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The Blue Flower

(6,534 posts)
Wed Oct 22, 2025, 09:46 PM Oct 2025

There won't be a ballroom

There will only be destruction. He's incompetent and everyone he hires is incompetent. What if a storm moves in tonight and there are no walls or roof? What will this destruction do to the rest of the building? There is no plan. A ballroom is just an excuse for the destruction. And the wreckage of the East Wing will become the excuse for demolishing the remainder of the building.

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RedWhiteBlueIsRacist

(2,097 posts)
4. This is undoubtedly the lamest thing I've ever heard of coming from the U.S. Government.
Wed Oct 22, 2025, 10:09 PM
Oct 2025

I agree, there is something afoot about this whole ballroom shit. We're barely a functioning country right now, and it seems like it's all about to come crashing down with these goofballs in charge.

pat_k

(13,491 posts)
5. It has all been about sabotage of everything that represents the values of global citizenship
Wed Oct 22, 2025, 10:31 PM
Oct 2025

-- values like human-rights, rule of law, religious freedom, self-governance, and economic justice, and the thinking underlying those values, among them rationality, compassion as a moral imperative, and scientific inquiry.

He is destroying every lever of power we have to promote values of global citizenship at home and abroad. He and his regime are systematically destroying every mechanism by which the will of the American people is accurately measured and implemented. He is abusing the raw power of the American presidency to extort and coerce and to wreak havoc and exact vengeance on any person or nation he perceives as a competitor or opponent.

I suspect the whole notion of America as a beacon of hope -- a "shining city on a hill" -- turns his stomach. And the White House is a powerful symbol of that "shining city." Of course destroying it is in the mix. It is the symbol of that which he hates.

I don't know what psychology is driving this (beyond being a malignant narcissistic psychopath), but I think it has to do with the NY-DC corridor powerbrokers who never really invited him in -- with many of them ridiculing him as trashy, greedy, and uncouth. Perhaps many of those who rejected him embraced the values of global citizenship, and thus those values became the object of his hatred.

Who the fuck knows.

All I know is that destroying the physical structure of the White House seems completely consistent with all his other sabotage.

usonian

(25,891 posts)
6. When he's gone, move the White House
Wed Oct 22, 2025, 10:38 PM
Oct 2025
To the USS Potomac, FDR's floating White House. IN OAKLAND CALIFORNIA












Baseball/football and basketball stadiums right nearby, UNUSED. Party all the time.

Wifes husband

(738 posts)
7. He will build the ballroom
Wed Oct 22, 2025, 11:21 PM
Oct 2025

It will be gaudy and in poor taste, poorly constructed. Lots of fake gold. He will skim 25 to 50%.
He wants a monument, and to make money.
His name will be somewhere in large letters

calimary

(90,319 posts)
14. Yep. I suspect that's how this sordid episode will eventually conclude.
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 01:18 AM
Oct 2025

Makes me wonder: if what he has in mind isn’t finished by the time this term ends, is THAT part of the rationale he’ll use to try to stay in the White House? Will THAT be one of his excuses?

Be Leave On

(433 posts)
9. historical damage to WH
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 12:29 AM
Oct 2025

Who has done more damage to the White House?

1) The Canadians during the War of 1812?
2) The current President.

Aussie105

(8,033 posts)
10. The demolition is just a front.
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 12:31 AM
Oct 2025

Trump is looking for the secret entrance to the underground bunker, where Antifa, Obama, Harris and the ghost of Jimmy Carter are steering the anti-Trump Revolution.

If he can't find it there, the rest of the WH will come down too.

Trump will say . . . Look at what you made me do!

William Gustafson

(553 posts)
13. Please refer to the ball room as the "Jeffery Epstein Pedophile Ball Room"
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 01:17 AM
Oct 2025

hang that shit around his neck...

calimary

(90,319 posts)
15. KEEP hanging that shit around his neck!
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 01:21 AM
Oct 2025

Until the day he breathes his last. And then, even LONG beyond that.

I like your idea, AND the way you put it, btw! The Jeffrey Epstein Pedophile Ball Room! Perfect! So NOBODY EVER forgets.

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