Thread 941559020

I'm calling it now. Trump's "renovations" to the east wing of the white house are never going to be finished. It's going to look like a half-demolished mess for years before some other president comes along and restores it to what it looked like before.

Wrong! Had to make room for the moat around the castle!

no ball room in old whitehouse to line dance the trump handjob shuffle. we going to have dance parties and hoedowns now. suck it libshit

The kvetching on this story is absolutely hilarious to me
White house renovations by presidents is not a new concept. There was a time the west wing didn't even exist, and it existed for a long time before the oval office was even moved there.

>>941559020 (OP)
maybe, i think it could have been attached with an underground passage the different sides of the white house are used in political cartoons and there was assumed message based on the side of the white house shown changing the siloute will make that type of communication less effecient, ehh i do not like change.

>>941559126
>hoedowns
I didn't say it about your moms, you did

>>941559162
what a fag post
there was a time when there wasn't even a white house too
but there was never a time you were not a homo
we should celebrate the spirit of eternal faggotry inside each and every trumphumper

>>941559232
Posting more kvetching isnt going to convince anyone, it just makes you look impotent.

>>941559162
There are rules and a process for how this sort of work is approved and done. Trump is purposefully ignoring all that. It's extra ridiculous because his sycophants would rubber stamp all his retarded ideas anyway so he's just flaunting that he can do whatever he wants. I think that's the issue.

>>941559539
>There are rules and a process for how this sort of work is approved and done
Post them

>>941559162
Yeah, but past presidents weren't incompetent buffoons. As others have said, Trump ignored protocols and laws about renovating the white house, some group is going to sue him to stop the renovations, it's going to get bogged down in court for years and just like I said in the original post, it's going to be a half finished mess for years until some other president comes along and tries to put it back the way it was.

>>941559020 (OP)
This is as close to destroying the left as he's ever going to get.

>>941560048
>As others have said, Trump ignored protocols and laws about renovating the white house
Post them

>>941559619
It's fucking long and you're not asking in good faith but I'll humor you even though you're a gigantic faggot. To just modify something like the Oval Office which is minor compared to this current level of construction, The Chief Usher and White House Curator draw up plans (There are no plans for this ballroom that have been submitted.) This is fucking STEP ONE. The Chief of Staff and White House Council review them for ethics and legal compliance. Without plans, this step has also not happened. Then it goes to the National Park Service who actually have authority over the White House property. The White House Liaison Office approves it or not and then it moves to the funding and budget stage which also hasn't fucking happened. This is usually through the GSA or Congressional appropriations. Once budgeting happens, specific design work can happen and contractors are chosen. Security vetting happens with contractors and after all that, construction can begin under the supervision of the White House Curator, NPS Historic Architect, and Chief Usher. NPS has final say regarding completion.

>>941559020 (OP)
I've seen the left butthurt over some trivial bullshit over the years but this has to be one of the best lmao. Why would you be mad about this? Fucking losers.

>>941560208
Yeah, but how else is he gonna funnel $200 mil to his friends?

>>941560208
Do you have citations for this or the claim he ignored all of these procedures? That's all im asking for.

>>941560267
"The White House said on Tuesday it will submit plans for President Donald Trump's $250 million White House ballroom project to a body that oversees federal building construction, even though demolition work began earlier this week." Tuesday was October 21st.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-says-it-will-submit-ballroom-plans-review-with-demolition-already-2025-10-22/

>>941560328
It'd be funny if they reject them, just for shits and giggles. It'd be an apt metaphor for the country: half destroyed and held together with red tape.

>>941560328
Im not seeing what the big deal is or what rules are being broken here.

>>941560442
He should just cut the bullshit and bulldoze the Lincoln Memorial.

>>941560553
Would be kinda based ngl
Seriously though, if there are actual procedural violations happening, im all for acknowledging that if you can demonstrate its actually happening but i havent seen it yet. I see no reason to he particularly upset about the ballroom over any other piece of renovation that has happened in the Whitehouses history. Historically people always kvetch when changes are made, thats nothing new. Even as someone who hated Biden, it wouldnt particularly care what he added to the property so long as it wasn't some post modern brutalist architecture borg cube.
Personally I like seeing new construction that adheres to old english/aristocratic design.

>>941560442
The White House is treated as a historic federal property. Federal agencies must follow the Section 106 review process under the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) before carrying out or approving actions that may affect historic properties. That process requires identification of effects, consultation with the State Historic Preservation Officer and Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, and consideration of alternatives well before work starts. Demolition without that process would violate NHPA procedures and SHOULD trigger immediate administrative and legal challenges. None of that will happen in this case because the current administration is absolutely cucked though.

>>941560725
I guess we'll see. I haven't seen evidence of that though, and so far the only information you posted actually runs contrary to your claim.

I mainly take issue with Trump's absolutely tacky style. His aesthetic is that of a poor person thinking about what a rich person would like. It's trashy as fuck.

>>941560871
Its pretty consistent with other ballrooms attached to capital buildings.

>>941560890
That doesn't look like a citation to me

>>941561035
I'm not a paralegal and I don't work for you. Section 107 applies to section 106 and is germane to this situation. But "The White House is still federal property, managed by the National Park Service under the Presidential Residence Act and subject to Executive Order 11593, which requires federal agencies to protect and consult on historic resources. Major exterior or site work still triggers National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) and U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (CFA) design reviews, along with NEPA environmental assessments. Any project involving government resources must also comply with the Anti-Deficiency Act and federal ethics rules on funding and gifts."

>>941561437
You could save yourself the typing and just share a source anon.

>>941559020 (OP)
>It's going to look like a half-demolished mess for years before some other president comes along and restores it to what it looked like before.
I bet it's never going to be restored at all.

>>941561525
This. Like how we yearn for the competency of the Bush administration, in 10 years we'll yearn for the competency of the Trump administrations.

>>941560725
It's a shame the whole system that would actually prevent all this from taking place is in "SHUT-DOWN" mode right about now.

Oh well! Moving on.

>>941561499
https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/executive-order/11593.html
https://www.achp.gov/sites/default/files/2018-06/nhpa.pdf

>>941561566
⨂ Doubt