo Sep 2025 #34
I call AI. Stupid Srkdqltr Sep 2025 #35
I agree. No independent photojournalists are allowed that close, absent WH approval. John1956PA Sep 2025 #57
There's the same metal roof in front of the camera lens as is on the WH. Looks like an allegorical oracle Sep 2025 #75
Supposedly taken from Vue Rooftop at 15th and Pennsylvania. LeftInTX Sep 2025 #93
Thank you for the information. To me, the video looks authentic. John1956PA Sep 2025 #98
It's just weird. LeftInTX Sep 2025 #99
Epstein Files? durablend Sep 2025 #37
Some of the Epstein files? Sneederbunk Sep 2025 #38
Hopefully the objects are trump and miller lostincalifornia Sep 2025 #39
Looks like a statue Cazzzza Sep 2025 #43
If its a statue I vote for Obama Tree Lady Sep 2025 #51
Welcome to DU LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2025 #85
That could be TACO, JD Sofaseducer, Herr Stephan Miller - they're all facsimiles of a man. Eric Trump? marble falls Sep 2025 #86
republicons up their occult shit BoRaGard Sep 2025 #44
Diaper service wash day? Sancho Sep 2025 #47
With President Jersey Shore Snooki, even this is now "normal." n/t flvegan Sep 2025 #53
Classified Documents? Deep State Witch Sep 2025 #54
Whatever it is, BlueMTexpat Sep 2025 #55
From your keyboard to God's screen! Jilly_in_VA Sep 2025 #62
Stephen Miller throwing out his latest skin suit after it shed off overnight. Midnight Writer Sep 2025 #56
Molting. That's how insects grow. thought crime Sep 2025 #104
Is the Secret Service aware of this possible sniper nest ? rickford66 Sep 2025 #58
Proof that Republicans are overgrown frat boys Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2025 #59
Testing for a possible defenestration? dhol82 Sep 2025 #61
The Epstein Files? surfered Sep 2025 #64
Hopefully, a long red tie stall attached to to its owner. Ping Tung Sep 2025 #66
Body parts and a second hand bone saw? 2MuchNoise Sep 2025 #67
Many.funny comments but kacekwl Sep 2025 #70
I know. It's probably contractors throwing stuff to pick up later. But still..... LeftInTX Sep 2025 #97
Testing the impact Figarosmom Sep 2025 #71
Well the only building angrychair Sep 2025 #73
Vue Rooftop at the Hotel Washington. Some one got a good pic of the WH from that lounge on Google maps. LeftInTX Sep 2025 #95
Excellent detective work angrychair Sep 2025 #103
Why is the @WhiteHouse flag flying at half mast? LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2025 #77
Minnesota shootings I believe. Kingofalldems Sep 2025 #82
Just JD hildegaard28 Sep 2025 #79
Milania making a run for it? Or JD Sofaphilia being given the "Russian" treatment for being ready to fill TACO's shoes. marble falls Sep 2025 #80
Trump has been flushing documents down the toilet again. LudwigPastorius Sep 2025 #81
Marital disagreement? Related: The other day a demented old man was photoed wandering on the WH roof. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2025 #83
Wouldn't all the windows have alarms on them? Bayard Sep 2025 #84
Do we know that this is real? OneGrassRoot Sep 2025 #88
I'm kinda doubting it too. underpants Sep 2025 #89
No one knows where it comes from. Not an official anything. I hear random guys laughing. LeftInTX Sep 2025 #91
Where This Was Filmed DET Sep 2025 #90
They mention the Vue Rooftop on Reddit. LeftInTX Sep 2025 #92
Screenshot - stop the video at 19 seconds FakeNoose Sep 2025 #96
WTH is going on down there? Kingofalldems Sep 2025 #100
A new way Faux pas Sep 2025 #101
It's been confirmed to be real Wiz Imp Sep 2025 #105
Great ---this will shut the gatekeepers up for a while. Kingofalldems Sep 2025 #106
Yeah, I think grounds were ahead of the story and Trump was behind and blamed it on AI..LOL LeftInTX Sep 2025 #107

jmbar2

(7,500 posts)
14. It is the East Room
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 09:31 AM
Sep 2025

The one that tRump wants to convert into a ballroom.


From Grok:

The East Room has been a focal point for various renovations and events throughout White House history. Given the context of the Trump administration's plans for a significant expansion and renovation, including the construction of a new ballroom, it is plausible that activities related to this project, such as debris removal, could be occurring in or near the East Room.


sop

(17,139 posts)
20. The East Room is located on the State Floor of the White House, which is the first floor of the residence.
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 09:38 AM
Sep 2025


That stuff looks like it came from a second floor window. Would workmen be throwing stuff from the second floor of the White House?

