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[–] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 29 points 2 days ago

Nazi architecture vibes. Also, literally nazi architecture.

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 72 points 2 days ago (3 children)

This has got to be the tackiest, low-brow shit I've ever seen. Did he put plastic covers on all the White House couches, too?

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago

Maybe hes nervous about JDs proclivities too

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

You can be sure that he'll serve cold McD's to the guests.

[–] Bonus@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] AreaKode@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Bonus@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Ostentatious toxic insecurity is as unpresidential as it gets.

[–] xenomor@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A future US president should literally disassemble this and just restore everything back to before trump showed up. It will be expensive, but so what. Just start wiping his greasy prints off of everything.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 day ago

A future US president should do a full rollback of every executive order, contract, piece of legislation and appointment made by Trump in either of his two terms. All of it, null and void, and any Trump appointee barred from life from holding public office or serving as a corporate officer. That is the only way that rule of law has even a chance of being restored.

[–] knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works 57 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] IncogCyberspaceUser@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

bUt He'S pAyInG fOr It!

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 43 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nearby, an oft-photographed area of the White House has been transformed into a colonnade filled with gold-framed images of all of America’s past presidents, except Joe Biden. Instead, the space where Trump’s predecessor should be displayed on the “presidential walk of fame” is a photo of Biden’s “autopen.”

Omg this guy is the fucking worst.

[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

what a petty child

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

White House official told the Daily Beast last week that the administration has already received nearly $200 million in pledges for the ballroom, which Trump promises to cover out of pocket if needed.

A White House official told the Daily Beast last week that the administration has already received nearly $200 million in pledges for the project, which is not using any tax dollars.

CBS News reported that pledges are coming from corporations and wealthy donors, including Google, Booz Allen Hamilton, R.J. Reynolds, Palantir, and NextEra Energy. Lockheed Martin is said to have contributed $10 million to the project. They each may be rewarded by having their names etched into the White House.

🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮

If Trump promises to cover any costs out of pocket that the corpo simp fucks don't pay that makes me believe pretty strongly that he has no intention of leaving the White House unless it's in a coffin...

[–] Aquaphobi@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So glad I left Booz Allen last year. What a fucking embarrassment

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

I had extensive contacts with Booz in a previous career. It's pretty much expected behavior for them.

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

That has been clear since 2021

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 20 points 2 days ago

Looks like a Mausoleum for American democracy

[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The ballroom building looks suspiciously like something from Hitler's Germania.

[–] OldFartPhil@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

First thing that crossed my mind, too.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Isn't that the big dome that the nazi government and Hitler wanted to build? ... in a new imperial city they would design.

[–] Bonus@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Albert Speer was Hitler's architect. No surprise, they lied about when they started planning their Nazi architecture so it surprised and impressed everyone.

Everything Trump has been doing is out of Hitler's playbook.

Architecture Of Doom covers this very well.

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The mere mention of Ruinenwerttheorie would give Trump a stroke.

[–] Bonus@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

It (the overall themes of the documentary) really needs to become common knowledge to fight this piece of shit. One of the many things I found chilling in the documentary was how he manipulated hearts and minds via attacks on popular culture which trump is mimicking exactly and without even trying to conceal it.

Ruinenwerttheorie

Honestly, if he had a grasp on the theory, he would be working more monumentally. That shitkicker's hall would be made out of masonry or concrete if he wanted it to stand as a ruins as Hitler's trash was conceptualized to do far into the future. Trump would definitely want to be enshrined like the greatest civilizations that ever existed, purely to stroke his own ego.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

Very Albert Speer-ical.

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This looks like it would take more than 4 years to build properly... implications?

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago

"Properly". It's being planned by Trump.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 10 points 2 days ago

Also no way that they're going to build that thing for $200M. That won't even cover the first round of grifting before a spade hits the ground.

Can't help but laugh at all the steps in front of it too, when that fat fuck was complaining about the escalator at the UN being broken. How you going to get into that building, Taco? Someone have to carry you?

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Would be fine by me if it gets bulldozed by the next administration.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The next administration won't, it will be the same administration, or whomever they select themselves because Trump realized he's to old. You can't have fair and free elections while the FCC is being directly controlled by the white house. All donations, run through the white house now. These used to be separate bodies, this administration seized control of them and the Supreme Court didn't stop them, and Congress won't stop them.

[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago

FCC, doj, fbi, ……

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 4 points 2 days ago

I hope it does. Wasted money be damned.

[–] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It’ll probably be turned into offices.

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago

Homeless shelter

[–] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 days ago

He literally just wants it bigger than the White House. What a petty fucking man-child.

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago

One word: Gaudy

[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

He's like a gaudy king Midas; everything he touches turns to kitsch.

But what will the next president do with it? Tear it down? Turn it into low-cost housing?

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fuck off!

Release the Trump/Epstein files

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What a gaudy and useless structure. Everyone knows trump doesn't have balls

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 2 days ago

"Gross! Did you see that guy's balls?"

"Yeah... They were weird lookin'!"

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

He’s really leaning into those Marie Antonette vibes.

[–] IndridCold@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Doesn't Washington DC have permits and a review process for altering, what I assume, is classified as a historical building?

[–] Redditsux@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Trump took over that commission remember?

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hear me out: The ultimate use case for this room is not for balls and banquets. This is going to be king Trumps throne room.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Basically, yes. This is quite literally what he's thinking of it as, I think - the grand throne room at Versailles, where the corporate nobility and other world leaders come to grovel at his feet for his mercy.

[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago