WH announces construction of 90,000 sq foot ballroom to WH

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Anonymous wrote:For reference, an NFL football field is the same size. wtf.

I thought we needed to save money?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/31/trump-ballroom-east-wing-overhaul/

The next Democrat president should tear this monstrosity down as well as the trump patio and restore both the East Wing and the Jackie Rose garden
The WH should also be fumigated to get rid of the trump stench.

+10,000,000

This. Quite literally this.

Anything Trump builds to glorify himself should be utterly destroyed by the next Democratic administration. When asked for comment by Fox News, the next WH spokesperson should quote Exodus 32

I still think it should be repurposed as a museum to Chronicle the Trump Atrocities.

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If you've ever donated to or are members or are on the mailing lists for:

The Trust for National Mall
White House Historical Association

please write to tell them to act, that you will stop donations, and unsubscribe.

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder why everyone on the left is so upset about President Trump‘s expansion of the White House that is being 100% funded by donations, but have zero interest in the $1.6 billion expansion of Gavin Newsom‘s California Capitol that is 100% taxpayer funded and 100% cloaked in NDA’s and cronyism

Where is the evidence the ballroom is funded by donations? We should be able to look at treasury accounts and see where the money is collected and spent. In which account has this $200 million been deposited?

In addition, there is absolutely no way that this was competitively bid as is required by Federal Procurement rules. Can't be done in a few months.

That’s also probably why it’s a tear down. You can find any crap developer willing to tear something down and put up some quickly built flimsy thing. Finding contractors who can renovate a historic building and comply with standards for a historical renovation is much harder and takes more time. And is probably harder to do as a back scratching grift. Hence they are tearing down instead of renovating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For reference, an NFL football field is the same size. wtf.

I thought we needed to save money?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/31/trump-ballroom-east-wing-overhaul/

The next Democrat president should tear this monstrosity down as well as the trump patio and restore both the East Wing and the Jackie Rose garden
The WH should also be fumigated to get rid of the trump stench.

+10,000,000

This. Quite literally this.

Anything Trump builds to glorify himself should be utterly destroyed by the next Democratic administration. When asked for comment by Fox News, the next WH spokesperson should quote Exodus 32

Barack Obama Ballroom and Museum of Presidential History.

[Anonymous]

Here is the detail about the companies that got these no bid undisclosed value contracts. The architecr is DC based and the construction company is based in bethesda:
https://www.constructiondive.com/news/clark-white-house-construction-ballroom/756918/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder why everyone on the left is so upset about President Trump‘s expansion of the White House that is being 100% funded by donations, but have zero interest in the $1.6 billion expansion of Gavin Newsom‘s California Capitol that is 100% taxpayer funded and 100% cloaked in NDA’s and cronyism

Where is the evidence the ballroom is funded by donations? We should be able to look at treasury accounts and see where the money is collected and spent. In which account has this $200 million been deposited?

In addition, there is absolutely no way that this was competitively bid as is required by Federal Procurement rules. Can't be done in a few months.

That’s also probably why it’s a tear down. You can find any crap developer willing to tear something down and put up some quickly built flimsy thing. Finding contractors who can renovate a historic building and comply with standards for a historical renovation is much harder and takes more time. And is probably harder to do as a back scratching grift. Hence they are tearing down instead of renovating.

100% This entire project is one giant grift and you can bet his tiny little palms are being greased by multiple people.

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I don't like Trump, but I don't think ball room is a bad idea. Most national palaces have a grand ballroom of some kind, and the East Room is too small. This is also one area where Trump's opulent sense of taste may suitable.

Except, thanks to Trump, we are no longer the global hegemon, we no longer have an economy that is the envy of the world and we are flouting democratic norms. So, no need for extra space.

We are still the global hegemon. Of course, nothing lasts forever, but no country comes close to the US capability for power projection.

In 9 months China and the rest of the world have made up more ground than they would have in 20 years. The malicious incompetence of this administration is astounding.

It’s intentional.

He was installed to destroy us.

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How long will it take to build? This isn't an ordinary building. Won't it require CIA, FBI, NSA approval and constant monitoring of equipment, materials and workers to ensure the building is "clean"? Remember the new embassy in Moscow in the 1980's that was never used because the KGB had put listening devices in it while it was being built? Won't it have to be super-reinforced thus lengthening even more the construction time?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm just going to imagine a Russian terrorist crashed a plane through the White House East Wing.

That’s what happened.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder why everyone on the left is so upset about President Trump‘s expansion of the White House that is being 100% funded by donations, but have zero interest in the $1.6 billion expansion of Gavin Newsom‘s California Capitol that is 100% taxpayer funded and 100% cloaked in NDA’s and cronyism

Where is the evidence the ballroom is funded by donations? We should be able to look at treasury accounts and see where the money is collected and spent. In which account has this $200 million been deposited?