Donkees

(33,322 posts)
24. Disposing of debris during the renovation of the White House (1950)
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 09:51 AM
Sep 2025


Description
Wooden chute to hopper erected from southwest window of Room 22 for disposal of plaster and debris from second and third floors of the White House. Inside the room, an extension of the chute leads through the ceiling to the third floor.
Date(s)
February 6, 1950

https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/photograph-records/58-531-043

GiqueCee

(3,177 posts)
42. Despite...
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 10:52 AM
Sep 2025

... the limited view of the building in the video, I'm betting that the second window from the end would have to be the Queen's Bedroom.

ybbor

(1,696 posts)
41. I think it's the "B" room
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 10:51 AM
Sep 2025

Off of the Sitting room. If you watch the video, you can see the curve of the front of the house on the left. Also the arched window to the right is also in the plans.

sop

(17,139 posts)
45. I agree, it looks like the stuff came out of the "b" room (bathroom?) window in the sitting room.
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 10:58 AM
Sep 2025

Maybe Trump clogged up the toilet trying to flush one of his soiled diapers, then tossed it out the window?

underpants

(194,311 posts)
52. I see what you're saying but it's to the left
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 11:09 AM
Sep 2025

So I’d think it the room between the hall and the kitchen

ybbor

(1,696 posts)
78. Look again
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 12:39 PM
Sep 2025

It’s the sitting room off of the Lincoln Bedroom. The “B” room window.

AceIsThePlace

(7 posts)
87. It's the East side
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 02:55 PM
Sep 2025

Just to clarify…

This is an east side view of the White House; the left side around the corner as one looks at the front of the structure from Pennsylvania Avenue. Note the Eisenhower Executive Office Building (sometimes called the ugliest building in America), in the background. The Eisenhower Building is on the west side of the White House, so this is the east side.

Looking at the floor plan, second window from the left would make this the ‘B’ room off of the Lincoln Bedroom. Below this window there is no ground, but rather the roof of the East Colonnade, leading to the East Wing.

As noted by angrychair, this video is likely being recorded from an upper floor of the Treasury Building, which is across a narrow closed off side street from the East Wing. The background noise would indicate it is in a dining area or possibly during a reception of some sort.

Norbert

(7,502 posts)
19. Maybe the domestic help changed his bedsheets again.
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 09:38 AM
Sep 2025

The nerve of them doing their job.

NJCher

(42,190 posts)
46. this gets my vote
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 11:00 AM
Sep 2025

the only reason you would do this is to avoid carting something with an awful smell through the rest of the house.

Only reason.

Response to Kingofalldems (Original post)

Doodley

(11,547 posts)
16. Unverified reports confirm that
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 09:37 AM
Sep 2025

because they believed Trump was dead, they started to throw out his diapers.

Hugin

(37,242 posts)
17. Oh, my! Were these people raised in a barn?
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 09:37 AM
Sep 2025
No need to answer that…

From the diagram above that window is near a “Sitting Room”. I can very easily imagine that Jettro Trumpet thinks it says “Shitting Room” and does what he’s always done.

yorkster

(3,615 posts)
63. Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip stayed at
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 11:33 AM
Sep 2025

the White House in 1957. He was in the Lincoln Bedroom and the Queen was in the Rose Bedroon, now known as the Queen's
Bedroom.
Eisenhower was president at the time.

rubbersole

(10,947 posts)
65. Next is sheets tided together...
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 11:43 AM
Sep 2025

..and a woman climbing down wearing a trench coat with "I don't care do you?" printed on the back.

LetMyPeopleVote

(173,707 posts)
29. This may mean that trump is not in the White House
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 10:14 AM
Sep 2025


People don’t realize that this is weird because after 9/11 the windows were all replaced with sealed bullet proof windows including in the residence.

To throw something out the window, means taking the window out of the window pane itself.

BUT, security protocol says that contractors can’t have access to the residence while the President is staying at the White House.

So if work is being done by a contractor on the private residence that means Trump wasn’t at the White House last night/this morning…

FirstLight

(15,754 posts)
50. Not to mention, would they be working on Labor day Weekend? I think nnot...
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 11:08 AM
Sep 2025

soiled bedsheets? something foul, no doubt...

strange and weirdly encouraging...

milestogo

(22,343 posts)
34. Probably a "Chamber Pot" being emptied.
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 10:32 AM
Sep 2025

With all that gold, TSF is turning the White House into the Palace of Versailles.

John1956PA

(4,683 posts)
57. I agree. No independent photojournalists are allowed that close, absent WH approval.
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 11:18 AM
Sep 2025

Last edited Mon Sep 1, 2025, 12:49 PM - Edit history (1)

Also, it does not appear to be a zoom shot from south of the ellipse.

_______________________________

ON EDIT: I see I was mistaken when I first posted. I now see that the view is to the east side of the White House. As mentioned by another poster, the window seems to be that of the second floor sitting room. A post below accurately mentions that the Treasury Building is located east of the White House, and it may be the location from which the video was recorded.

allegorical oracle

(6,098 posts)
75. There's the same metal roof in front of the camera lens as is on the WH. Looks like an
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 12:28 PM
Sep 2025

adjoining building that's on the grounds.

marble falls

(70,074 posts)
86. That could be TACO, JD Sofaseducer, Herr Stephan Miller - they're all facsimiles of a man. Eric Trump?
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 02:53 PM
Sep 2025

Deep State Witch

(12,501 posts)
54. Classified Documents?
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 11:13 AM
Sep 2025

Maybe they're bags of classified documents? Or probably just Donnie's dirty Depends.

