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[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 155 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (8 children)

In July, the ballroom was going to cost 200 million.

In September, he said 250 million.

In October, the cost became 300 million.

SNAP food benefits cost 100 billion for the entire fiscal year of 2024. However, due to the government shut down (because they cannot agree on health care btw; give you two guesses who want to take it away), SNAP benefits will not be paid out to hungry families for November.

A small skyscraper can be built for 300 million. This is a ballroom.

Americans, you're not angry enough.

Edited to add: Forgot to add! He has given the go ahead on this project without the proper permits being approved.

He is also going to seek 250 million from DOJ for them investigating him. That's taxpayer dollars, to be clear

Edited to correct 100 million to 100 billion.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago (2 children)

But wouldn’t you rather have a ballroom that only elites will ever get to see? Hungry people are going to be hungry whether or not they get food. The Elites, though, how are they gonna get their ball without a room?

[–] lividweasel@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Frankly, the elites can take their ball and go home.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

They keep threatening to do that if democrats raise their taxes I want to see it happen.

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[–] lando55@lemmy.zip 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)

He actually just let slip it could be as much as $350M, but then backtracked.

A ballroom of this magnitude and extravagance should have an equally fitting name, something classy like Epstein Hall

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Coincidentally also sounds like the Epstein Hole, which is just as sickening as he is

[–] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

trump funnels money out of every building project that he is involved in.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

And has never paid the bill.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He's also probably digging up the FDR bunker and replacing it with a bigger one with guns, an elevator and a stripper pole.

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[–] linuxguy@lemmy.gregw.us 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago

Very embarrassing typo! Thank you for the correction!

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago

For 300M one could build a pretty spiff bunker, with a ballroom on top. There's always a distraction, and there's always a place where the fascist doesn't want you to look.

[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Listen, it's hard to give quotes when you are actively devaluing the dollar.

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[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Any other scenario where one-third of the White House is destroyed is called a terrorist attack.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Feel free to call it as such.

It's not that far from the definition considering how USAians view their national symbols - while not eliciting terror per se, reshaping such a thing is def a show of power to the plebs.

A bit like how they carved them randos heads in a holy mountain.

[–] 20cello@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The East Wing, where first ladies created history, planned state dinners and promoted causes, is now history itself. The two-story structure of drawing rooms and offices, including workspace for first ladies and their staffs, has been turned into rubble,

Of course he demolished the part of the White House that was traditionally used by women.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

Because his wife is useless and doesn't do anything with the space I guess the next first lady can just fuck off.

[–] rowrowrowyourboat@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Didn't know it was that easy to just demolish a historical building. And not only a historical buidling, but the symbolic seat of power of a nation.

Is he gonna tear down the Lincoln statue next and replace it with his own?

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago

I will personally shit on it myself if he does that.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I could totally see that happening across the nation. He tears down statues of Union leaders and replaces them with Confederate leaders, but puts a bunch of himself up too "because I'm fixing what the left did to this country's history".

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[–] Steve@startrek.website 19 points 6 days ago

The new Epstein Ballroom?

[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You know, I'm glad he's doing it. It's a great metaphor, not just for the damage he's doing to the country, but also how it will have enduring, irreversible consequences. The East Wing won't just go back to normal when he's gone. We've permanently lost something, and even if we stop that stupid fucking ballroom from taking it's place, we will have to build something new there.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Once trump is gone they should seriously demolish all of his changes and revert it to exactly how it was before.

Just make it as he has never been there.

Then, in a corner room somewhere, add a publicly accessible space as a museum showing what shit will happen is you let fascists loose

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[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

...whetever. Just demolish the whole fucking thing. The whitehouse and office of the President are lost.

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[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 15 points 6 days ago

I cannot imagine the outrage if Biden had done this. There'd be actual violence from magats. It would be the only thing on all news radio and tv 24/7

[–] etherphon@midwest.social 14 points 6 days ago

Lovely can't wait until he (fake) gold plates the Washington Monument and slaps a TRUMP sign on it, he can fill up the pool with gold and then sleep on it like smaug.

[–] SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one 12 points 6 days ago

Big brain play.

Canada can't come and burn it down again if its demolished first.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

A literal traitor occupying the Oval Office.

Enabled and empowered by a traitor party.

The question is how much longer we have to wait for enough Americans to accept this reality so we can do something about it.

[–] waddle_dee@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

This comes up a lot and the time Americans will do something, is when the majority is affected. Right now, it's just minorities and poor people. And most Americans don't care about them. That's a cold fact, that a lot of people are unwilling to deal with. Nobody wants to do anything that will threaten their lives unless it's something that affects them, personally. And taking the kind of action that is needed, will threaten their lives. When it starts affecting middle class, white, non-minority Americans; that's when shit will hit the fan. But they're so calculating, that won't happen. So, we'll continue on this path, until that time.

[–] Scotty_Trees@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Realistically? It’s going to take about a decade or more for people to wake up, but still many of them never will.

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

He should just go ahead and tear it all down.

No one will stop him.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago

But what if he gets a look of disapproval? Surely that would stop the Nazi king.

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[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Trump building the Epstein ballroom.

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[–] merdaverse@lemmy.zip 7 points 6 days ago

The brilliant minds behind this:

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

Bin Laden wasn’t able to invade the capitol. Wasn’t able to demolish the White House.

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[–] YeahToast@aussie.zone 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I really don't care much for America... But it's an absolute travesty.. I'm genuinely surprised that it seems Americans are happy to be treated like utter shit by their own government.

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Not all Americans. Unfortunately, both law enforcement and military are mostly complicit due to blind obedience, and yet a widescale mutiny is no longer an impossibility.

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 days ago

Trump, after seeing the demolition on TV, now wants the ballroom on the other side.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

So, like, what happens with it when he dies before it is finished?

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[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] brem@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

This; but instead of balls it's human trafficking

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago

2 trillion dollars in debt added, and still no trimp/Epstein files!

[–] leavemealone@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

Can't wait to see the Presidential pole dancers.

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

He can tear it all down as long as he goes home and stays home and we never need to hear from him again.

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 days ago

I hope he puts a massive TRUMP logo on it, just to really drive it home.

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