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When we get the WH back again, what should the ballroom be used for? (Original Post) milestogo Oct 2025 OP
Recycled construction materials. johnnyfins Oct 2025 #1
Reclaim all the gold , and return it to the people.. Restore the East Wing the way Ars Longa Oct 2025 #46
It should be torn down andrebuild the East Wing Trueblue1968 Oct 2025 #47
Tear It Down And Restore The East Wing WiVoter Oct 2025 #2
Make "Trump will pay for the reconstruction" the Democratic campaign slogan, sop Oct 2025 #8
Yes, this is an issue everyone can understand and a promise that a president could keep. Walleye Oct 2025 #18
Trump is so unheathy, he wont live much !ongerr. That is what i think. His body looks sick Trueblue1968 Oct 2025 #48
Union jobs BeyondGeography Oct 2025 #3
Landfill. /nt bucolic_frolic Oct 2025 #4
A courtroom for MAGA trials muriel_volestrangler Oct 2025 #5
You and I think alike, Muriel_volestrangler... Trueblue Texan Oct 2025 #7
I was thinking a place for public hangings milestogo Oct 2025 #12
+1 leftstreet Oct 2025 #14
absolutely 1st order of business rampartd Oct 2025 #19
Something similar to the Nuremberg trials?nt Trueblue Texan Oct 2025 #6
omg Skittles Oct 2025 #31
Demolish it and haul it to the dump.Burn down the white house Autumn Oct 2025 #9
It's going to take a hell of a lot to get the smell of stupid out of the room! Initech Oct 2025 #32
The stench will never leave. Autumn Oct 2025 #43
Gravel for landscaping. Crunchy Frog Oct 2025 #10
Construction debris. Tear that fucker down on Jan 21, 2029. marble falls Oct 2025 #11
Blow it to smithereens along with Fat Fuck's 'legacy' Blue Owl Oct 2025 #13
Hearings then criminal trials dlilafae Oct 2025 #15
artillery practice rampartd Oct 2025 #16
Tear it down and salt the earth obamanut2012 Oct 2025 #17
Let the Rebl2 Oct 2025 #20
Tear it down RainCaster Oct 2025 #21
As another has said, should be torn down and the original restored. sakabatou Oct 2025 #22
Kindling Easterncedar Oct 2025 #23
Dismantle it and sell it to someone who loves drump and will foot all the allegorical oracle Oct 2025 #25
Looks like the ceiling will be high enough for a gallows, or a guillotine Americanme Oct 2025 #24
Compost heap Dave says Oct 2025 #26
War crimes trials SocialDemocrat61 Oct 2025 #27
By then it will be a portal to hell. spanone Oct 2025 #28
Firewood Hekate Oct 2025 #29
Tear the fucker down and recycle the materials, if that's even possible. Ocelot II Oct 2025 #30
TEAR IT DOWN! John Coktosten Oct 2025 #33
Tear The F'ing thing down! Don't Use it! rebuild the East Wing Bread and Circuses Oct 2025 #34
Demolition FirefighterJo Oct 2025 #35
Nuremberg 2.0. ZZenith Oct 2025 #36
Command center and court room for investigation and prosecution PufPuf23 Oct 2025 #37
Do you think it'll ever be completed? xmas74 Oct 2025 #38
Doubt anything will happen to it, sad to say. Xolodno Oct 2025 #39
Summer home for the Loch Ness Monster, n/t OneBlueDotS-Carolina Oct 2025 #40
An Immigration Processing Center ProfessorGAC Oct 2025 #41
I'm sorry to say that it has occurred to me that President Trump isn't done. Morbius Oct 2025 #42
Realistically , how useful would it be if they kept it JI7 Oct 2025 #44
Finger painting lessons for all the Kindergarten students in DC ornotna Oct 2025 #45

johnnyfins

(3,843 posts)
1. Recycled construction materials.
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 04:04 PM
Oct 2025

That is, of course, assuming we get out of this without some sort of american fuhrerbunker scene that rhymes with Berlin in 1945.

Ars Longa

(547 posts)
46. Reclaim all the gold , and return it to the people.. Restore the East Wing the way
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 10:12 PM
Oct 2025

it was. It would be a good metaphor for the the whole Country!!

sop

(18,866 posts)
8. Make "Trump will pay for the reconstruction" the Democratic campaign slogan,
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 04:12 PM
Oct 2025

like Trump did with "Mexico will pay for the wall."

