White House ballroom project has become costlier and larger than originally anticipated

Donald Trump encouraged those working on the construction of his new White House ballroom project to disregard traditional permitting, zoning, and code requirements, according to a new report.

Since announcing the project in July, Trump’s ballroom has become larger, costlier and more destructive than initially thought – raising concerns about whether the president is following historical rules when it comes to a White House addition.

The ballroom’s capacity, initially thought to be 650, has been raised to 900. Its cost has nearly doubled from $200 million to $350 million. Its construction, which Trump initially said would not interfere with the integrity of the current White House, has led to the destruction of the East Wing.

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    Stop clutching your pearls and buy guns.

    Americans and ignoring the obvious solutions- can’t think of a more on-brand way to handle this

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      Funny thing is, even Nero wasn’t this blatantly corrupt and evil. Most of the myth of the ‘fiddling while Rome burned’ story came as propaganda from his enemies (long after he was dead too). What we’re seeing here is undeniable proof that Trump is the biggest POS in America

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          Tip:
          In markdown, add two spaces at the end of a line for a linebreak.
          As is, your art is spread to 2 or 3 columns on a wide screen.

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            You da man.

            Show me all your ways!

            EDIT: I’m on mobile. What happens if you copy/paste it in your format? Will it look good for you and broken for me?

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    He’s not going anywhere anytime soon, and all the checks and balances have signalled he’s got nothing to worry about.

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    ‘Historical’ rules? ‘Traditional’ requirements? The fuck is up with this word choice? This article’s making it sound like those are some quaint old family traditions.

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    What a surprise? Trump is cheating again! Who woulda thunk it, other than EVERYBODY?

    And in this case, cheating is even stupider. He’s not a normal developer in this case, he’s not paying for this, he doesn’t have to wait for anything, he can expedite anything he wants. There is no reason to not do this by the book, but Trump is one of those guys (I’ve known several) who when offered a choice between the honest way, and the dishonest way, they will take the dishonest way every time, because they think that somehow it will get them something extra, even if it doesn’t. It’s just their nature to cheat at everything.

    But the Dems assure us that the 2024 election was totally “fair & square,” and Donald Trump didn’t cheat in the only election that would literally keep him from a life sentence in prison. Sure, he’s cheated on literally EVERYTHING ELSE IN HIS LIFE, just for fun, but he didn’t cheat to keep himself out of prison. Makes sense.

    No wonder Democrats lose every election.

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    White House ballroom project has become costlier and larger than originally anticipated

    You don’t say! And nobody except everybody expected this?

    The only other unsurprising thing here is that they managed to balloon it like that while ignoring building permits and code, as many times those cause the ballooning in some way. Incompetence and corruption go far too with ballooning though

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    I am confused, what ballroom is this talking about? Do you mean the Epstein ball room? That makes sense…

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    Look on the bright side; hopefully it’ll catch on fire due to an electric short, or Canada, or something, during one of Trump’s shindigs and him and nine hundred of his “friends” will get trapped inside due to overcrowding and insufficient emergency exits and will burn to death in abject agony.

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    Would be hilarious if the schematics of the ultra secret surveillance hardware in and around the wing get leaked to a foreign party.

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    I just hope it collapses around him, taking his largest donors with him. That would be a nice bit of poetic justice.