Look at this totally unnecessary monstrosity messing up the WH lawn.

[appleannie1]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-white-house-ballroom-renderings-construction-details/?ftag=CNM-00-10aac3a

Can you imagine how many hungry people could be fed or how many homeless people could have living quarters built? What a waste of tax dollars. I think he is making sure no one can ever plant a garden there to provide food for DC food pantries again and the Easter egg rolls are a thing of the past too.

[MizLibby]

1. It looks F'ing soviet!!!

but what can you expect???

[Disaffected]

2. Trump's ultimate

"Let them eat cake" moment. For now at least....

[Arazi]

3. Every king needs a throne room

[struggle4progress]

9. He must really be full of it to need a porcelain throne that big

[The Blue Flower]

4. Albert Speer's dream come true

He died too soon.

[Ping Tung]

5. Has he ordered a few more tons of gilt so he could out-kitsch Van Buren and Liberace?

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[Xavier Breath]

6. Nauseating.

[Abolishinist]

7. Gold prices have increased 42% YTD.

Coinkydink?

[GoCubsGo]

23. That's not real gold.

As with all of the "gold" shit in the Oval Office, it's gold Rust-o-leum. Gold has gone up because the "Buy Gold!" crowd has been pushing it it non-stop as insurance against inflation. That has created a supply-and-demand situation, which has driven the price higher.

[Johnny2X2X]

8. 85%

85% chance we get a giant Gold Trump sign in 40 foot high letters on the front of the White House soon. Complete with twinkling lights.

[ancianita]

10. Corporate donors helped build it. From the link...

...corporate and individual donors have pledged nearly $200 million to cover construction costs, and fundraising is ongoing.
Google,
R.J. Reynolds,
Booz Allen Hamilton,
Lockheed Martin,
Palantir and
NextEra Energy have donated, sources told CBS News, and so have firms in the tech, manufacturing, banking and health industries.

Guilded Age Corporatocracy = Fascism



As tens of millions of Americans lose their health care, they need to remember who built this.

[appleannie1]

17. It does not say what was promised in return. Those fat cats don't do anything that does not benefit them.

[ancianita]

20. Exactly because that's what they pay for -- favors AND secrecy about the favors.

[newdeal2]

11. Those oversized windows make it look like a high school gym

Really tacky. This should not be approved it is way too big and doesn’t fit with the rest of the historic White House. This will be hard to undue unfortunately.

[GoCubsGo]

21. Those windows will make it a lot easier to tear down that eyesore.

That's if the construction actually gets completed. At the rate Trump is deteriorating, he'll be gone before that happens, one can only hope. It looks like flimsy shit. The first big snowfall, and the roof caves in.

[dalton99a]

12. Low-life trash.

[JoseBalow]

13. Think about how many paying donors you could fit in there

The Rose Garden abomination is just too small to be sufficiently lucrative for that greedy philistine.

[Stinky The Clown]

14. Were I the next president I would oder it demolished on Day One

[eppur_se_muova]

15. Or convert it to the National Museum of Presidential Corruption. nt

[Tommy Carcetti]

19. That's what the Ukrainians did with former leader Yanukovych's palace.

I actually visited there.

They have all the tacky knickknacks he left behind before fleeing to Russia.

[eppur_se_muova]

25. I would probably have found that a memorable experience. It's one thing to know such things went on, but ...

... actually witnessing the sheer excess, and so often the tastelessness, shatters any doubts that such people succeeded on merit.

Oh, and one more sign that Ukrainians know their shit.

[Stinky The Clown]

27. I think it would diminish the White House by scale and tackiness

[Hassin Bin Sober]

16. Yep. Especially since it's being paid for by trump and his pals. It would be glorious to watch them howl

Leavitt said the project would be paid for by private donors and the president himself,

[Diamond_Dog]

26. Me too.

I would order that everything he touched be taken down, thrown in the trash, or demolished,so the White House and Washington DC look as if he were never there. I want no trace of him left behind at all.

[CTyankee]

18. I've seen enough...just one glance of pictures of this monstrosity was one too many...

I refuse to look and I won't be visiting D.C. again, if ever, as I am now elderly. I truly will hate leaving this earth with America in his clutches so I hope to live long enough to see his ass get thrown out of it and the WH restored to its former self.

[Grim Chieftain]

22. The White House and its grounds DO NOT belong to the president

It is a temporary dwelling that belongs to the American people. It is not his to destroy at will. Will no one ever stand up and stop this evisceration of OUR White House and our democracy?

God, I am stunned by the unbridled control he has over every damn thing!

[greatauntoftriplets]

24. I'm curious to find out how large the cost overruns will be.

And will he used undocumented construction workers to avoid paying the union rate?

[kentuck]

28. Just what we need, huh?

Then everyone will be asking, "why didn't someone stop him?????"

[RobinA]

29. Maybe Park

that damn 747 in there. The first exhibit (after the entire building) in a Monument To Corruption.