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I_UndergroundPanther

(13,385 posts)
Mon May 18, 2026, 01:06 AM 4 hrs ago

I hope the next time

Dems are in control they scrap the ballroom and do an east wing restoration. Knock to pieces anything trump put everywhere especially remove all that tacky gold embellishments

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Ocelot II

(131,203 posts)
1. The first thing to do is bring into the Oval Office a crew armed with putty knives and patching plaster
Mon May 18, 2026, 01:15 AM
3 hrs ago

to scrape off those gilt quasi-baroque doohickeys he pasted all over the walls. That's the easy part. Then the ballroom has to go, a much bigger job, but maybe part of the structure could be used as a framework for a restored East Wing. Obviously the Kennedy Center has to be re-renamed and de-Trumped. Ideally, anything with his name on it will be either renamed or demolished altogether.

fierywoman

(8,630 posts)
5. Among first things to bring into the White House: sage, lots of sage.
Mon May 18, 2026, 02:50 AM
2 hrs ago

Personally I think all the "gold" is fake on plastic.

Intractable

(2,378 posts)
2. I would like to vote for Democratic candidates who talk this way.
Mon May 18, 2026, 01:44 AM
3 hrs ago

I'd like the platform to be not so much "remove Trump," but more "erase Trump."

Figarosmom

(13,321 posts)
3. If that gold crap is real
Mon May 18, 2026, 02:25 AM
2 hrs ago

It explains trumps trip to Fort Knox. He's likely going to say it's his and takes it when he leaves.

But if it's left there it should all be melted down and put in Fort Knox.

rampartd

(5,022 posts)
4. implode the ballroom on inauguration day
Mon May 18, 2026, 02:33 AM
2 hrs ago

build what we need there, tastefully, as determined by an appropriate committee, and in accordance with federal acquisition regulationns = bids, contracts, normalcy.

symbols of oppression: the ballroom, the arch, the wall every name on every street bridge or building must go the way of robert e lee's statues.

orleans

(37,184 posts)
6. there was a bunker under the east wing
Mon May 18, 2026, 02:58 AM
2 hrs ago

the presidential emergency operations center (i googled)

so, they/we might have to build a bunker so the white house resident can go there and hide

StoolPigeon

(278 posts)
7. Step 2
Mon May 18, 2026, 03:36 AM
1 hr ago

Take all the demolition from the gilded oval office to the scrap iron ballroom, the concrete rose garden, the arch, the plaster on the Reflection Pool, the name on the Kennedy center, and anything else, and load it all onto a bomber and drop it on MarACrapo.

betsuni

(29,283 posts)
8. Press/Republicans will scream about Democrats using taxpayer money to restore anything.
Mon May 18, 2026, 03:49 AM
1 hr ago

Will try to create a scandal.

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