BlueMTexpat

(15,649 posts)
55. Whatever it is,
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 11:14 AM
Sep 2025

please let the next "object" thrown out the window be the Fascist Felon Pedophile!

kacekwl

(8,833 posts)
70. Many.funny comments but
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 12:13 PM
Sep 2025

someone threw something out of the upstairs window of the White House and there needs to be questions asked and answered.

Figarosmom

(9,387 posts)
71. Testing the impact
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 12:17 PM
Sep 2025

To see what happens when people "fall" from the windows? Or someone stealing something? Or maybe just JD being his hillbilly self?

angrychair

(11,609 posts)
73. Well the only building
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 12:20 PM
Sep 2025

That has a view of that side of the WH is Treasury. I hear people and background noise, music and talking for sure, just I've only been in that building a couple times so I can't imagine where this video is being filmed from in that building but it seems real but you never know nowadays.

angrychair

(11,609 posts)
103. Excellent detective work
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 09:14 PM
Sep 2025

That looks exactly like the video footage and would make sense given the music and talking.

Still doesn't answer what the hell they captured on video because I didn't even know those windows opened.

hildegaard28

(792 posts)
79. Just JD
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 12:42 PM
Sep 2025

Cleaning out Trump’s junk. The White House might have a new tenant soon. Nothing to see here.

marble falls

(70,074 posts)
80. Milania making a run for it? Or JD Sofaphilia being given the "Russian" treatment for being ready to fill TACO's shoes.
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 12:42 PM
Sep 2025

LudwigPastorius

(13,972 posts)
81. Trump has been flushing documents down the toilet again.
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 01:04 PM
Sep 2025

Some poor bastard has to unclog that shit.

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
83. Marital disagreement? Related: The other day a demented old man was photoed wandering on the WH roof. . . . . nt
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 01:07 PM
Sep 2025

Bayard

(28,181 posts)
84. Wouldn't all the windows have alarms on them?
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 02:15 PM
Sep 2025

Otherwise, I vote for large fries and ketchup.

OneGrassRoot

(23,924 posts)
88. Do we know that this is real?
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 03:10 PM
Sep 2025

Honest to god that’s always my first question now. I genuinely don’t know what or who to believe if it’s not from an official account. 🤷‍♀️

LeftInTX

(34,008 posts)
91. No one knows where it comes from. Not an official anything. I hear random guys laughing.
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 05:46 PM
Sep 2025

Reddit speculates it was taken at a roof top lounge at the Washington Hotel next door. But who knows? I don't live there and only visited once or twice in the 1960s.

DET

(2,336 posts)
90. Where This Was Filmed
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 05:42 PM
Sep 2025

The Treasury has been mentioned several times as the location where this may have been shot. I doubt it. The only potential area within the building with that kind of noise would be the cafeteria. When I worked at Treasury a million years ago, the cafeteria was on the first floor, and it didn’t sound like a nightclub. I don’t know if it even exists any more.

However, there is a restaurant near Treasury that shows a view of the White House that seems to match the video here. The place is called the Vue Rooftop and is at the top of the Hotel Washington, which is higher than Treasury. I’d post a picture but I don’t know how to do that.

Why does everything this White House does have to be weird.

FakeNoose

(39,786 posts)
96. Screenshot - stop the video at 19 seconds
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 06:01 PM
Sep 2025


It looks like something heavy ... maybe a book? I can't tell whether it's a man or a woman who threw it out the window.
Totally bizarre! I don't believe a White House employee would have done that.

Wiz Imp

(8,472 posts)
105. It's been confirmed to be real
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 02:58 PM
Sep 2025
https://time.com/7313902/white-house-video-window/
White House Says Viral Video of Object Tossed Out Window Was Result of ‘Regular Maintenance’
A video posted online on Monday of a black bag being heaved out of the White House showed maintenance work being done by a contractor, according to a White House official.

The video was originally posted on an Instagram account called “Washingtonianprobs” and spread widely on social media, prompting jokes about White House security protocol and speculation about what was being thrown out. It shows a person wearing white pants stepping a foot out onto a windowsill on the second floor of the White House and tossing down what appears to be a black plastic bag. Later someone tosses something long and white out the window. The second floor of the White House is where the President’s private residence is located.

“It was a contractor who was doing regular maintenance while the President was gone,” the White House official said in a statement in response to questions about the images.


I'm sure all those people who insisted it was AI will be back to admit they were wrong


LeftInTX

(34,008 posts)
107. Yeah, I think grounds were ahead of the story and Trump was behind and blamed it on AI..LOL
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 03:01 PM
Sep 2025

He doesn't know everything about the WH.

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