Walleye

(45,072 posts)
18. Yes, this is an issue everyone can understand and a promise that a president could keep.
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 04:26 PM
Oct 2025

Trueblue1968

(19,274 posts)
48. Trump is so unheathy, he wont live much !ongerr. That is what i think. His body looks sick
Fri Oct 24, 2025, 12:17 AM
Oct 2025

Trueblue Texan

(4,533 posts)
7. You and I think alike, Muriel_volestrangler...
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 04:11 PM
Oct 2025

I wrote my comment before I read yours or the others.

rampartd

(4,737 posts)
19. absolutely 1st order of business
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 04:29 PM
Oct 2025

these should be military tribunals , the supremes themselves among the defendants. locate the scaffold outside the capital and call it "pence's revenge"

Autumn

(48,977 posts)
9. Demolish it and haul it to the dump.Burn down the white house
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 04:13 PM
Oct 2025

and rebuild it, Could even add offices to thepctial and they can buy a house or live in a rental. Presidents come out of office wealthy anyway.

Initech

(108,939 posts)
32. It's going to take a hell of a lot to get the smell of stupid out of the room!
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 06:50 PM
Oct 2025

But it can be done!

Blue Owl

(59,296 posts)
13. Blow it to smithereens along with Fat Fuck's 'legacy'
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 04:21 PM
Oct 2025

Fuck them all and the piece of shit they rode in on

dlilafae

(459 posts)
15. Hearings then criminal trials
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 04:23 PM
Oct 2025

Uncovering each and every criminality, and each associate and leader who were involved. Only it's costing them this time to uncover the truth.

rampartd

(4,737 posts)
16. artillery practice
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 04:24 PM
Oct 2025

tthere is a palace in manila where curious tourists can see a great collection of shoes.

RainCaster

(13,765 posts)
21. Tear it down
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 05:50 PM
Oct 2025

Put up a small statue in it's place as a reminder of the destruction the GOP has caused our country.

And charge the costs to those companies that paid for this monstrosity.

allegorical oracle

(6,512 posts)
25. Dismantle it and sell it to someone who loves drump and will foot all the
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 06:30 PM
Oct 2025

costs. (England sold the London bridge to some American folks.) One of tsf's billionaire buddies can purchase it, reconstruct it far, far away, like S Dakota -- and make it a tourist attraction. MAGAts will pay to see it.

Americanme

(511 posts)
24. Looks like the ceiling will be high enough for a gallows, or a guillotine
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 06:24 PM
Oct 2025

Right wing keeps bringing up public executions, maybe we should give them what they want. I say this in jest, of course, I don't believe our government should be killing our own people. If it is going to look as horrible as it seems, it should be razed. It will make the White House look like a minor feature of the trump Taj Mahal, part 2. This will be unacceptable. The White House should not be overshadowed by any ballroom.

Dave says

(5,442 posts)
26. Compost heap
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 06:32 PM
Oct 2025

After all, that is what it is now (or will be — metaphorically, of course).

Ocelot II

(130,814 posts)
30. Tear the fucker down and recycle the materials, if that's even possible.
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 06:41 PM
Oct 2025

It will be the cheapest possible construction - particle board, plywood, gold spray paint and styrofoam geegaws from Hobby Lobby and chandeliers from a bankrupt casino - so Trump can pocket whatever funds are left over; it will probably be such low-grade garbage that it will have to be hauled to a landfill.

PufPuf23

(9,891 posts)
37. Command center and court room for investigation and prosecution
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 07:09 PM
Oct 2025

of Trump era criminals.

Then the 24-hour museum of American diversity and love for one another.

xmas74

(30,068 posts)
38. Do you think it'll ever be completed?
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 07:09 PM
Oct 2025

I don't and if it is it will be such poor quality it will blow away with a stiff wind.

Xolodno

(7,359 posts)
39. Doubt anything will happen to it, sad to say.
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 07:10 PM
Oct 2025

Next President is going to busy as hell trying to undo the mess he created here and in the world. I'm going to guess that TSF will name the room after himself, but the next President will change the name. And maybe, over time, they will get rid of the overt zealous use of gold.

Morbius

(1,025 posts)
42. I'm sorry to say that it has occurred to me that President Trump isn't done.
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 07:23 PM
Oct 2025

I think he's gonna tear down the rest of the White House and declare Mara Lago the new Presidential House, which he will "donate" at the "end of his term".

JI7

(93,730 posts)
44. Realistically , how useful would it be if they kept it
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 09:44 PM
Oct 2025

I can't see it being useful at all . Maybe if they put on some big events but even that would br so few.

That's why it would have to be torn down or turned into something else entirely where it would be used . Becsuse if it's just kept as a ballroom it will just be a huge structure that gets very little to no use.

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