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[–] 306 points 7 months ago (15 children)

So he is building his own Fuhrer bunker.

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  • [–] 74 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    And we all know what he did last in his bunker

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  • [–] 28 points 7 months ago

    Made his best artwork ever!

    I mean just consider the dedication needed to make a pièce de résistance right as the Red Army is almost at the doors, using nothing but the raw concrete walls of the Führerbunker as canvas, his trusty Walther PPK as brush, and his own grey matter as paint... I'd dare say it's the most consequential piece of art of the 20th and maybe even the 21st century. It's a shame it was destroyed.

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  • [–] 159 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Sure sounds like someone who is making plans to stay in office past this term.

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  • [–] 55 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    We figured this out months ago, but the media didn't report it at all. It was never about the ballroom, always the bunker underneath.

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  • [–] 54 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)

    God is Dead. USA is a rotting corpse.

    Regular people should be taking advantage of the worlds disorder right now. Reclaim humanity.

    Billionaires and their companies...

    If only Iran would start going after the companies supporting data centers and the tech bro dependencies.

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  • [–] 37 points 7 months ago

    The cost keeps increasing. That's hilarious.

    But of course he was building a bunker. There's literally no surprises there. It'll be the new den of rape for sure.

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  • [–] 65 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    After big tech hurled money at him we should have all automatically assumed there's an underground datacenter in the works there.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I guess I still don't get why a datacenter would make any sense to put there?

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  • [–] 29 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    This won't be finished in time for him to use it so I guess someone else is pushing for the bunker and they decided to put a ballroom on top to get his approval.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Or perhaps the contractors involved are giving him or his associates kickbacks from a construction scam, so, it doesn’t need to be finished ever for him to benefit.

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  • [–] 24 points 7 months ago

    I absolutely would have known nothing about the military complex but for Trump opening his big mouth about it repeatedly.

    Knowledgeable people are aware that any construction at the White House also involves fortifications and bunkers.

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  • [–] 64 points 7 months ago (13 children)

    Is anyone surprised? I mean, did you guys think it was really a $300 million dollar ballroom?

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (9 children)

    Have you seen the room where he does press conferences?

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    Well, no. I don't really watch his press conferences.

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  • [–] 48 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (7 children)

    Its chock full of gaudy gold bullshit

    I have no trouble believing he would fill an entire ballroom with $300M of the same gaudy shit.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Actually, is cheap decorative plastic, spray canned gold.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    Honestly, I think someone went on a shopping spree at Home Depot in their Wood Appliques department.

    Here is part of that gaudy shit under the shelf/mantle behind him. Its all cheap shit painted gold.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago (11 children)

    Probably would've scurried into it when he loses the 2028 run

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Good. We can seal the doors, cut the power, and leave him and his cronies to rot in there forever.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Quickly Mr. President, help me bring the guests to your fancy ballroom a cask of amontillado we keep in the secret bunker.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    It's scheduled to be completed months before the election, but the part he cares about is underground.

    The thing is, even if there's absolutely zero way to get inside, it doesn't mean shit if no one outside the bunker listens to him.

    It would be the perfect ending to this if he really goes down into a bunker with his closest circle who have the supplies to live decades...

    And after waiting a while we just seal the doors.

    It would 100% be worse than prison for everyone sealed in there. Just leave them to die together in a hole.

    But the ironic part is there was already a bunker there, and it's likely now compromised.

    So if the new one doesn't get finished, there won't be any bunker under his direct control.

    He wanted to build his own, so that no one else knew how to open it. Like, if he went to one of the still secret bunkers like under Biltmore, people that are outside know how to get him out.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I mean that's really not what it was for. It was more along the lines of an underground data center but the command center for the president that was upgraded and updated similar to the ones that have been built in Israel over the last few years that gives them a place to hide and everything. It's not really a bunker related to Trump himself going underground he just wanted to be the one to build it and the one that it got he got remembered for.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    It’s not really a bunker related to Trump himself going underground he just wanted to be the one to build it and the one that it got he got remembered for.

    ...

    I mean, he'd use the bunker anyways, just like he uses every other part of office for his personal benefit.

    But if you think any president wouldn't go in that bunker if need be, or it's not prepared for that contingency....

    Well, that's just fucking wild to me.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    My point is he's not going to go lock himself down there and refuse to come out when his presidency is over. That's just kind of ridiculous. This fucker is going to be dead before then or shortly after that.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago*

    That’s just kind of ridiculous

    Less so then living up to this point in American history and thinking that's ridiculous...

