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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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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.
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.
Presumably the current requirements begin with Russian language skills
So many faces offering themselves to the leopards
The secret service still has to let them in though. That might narrow the field quite a bit. At least if the secret service hasn’t been gutted and filled with lackeys that is.
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
Also, you try finding a construction crew on the east coast he hasn’t personally stiffed already
But have you considered building it for exposure?
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.
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.
Project 2025 is 50% executed. There are some competent people pulling Trumps strings.
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.
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
You can buy anything with a bottomless pocketbook
I got two sticks of DDR4 they can buy for $2000. Heck, I’ll even knock it down to $2500.
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.
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
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.
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We can’t have elections in the middle of a ballroom renovation!!
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.
“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.”
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.
Oh… now it’s $400 million?
$400 million SO FAR!
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.
This lady has a good video about it. https://youtu.be/VbJ4ilDvGyc
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 can get a phallic shaped rocket from Bezos. I wonder who is going to supply the volcano lair?
Did he “forget” to pay the contractors?
