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.
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
That’s because he isn’t building a ballroom.
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
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.
Fascinating read, thanks for that.
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?
Good luck getting hardware in this market
You can buy anything with a bottomless pocketbook
So he vandalized the Whitehouse for nothing?
They’re building a new Fuhrerbunker for Vance and the next one. Trump doesn’t even know.
Nah he’ll build it, he said he finds this kind of work soothing. The world can burn down and he’ll be happy as a clam in his old real estate ways and gold trim. This is what he wants to be remembered for, fancy buildings.
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.
That asshole hasnt paid any bills in decades, i cant believe anyone is still dumb enough to accept a job for this conman.
Also, you try finding a construction crew on the east coast he hasn’t personally stiffed already
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.
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.
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.
He’ll just hire a Russian firm. No security issues there.
So many faces offering themselves to the leopards
But have you considered building it for exposure?
Not unexpected. He handed all kinds of government jobs to the terminally incompetent.
Man who failed at casinos unable to build ballroom. Who could have forseen this!?!?!
They are very good at breaking things, but they don’t know how to create anything of value.
Yet they’ll still come out richer than ever, what a world.
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.
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We can’t have elections in the middle of a ballroom renovation!!
Say what you will, Salon gives good copium.
It wont change anything about the political calculus of the country, which is well and truly fucked, but it’s a lovely café un croissant anyway.
Oh… now it’s $400 million?
$400 million SO FAR!
Is it grift? I wonder if it’s grift. Nah, he’s too upstanding of a guy to do that…
Lupus?
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Uhh idk about this article, it meanders randomly around various failings of the president (sure) but building a big room in 3 years with a ton of money available seems totally doable
It’s doable if you’re not constantly changing the plans. The issue appears to be that he keeps changing things about it. Every plan or rendering they’ve released is different and it keeps getting bigger with each iteration.
AI isn’t good at making minor changes to an image