    But I'm not gonna keep trying to explain shit when you reflexively downvote.

    You want an argument, I wanted to help you understand something.

    Now we're both disappointed.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago

    At least we can hope the nukes won't fly until the bunker is done so we have at least 3-4 years to change something.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Hey look at that. That one dude that posted the stuff here 6 months ago or so about the designs and plans and mentioned how all of the donors were related to people that are doing underground data centers and stuff like that for Israel are the same group that are working on this with none of the other people that should be involved with ballrooms like Tiffany and stuff like that being associated.

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  • [–] 24 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    I honestly thought there was already a bunker under the WH. Too many movies I guess.

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  • [–] 19 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    There absolutely is along with some of the best medical facilities in the world and more food and weapons than anywhere else nearby, they just tend to put POTUS on AF1 to stay mobile during duress but that place is a fortress on top of a bunker fortress.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    There was a bunker, it was under the East Wing...

    After the U.S. entered World War II, Roosevelt, seeing the need to house additional staff and offices to reflect the growing complexity of the federal government at the time, oversaw the addition of the East Wing in 1942, according to the White House.

    The two-story structure was built atop the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, or PEOC, a secure bunker that was built by FDR to serve as a secure meeting place in the event of an emergency.

    “While the exact specification of this underground presidential bunker is classified,” according to the White House, “it was originally built to withstand a direct nuclear hit. Access to the PEOC is by an elevator located behind multiple vault-type doors with biometric access control systems.”

    https://www.militarytimes.com/veterans/military-history/2025/10/21/the-wwii-origins-of-the-now-demolished-east-wing-of-the-white-house/

    He almost certainly got just far enough to compromise the security of the existing bunker, and now won't be able to build the new one in time.

    It explains why he's so fucking obsessed with the ballroom

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    It's not a bunker, it's a data center. Just a hardened one.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    If there is two things trump is a expert on its stupid and lawsuit. Its just one thing with him though.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    Hitler Bunker

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    Omfg, he's so fking dumb. Idiocracy!

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago

    Pfff. He would have posted pics of it himself eventually.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Building a bunker at the White House is probably the most useful and appropriate allocations of funds Trump has done.

    It’s a low bar, as they say.

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    The White House is undoubtedly a high value target for US adversaries so having a fortified space in the event of an imminent attack is not useless.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    It's more useful to avoid doing things to make high value targets. Power must be democratized, not centralized and concentrated. Make too many low value targets to be worth destroying, and your nation will be all the better for it.

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    America chose fascism. And you're surprised when fascists act like fascists?

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    America is fascism, just ask the indigenous people deprived of their land and life, the piles of dead buffalo slaughtered as part of accomplishing the American genocide, and the dead slaves. This isn't America acting like Nazis, Nazis acted like Americans - Hitler was directly inspired by how we treated migrants at the southern border.

    But yeah, while we're on the topic anyway...

    The Vorbunker (upper bunker or forward bunker) was an underground concrete structure originally intended to be a temporary air-raid shelter for Adolf Hitler and his guards and servants. It was located behind the large reception hall that was added onto the old Reich Chancellery, in Berlin, Germany, in 1936.

    (Note that quote says "located behind", which makes it sound above-ground, but it was an underground bunker).

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    So he does want to be comfortable in his little suicide bunker

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    I'm pretty sure he was bragging about the bunker months ago, while on the shitter on Air Farce One with the door open

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    When the bombs start flying, lock him outside. Ignore him as he pounds on the door, then runs around the building, banging on the windows, trying to make eye contact with those inside.

    "Will someone draw the curtains, please?"

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    So White House down Bunker was a lie?

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Dumb dumb: the ballroom is under budget!

    Citizens: the 200 million ballroom that is now 400 million? That ballroom is under budget? Under the doubled budget expected?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)

    "Pardon our dust."

    (explaining the joke)Pardon, as in 'pardon a criminal'. "Pardon our dust" as in the common courtesy sign when a business is open despite renovations. "Our dust" as in "this asshole's cheeto-dust fingerprints all over this fucking moronic idea".

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago

    Under the East Wing was where the Situation Room was already, so maybe they are just upgrading it at the same time as building a ballroom. They didn't follow a normal procurement process at all. He's been talking about a ballroom since 2010. It was always ballroom first.

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