I'm actually amazed how he keeps finding new suckers after decades of doing it in the private sector and almost 10 years of doing it as President. The only ones that really came out ahead are the criminals that bought their pardons. Everyone else gets screwed one way or another.

On a personal level sure, but this isn't a job for a random one man operation.

At the top level you need a business and as much as business leaders love Trump (who doesn't love a useful idiot) they would never risk their bottom line for it.

All that and the fact that you would likely need a whole bunch of credentials to be building parts of the white house, or at least you likely used to.

So many faces offering themselves to the leopards

The secret service still has to let them in though. That might narrow the field quite a bit. At least if the secret service hasn’t been gutted and filled with lackeys that is.

Wow, when did snopes become an absolutely adfucked shithole. Besides, as far as I can tell that article is focused on Congress stopping the payments being false, not whether or not they've actually been paid, which wasn't clear to me.

That doesn't mean he hasn't stiffed them, just that particular story about congress blocking funds is fake.

Well you see there are still plenty construction contractors that happen to be republican.

And the very fact they are republicans means they never think anything is real or possible until they personally experience it first hand.

There is a bottomless barrel of idiots for trump to screw over because he hasn't personally fucked them all...yet

Maybe he can order the army corps of engineers to do it.

I bet the "I bet" at the start of the statement was meant to indicate that it's not for real, just an example of one of the myriad things Trump has done over the years that might lead a contractor to be wary of taking on a job for him and which would be good rationale to avoid being next in line to be burned.

Plot twist: the Trump Presidential library is built in place of the East Wing

Oh, wow, really? Now I do wonder where all that money will end up...? Hmmm, I bet he will just return it and definitely not pocket it! Oh, no.

Too competent for Trump, absolutely. But there are some pretty scary competent people behind him, whispering in his ear. As the video details, the people he's hired to work on his "ballroom", also happen to be some of the world's leading experts on building super secure, military grade data centers. There's not a lot of overlap between those things, so it's hard to imagine that it's just a random coincidence.

Project 2025 is 50% executed. There are some competent people pulling Trumps strings.

The article does give a reason, it says it's to allow "executive oversight." As if Trump is going to waddle on down there and work on the servers himself.

Exactly, why the hell would they put it underneath the whitehouse itself? There's already a bunch of existing underground infrastructure there that they would need to work around and all to put their super secret datacenter under the single most likely to be bombed building if the country were ever attacked. Even if they wanted a new datacenter it would make way more sense to build it offsite and just tunnel a few deep redundant data lines to the whitehouse.

As far as the whole secure underground datacenter thing, we already have them. Nobody I know has ever been inside it but Google runs a secure underground datacenter somewhat near where I live. It's basically a bunker full of servers burried deep into bedrock exactly like that "article" talks about. Most people don't even know it's there. I only know it exists because I know one of the guys that worked on some of the specialized HVAC equipment for it. Of course thats the only one I personally know about but I highly doubt it's the only one in the country.

You can buy anything with a bottomless pocketbook

I got two sticks of DDR4 they can buy for $2000. Heck, I'll even knock it down to $2500.

Because data centers also make great crypto mines. And guess who's currently trying to build their very own crypto empire?

Weaponized pre School sandcastle destroyer mindset

Executive privilege, potentially.