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And that’s basically it!
According to the article the president offhandedly suggested that a ballroom be built by his company around 15 years ago, and whoever he suggested it to correctly ignored this idiotic idea. So basically he's going to spend $200 million dollars of tax payer money building a ballroom where one already exists as an act of exceedingly petty revenge because someone hurt his precious delicate feelings over a decade ago.
Seems pretty on brand
Jesus fucking christ $200 million for a fucking room to dance in?
He'll also hold teen pageants with change rooms he can barge into.
Probably more like $90 mil to build the room. &110 for the _privilege _ to build it.
And the fucker can’t even dance!
That's the total after accounting for all of the graft.
Petty revenge and siphoning off taxpayer money. Two birds, one stone.
There already IS a ballroom in there, it’s just not very large. And watch him hire companies he gets kickbacks from.
Yes, I too read the article preview.
Wasn't he just bitching about the Fed wasting money on pointless crap like this? Typical Trump hypocrisy.
She said the cost would be footed by Trump himself as well as "other patriot donors." Leavitt said construction would finish "long before" the end of Trump's term.
So since they made a point to say that, I can only assume it will really be paid for by tax dollars, and Trump's friends will get all the no-bid contracts....
And he’s could die any minute, well before construction is complete.
He doesn't see it as a waste, it's for him after all.
Who fucking cares, they do this constantly. Stop wasting time caring about their blatant hypocrisy. They literally could not care less.
I can assure you this barely registers as a blip on my Give-a-Shitometer. What's it to you if it did? What compelled you to reply to my comment?
Still a kiddie fucker
He's going to be so disappointed when he realizes that a ball room is not the same as a ball pit.
Don't worry, there's a backup plan...
I recognize this ball pit.
I'd wait on the remodel until after our Canadian friends finally burn it down again
Again? I don't think I've heard this one before. Can I get some context?
War of 1812, but I believe it was the British
Canada was still part of the British empire at the time, but looking at Wikipedia the British regiments were all actually raised and based in the British isles, so I’m not sure where the idea that they were Canadians came from. I’ve heard several times that the troops that burned Washington were of Canadian origin, usually proudly related by Canadians, and just assumed that was correct since my history classes usually didn’t spend much time on that war. It does look like at least some of the attack was in retaliation for American burnings and lootings of York and Port Dover in what was then Upper Canada, so maybe that’s where the idea comes from.
Ballrooms are for kings, not presidents.
Ballrooms are for people with balls.
TACO
When developers asked the White House if they required a dickroom to go with the new ballroom, they were told that was not required as the Oval Office was serving as the dickroom for the next three years.
Plus you can hide a button mushroom basically anywhere.
That headline could have been a LOT worse. Any sentence that contains “Trump's dream of _______ is becoming a reality” should fill us all with dread.
Could Trump please not permanently fuck with things that aren't his?
Is this so he can continue on with his Ms. Teen America Pageantry, but marry it with some southern debutante ball where he and the old rich guys will exchange the daughters/contestants to the highest bidders? Or does he just want a place to dance and show off his fancy high heels?
Who's paying for this?
The same people paying to completely disassemble and rebuild his fancy jet. Taxpayers.
Trump [...] ~~has an extraordinary eye for detail~~ has the tacky taste of a Florida grandma from the 90s who won money on some scratchers.
FTFY
Why hasn't this traitor been hanged yet?
honestly I don't care about this money is fake. Congress and SC are complicite and need to be completely removed
What contractor would even consider doing anything for this shitty tasteless moneypit of a sub human? He never posts his bills.
Even when he has access to public funds to pay for his horrible ideas, nobody gets paid but he and his chronies.
his chronies.
Said it yerself,
Contractors with ties to foreign governments, so they can sneak in certain listening devices.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)
I bet there will be Russian and China backed contractors offering the cheapest.
Reviving the Epstein parties.
Please let this be his primary focus until he dies.