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Amid backlash over partial demolition of East Wing, White House reportedly intends to send blueprints

The White House has not submitted plans for Donald Trump’s new ballroom to the federal agency that oversees construction of federal buildings, though demolition is already under way.

On Tuesday, the White House told Reuters it intended to send plans to the National Capital Planning Commission, an agency that typically approves and monitors construction on federal buildings. Demolition began earlier this week, with reporters taking video of a backhoe ripping out chunks of the White House’s exterior.

The New York Times reported Wednesday, citing a senior administration official, that the ballroom plans will mean the demolition of the entire East Wing.

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[-] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 65 points 1 week ago
[-] Karjalan@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

Took me easy too long to realise that wasn't an actual photo of the current state of the white house...

From Zombieland/2?

[-] Bahnd@lemmy.world 54 points 1 week ago
[-] mcv@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 week ago

That increasingly sounds like it is the current state of the White House.

[-] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

I won't hear a word against president camacho, guy was completely uneducated but actually pretty intelligent all things considered. Aknoweldged things were fucked but that he couldn't fix them, created a national program to find someone who could and upon finding that person immediately put them in charge. Better leader than most in the western world right now.

[-] Bahnd@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

The most unbelievable part of that entire film is that President Dwayne Elizondo Mountian Dew Herbert Camacho didnt take credit for solving the crisis at the end of the movie.

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 9 points 1 week ago

The above ground pool tipped it off for me.

[-] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago
[-] aarch0x40@lemmy.world 64 points 1 week ago

Filing plans would signal that the administration was somehow beholden to something or someone.

[-] TheMadCodger@piefed.social 19 points 1 week ago

Or they thought this through, beyond I'm gonna build a ballroom, start the backhoes!

[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 3 points 1 week ago

or that they actually had some kind of plan...

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[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 35 points 1 week ago

Concepts of a plan...

[-] Sunflier@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh! I get it. He's destroying the white house as a symbolic metaphor for him destroying America.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 week ago

This is actually surprising that this government building is just being torn down without any public information filings saying how much is being torn down...

Is this just shoddy incompetent engineering that is standard fare for anyone working for this administration, or is there something being hidden from us?

[-] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

It's the "don't ask for permission, ask for forgiveness" policy.

[-] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

When do they start asking for forgiveness?

[-] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Oh the Supreme Court has forgiven everything he has done so far.

[-] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

When they're lined up against the wall and the firing squad is loading.

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[-] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

Trump said: „start building“ and someone made sure they got started.

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[-] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago

FSB, MSS, Mossad and other foreign spy agencies must love this.

I wonder how good the security is.

Yeah, I can guarantee that at least one bug gets planted in a wall, floor, or ceiling somewhere important. Hell, with Trump acting like a Russian agent, that may actually have been coordinated right from the start.

[-] D_C@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

He isn't acting anything. He is a Russian asset.

Ultimately, it’s irrelevant whether he is or isn’t. All that matters is that he’s doing everything a Russian asset would do.

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[-] RattlerSix@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

I just want to know how the hell it's supposed to cost $250 million. I searched for $250 million buildings and found a 25 storey tower, a SpaceX launch facility and the hangar that holds the entire fleet of Air Force One jets. A stupid ballroom should cost a few million tops.

[-] Wilco@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 week ago

Its supposed to cost $250 million because of corruption and fraud. Its just another grift.

[-] b161 11 points 1 week ago

They need to build pedo tunnels and an underground facility for transporting and raping children.

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Have you seen the price of gold lately?

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[-] D_C@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago

Rape now, apologise never.

Except this time it's a building he's raping instead of children and women.

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[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 12 points 1 week ago

I won't be surprised if the costs continue to increase past the first projected numbers, and somehow that money is... well, misplaced somewhere.

[-] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Oh absolutely. And these contractors are going to get stiffed if they haven't asked for payment upfront.

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[-] lectricleopard@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

I had a girlfriend from New Jersey tell me the best way to use your turn signal on the highway is to turn it on after you already started merging. That way the person you're cutting off can't speed up to block you, and the cops won't pull you over for not signaling.

We were dating at age 19 maybe? She had already been in 2 car accidents.

[-] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 3 points 1 week ago

I do know people like that and it's blowing my mind every single time. They don't use turn signals if possible, if they do in roundabouts for example, they don't do it to keep traffic going, they use it on the way out to not get a ticket. Somehow these people never get pulled over or get a fine. I got pulled over randomly and had to take drug tests and whatever. When i asked them why they pulled me over, they just shrugged. My girlfriend who was not a terrible driver, but far from a good one, was once followed by the police for a few kilometres, with the lights on and "pull over" sign and whatever. She just didn't know, because she hardly ever uses her mirrors, no over the shoulder look etc. when they did finally overtook her and pulled her over, they all just had a good laugh about how bad she was at keeping an eye at her surroundings. I swear if that was me, i would be in jail.

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[-] ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago

it will be built by russian private contractors… best plans ever… no need to review them…

[-] frmrm@peachpie.theatl.social 3 points 1 week ago

We only hire the best contractors…

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Given how he usually treats contractors, Russian ones are probably the only ones who would do it - at least they would get paid by someone for their work.

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[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago

Putin..."I suggested it to him but I never thought he'd fuckin' do it!"

[-] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago

Sounds a lot like Trump's presidency.

[-] londos@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Can't have the secret rooms and wiretap infrastructure documented.

[-] relativestranger@feddit.nl 7 points 1 week ago

demolishing the entire east wing was the plan all along.

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[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Where they're going, they don't need plans!

[-] mech@feddit.org 6 points 1 week ago

He's going to submit the plans in 2 weeks.

[-] Denalduh@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

He's going to submit a concept of a plan in 2 weeks.

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[-] IzzyScissor@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Sure seems like a distraction from the Epstein files.

[-] barkingspiders@infosec.pub 5 points 1 week ago

I don't even wait. And when you're a ~~star~~ president, they let you do it. You can do anything

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I guess there was no other place in DC to build a ball room. Maybe even a dedicated one.

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[-] hateisreality@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I've got many problems with this asshole parasite refusing to use tax dollars as intended, instead using them as a slush fund for his fucking ego

[-] SoloCritical@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

It’s just gonna end up being another concentration camp

[-] BassTurd@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Someone should arrest the construction crew.

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