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A 'beautiful' ballroom and a new Lincoln bathroom: Trump relishes remaking the White House

hank
edited August 1 in Off-Topic
CNBC

Question - What does one need in a bathroom?

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  • Observant1
    edited 2:41AM
    WTH?
    The White House is often referred to as the People's House.
    It's not supposed to be Mar-a-Lago II...
  • hank
    edited August 1
    I should add here that Trump says the ballroom will be paid for by donations from “patriots” - whatever that means. But it seems you and me are footing the bill for the bathroom upgrade.
  • MarkMark
    I'm fairly certain that the taxpayer will be on the hook for all of it. 47 is notorious for welching on contractors.
  • AnnaAnna
    He is planning to die there and be laid in state for eternity with full power as conveyed by his lineage heirs, all known to be unitary spirt mediums.
  • Observant1
    edited August 1
    Tamara Keith of NPR discusses the White House renovation with Geoff Bennett of the PBS News Hour.

    https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/a-look-at-trumps-effort-to-reshape-the-white-house-in-his-image
  • CrashCrash
    hank said:

    CNBC

    Question - What does one need in a bathroom?

    Ethan Allen returned to England after the war, and the British made fun of him. One day they put a picture of George Washington in an outhouse where Allen would be sure to see it. He used the outhouse but said nothing about the picture. Then the British asked him about it and Allen said it was a very appropriate place for an Englishman to hang the picture because “nothing will make an Englishman shit so quick as the sight of General Washington.”
  • howaya
    200 million? Well at least we will have something to show for our misspent tax dollars, unlike Donny's birthday parade.
  • DrVenture
    hank said:

    I should add here that Trump says the ballroom will be paid for by donations from “patriots” - whatever that means. But it seems you and me are footing the bill for the bathroom upgrade.

    That would be "involuntary" donations it appears. Will those "patriots" be Mexican? Money they never gave us for wall building? Maybe Qatar?

  • catch22catch22
    The whole place is going to resemble a 'bordello'. The Oval Office already looks like the check in lobby area for a 'bordello'. Beyond the monies spent, what a shame for the whole thing.
  • CrashCrash
    edited 3:12PM
    He wants to be a king. This gold obsession will make the place resemble the Tsar's winter palace in St. Petersburg. Gross and brutishly overdone, an affront to taxpayers in a (formerly) "free" country. (LOUD start:)
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