Trump to expand White House with beautiful gilded ballroom

[quote] The White House State Ballroom will be a much-needed and exquisite addition of approximately 90,000 total square feet of innately designed and carefully crafted space

What do you suppose “innately designed “ is supposed to mean?

A $200 million ballroom for Von Shitzinpants to stand in place doing the double jerkoff dance to YMCA?

It doesn’t look bad but the optics of this while we throw millions off Medicaid is atrocious. Orange cunt.

Vat do you theenk of my design?

And all of you gay boys said my architecture degree was fake. Tsk. Tsk.

It won’t actually cost $200 million. It is replacing the East Wing which was built to hide construction of an underground emergency bunker. The costs of integrating the ballroom with the underground complex will be born by taxpayers. Bet it ends up costing more than a billion.

Did they ever use the tennis pavillion Melania designed?

Of course it will, R5. Trump's stooges are running the GAO, so all kinds of Trump personal bills will be paid out of this fund, including renovations and repairs at Mar-a-Lago.

It's the way Trump operates.

How else should he use taxpayer money to make his life more comfortable?

He claims he and “other patriots” are paying for it, but that excludes the integration with the “secret” underground complex.

Hopefully the first thing it is used for is his lying in state.

Mexico is paying for it!

It’s going to look like a gilded whore house.

[quote] He claims he and “other patriots” are paying for it

He has no money.

My earnings from being a hooker in NYC are paying for it!

You know, since I don't live in DC, a girl's got to make a buck.

And don't steal my underaged, illegal workers!

[quote]The costs of integrating the ballroom with the underground complex will be born by taxpayers.

That thing's pretty big! I'll have to make a special appointment with my OB-GYN.

Let's hope he dies soon.

I just checked. The Truman balcony is Ionic columns. This gilded ballroom will have Corinthian columns.

Who cares, r18? It will have its own McDonalds!

It’s not TOO bad. However, the main house is in the Palladian neoclassical style and the renderings look more Beaux-Arts to me. The arched windows don’t share any design continuity with the original mansion unless you count the lunettes in the second floor sitting rooms. I think I would have carried over the separate first and second story windows like on the mansion. The first story with pediments alternating between triangular and arched. The second story windows being unadorned. Finally I would consider adding a semicircular apse on the south facade facing the Mall with a portico of scamozzi ionic columns to draw parallels with the South Porch.

Martha Stewart spent time in jail and this asshole is still walking around free.

Everyone enjoyed Jackie's rose garden over the decades and now it will be gone.

He has so much fake gold stuff in the oval office they say it looks atrocious.

Trump is the only one who could get away with this.

Other Presidents would have been criticized for the expense and the wastefulness.

But not Trump.

People let him get away with whatever he wants. And that includes the media, who would have criticized a Democratic President for doing this, and debated it endlessly.

Powell got 1.5 for his palace and the little hand is jealous. These are our masters.

The Oval Office under Trump.

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Goddamn, Donald Trump is leaving a permanent imprint on the people's house. I hope it is torn down the second he is gone.

[quote]The White House Ballroom will be substantially separated from the main building of the White House, but at the same time, it’s theme and architectural heritage will be almost identical

Oh, dear!

Will it have a secret room for raping 13 year olds?

[quote] He has no money.

He does now.

He’s made billions since the election. Mostly through his crypto scheme.

R27, is his penthouse in NYC. I don't want this POS allowed anywhere near the design table or the interior designer for this wasteful dictator's ballroom.

R33 (below) is a photo of Melania's office in Trump Tower. She and Donald were pathetic enough to display some of her jewels for the photoshoot.

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[quote]Everyone enjoyed Jackie's rose garden over the decades and now it will be gone.

I thought they poured cement over that a while ago.

Now it will forever be the Trump White House.

It will look like a cheap, broken-down Las Vegas whore house from the 1920s.

Oh yeah, the things that really matter to voters.

Trump has no friends. Who is he going to invite to his big, tacky, piece of shit ballroom?

It'll look like Saddam Hussein's palace. Or the penthouse in Trump Tower.

Are they going with rich Corinthian leather on all the furniture to match the columns?

With the addition of 90,000 total square feet, he can build his very own food court complete with a McDonald’s.

This one is the TRUMP OF ALL TRUMP photos. Gaudy surroundings, eastern bloc hooker wife and mentally impaired toddler sitting atop one of Don Jr. and Eric's kills. Before KFC takes him out, he's going to turn the WH into a middle eastern whorehouse.

Pedophile attempts ballroom with tackiness rivaling anything found in the post Soviet world.

[quote]Let them eat cake while I build a $200 million gold-plated ballroom in the White House

Source for R44

R44, 45, Marie Antoinette's hands are larger than Donald's.

