So now we know why Trump is desperate for his underground bunker.

[Baitball Blogger]

Putin is alleged to be hiding in an underground bunker to protect himself from assassination. Trump probably wants, not just the protection of the underground bunker, but also a command center set up so he can continue to govern.

Look, they have been preparing for this moment for decades. It looks surreal to us, but they really planned to throw this country into a scorched earth scenario.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221224098

[truddy777]

1. Yeah

It makes sense why they’d want a command center setup. If things go south, having a secure spot to keep calling the shots is basically the standard playbook for these types.

[Girard442]

3. ...stocked with Lugers. Loaded, within easy reach.

[11 Bravo]

36. I'm grateful that Lard Ass doesn't have a dog to kill first.

[Whip-poor-will]

2. Hitler's bunker

Coward's exit rather than do jail time.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Dunno. Peggy Noonan reported in 2001

how Shrub and Laura were ushered into a basement bunker on the night of 9/11 by SS and that seemed safe enough.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. Yes, there was always a bunker.

But why did Trump feel like he needed to enlarge it? Probably not deep enough for bunker busting missiles.

[rampartd]

6. not enough gold paint.

[vankuria]

8. He wants a "luxury" bunker

The one that currently there isn’t good enough.

[allegorical oracle]

30. For a billion bucks, the bunker walls ought to be solid gold. nt

[NameAlreadyTaken]

33. The XL potty chair.

[Trueblue Texan]

12. You know...that whole thing is crazy to me about 911...

On the night of 911 they sent the first family into the bunker, but when he was reading My Pet Goat to the school kids in Florida, the Secret Service let him stay and read after he knew the nation was under attack. His visit to the school wasn’t a secret—it was publicized. Anyone who wanted to take him down would have found him there. And what about the school kids he was putting at risk by staying? Yet AFTER the attacks when the entire nation was on full alert they send them to the bunker. That whole equation has never added up for me.

[johnnyfins]

15. There are a LOT of things from that day that

Don't add up. But if you start asking questions, you get labeled a "Truther".

[Aristus]

31. I just chalk it up to simple incompetence.

This isn't the Presidency's first foray into terminal ineptitude.

How quickly we forget.

GWB's odd little painting hobby, and his schoolboy crush on Michelle Obama shouldn't make us forget what a thin-skinned incompetent little man he was. We were hoping he would be the worst of it, and then we could go back to competent governance. How little we understood that the repukes were just softening up the ground for Trump.

[SergeStorms]

13. It was rather small....

for "The Donald's" tastes and there wasn't a single chandelier to be seen! There was a blatant lack of gold leaf on the walls, ceilings, floors, curtains and furniture......what a shithole! How could a president ever survive the end of modern civilization in such a cramped, drab place?

[Yonnie3]

17. Speaking of shithole - There is no gold toilet in the present bunker.

This means that his daily "executive time" is not possible.

[Auggie]

7. It increases the cost of construction. More opportunity for grift, perhaps.

[orangecrush]

9. K&R

[OldBaldy1701E]

10. Hmm...

Sounds like we need more than letters and protests, doesn't it?

[liberalgunwilltravel]

11. If you want to be terrified, read this.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/opinion/trump-midterm-elections-2026.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gVA.iVXD.6GY-Mmz-8klv&smid=nytcore-ios-share

[FakeNoose]

19. He's anti-democratic, and he never understood or wanted a democratic election

He has only courted voters to the extent that he needed them to help him reach the power of the White House.
Now that he's actually there, "screw them all."

That's how he behaved in his first term, and now he's doing it in spades.

[Ruby the Liberal]

20. Whoa. Thats chilling

[dpibel]

28. Oh, pish-tosh

I am informed an a regular basis by an anonymous poster on this very website that Trump. Is. Not. Omnipotent. and nothing can stop the Blue Tsunami.

Why should I pay any attention to some NYT op-ed that merely cites a bunch of """"experts""""?

[LiberalArkie]

14. I thought that there was one already under the White House

[Baitball Blogger]

23. Probably cannot withstand a bunker-busting missile.

And probably isn't fitted with rooms equipped with modern conveniences for a long stay.

[LiberalArkie]

27. Hmm

In 2018, The Drive reported on a bunker found after a sinkhole developed on the North Lawn of the White House. Separate from the presidential bunker, “this is an entirely different and far more secure facility, and in recent years it was likely augmented by a much more extravagant and modern complex buried deep beneath the western side of the North Lawn adjacent to the West Wing,” according to the report.

What they saw was the White House’s Deep Underground Command Center (DUCC), a second bunker that is made of thick, unbreakable concrete strong enough to withstand nuclear radiation. While this panic room is shrouded in secrecy, The Richest purported that it doubles as a command center and temporary living quarters, outfitted with communication equipment, its own air supply, oxygen tanks, and lasting food supply—in addition to a bed, kitchen, and bathroom.

And the second bunker may be only the start. While there’s also a 761-foot long path that connects the East Wing to the secret basement of the adjacent treasury building, which was formerly a Roosevelt air raid shelter, it’s possible that there’s a whole city’s worth of subterranean hideouts beyond the White House. In a 2008 book review, NPR reported that the presidential bunker was “one of several Cold War–era nuclear-hardened subterranean bunkers built during the Truman and Eisenhower Administrations, the nearest of which were located hundreds of feet below bedrock in places such as Mount Weather, in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, and along the Maryland-Pennsylvania border not far from Camp David.” In other words, if the president up and disappears for weeks on end, we’d wager he or she is partying deep below with plenty of spaces to inhabit.


https://www.elledecor.com/life-culture/a62764352/white-houses-secret-presidential-bunker/

Maybe not enough gold in the present ones. And more important is that it will not have been created by Roosevelt or Truman. He is intent on destroying and removing everything created during a Democratic administration.

[wnylib]

29. Agree. He is looking at a possible permanent residence to operate from.

Plus, he always has to have his.own personal touch on everything.

Ruth Ben Ghiat has recently said that she believes that the ballroom/bunker is meant to be a place to run the government and protect Trump from being removed in case Congress goes Dem in November, especially if both houses become Democrstic. He would fight to the end and issue orders from the bunker to his henchmen.

[allegorical oracle]

32. Bannon has repeatedly said, "There are ways to do it" -- DJT's not leaving in '28. And that

was before tsf demolished the East Wing to build a then-$300 million ballroom.

[wnylib]

34. He might also be afraid of assassination.

Not just because of the attempts already made, but because of the enemies he has made in the Middle East over the Iran War.

[Fiendish Thingy]

16. Putin is hiding because he knows, sooner or later...

One of Ukraine’s drones will find him.

[Baitball Blogger]

22. Zelenskyy is a superhero.

[wnylib]

35. And maybe Trump is afraid of retaliation against him personally

by someone associated with Iran.

[Emile]

18. He shouldn't have ripped out the old bunker.

[Wounded Bear]

21. Can't play out his "Hitler in the Bunker" scenario without a bunker...

[the_liberal_grandpa]

24. The ballroom is just the cover of a bomb proof shelter

I think the only thing between us and nuclear devasation is his stupid ass bunker.

He wants a place he can hide in when he launches the missles.

I am sure in his mind everything will settle after a few weeks and he can just pop his fat orange head
out and go on ruling the world.

The ballroom is just the cover

[Baitball Blogger]

25. They all have a plan until they bring on Doomsday.

Then, all of a sudden eating from tin cans for the rest of your life loses its appeal.

[Ferrets are Cool]

26. Since when has he governed? That is news to me.

But yes, I get your point.