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White House Ballroom

Grogu said:
Yeah. How about a new White House-based agency called the Center for DEI? Take that Qatar jet and sell it in order to pay for the complete remodel of the White House to purge any remnants of Trump’s tacky decorations. While they’re at it, they can move Trump’s portrait to one of the thirty-five bathrooms right over a toilet.
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The Qatar jet sits a few miles from here at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland to be retrofitted according to the Air Force at a cost of less than $400 million. It will see no more than about two years service as Air Force One before being transferred to Trump's presidential library. He claims he'll not use it. Who will?

The ballroom, the jet, the military birthday parade, Thorstein Veblen would feast on the conspicuous consumption.

“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.” F. Scott Fitsgerald, The Rich Boy, 1924
 
Does Congress have to approve the mega bucks it's going to cost to give Trump a flying palace and gilded ballroom? How can Trumpers reconcile the supposed Doge mission and this extravagant spending on needless luxuries? How can Congress allow this?
 
Callen said:
Does Congress have to approve the mega bucks it's going to cost to give Trump a flying palace and gilded ballroom? How can Trumpers reconcile the supposed Doge mission and this extravagant spending on needless luxuries? How can Congress allow this?
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The simple answer to your first question is a general "yes." The bucks are supposed to be submitted for fiscal year appropriation in accordance with 3 U.S.C. 105(d), Assistance and services for the President.

Covers :

(1) the care, maintenance, repair, alteration, refurnishing, improvement, air-conditioning, heating, and lighting (including electric power and fixtures) of the Executive Residence at the White House;
(2) the official expenses of the White House Office;
(3) the official entertainment expenses of the President;
(4) the official entertainment expenses for allocation within the Executive Office of the President; and
(5) the subsistence expenses of persons in the Government service while traveling on official business in connection with the travel of the President.

But, so far, I've not found a renovation request for the White House nor any congressional discussion of such a ballroom request.

How could Congress let this happen? Hopefully, they won't.
 
Rexedgar said:
wut?

Just inspected the site of the new Ballroom that will be built, compliments of a man known as Donald J. Trump, at the White House. For 150 years, Presidents, and many others, have wanted a beautiful Ballroom, but it never got built because nobody previously had any knowledge or experience in doing such things — But I do, like maybe nobody else, and it will go up quickly, and be a wonderful addition, very much in keeping with the magnificent White House itself. These are the “fun” projects I do while thinking about the World Economy, the United States, China, Russia, and lots of other Countries, places, and events. It will all be good, maybe even GREAT, depending on who is the President of the U.S.A.!
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/114637837347707659

Stream of consciousness?
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I ain't clicking on no truth social link.

That's gonna be a bigly beautiful room, so wonderful and with the big beautiful savings we get from cutting into the safety net of some poor folks and then we have a parade in my honor because, covfefe, I have done so many beautiful things and Tchina, and Putin will thank me for, remember when I visited Kim and he came to shake my hand and he is such an inspiration
 
Grogu said:
Yeah. How about a new White House-based agency called the Center for DEI? Take that Qatar jet and sell it in order to pay for the complete remodel of the White House to purge any remnants of Trump’s tacky decorations. While they’re at it, they can move Trump’s portrait to one of the thirty-five bathrooms right over a toilet.
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I was thinking that it should be used for office and meeting space to house our newly restored and expanded social programs.
 
A number of his remnants should be shipped to his presidential "library." Should be plenty of room there for them.
 
Allan said:
But wait...there's more! The Qatar jet is probably going to cost a billion dollars to prepare it for AF1.
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Nah, that conversion I am betting will run out to $3 to $4 Billion, easy, and I am betting it will take several years to complete, maybe not even being done in time for it to actually be used as AF1. I expect Taxpayers to foot the bill for that whole deal and then sometime after the end of Trump 2.0 we just hand it over to his use in his post presidency, free and clear!
Allan said:
If only there was someone who wanted to do something about all this waste [Fraud and Abuse] 🤔
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If only! If only!
 
Rexedgar said:
They do!
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$100 million for the ballroom.
$1 billion for the Qatari jet conversion.
$45 million for Trump's birthday parade.
$3.4 million for each golf trip.

In any other developed democracy that level of irresponsible misuse of taxpayer money would be a death blow for the government.

For example in 2024 Trudeau's expenses totaled $4.1 million, for the whole year. Our previous Governor General resigned when it became public she was spending like a sailor on shore leave.

Americans shouldn't put up with this shit. It's your money he's frittering away.
 
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Allan said:
$100 million for the ballroom.
$1 billion for the Qatari jet conversion.
$45 million for Trump's birthday parade.
$3.4 million for each golf trip.

In any other developed democracy that level of irresponsible misuse of taxpayer money would be a death blow for the government.

For example in 2024 Trudeau's expenses totaled $4.1 million, for the whole year. Our previous Governor General resigned when it became public she was spending like a sailor on shore leave.

Americans shouldn't put up with this shit. It's your money he's frittering away.
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I’m trying to figure out what the final straw is gonna be.
 
$100M? Try $200M. And work starts in Sept.


Construction is set to begin in September on a new ballroom inside the White House, press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Thursday.

The $200 million ballroom will be built adjacent to the White House where the East Wing sits. Leavitt said the East Wing will be “modernized,” with offices in that area relocated during construction.

The cost of the project will be covered by President Trump and other donors, the White House said.



And the East Wing will be "modernized"? In other words, expect more gaudy gold-plated décor to manifest itself in the White House.
 
Allan said:
But wait...there's more! The Qatar jet is probably going to cost a billion dollars to prepare it for AF1.

If only there was someone who wanted to do something about all this waste 🤔
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And likely won't be completed much before the one on order.
 
Seems to me changes to national buildings should require some sort of approval process.
 
Callen said:
Seems to me changes to national buildings should require some sort of approval process.
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It certainly should, but thanks to the Supreme Court and their shadowy unitary executive theory push, any meaningful, historical governmental agency oversight went out the window.

Oh, and that doesn’t absolve those lazy louts in Congress from any blame, either. Once again, they get caught with their collective pants down when it comes to protecting the norms our government and our citizens have known for decades.

It’s going to take so much time, effort, and money to unwind the crooked stuff this administration has wrought.
 
The White House is going to look like the Hilton.
 
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