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[–] 70 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I'd honestly be less mad about that.

A 25,000 sqft ballroom is opulence, a 25,000 sqft ball pit is an international attraction! In time it might also lead to the discovery of new life forms..

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    100% the next cause of a global pandemic is gonna evolve from that ballpit. The old Mcdonald's Play Place's were worrying enough

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Surely for $350 million you could design a ball cleaning system under the floor... Just capture them from one side, put them through a quick rinse and dry under UV, and then you can have a ball waterfall on the far side

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Oh definitely for that price you could come up with something to clean the balls, but our current Secretary of Health would probably say thats unnecessary and ruins "survival of the fittest" or something and then pocket any extra cash earmarked for safety

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  • [–] 53 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    It's going to look tacky. You've seen what he's done to the Oval Office. It'll be $230M for that slap-dash look of awful design populated with gilded nonsense to try seem classy.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I call it "dollar store-baroque," that act of taking a piece of furniture, painting it white (or sometimes black) and sticking a bunch of golden trims and floral decorations on it. It's what people with little money and less taste get/do when they want their place to look classy. So of course Trump is doing it to the White House.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I expect the White House to have its own McDonald's after this.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    More like the one at dashcon...

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    He still isn't allowed to build, just demolish. I assume he demolished first to force the hand of the build approvers.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    They don't even have coherent plans yet... There's stairways leading nowhere and windows facing walls

    The point was the demolition, I'm not sure why but someone has been talking to Trump non-stop about the ballroom to do it

    Maybe it's some weird sexist thing, maybe it's just because they hate America... But the demolition was the point here, someone wanted to get rid of the east wing

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    He wants to build a big monument to himself, and they won't let him be on Mt Rushmore.

    So he's going to build this enormous monument to himself and attach it to the most iconic, most photographed building in America, so that any future photo will have the Trump Ballroom looming over everything, and they will remember him.

    That's why I'm saying that IF (a big IF) we get out of this mess, the second thing the new president should do is order the destruction of that architectural atrocity, and rebuild the original East Wing, and make Trump pay quadruple out of his pocket for the whole thing.

    I say it should be the second thing, because the first order should be to arrest Trump and all his henchmen, and send them to Gitmo for extensive interrogation, before they book it to the Argentina sanctuary he just bought that for them with taxpayer money.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Oh, for sure, that's definitely what Trump wants and tearing down that symbol of depravity will be a massive healing moment for the country

    But Trump's mind is soup. He's not controlling anything, someone keeps talking to him about the ballroom so he'll repeat it for the cameras

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I think he just generally doesn't want to acknowledge that he doesn't have permission from someone.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    His brain is soup. He's out there talking about warning Hegseth about Bin Laden last year, he said 300 million Americans die every year to fentanyl, it can only good... He's not running the show

    I'm sure that he also wouldn't want to admit he needs permission, but his mind is not functioning at a level where he can grasp details like that

    And he keeps talking about the ballroom. Trump only remembers the last conversation he had, so someone is pointing him at the ballroom for some reason. We saw it when Kirk was shot... When asked for comment he said it was terrible and then launched into another speech about the ballroom

    And whoever is pushing this has to know the plans aren't even close to ready. So they must have another goal

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    They don't even have coherent plans yet... There's stairways leading nowhere and windows facing walls They got AI to design it? Who the fuck let Trump have access to AI?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Lmao yes, project 2025 is like 90% AI. The tarrif numbers were AI. Hell, if you look at one of the first executive orders, the one that un-recognizes trans people, about 3 paragraphs in it begins to correctly identify the difference between sex and gender for like an entire page

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I can't wait until it comes out that the contractors did a shit job, the gold is so spray paint, the contractors never got paid, Trump embezzled every possible cent, and the things is a decaying mess before the decade is out.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    If only he could be fun like that.

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  • you know, if they make it self cleaning and shit i could actually go for this

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I got a ball room for ya, in my pants!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)