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Trump can’t focus long enough, even on his $400 million passion project
In October, Donald Trump traumatized all true patriots by tearing down the East Wing of the White House. The move, he claims, will clear the way for a ballroom for holding large events that are typically held in tents on the South Lawn. A debate immediately arose online over whether or not the next Democratic president should tear down the ballroom or keep it, albeit with the necessary extensive renovations to remove all the tackiness Trump brings to any project.
Two months later, it increasingly seems that such discussion was a wasted effort, as the chance this ballroom will actually be built is rapidly disappearing. Perhaps it could have if Trump had delegated the management of the project to someone competent, but that’s not what he did. Instead, the famously lazy and disorganized president decided to blow off his actual governance duties in favor of micromanaging a construction project he is incapable of handling. Finishing the ballroom in the next three years would be difficult for anyone, but it’s quickly becoming clear it will be nearly impossible for the famed real estate tycoon to pull it off.
The whole thing is a too-perfect symbol of Trump’s second administration: They are very good at breaking things, but they don’t know how to create anything of value.
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Did he “forget” to pay the contractors?
Crazy, you’re telling me it was always a distraction? As a side note; It’s nice to see that his taste in interior design always looks identical, no matter what. He’s really committed to the overly gaudy, B-rated, villainous anime aristocrat archetype. It’s the one thing he’s weirdly consistent about.
They are very good at breaking things, but they don’t know how to create anything of value.
Typical fascists. It’s all grandiose and talk. If one reads the history of Nazi and fascist policies, they tend to wing it. Fascism is a reaction and antithesis to rationalism. In that sense, why would they have a plan at all? Okay, maybe with Heritage Foundation, they have a plan, but overall it is about regression which ultimately doesn’t make sense apart from being an emotional reaction to caring about lgbt, migrants and social welfare.
100% this. All they can do is break. Never create.
All they can create is ways to attach their names to things others have built.
Weaponized pre School sandcastle destroyer mindset
“There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery.”
That’s because he isn’t building a ballroom.
AKA “A place to hide after suspending midterms after society revolts when SCOTUS modifies the 14th amendment this summer”
The 14th amendment being nullified by SCOTUS won’t provoke much more than some peaceful protests that, at least around here, get minimized by the media. People like my neighbor, a Mexican-American (who fought in Iraq), will be using their dual citizenship to leave, but that’s about it.
There’s even less chance that even a Trumpenbunker will be done by then.
This reads as way too competent a plan and scheme for Trump’s admin.
I can’t decide which is scarier, that Trump’s admin is so incompetent they can’t build a ballroom, or competent enough to plan and build a project like this while hiding it from the public
Project 2025 is 50% executed. There are some competent people pulling Trumps strings.
Too competent for Trump, absolutely. But there are some pretty scary competent people behind him, whispering in his ear. As the video details, the people he’s hired to work on his “ballroom”, also happen to be some of the world’s leading experts on building super secure, military grade data centers. There’s not a lot of overlap between those things, so it’s hard to imagine that it’s just a random coincidence.
LOL.
If you wanted a secret underground-anything why would you put it under the freakin whitehouse?
… and of all things a data centre, which would work the same if it were under sydney harbour, or you know… not underground at all, or well… just any of hundreds of existing data centres.
Exactly, why the hell would they put it underneath the whitehouse itself? There’s already a bunch of existing underground infrastructure there that they would need to work around and all to put their super secret datacenter under the single most likely to be bombed building if the country were ever attacked. Even if they wanted a new datacenter it would make way more sense to build it offsite and just tunnel a few deep redundant data lines to the whitehouse.
As far as the whole secure underground datacenter thing, we already have them. Nobody I know has ever been inside it but Google runs a secure underground datacenter somewhat near where I live. It’s basically a bunker full of servers burried deep into bedrock exactly like that “article” talks about. Most people don’t even know it’s there. I only know it exists because I know one of the guys that worked on some of the specialized HVAC equipment for it. Of course thats the only one I personally know about but I highly doubt it’s the only one in the country.
The article does give a reason, it says it’s to allow “executive oversight.” As if Trump is going to waddle on down there and work on the servers himself.
