Suggestions for Repurposing his Hideous Ballroom monstrosity when he's finally gone?

[Betty Boom]

I don’t like the idea of tearing it down, no matter how hideous it is. So how can we repurpose it in a way that will most enrage him and his repulsive followers? Cut it in half, use half for public event space and half for space for the Office of Repairing America Post-Trump (RAPT)?

Suggestions welcomed. Let them know now that everything they are doing is going to be torn down, either literally or symbolically.

[eppur_se_muova]

1. Skating rink for Special Needs kids only !! Rehabilitation center for wounded vets !! Beds for the homeless !!

(Preferably from local D.C. families)

[hatrack]

2. Expanded space for Aberdeen Proving Grounds; special attention to plastic explosives and shaped charges . . .

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But save half of it as a shelter/halfway house for LGBTQ youth.

[greatauntoftriplets]

10. My father did ordnance training at the APG before going to Europe during WWII.

For some reason, I didn't know they still existed.

[Igel]

15. It's never going away.

My summer between jr and sr years in college I was sort of a data processing intern for DARCom fetching data tapes and processing them into graphs and tables for engineers to use in testing various bits of military weapons. (And we even--gasp!--had just installed a much smaller computer that had a < cry of amazement! > hard drive. It was maybe 18, 20" across, you could see the different plates making it up and read-write heads, but it had a dedicated data line so some tests just appeared like magic.)

Okay, that last bit sounds insane, but that's 1980 tech vs maybe 2020 tech. 40 years. But the office had a newly (re)hired employee. She'd taught elementary school math for decades, in her 60s and retired from teaching. And the "re" bit is because she'd worked for the DARCom computing facility there in the '40s when it hosted ENIAC, but had a kind of strange status. She was one of the women that hardwired the programs using " target="_blank">patch cords in doing work for the Manhattan Project. She was there when they found the " target="_blank">first computer bug.

She found the use of punch cards ( ) and the big-ass data tapes (:rofl as insanely advanced--and the hard drive--as we'd find the idea of a huge hard drive with removable plate disks. (Wait, did I mention that it was possible to open the glass cover over the hard drive and swap out disks ... from the hard drive?)

APG ... Still there after all those years. (Don't want to think about the friends I made there and lost track of over the years. They're almost assuredly gone. Or the tech they have now.)

[NewHendoLib]

3. A place to endlessly celebrate his death with parties

[rampartd]

4. the damn thing is bugged

a direct line to moscow . we need to trash every vehicle and aircraft that krasnov has opened to putin's people. including the oval office, qatar force 1, and both new boings.

[IbogaProject]

5. As a demolition target to rebuild properly

No way we should keep it.

[Klarkashton]

6. I disagree, it should be razed to the ground.

[Johonny]

7. Host site for free medical clinics

[Prairie Gates]

8. Raze it to the fucking ground...day one

I mean flame throwers and wrecking balls. Demolition fucking derby.

[Dorothy V]

9. At best, it will be an eyesore, so yeah, tear it down and replace it using the plans of the original East Wing, then

use about a third of it for the First Lady's offices, and the rest for free educational programs on democracy, civics and responsible citizenship, not only available at the East Wing but also made available nationwide at schools, museums, civic centers, etc. So many people will need to learn what it is to be an American.

All the orange monstrosities changes in the Residence itself also need to go.

[Ocelot II]

11. Tear it down and rebuild the East Wing. Otherwise,

turn it into a concert hall/performance venue for the ordinary citizens of D.C.

[Blues Heron]

12. Raze the motherfucker DOWN

[JBTaurus83]

13. A historical monument

Teaching people about fascism. We can put up historical documents showing his crimes along with his sycophants.

[BigMin28]

22. 90,000 sq. feet

Will not be enough space to document his crimes.

[bronxiteforever]

14. Jimmy Carter Memorial Food Pantry

[lame54]

16. Free clinic

[usonian]

17. Move the White House.

To the USS Potomac, FDR's floating White House. IN OAKLAND CALIFORNIA












Baseball/football and basketball stadiums right nearby, UNUSED.

