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19. It sucks

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Tue Oct 21, 2025, 12:20 AM

Oct 2025

And I think the ballroom is likely to be very tacky. However, other presidents have added and taken elements away from the White House before. This is noting new.

https://www.whitehousehistory.org/an-ever-changing-white-house

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He is tearing down the White House in order.. [View all] Botany Oct 2025 OP

It is going to be his bribe and grifting center. Irish_Dem Oct 2025 #1

Mar-a-grifto popsdenver Oct 2025 #13

People fawning, flattering, fluffing him on a regular basis. Irish_Dem Oct 2025 #20

Yeah, that mofo is going to be busier than JFK Airport. TheBlackAdder Oct 2025 #22

Will he charge a million dollars per person to attend his dinners? Irish_Dem Oct 2025 #31

Probably mandatory attendance by his Gold Card VISA purchasers. TheBlackAdder Oct 2025 #43

He is like a dog... sheshe2 Oct 2025 #2

Excellent analogy PatSeg Oct 2025 #8

"except dogs are nice" speak easy Oct 2025 #17

Pisses on it then destroys or kills it. Irish_Dem Oct 2025 #33

Yup. sheshe2 Oct 2025 #34

He can store boxes of top secret documents... Chemical Bill Oct 2025 #3

Monster. cbabe Oct 2025 #4

Because EddieOnTheMesa Oct 2025 #5

Ha, ha, he certainly is a remarkable dancer! PatSeg Oct 2025 #10

He is destroying our democracy, our relationships with our allies Grim Chieftain Oct 2025 #6

So hard to understand. yellow dahlia Oct 2025 #7

Or his understanding in that the East Wing was designed to match the West Wing to make a magnificent ... Botany Oct 2025 #12

He doesn't need an east wing because we don't really have a First Lady Walleye Oct 2025 #27

More like First Red Sparrow Captain Zero Oct 2025 #36

Yes. She is Angela Lansbury in the Manchurian candidate movie Walleye Oct 2025 #37

I call her "pay per view" or Melanoma. She doesn't give a flying "you know what." CTyankee Oct 2025 #40

Her life, such as it is, is in NYC not DC Walleye Oct 2025 #41

Yep. Let her stay there. She would just visit more horrors of her own design. Didn't she eff up the Easter Egg Hunt last CTyankee Oct 2025 #42

The Republicans in Congress, who don't object to this are also mentally damaged Walleye Oct 2025 #26

There is no legal way to stop him as far as I know Wicked Blue Oct 2025 #44

I hear you, Dear B! yellow dahlia Oct 2025 #9

As he and the Republicans have repeatedly demonstrated, it is Gaugamela Oct 2025 #11

"Any mule can kick down a barn, it takes a carpenter to build one Walleye Oct 2025 #28

The East Wing of Our White House has been attacked..where's the military? Deuxcents Oct 2025 #14

He. Doesn't. Own. It. chowmama Oct 2025 #15

You know he is NOT going to pay for it. Captain Zero Oct 2025 #38

He is defacing a national landmark! Emile Oct 2025 #16

The Madness of King trump C Moon Oct 2025 #18

It sucks ITAL Oct 2025 #19

I was under the impression usedtobedemgurl Oct 2025 #23

I think it'll also be used as the east coast fulfillment center for trumpcrap dot com. Buns_of_Fire Oct 2025 #21

I can't wait for a future president to knock this down and rebuild the wing. themaguffin Oct 2025 #24

He's building a Throne Room alittlelark Oct 2025 #25

I can't stand it anymore karin_sj Oct 2025 #29

Call both of your Senators and your Congress Critter and tell them Trump needs to removed right now Botany Oct 2025 #30

Anyone? Anyone?? Doodles Oct 2025 #32

Supposedly money for this from his fucking donors vapor2 Oct 2025 #35

I think he intends to use it much more often than 4 times a year. Ocelot II Oct 2025 #39