That’s super thin. Plenty of things have executive oversight and are not physically under the white house.
That’s opposite of the logic suggested. The logic is that anything at the pres. place must be theirs. “Is there anything at / under the white house that is -not- under executive oversight?” is the relevant question.
I dont really follow.
I mean i bet Trump loves that Saudi plane, but that’s not at the white house?
There’s much better places to keep important things.
would this even work in dc? the water table is so high, one of the reasons they didn’t build a more extensive bunker complex in the 50s it’s impractical to build anything and then keep it from flooding.
Fascinating read, thanks for that.
Good luck getting hardware in this market
I got two sticks of DDR4 they can buy for $2000. Heck, I’ll even knock it down to $2500.
You can buy anything with a bottomless pocketbook
Especially if you never intend to pay for it. Trump’s classic playbook is to look at a completed project and say ‘It’s not good enough, I’m not paying for that.’ and then out-lawyering the contractors in endless court cases.
Not sure why she shoehorned crypto in there.
Because data centers also make great crypto mines. And guess who’s currently trying to build their very own crypto empire?
Nah. Crypto mining needs specific asic hardware. AI needs completely different chips.
None of Trumps meme coin grifts require Proof of Work.
ASIC tech is used in both AI and crypto mining. The reason they work well together is because of the power and cooling infrastructure required for both. Most data centers are designed and equipped to handle either / or.
No no. The specific ASIC chips used for bitcoin mining are useless for anything else.
Also Mining rigs use less energy, don’t run hot so require less water than AI GPU servers.
I think you’re missing the point. Data centers can run whatever chips you want. It’s not about the specific chip…it’s about the power and cooling systems needed to run them. You can set up a data center to run anything, in any combination.
You miss the point. Trump is not covering up a $300m operation with a shoddy ballroom story to run some bitcoin mining hardware. He can host those machines anywhere.
The writing of tether and paxos (not bitcoin) are ruining a decent article.
I bet they can’t get any contractor to work on that, because the Administration has already stiffed the demolition crew and nobody wants to touch a job they will never get paid for.
You need to remember just how stupid some of his base is. There are pickme’s out there who will 100% jump at the chance and think surely Trump won’t stiff them.
I’m actually amazed how he keeps finding new suckers after decades of doing it in the private sector and almost 10 years of doing it as President. The only ones that really can’t out ahead are the criminals that bought their pardons. Everyone else gets screwed one way or another.
The average American is very dumb. He has a large lot of rubes to stiff.
And half are even dumber than the average (assuming assumed assumptions).
Same here. Even back in 2010 and 2011 when I first started to look him up I was surprised that anyone could have trusted him or taken him seriously once the 90s rolled around. He should have been remembered as that conman from the 80s who is barely hanging onto life financially today.
He was always that shadey “businessman”, but that stupid reality show really put him back in the spotlight.
Maggie Mae Fish did a cool retrospective on how terrible The Apprentice was.
It’s why he has “the worst fucking lawyers”
A lot of the work is shoddy. The businesses doing the work have some kind of quid pro quo. Financing is involved, so the real bag holders will be lenders pitched a job they can never collect on.
There’s a lot of different ways to pass the bill around in the modern economy, such that landing a $300M job on-paper can be leveraged to cheat and swindle people down the line.
10 years doing it as President?
Not implying he was President during the Biden years. I guess I meant as a prominent politician.
He announced his intentions in 2015, so it’s a cromulent statement.
Not to mention his whining overshadowed anything Biden had going on administratively. This, it’s been about about that idiot for a decade…and is still ongoing.
On a personal level sure, but this isn’t a job for a random one man operation.
At the top level you need a business and as much as business leaders love Trump (who doesn’t love a useful idiot) they would never risk their bottom line for it.
All that and the fact that you would likely need a whole bunch of credentials to be building parts of the white house, or at least you likely used to.
Actually on second thought I’m an idiot.
If he actually builds that stupid ballroom he would have to pay for it. Much easier to just take the donations and leave a hole in the ground.
How could I not see such an obvious grift.
Not to mention, did we ever find out what happened to all the stuff that had been in the East Wing?
