The Trump Ballroom

[kentuck]

It will be there until the next despot decides to tear it down. People that come to Washington will want to see the White House and the Trump Ballroom.

They can tell the story of how Eleanor Roosevelt was instrumental in fixing the East Wing for the First Ladies. But, Alas! No more.

It's all part of his revenge tour. Except the revenge this time is against Melania Trump. Now she has no place to go when she comes to Washington. He has taken away the home of the First Lady. He's a vindictive person.

It's hard to imagine something so trivial could cause him to tear down the East Wing of the White House?

But, who knows?

[Diamond_Dog]

1. It's a big middle finger to the American people.

As long as he gets his glorious buildings, the suffering and misery of many Americans doesn’t matter to him in the least. He is incapable of feeling compassion , guilt, self awareness. He’s Number One and don’t you ever forget it.

[yellow dahlia]

2. This is SO fucking bizarre. How is it allowed?

The WH belongs to We the People.

And now he is spending our money to tear it down and defame it. And spending our money to build an abomination of a ballroom - a vanity project.

If I lived near DC, or of I were younger and could travel...I would be there to protest. What would he do? Run over us w/ a bulldozer?

[canetoad]

3. Knowing him as we do now

Imagine how he twisted the rules to get his projects built. I bet he broke every planning, health & safety, engineering, environmental regulation there is to break and then some.

[yellow dahlia]

4. Yup.

[Buns_of_Fire]

5. Run you over with a bulldozer? Sure he would. Just like Rachel Corrie.

Rachel Aliene Corrie (April 10, 1979 – March 16, 2003) was an American nonviolence activist and diarist. She was a member of the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement (ISM), and was active throughout the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories. In 2003, she was in Rafah, a city in the Gaza Strip, where the Israeli military was demolishing Palestinian houses at the height of the Second Intifada. While protesting the demolitions as they were being carried out, she was killed by an Israeli armored bulldozer that crushed her.

...

Physicians present and fellow ISM activists stated that Corrie had been wearing a high-visibility vest and was deliberately driven over, while the Israeli army said that it was an accident because the bulldozer operator did not see her. Following the incident, an Israeli military investigation concluded that Corrie's death was the result of an accident and that the bulldozer operator had limited visibility. The ruling attracted criticism from organizations such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch (HRW), B'Tselem, and Yesh Din. HRW stated that the ruling represented a pattern of impunity for Israeli forces. U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro stated that the Israeli investigation was unsatisfactory, lacking thoroughness, credibility and transparency, and that therefore the U.S. government is unsatisfied with the investigation's closure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Corrie

[yellow dahlia]

6. I guess they would.

We will never know all their crimes.

[Mossfern]

7. I was thinking the same thing ....

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