Pic Of The Moment: Why Should Taxpayers Waste $400 Million On A Secure Ballroom For Trump?

[EarlG]

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Republicans now plan for taxpayers to fund Trumps $400 million ballroom which he promised to cover with private donation

[Mr.Bee]

2. Trump is giving Taxpayers the idea there's trillions in government

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to spend renovating and building new monuments to himself
while he's robbing them (US) blind.
When he eventually leaves by one way or another
Americans are going to have a rude awakening
the government is broke, bankrupt, empty.

[Kid Berwyn]

10. "Me."

Trump’s 250-foot gold arch would tower over the Lincoln Memorial. When asked who it honors, he said: 'Me'

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But when Trump was asked by Ed O'Keefe of CBS News who the monument was meant to honor, he replied: "Me,” according to a video of the exchange shared on social media (4).

Source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/general/trump-s-250-foot-gold-arch-would-tower-over-the-lincoln-memorial-when-asked-who-it-honors-he-said-me/ar-AA21PJPd?ocid=BingNewsSerp1011

[pat_k]

20. No need to be broke for long. All it would take is a one-time levy on billionaires.

A "down payment to the nation for the bounty you've earned on our backs" levy.

They would barely feel it. Instead of shoveling bribes at the regime, they would just be putting the dollars directly into the nation's coffers.

[surfered]

3. First it was to be paid for by bribes..uh, I mean donations

Now Lindsey Graham is talking taxpayer dollars, 400 million of them.

[niyad]

4. There is a supermax just down the road from me!

[live love laugh]

5. How'd the price go from $300 to $400m?

Not that any money should be spent on it but the media stenographers and news readers are not asking.

[Dave Bowman]

14. He puts the money in his pocket. Damn crook.

[orleans]

19. they underestimated the price of gold spray paint from home depot?

and that's what skyrocketed the price.
they've been singing that $400,000 for a long time now.

[Botany]

6. We already have a place for him in Florence, Colorado. The U.S. Super Max Prison.

He should be there right now for his theft and sale of our nation’s top secrets to Russia.
We executed 2 people for doing that in the 1950s (the Rosenbergs) and Robert Hansen
died @ that prison doing 16 life sentences. Unfortunately the SCOTUS ruled that laws
don’t apply to President Trump.

Btw since the ballroom will really be a bunker I can’t help but think about a famous fascist
and his bunker in Berlin in 1945.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. Home sweet home in a

[Kid Berwyn]

8. Note the transition from "private donation" to US Taxpayer funding.

Smooth. Seamless. Missing from the Mighty Wurlitzer.

[pat_k]

22. He can't build without congressional approval, and I suspect ...

... there would be SERIOUS problems getting legislation through that would authorize a public project paid for by private funds -- particularly under the unbelievably corrupt ballroom "contract" the grifter-in-chief has going.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. K&R

[FakeNoose]

11. He can have his fancy dinners at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC

He has already ruined it for the rest of us anyway.



EDIT TO ADD: Nobody has explained where they're going to park all the cars for 2,000 attendees at the White House!?! There's no place to park 1,000+ cars unless they start taking over land from the National Mall.

[HubertHeaver]

18. Dont give him ideas.

He will build a multi-story parking structure on the National Mall.

[Mr.Bee]

12. I Want To See

Trump's Assets Liquidated to pay for all this
bullshit the American people never asked for.
We asked for Medical coverage for all,
We asked for a Middle-Class Tax Cut
We asked for release of Epstein files,
Instead we got trump renovations
ICE military, secret police
and a war he started and declared by himself
after demanding the Nobel prize
for eight wars he ended??

Hold. Him. Accountable!

[dalton99a]

13. Trump does need to be in maximum security.

[Scalded Nun]

15. First, charge that asshole with willful destruction of government property

Then bill his sorry ass for cost of replacement.

This was done without formal approval or consent. This needs to be put into the pile of other shit he has done, fleeced, stolen, destroyed, etc.). When the time comes, and it will, freeze any/all assets (monetary, real property and anything else of value) and recover cost of reparations from that pool.

That would be separate from recovering all monies he (and his family) has stolen or otherwise illegally accumulated (see emoluments, contract fraud, bribery).

Maybe firing up a class-action lawsuit against him and his family brought by the citizens of the US would be possible. Not a lawyer, but this seems like something worth looking in to.

[Clouds Passing]

16. N.O.

[Initech]

17. The Fox shock jocks have been going into overdrive justifying the bullshit ballroom.

I’m starting to think they want it more than he does.

[quazimojo]

21. Wait a minute...

I’m confused, I thought that Mexico was paying for the ballroom?