I hate Trump. But the White House really does need an expanded space for State dinners.

R47 and people need Medicare but by all means...

Reminds me of the gigantic domed nazi headquarters Hitler designed. Too big for the structural technology of the time and would have had its own weather including rain.

KEEP BUILDING MRS. WINCHESTER! You’ll eventually escape those demons.

Trump has so many things wrong with him that I couldn't even attempt to make a list. It would be a full time job.

This is more evidence that he's not planning to leave. He wouldn't be investing all this for something he'll only use for three years.

He thinks he's the king of the world. Not joking.

The next administration is going to have a huge mess to fix. That's what the Biden administration had to do after his first disastrous term and it took two years. You just know that they don't bother with documenting very much..

He knows he’s the king of the world.

I always imagined him painting the White House gold but not expanding it. Failure of my own imagination.

[quote] Powell got 1.5 for his palace and the little hand is jealous

The Fed is self-funding. No taxpayer money is being spent.

[quote]A football field is 57,600 square feet.

[quote]Goddamn, Donald Trump is leaving a permanent imprint on the people's house. I hope it is torn down the second he is gone.

At this point, it might be better to just burn down the White House as it is forever tarnished and build another one without the stench of Trump.

[quote]I hate Trump. But the White House really does need an expanded space for State dinners.

Gotta make room for the fast food fryers to serve fries and hamberders to foreign heads of state and other esteemed guests.

I think I'm going to throw up.

[quote] The next administration is going to have a huge mess to fix. That's what the Biden administration had to do after his first disastrous term

And what Obama had to do after Bush II, and what Clinton had to do after Bush I ....

This thread should have been titled: “Tasteful Friends…”

[quote]scamozzi ionic columns

Plain mozzarella columns???

Gurls please, don’t mistake Louis XIV for Louis XVI.

“We make your dreams come true!”

What a lovely place for Trump's Evangelical members of Trump DC White House Clubhouse to hold Father Daughter Purity Balls.

Will it have guest rooms?

No Words.

Trump building ballroom when he’s supposed to be in prison.

This is how to win the world’s respect. When world leaders visit here, it’s embarrassing how few gilded statues and monuments we have. We should divert another 400 million AT LEAST into golden monuments for Trump. I think it’ll make America incredibly proud. Biden worshipping marxist liberals must be FUMING! No more wasteful spending! As if anything could be more important than paying tribute to the president who has done the most INCREDIBLE job of any president in history with 6 months of unprecedented winning for American workers.

R52 California better secede if that’s the case. Fuck that.

I cannot WAIT to see he and Melania do the first dance!

The White House already has a ballroom. It's called the East Room, and it has served its purpose for more than two centuries.

Where are we getting all this money? The cut Medicaid and food assistance with Trump's big ugly bill. They gave tax cut to the wealthy. WTF is with a ballroom when he's cutting medical care and food for people??

Hate Trump and Melania but I kind of like the tennis pavilion and the rose garden rehab. Shoot me. This is awful because it's a hotel ballroom. Mar a Largo ALSO had an original ballroom. Trump then added exactly the same style of HUGE EVENT corporate ballroom to the estate. All white and gold and horrible. This ballroom COULD be good if Trump doesn't have his tiny vulgar fingers all over the design and the sourcing. Trump's taste in decor is awful. The chandeliers are all awful. If he is the contractor who oversees them.

East Room - 200 max.

Buckingham palace 150 guests at state banquet.

Versailles Hall of Mirrors (Galerie des Glaces) ~250 seated Used for Macron’s 2017 state dinner for Putin and others. Acoustics and lighting are tricky but iconic. Orangerie - 500–1,000+ seated. When tented or partially enclosed. Massive courtyard-style venue.

Élysée Palace banquets ~100–150 seated guests

MAL Ballroom, depends on the size of the donors.

Will he be loading in the slot machines for Trump Taj Mahal DC?

Yeah but the East Room is too small for this.

Of course dump is lying if he and his fiends will pay-WE WILL PAY! and more than 200 million. Bankrupt the nation then buy it back CHEAP.

As I mentioned before, he thinks the government's money is his to spend as he pleases.

Ballroom just a symptom of the round-the-clock infection of Trumps anti democracy.

To think he will get a state funeral is sickening. He's probably already ordered a gold casket.

I am big! It’s the state dinners that got bloated with invited donors!

And Kardashians!

I’m still amazed at the amount of ‘’Americans’’ who jump on the Trump train as needed to pull down democracy. Money-Power-Pussy

Kardashians got bloated with invited donors?

This Ballroom won’t cost anyone anything it’s on the TNPV plan. Trump Never Pays Vendors.

