French here, does americans give a fuck about the white house as a building? Serious question caus‘ obviously I don’t
biscuitarse on
Jesus Christ, exactly how many underage girls did Trump rape?
Landlubber77 on
Aaron Sorkin already did that when he left after Season 4.
iymcool on
„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.“
LaMarr-Bruister on
Who needs healthcare when we can make the White House a gold-adorned shithouse.
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.
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…
CrimsonHeretic on
How symbolic.
G-Unit11111 on
Of course he is. He’s not stopping at the East Wing. We need to stop him.
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.
Ozzel on
Would you be doing this much construction on a house you’re moving out of in 3 years?
6beerkdawg on
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
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.
TacticalFunky on
Dude needs to stop messing with the People’s House. WTF.
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.
Survive1014 on
We have to stop this guy. Not at the midterms. Not next month. TODAY.
62frog on
Real fucking quiet from the people all up in arms about toppling confederate statues.
Fucking hypocrites.
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.
pjflyr13 on
He’s reached full Marie Antoinette
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.
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.
IllustriousNorth338 on
He’s destroying it first before it gets destroyed in the next civil war.
AffectionateCode641 on
Funny they use the word plotting, trump does not need plotting, if he want it gone it would be gone
ytsurr on
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.
gary1979 on
Damn, he is literally destroying America from inside the house. Putin is laughing his ass off, actually both probably are.
sugarlessdeathbear on
I’m calling it now, the entire White House will be demolished by the end of his term.
TheoryKlutzy7836 on
Imagine if Obama or Biden knocked down the White House!
Lonely_skeptic on
It’s way past time to remove Trump from office.
patjames387 on
I wish more people had voted for Harris.
Sidwill on
Destroy the most historic room in the USA for your own vanity. Hey Trumpers you had enough just yet?
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.
calgy on
Nothing will be built, it will only be destroyed. Such is the nature of his presidency.
acutelonewolf on
Forget architecture. Trump is trying to destroy democracy and the current world order.
phoonie98 on
We live in the shitty Biff Tannen alt reality
manofredearth on
Americans need to defend the White House until there’s an American government in place again.
TimeForWaluigi on
He doesn’t spend much time at the White House anyways. Might as well destroy the whole fucking thing
aDirtyMartini on
Spoiler Alert: Trump is plotting to destroy America
nutmegtell on
OF COURSE HE IS.
How this is a surprise to anyone is beyond me.
Less_Wealth5525 on
Bet that it is Putin’s idea. It’s a perfect metaphor for our implosion.
mrgraff on
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.
Content_Support7881 on
For the love of god, put this felon in prison for the sake of human kind! Please!
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.
Ashtray_Floors on
This sounds like the plan of a person who doesn’t want to leave the office
SnooMemesjellies1522 on
He’s obviously not planning on leaving in three years.
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.
Electrical-Page5188 on
You don’t remodel a house to your own garish tastes if you plan to move out soon.
huxtiblejones on
Should’ve put this disgusting fucking pig in prison when we had the chance.
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French here, does americans give a fuck about the white house as a building? Serious question caus‘ obviously I don’t
Jesus Christ, exactly how many underage girls did Trump rape?
Aaron Sorkin already did that when he left after Season 4.
„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.“
Who needs healthcare when we can make the White House a gold-adorned shithouse.
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.
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…
How symbolic.
Of course he is. He’s not stopping at the East Wing. We need to stop him.
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.
Would you be doing this much construction on a house you’re moving out of in 3 years?
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
How many Russian listening devices will be built in?
Before trump they had just managed to get one trophy near the oval office, maybe.
Dude needs to stop messing with the People’s House. WTF.
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.
We have to stop this guy. Not at the midterms. Not next month. TODAY.
Real fucking quiet from the people all up in arms about toppling confederate statues.
Fucking hypocrites.
>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.
He’s reached full Marie Antoinette
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.
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.
He’s destroying it first before it gets destroyed in the next civil war.
Funny they use the word plotting, trump does not need plotting, if he want it gone it would be gone
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.
Damn, he is literally destroying America from inside the house. Putin is laughing his ass off, actually both probably are.
I’m calling it now, the entire White House will be demolished by the end of his term.
Imagine if Obama or Biden knocked down the White House!
It’s way past time to remove Trump from office.
I wish more people had voted for Harris.
Destroy the most historic room in the USA for your own vanity. Hey Trumpers you had enough just yet?
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.
Nothing will be built, it will only be destroyed. Such is the nature of his presidency.
Forget architecture. Trump is trying to destroy democracy and the current world order.
We live in the shitty Biff Tannen alt reality
Americans need to defend the White House until there’s an American government in place again.
He doesn’t spend much time at the White House anyways. Might as well destroy the whole fucking thing
Spoiler Alert: Trump is plotting to destroy America
OF COURSE HE IS.
How this is a surprise to anyone is beyond me.
Bet that it is Putin’s idea. It’s a perfect metaphor for our implosion.
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.
For the love of god, put this felon in prison for the sake of human kind! Please!
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.
This sounds like the plan of a person who doesn’t want to leave the office
He’s obviously not planning on leaving in three years.
We knew it already. There goes the most storied room in U.S. History. If he tears down the Westwing the Whitehouse is next.
You don’t remodel a house to your own garish tastes if you plan to move out soon.
Should’ve put this disgusting fucking pig in prison when we had the chance.