In addition, there is absolutely no way that this was competitively bid as is required by Federal Procurement rules. Can't be done in a few months.

That’s also probably why it’s a tear down. You can find any crap developer willing to tear something down and put up some quickly built flimsy thing. Finding contractors who can renovate a historic building and comply with standards for a historical renovation is much harder and takes more time. And is probably harder to do as a back scratching grift. Hence they are tearing down instead of renovating.

Yep. No ethical builder would have taken this job. Especially one who values historical properties.

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Anonymous wrote:It's so funny - and typical - that none of you acknowledge this is being built using private funds. It will also benefit all the presidents to come. Not taxpayer funded at all. Idiots.

"Leavitt characterized the new construction — which she said will be funded by Trump and other private donors"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/construction-on-trump-s-200-million-white-house-ballroom-to-begin-in-september/ar-AA1JFKsY?ocid=BingNewsSerp

So Trump & company are paying for the whole thing?

I am not seeing the outrage here. Why is anyone upset about this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’d like to know the name of the contractor, and service providers who have agreed to work on this. They are braking the law and will be prosecuted. Here is what the actual process should be for this type of project:

1. Initial Proposal: The White House is managed by the National Park Service (NPS) but used by the Executive Office of the President (EOP). Any proposed change, even by a sitting president, begins internally through the Office of the Curator and the White House Facilities Management Division.

2. Historic Review: The NPS, as custodian of the White House under the Presidential Residence Act and National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), must review all alterations for compliance with Section 106 of the NHPA.

This requires assessing potential impacts on historic and cultural resources in consultation with the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) and the D.C. State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO).

3. Planning & Environmental Oversight: The National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) evaluates all major federal projects in the National Capital Region, including work on the White House grounds, for design, planning, and environmental impacts under NEPA (the National Environmental Policy Act).

Public comment and design reviews are part of that process.

4. Aesthetic Review: The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (CFA) reviews and advises on the design and appearance of any exterior modifications to the White House or its grounds.

5. Final Authorization: After approvals from NPS, NCPC, and CFA, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the White House Chief Usher / Facilities Management Office finalize funding, scheduling, and logistics.

Only after completing this full process could any major construction or demolition legally begin.

Yet Trump ignored every step, acting unilaterally through executive order, bypassing oversight, and ordering demolition as if he were a monarch. The result: the people’s house, altered without the people’s consent.

6. Preference in contracting and bidding for female/ minority-owned businesses.

Was this followed too? Or just disregarded??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's so funny - and typical - that none of you acknowledge this is being built using private funds. It will also benefit all the presidents to come. Not taxpayer funded at all. Idiots.

"Leavitt characterized the new construction — which she said will be funded by Trump and other private donors"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/construction-on-trump-s-200-million-white-house-ballroom-to-begin-in-september/ar-AA1JFKsY?ocid=BingNewsSerp

So Trump & company are paying for the whole thing?

I am not seeing the outrage here. Why is anyone upset about this?

You don't care about historic preservation? You don't care about the optics (majority of people struggling right now)? You don't care about the open-air corruption? You don't care about processes that have been used by every other president in America?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's so funny - and typical - that none of you acknowledge this is being built using private funds. It will also benefit all the presidents to come. Not taxpayer funded at all. Idiots.

"Leavitt characterized the new construction — which she said will be funded by Trump and other private donors"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/construction-on-trump-s-200-million-white-house-ballroom-to-begin-in-september/ar-AA1JFKsY?ocid=BingNewsSerp

So Trump & company are paying for the whole thing?

I am not seeing the outrage here. Why is anyone upset about this?

You don't care about historic preservation? You don't care about the optics (majority of people struggling right now)? You don't care about the open-air corruption? You don't care about processes that have been used by every other president in America?

They obviously don't because it is Trump. I fi thad been Obama and Biden, they'd be experts on White House reno rules and screaming corruption and "Let them eat cake!"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's so funny - and typical - that none of you acknowledge this is being built using private funds. It will also benefit all the presidents to come. Not taxpayer funded at all. Idiots.

"Leavitt characterized the new construction — which she said will be funded by Trump and other private donors"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/construction-on-trump-s-200-million-white-house-ballroom-to-begin-in-september/ar-AA1JFKsY?ocid=BingNewsSerp

So Trump & company are paying for the whole thing?

I am not seeing the outrage here. Why is anyone upset about this?

You don't care about historic preservation? You don't care about the optics (majority of people struggling right now)? You don't care about the open-air corruption? You don't care about processes that have been used by every other president in America?

They obviously don't because it is Trump. I fi thad been Obama and Biden, they'd be experts on White House reno rules and screaming corruption and "Let them eat cake!"

I know, I shouldn't even bother. I suppose there is still a part of me willing to believe that elected MAGA will speak up, but clearly that's not going to happen.

He is literally tearing down the White House and nary a peep. It's truly stunning.