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White House begins demolishing part of East Wing for Trump ballroom.....
"Trump isn’t just destroying the White House to make room for a vanity ballroom — he’s selling it off to the highest bidders, who conveniently need favors from his regime. The giant ballroom is Trump’s monument to corruption." https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-monument-to-corruption
"Today Trump’s Commission of Fine Arts swore in two new members, including Chamberlain Harris, Trump’s 26-year-old executive assistant, who has no experience in the arts. Then the commission, now entirely made up of Trump appointees, approved Trump’s plans for a ballroom where the East Wing of the White House used to stand, although the chair did note that public comments about the project were over 99% negative."
"According to CNN’s Sunlen Serfaty, Harris said the White House is the 'greatest house in [the] world. We want this to be the greatest ballroom in the world.' Trump says the ballroom is being funded by private donations through the Trust for the National Mall, which is not required to disclose its donors."
Comments: This entire affair reeks of abuse of power, corruption, and total disregard of the public's wishes. Trump has completely desecrated the People's House! The Trust for the National Mall is reputedly a nonpartisan, nonprofit philanthropic partner of the National Park Service dedicated to restoring and preserving the National Mall. Why is this Trust involved—building the ballroom is a partisan activity close to the heart of Donald J. Trump? Donors will not be disclosed so this will present yet another opportunity for Trump to add several million more dollars in contributions (aka bribes) to his overflowing "war chest."
Well, the space can be subdivided into offices and cubicles. Offices lining the periphery and cubicles and waiting area toward the center. Perhaps a second-floor balcony could be devised for small offices or meeting rooms with an inner hallway/overlook to the first floor cubical/waiting areas.
From Heather Cox Richardson, bolded text added by me.
"Likely even more painful, though, is today’s news that Trump’s hand-picked National Capital Planning Commission has put off a vote to approve the ballroom Trump is proposing to replace the East Wing of the White House that he suddenly tore down last October. At a Medal of Honor ceremony on Monday, Trump called attention to his ballroom and boasted: 'I built many a ballroom. I believe it’s going to be the most beautiful ballroom anywhere in the world.' But the American people do not share Trump’s vision. The chair of the commission said 'significant public input' has caused him to delay the vote until April 2. Jonathan Edwards and Dan Diamond of the Washington Post say that of the more than 35,000 comments the commission received, more than 97% were opposed to Trump’s plans for the ballroom."
Comments
Look- no cover for this thing. Must be a $2,800,034 optional extra.
So bright, so shiny, so lustrous!
It truly befits a king.
he’s selling it off to the highest bidders, who conveniently need favors from his regime.
The giant ballroom is Trump’s monument to corruption."
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-monument-to-corruption
"Today Trump’s Commission of Fine Arts swore in two new members,
including Chamberlain Harris, Trump’s 26-year-old executive assistant,
who has no experience in the arts. Then the commission, now entirely made up of Trump appointees,
approved Trump’s plans for a ballroom where the East Wing of the White House used to stand,
although the chair did note that public comments about the project were over 99% negative."
"According to CNN’s Sunlen Serfaty, Harris said the White House is the 'greatest house in [the] world.
We want this to be the greatest ballroom in the world.'
Trump says the ballroom is being funded by private donations through the Trust for the National Mall,
which is not required to disclose its donors."
Comments: This entire affair reeks of abuse of power, corruption, and total disregard of the public's wishes.
Trump has completely desecrated the People's House!
The Trust for the National Mall is reputedly a nonpartisan, nonprofit philanthropic partner
of the National Park Service dedicated to restoring and preserving the National Mall.
Why is this Trust involved—building the ballroom is a partisan activity close to the heart of Donald J. Trump?
Donors will not be disclosed so this will present yet another opportunity for Trump to add several million
more dollars in contributions (aka bribes) to his overflowing "war chest."
"Likely even more painful, though, is today’s news that Trump’s hand-picked National Capital
Planning Commission has put off a vote to approve the ballroom Trump is proposing to replace
the East Wing of the White House that he suddenly tore down last October. At a Medal of Honor
ceremony on Monday, Trump called attention to his ballroom and boasted: 'I built many a ballroom.
I believe it’s going to be the most beautiful ballroom anywhere in the world.'
But the American people do not share Trump’s vision. The chair of the commission said
'significant public input' has caused him to delay the vote until April 2. Jonathan Edwards and Dan Diamond
of the Washington Post say that of the more than 35,000 comments the commission received,
more than 97% were opposed to Trump’s plans for the ballroom."