Failure of education. People have forgotten that America was founded on particular ideas. It’s just become a team to root for. For much of the country, that’s Team Jesus, with a Jesus stripped of all meaning besides a personal protector God.

You said it R88 Failure of education in ballroom dancing-123-123-123

Yes-yes the Trump Ballroom can hold dance competitions and beauty pageants and broadcast them world wide in order to recoup the cost of the Trump Dynasties new forever home.

This is where the Greenland Invasion Victory Parties will be held.

Ghastly! Just ghastly!

Other presidents would not have done this.

Clinton and Obama were politically astute enough to understand the aesthetics;

Bush had too much respect for the institution;

Ford and Carter were too fiscally conservative to even think of spending $200 Million;

Reagan could have gotten away with it, but Nancy would have kept it elegant.

I’m thinking this ballroom project is really a cover for the construction of a much larger much more sinister plan.

I do remember when Nancy R. was trashed for buying new china for the White House because there was already piles of disheware.

An ancient article read something like-‘’ Nancy Reagan to buy China’’ and the writer asked what she will do with a billion people and all that fish. Anyone?

The Rose Garden paving/destruction is nearly complete

Alternatively:

What. A. Dump.

I don’t think replacing a lawn with a patio is “ruining” the rose garden.

The Trump Corruption Ballroom And Convention Center.

[quote]I don’t think replacing a lawn with a patio is “ruining” the rose garden.

Actually the lawn in the middle of the Rose Garden never made much sense aesthetically nor was it practical. Creating a piazza there, Euro style, is not wrong.

HE’S A CONVICTED FELON WHO SHOULD LOCKED UP NOT REDESIGNING DEMOCRACY

Just wait until he turns it in to a for profit wedding venue

Trump Brothel.

90,000 square feet? The White House (all 3 floors) is only 55,000.

The White House has four floors, not counting the underground parts.

keep in mind the White House is steel framed facsimile built 1948-1952. The entire interior was gutted and rebuilt.

It's not his house, he's a temporary resident.

[quote] Trump has no friends. Who is he going to invite to his big, tacky, piece of shit ballroom?

He'll sell admisson tickets to looky loos and the same type of people who are buying his Gold Card Visa.

You wish.

This is someone who thinks a golden toilet is the epitome of taste.

Except when the Trump Depression hits, those fools will have no money to spend R109. It'll be just the tacky billionaires like Bezos coming to kiss his fat orange ass.

He isn't planning on leaving.

[quote]I cannot WAIT to see he and Melania do the first dance!

Oh dear, r71!

This is so depressing, the world has been turned upside down by his fucking tariffs and this jerk is building a ballroom!!. Reminds me of the movie, Masque of the Red Death

[quote] Reminds me of the movie, Masque of the Red Death

It was a short story first.

Just wait for the gold toilets

[quote]This is more evidence that he's not planning to leave. He wouldn't be investing all this for something he'll only use for three years.

Hell, I'm still surprised he didn't chain himself to the resolute desk the first time he had to leave office. Who knows what stunt he'll pull this time.

Goose-step Hall a

Let’s hope he’s dead before the grand opening. Like another poster suggested he can lie in state.

Volkshalle under construction at White House.

Dome to be added later…

I look forward to the YMCA jerk off danceathons and the Trumpettes doing a topless rendition of God Bless America!

I've been reading that OP as bathroom all day and didn't even think him building a giant gold outhouse that makes the news unbelievable.

Of course now that the East wing is being vastly expanded, symmetry demands an expansion of the West Wing to match. Watch him try to double the size of the Oval Office.

[quote]Watch him

Stopped reading.

R30 yes. Thus the name ballroom

Remember the backlash Nancy Reagan got when she bought new China…also bought with rich friends’ moola?

He'll never fill that ballroom, everybody hates him.

There should have already been a ballroom. I remember when I visited the White House as a kid how surprising/disappointing it was to see how small it is. I felt like a country as big and as important as ours should have something much more palatial.

Kill it with fire.

And then burn the building down, too.

We tried r131

^^^.

Oh, dear god. I don't think I could have believed it if I didn't see it. The American flag is being used as a sewer's maw. Did nobody get it?

Fortunately, concrete, like rose bushes, can be ripped out.

Sweet, R132.

Even if Trump and other donors pay for the cost of this ballroom, the US taxpayer is on the hook for the maintenance, heating and air conditioning, the security, the extra cooks, servers and cleaning staff for this room forever. Plus since it will seat 450 more guests that means 450 more expensive dinners for donors, lobbyist, the rich, Hollywood elites and sycophants invited to these huge banquets, all being wined and dined on the taxpayer dollar. They aren't going to invite you and me. It will just mean the rich have even more access to the powerful regardless of who is President.