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    1. TheTrueMule on

      French here, does americans give a fuck about the white house as a building? Serious question caus‘ obviously I don’t

    2. „President Donald Trump is considering building a one-story addition to the West Wing of the White House as his $400 million ballroom project keeps getting bigger.

      Despite previously declaring that the project would “not interfere” with the existing White House building, the president’s lead architect revealed on Monday that another level could soon be built above the West Wing Colonnade—the iconic columned walkway connecting the Oval Office to the Executive Residence at the White House.

      US President Donald Trump and Crown Prince and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman walk down the Colonnade on the way to the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on November 18, 2025. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived at the White House to fanfare and a jet flyover Tuesday, in his first visit to the United States since the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

      Trump also plans to make his controversial ballroom as tall as the White House’s main mansion itself, chief architect Shalom Baranes said on Thursday, in a move that would break from the long-standing tradition that requires additions to be shorter than the main building.

      The details were revealed for the first time as the White House began making its case to the planning body reviewing Trump’s proposed ballroom, which happens to be stacked with the president’s aides and allies.

      While presenting the details to the National Capital Planning Commission on Thursday, Baranes said adding another story to the West Wing would “reinstate the symmetry around the central pavilion of the White House,” effectively balancing out new renovations to the now-demolished East Wing.

      As revealed by the Daily Beast last month, those renovations would involve rebuilding the East Wing colonnade with a second-story passageway connecting the ballroom to the executive residence, where the president lives.

      The ballroom itself would also be on the second level of a newly constructed building and would have the capacity for 1,000 people.

      The plans are likely to prove contentious for a project that has already faced significant public backlash and a number of legal challenges.

      The first was filed late last year, when the National Trust Preservation Committee sought unsuccessfully to halt further construction until a “legally mandated review process” could take place.

      This week, another lawsuit was filed by the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization, which accused the administration of refusing to release information on whether it removed or released asbestos when it demolished the East Wing to make way for the ballroom.

      “When an Administration bypasses required safety procedures or withholds documentation of the measures it took to prevent harm, it erodes public trust and weakens protections required by law to safeguard the American people and public resources,” the lawsuit reads.

      Despite public concerns, the White House insists that the president has the authority to carry out his controversial plans.

      Trump also kicked off the new year last week with a ballroom shopping spree, spending more than an hour at Arc Stone & Tile, a wholesale supplier near his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, to buy marble and onyx for the project.

      The store’s chief executive Mike Coiro told the Daily Beast that the marble the president bought was the same Italian marble he used for Mar-a-Lago’s ballroom, suggesting he is trying to replicate it in Washington.

      Earlier in the week, Trump also told reporters: “It’s bigger than I told you.”

      “You know, after realizing we’re going to do the inauguration in that building, it’s got all bulletproof glass. It’s got, they call it, drone-free roof. Drones won’t touch it. It’s a big, beautiful, safe building. But it’s a big project,” he said.“

    3. LaMarr-Bruister on

      Who needs healthcare when we can make the White House a gold-adorned shithouse.

    4. PearljamAndEarl on

      I was going to joke that it’s because the West Wing is “the left wing” but depressingly, he’s dumb enough and vindictive enough to actually think like that.

    5. twitch_delta_blues on

      Wait, isn’t the fucking OVAL OFFICE in the west wing?! He’s doing 2/3 of the job the 9/11 hijackers tried to do. I’ve run out of crazy pills…

    6. G-Unit11111 on

      Of course he is. He’s not stopping at the East Wing. We need to stop him.

    7. ScrogurtGoGurt on

      He’s not leaving, he was never planning to. And this is what MAGA wants. Only concerned about the national debt and where their tax dollars are going when it’s a dem president.

    8. Would you be doing this much construction on a house you’re moving out of in 3 years?

    9. If we happen to win big the next two elections we should outlaw all MAGA decor like Germany did with the swastika and round up everyone who was in ICE and put them in the same buildings they’re putting everyone else in so they know what it feels like. No MAGA should ever be able to hold a good job or raise a family ever again. They’ve shown us they’re not good people and only want to see kids and mothers get raped and killed. They’re the monsters

    10. uniklyqualifd on

      How many Russian listening devices will be built in? 

      Before trump they had just managed to get one trophy near the oval office, maybe.

    11. big_thundersquatch on

      With the level of defilement we’re facing across all aspects – legal, physical, metaphorical, etc – we may as well tear the shit down and build something new, something representative of a better age for America and that symbolizes opposition to the very bullshit were currently facing – IF we even survive it.

    12. Real fucking quiet from the people all up in arms about toppling confederate statues.

      Fucking hypocrites.

    13. jamesbananashakes on

      >The store’s chief executive Mike Coiro told the Daily Beast that the marble the president bought was the same Italian marble he used for Mar-a-Lago’s ballroom, suggesting he is trying to replicate it in Washington.

      Oh, fuck no.

    14. seattlereign001 on

      There needs to be an unrepentant historical society which can control and govern these types of this FE. It’s insane it does not exist yet, but I guess no one anticipated the devil incarnate to be elected president.

    15. jugnificent on

      One nice thing about the ball room: since it’s new construction we shouldn’t have to worry about asbestos and lead when we tear it down.

    16. IllustriousNorth338 on

      He’s destroying it first before it gets destroyed in the next civil war.

    17. AffectionateCode641 on

      Funny they use the word plotting, trump does not need plotting, if he want it gone it would be gone

    18. I wonder if they tore down the White House if **that** would be the thing to get them to impeach, remove, convict. To call for the 25th Amendment. I doubt it, I’m sure, but just a thought.

    19. Damn, he is literally destroying America from inside the house. Putin is laughing his ass off, actually both probably are.

    20. sugarlessdeathbear on

      I’m calling it now, the entire White House will be demolished by the end of his term.

    21. Destroy the most historic room in the USA for your own vanity. Hey Trumpers you had enough just yet?

    22. RealCatPerson on

      After eight years of Donald Trump occupying it, you may as well tear it down entirely and build a new one. Why would any president after Trump want to live in the same place where that pedophile lived for eight years? It’s forever tainted.

    23. Nothing will be built, it will only be destroyed. Such is the nature of his presidency.

    24. acutelonewolf on

      Forget architecture. Trump is trying to destroy democracy and the current world order.

    25. manofredearth on

      Americans need to defend the White House until there’s an American government in place again.

    26. TimeForWaluigi on

      He doesn’t spend much time at the White House anyways. Might as well destroy the whole fucking thing

    27. Less_Wealth5525 on

      Bet that it is Putin’s idea. It’s a perfect metaphor for our implosion.

    28. F U to anybody who organizes, designs, works on, or supports this. And I’m sorry but I’m extending this sentiment to the construction workers and contractors too.

    29. Content_Support7881 on

      For the love of god, put this felon in prison for the sake of human kind! Please!

    30. SarynScreams on

      Fascists have the uncontrollable urge to destroy and „remake“ everything in their image. The „corrupt and decadent“ history will be rewritten, happened in Nazi Germany, happened in Fascist Italy and every other authoritarian state.

    31. Ashtray_Floors on

      This sounds like the plan of a person who doesn’t want to leave the office

    32. ceelogreenicanth on

      We knew it already. There goes the most storied room in U.S. History. If he tears down the Westwing the Whitehouse is next.

    33. Electrical-Page5188 on

      You don’t remodel a house to your own garish tastes if you plan to move out soon. 

    34. huxtiblejones on

      Should’ve put this disgusting fucking pig in prison when we had the chance.

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