I’m confused. Which ballroom… Do you mean the Epstein ball room? That would make sense.
Anyone thinking that this will remain at 300 million should look at trump history
Or the history of this ballroom. The first time I read it it was 200 million. Then 250 million, then now it’s 300 and before this year is over it’ll have crossed the 500 million line
They’re already talking $350M lol
The monument to corruption has cost overruns before demolition is even complete
He’ll stiff all the contractors, especially the small ones that can’t sue him, and keep the money. He thinks that makes him a good businessman.
My bet is on it never getting completed. It’s going to be a running grift over the next few years. There will be delay after delay after delay with multiple “independent” contractors rolling through to deal with whatever the current delay is. Those contractors will be chosen via a competitive bid process,. The company bidding the highest kickbacks to Trump being awarded the contract. At the end of the Trump administration, anything actually constructed on the grounds will need to be torn down due to engineering failures, and multitudes of bugs planted by foreign spy agencies.
Winchester Mystery WhiteHouse
yep, just like the wall
I don’t doubt there will be a grift involved, but he sure seems to be in a hurry to build it.
No grift? A 300 million mcmansion?
Have you ever seen The Towering Inferno?
They cut all kinds of costs to get it done cheap and quick, with bribery and embezzlement etc etc and, well, it’s called the towering inferno for a reason.
If so then, I give you The Epstein’s Ballroom.It’ll be slapped up quick. Tarted up in gaudy cheap gold paint.
The costs will have ballooned massively by then, but the companies involved won’t ever be paid. Yet a cursory look from an accountant will show that the cash went to the paedos shell company of some form.
It’ll start falling to pieces within a few years, if not straight away, then it’ll be a race to knock it down safely before it collapses and kills someone.The most shocking thing about this would be if it turns out to be a good building that’s built to last, without corruption etc. AND the companies involved get paid.
The Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Ballroom?
I’m not taking that bet. I’d be homeless
And this country only builds opulent ballrooms for rich people, not homeless shelters
Does anyone actually think the 300 million is being spent on the ballroom? When all of his crimes shake out in the scope of history, we’ll learn that maybe 100 million went to the ballroom and at LEAST 200 million went into his own pockets. I guarantee it.
Would be a good structural test, when the president and all his donors are under it’s roof.
Building regulations, inspections and certifications are woke socialism, don’tyouknow. They might even be terrorism at this point.
A real estate grift, you say?
Yeah. Shutting down the government wasnt distracting enough, so they demolished the fucking white house as misdirection - but of course we can expect embezzlement and corruption from the construction job.
With Trump, he’ll go out of his way to create opportunities for a grift
Which is likely what this was originally intended to be, but it also happens to intersect with an opportunity to stroke his ego and get his narcissistic supply by building a monument to himself in the process.
Of course he’s going to prioritize and fast track such a project
The only right thing any next president can do after being elected is to demolish the shit out of that thing and restore the Whitehouse to exactly what it was.
We’ll call it a 300 million oopsie. Well, 500 million oopsie. I mean, 700 milli… Okay, we’ll call it a billion dollar oopsie.
We’ll live, the US will live, a billion dollar is almost pocket change for the US government in that respect, the cost of a B1 bomber if I recall correctly, and we’ll have one less reminder that the US populace happily and with eyes open lead the entire world to the edge of oblivion.
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I think it’ll either not get completed, or there will be all sorts of problems that arise after he dies.
The problems will include mysterious coils of wire/parabolic reflectors/resonating cavities embedded in the foundations, presumably to help the Russians/Saudis/whoever spy on the situation bunker underneath.
Assuming he lives long enough it’ll probably open relatively quickly, bare bones, things like the kitchen won’t be large enough or even available, he’ll rent some “gold” tables and chairs and have “the best” opening ever.
Then it will sit incomplete until someone decides to fix it in a future administration. Hopefully they can just tear down and fix the interior, but probably not.
And if not, enough relatively inexpensive bottles filled with gasoline could make it structurally unsound.
Honestly I would respect the contractors so much if they make it where it has to come down