[mercuryblues]

18. His funeral pyre

[Blasphemer]

19. Greenhouse. nt

[Vinca]

20. No repurposing. Tear it down and also remove the Cement Slab Garden and replant the roses.

You know what the whole ballroom thing is for, don't you? It's his own private shrine. It even resembles the Lincoln Memorial. He'll have a giant, gilded statue of himself front and center. That gets smashed first.

[woodsprite]

21. Make it the Federal Domestic Terrorism Unit, or FDT. nt

[Blue Full Moon]

23. Tear it down.

Pharaoh Akhenaten was "removed from history" because his successors, starting with Tutankhamun, systematically tried to erase him and his monotheistic religion from existence after his death. They dismantled his temples, destroyed his images, and altered king lists to exclude his name, which is why he was forgotten for centuries.

[GoCubsGo]

40. Yup, as long as there are MAGAts,

that monstrosity will become a monument to Dear Leader, regardless of how it's "repurposed." It won't be a reminder of what he did.

[Aristus]

24. Dismantle it, sell the materials, then donate the proceeds

to homeless charities.

[WmChris]

25. Housing

Housing for homeless veterans.

[RockRaven]

26. Tear it all down. Build a 9/11 memorial style footprint of the East Wing to commemmorate

what was destroyed by him.

[El Supremo]

27. a guillotine for MAGAs

[pat_k]

28. I want to see it gone -- replaced with a design that restores the architectural balance of the White House.

This is from AI, but I think captures something that is extremely significant:

The White House's architecture, particularly its neoclassical style, can be viewed as reflecting the balance of powers within the United States government. The design, with its symmetrical facades and balanced proportions, embodies the classical ideals of order, reason, and stability that were central to the country's founding principles.

The main body of the building, the Residence, is flanked by the East and West Wings, which house the offices for the President and Vice President. This layout physically separates the executive functions of the presidency from the living quarters, while keeping them connected. This can be interpreted as a symbolic representation of the separation of powers and the system of checks and balances, where different branches of government have distinct roles but must work in concert.

[oberle]

29. Use it for Nuremberg style trials

for the whole administration and for every single ICEGestapo and the other federal officers who took part in the abduction of people.

[Tribetime]

30. A courtroom to charge all of the trump enablers

[rickford66]

31. Raze it. A large "glass" box in DC will cost a fortune to heat and cool.

And there's regular upkeep and maintenance. Oh, and restore Jackie's Rose Garden. And remove Trump's name and photo from every government facility. Wow, the list could go on .......

[meadowlander]

32. Citizenship ceremonies and emergency accomodation for asylum seekers.

[Chipper Chat]

33. Demolish it.

Build it back the way it was.

[flvegan]

34. Obvious. Make it a prison.

Put all those MAGA fucks from Trump down through the admin. Cage them in the most secure, secret service protected building in the country. Use them as a reminder, give daily tours where people can throw shit at them. $10 to throw a full (gloved) handful of shit at Miller, Noem..whoever. Solve the national debt in like the first quarter.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

[Jack Valentino]

35. As I said previously, make it a soup kitchen/food bank for all those whose SNAP benefits

are to be cut off---

and, in the style of the Trump admin's violations of the Hatch Act,
put up big signs inside which state

"you're here because REPUBLICANS want you to STARVE,
and DEMOCRATS don't want to let that happen!"

Edit: OH-- and from a reply upthread which I have now read:
"For Nuremburg trials" against all the Trump Maga criminals--- between meals!
(I'm down with that!)

[Martin Eden]

36. TEAR IT DOWN

PERIOD.

[dalton99a]

37. Remove it along with all his other trash

[GoCubsGo]

38. It will become a monument TO Trump.

Tear the fucking thing down.

[dalton99a]

39. +1. It cannot be allowed to stay and become permanent.

[JCMach1]

41. Office of deMAGAfication HQ.

Then turn it into the tourist entrance/museum.

[Paladin]

42. Destroy it at the earliest possible opportunity.

There is no cause or purpose beneficial enough to justify such an obscene trump shrine existing in the future. I want it taken down, with all manner of coverage and public celebration, and I want the original White House restored as accurately as possible---East Wing and rose garden very much included. I don't give a fuck about how much money it cost to build, or how much more money its elimination will entail. I want it gone, with a nice shiny plaque explaining, in no uncertain terms, why it was taken down. Just as soon as possible.

[Blue Full Moon]

43. Along with anything else that has his name.