Trump's $300 million monument to himself includes a staircase "leading up to no clear landing" and "colliding windows"

[Miles Archer]

Trump’s ballroom design a ‘hurried process’ that includes stairs to nowhere: report

https://www.rawstory.com/white-house-2674232645/

“Architects and historians say that it is not unusual for designs to change during a project like this, but that Mr. Trump has not followed the typical process for White House renovations, which normally involve reviews by organizations like the National Capital Planning Commission,” the report reads. “And the various plans Mr. Trump has shared have suggested a hurried process.”

Trump revealed more details on the plans for the proposed ballroom this week, including new design renderings of the facility’s exterior. The Times, however, noted in its report that there were “some mistakes” in at least one of the design renderings, including a staircase “leading up to no clear landing,” and “colliding windows.”

The price of the ballroom ballooned this week from $200 million to $300 million, and construction on the project – originally slated to begin last month – has been delayed to an undetermined date.

The Trump administration has also received scrutiny for destroying the East Wing to make way for the ballroom, with images and video
of a bulldozer gutting the historic building shocking critics. The fallout from the East Wing’s was so severe that Secret Service agents closed access to a nearby park from which members of the media were taking photos and videos of the facility’s demolition.

[Blues Heron]

1. It also has a two story connector that goes to the second story of the main house, forever fucking up the integrity

Of the original design.

[sop]

12. Trump will be able to walk directly from the residence and descend regally down the gold staircase to the applause

of his adoring followers below. Since he can barely negotiate stairs any longer, maybe it will be a gold escalator?

[ret5hd]

21. A gold Slip-N-Slide!!!

i’ll leave it to your imagination as to the liquid “gold”.

[travelingthrulife]

2. Yes, let's hear all the moderates tell us how very qualified the architects

and contractors are!

[Lovie777]

3. Winchester house...................

[Buns_of_Fire]

6. My first thought. Maybe it'll be haunted, too. nt

[Wounded Bear]

18. GMTA - sounding eerily similar...

[haele]

4. It's going to be th Winchester House of Ballrooms...

Just to escape the Ghosts of Epstein Island coming to haunt him

[Irish_Dem]

5. Trump doesn't care. The US taxpayer will have to repair, fix, maintain the wreck of a building.

[sop]

9. The only thing taxpayers should have to pay for is tearing down the monstrosity and rebuilding the original East Wing.

In a sane world Trump would be sued and ordered to cover the cost.

[Irish_Dem]

23. Trump should have to pay to repair the damage he has caused.

[yardwork]

7. I'm starting to think it's a bunker, not a ballroom.

I may be giving Trump and his minions too much credit. I see two possibilities. One is that Trump's addled narcissistic brain wants a ballroom so they're building him one as quickly as possible, with the usual level of competence associated with his regime.

The other possibility is that he intends to be a permanent dictator and this "ballroom" is actually going to be a fortress that he can retreat into. The White House was never designed to be like the Kremlin. It was built to be the residence and office of a president in a democracy, accessible and visible to the public.

Trump wants a castle. The plans are secret. The "ballroom" plans are fake.

I don't know, just speculating.

[Miles Archer]

14. I'm sure it will be festooned past the point of wretched excess with gold on everything, but...

...who knows?

People keep pointing to Trump's cankles and his hand and his droopy face and his cognitive decline and all of the rest, but...

...I still stand behind what I have said consistently, which is that Fred Trump was pure walking evil incarnate, and he lived to 94, and I'm of the belief that Orange Hitler could do the same. SURE...he'd be one hot mess, we're already in "Weekend At Bernie's" turf with Miller and Vought running the country while America's favorite rapin' grampy plays Bob the Builder, but he could go on for that for a LONG time. A really, really LONG time.

[yardwork]

19. I'm with you on that.

Trump has obvious personality disorders and health issues. He could have dementia, too. But there's no reason to assume he's going anywhere soon. He's got the best healthcare in the world. Dick Cheney is still alive, for instance.

[Hope22]

8. I for one do not care about his plans as he plays with his doll house...

…as Americans plan to go hungry, imagine their lives without healthcare, fear of navigating their towns and cities as masked men have their way with the people. What is next, white phosphorus? If this were grandpa he would be in a home continuing to dream of destroying the world safely locked behind doors. But no, we listen and watch as he tears the fabric of our world to shreds. Enough already, impeach and remove him and if the same feeble senators refuse to do their jobs and protect our lives and way of life they will have to answer. They had two chances to do their jobs and right thing. This childish, mad drama has gone on far too long. Call the doctors and psychiatrists and get to the bottom of this madness!! In the meantime he prepares to fly off to other countries to pull us into god knows what. The only certainty is his pockets will be fat with other peoples money when he returns and the American people will be on the hook for financing the debacle!

[no_hypocrisy]

10. Howard Roark, he ain't.

https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/f/the-fountainhead/character-analysis/howard-roark

[dalton99a]

11. Trump University School of Architecture

(MC Escher)

[struggle4progress]

13. "My scheme for collecting money includes a fake ballroom!"

[orangecrush]

15. I hope they hold the new Nuremberg trials there

[dweller]

16. A I architecture

Designed by 6 fingered hands

😐




✌🏻

[Emrys]

17. If I were a rich man ...

Ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum
All day long, I'd biddy biddy bum
If I were a wealthy man
I wouldn't have to work hard
Ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum
If I were a biddy biddy rich yidle-diddle-didle-didle man

I'd build a big, tall house with rooms by the dozen
Right in the middle of the town
A fine tin roof with real wooden floors below
There would be one long staircase just going up
And one even longer coming down
And one more leading nowhere, just for show

- Sheldon Harnick and Lewis Bock Jerrold

[snowybirdie]

20. No one has mentioned

that there will no longer be visitors to the White House. That was always a special treat whenever I or my family visited DC. Who wants the people in the Peoples House?

[louis-t]

22. Expect that figure to climb

as the 'mistakes' are corrected and embellished.