Hell, I heard that the Resolute Desk had been spotted at Mar A Lago…
He’ll just hire a Russian firm. No security issues there.
So many faces offering themselves to the leopards
That asshole hasnt paid any bills in decades, i cant believe anyone is still dumb enough to accept a job for this conman.
Well you see there are still plenty construction contractors that happen to be republican.
And the very fact they are republicans means they never think anything is real or possible until they personally experience it first hand.
There is a bottomless barrel of idiots for trump to screw over because he hasn’t personally fucked them all…yet
I bet they can’t get any contractor to work on that, because the Administration has already stiffed the demolition crew
I wanted this to be true… https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-east-wing-demolition-congress/?collection=471833 Unfortunately it’s not
Wow, when did snopes become an absolutely adfucked shithole. Besides, as far as I can tell that article is focused on Congress stopping the payments being false, not whether or not they’ve actually been paid, which wasn’t clear to me.
I wonder what a demolition crew does if you don’t pay them. Other tradies will typically just rip out their work, but it’s not like a demo crew can easily rebuild something they tore down.
Maybe that’s Trump’s big plan: don’t pay the demolition crew, and hope that they build a massive ballroom in protest.
LMAO
A demo crew could keep working by mistake.
Most contractors put a lien on your house.
Thats silly. Its a lot of extra work, and a crime.
They would file a lien on the property.
…so they can get paid when the property is sold? Just when do you think that’s going to happen?
Thats how it works, yes.
So the property that hasn’t been sold in 200 years. That’s the one you want to put a lien on? Would you like a shit sandwich to go with it so you at least get something?
I’m a big fan of “you paid us to remove your shit, you didn’t pay us, here’s your shit/equivalent of your shit back”
That doesn’t mean he hasn’t stiffed them, just that particular story about congress blocking funds is fake.
Also, you try finding a construction crew on the east coast he hasn’t personally stiffed already
Maybe he can order the army corps of engineers to do it.
Or the insert red state name here National Guard.
Instructions unclear they installed a dam
For real? They didn’t pay the demo crew? Or os this speculation?
I bet the “I bet” at the start of the statement was meant to indicate that it’s not for real, just an example of one of the myriad things Trump has done over the years that might lead a contractor to be wary of taking on a job for him and which would be good rationale to avoid being next in line to be burned.
I’ll take your bet
But have you considered building it for exposure?
The fact that Trump just randomly tore down part of the White House still makes me laugh.
Wait until you see the shit stains on the constitution.
True patriot.
Trump has a track record of not paying people. Even court records to prove it. Blows my mind the demo team agreed to do this and now they’re not getting paid. No money, no worky
It is really ease to tear things down, much harder to build things up.
So he vandalized the Whitehouse for nothing?
No, he did it as a grift. I’m sure most of that money has already disappeared into his bank accounts.
They’re building a new Fuhrerbunker for Vance and the next one. Trump doesn’t even know.
Man who failed at casinos unable to build ballroom. Who could have forseen this!?!?!
Not unexpected. He handed all kinds of government jobs to the terminally incompetent.
Trump can’t focus long enough, even on his $400 million passion project
Didn’t it start out under $100 million?
It started at $200M and as “not affecting the existing structure” and will end as a $900M donation to the Trump presidential library, which will also not be built.
Plot twist: the Trump Presidential library is built in place of the East Wing
Plot twist 2: The library will only be a small shelf because Trump is effectively illiterate and he will pocket the rest of the money.
In a just world the library would be filled with the Epstein files and all of his executive orders with explanations about how they were illegal attempts to legislate from the oval office.
Instead, it probably going to be scrap books of under age girls he raped, a bible (for photo ops while holding it upside down), and Mein Kampf for anti-virtue signaling.
That actually seems completely plausible
Oh, wow, really? Now I do wonder where all that money will end up…? Hmmm, I bet he will just return it and definitely not pocket it! Oh, no.
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We can’t have elections in the middle of a ballroom renovation!!
I think there’s a pretty good argument laid out in this video that the ballroom is a literal cover for a bunkered database
Can’t watch the video now, but why build it next to the white house instead of literally anywhere else?
Executive privilege, potentially.
