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tulipsandroses

(8,065 posts) Fri Oct 24, 2025, 09:55 PM Oct 24

Best idea I've heard about what to with "the ballroom" when we have a Dem president [View all]

Turn it into a museum. The person that brought it up said it should be a museum so we never forget how we lost our way. I like that idea.
Turn it into a Civil Rights/Civics museum. Just like you have school buses taking kids to various museums, 50 years from now, school kids should be going to this museum to see what happened in this era. Appropriately, call it The trump museum.

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Best idea I've heard about what to with "the ballroom" when we have a Dem president [View all] tulipsandroses Oct 24 OP

Couple of big screens around the room . . . Aussie105 Oct 24 #1

Show the crimes of Trump and his minions and his cronies. markodochartaigh Oct 24 #2

It's an abomination. It must be wiped off our metaphorical national shoe Maru Kitteh Oct 24 #3

Don't call it the trump museum. calimary Oct 24 #4

Place a tombstone with the EPSTEIN BALLROOM plaque on it. Justice matters. Oct 25 #18

Convert to DEI Museum Mordred Oct 24 #5

It must be destroyed. It is grotesquely disproportionate to the rest of the WH. RockRaven Oct 24 #6

Nope, taxpayers' money wasted. Aussie105 Oct 24 #7

It's absurdly impractical. Gobs of largely useless space. Turn it into a greenhouse, and let visiting tourists enter ... eppur_se_muova Oct 24 #10

Epstein Ballroom gonna be 90,000 sq feet Seinan Sensei Oct 25 #20

My preference would be to convert it... GReedDiamond Oct 24 #8

Sounds almost like my preference charliea Oct 24 #17

Careful dismantling, not controlled implosion. Aristus Oct 25 #36

Re-education day-camp for magats..... Jack Valentino Oct 24 #9

I saw the plans. This ballroom has to be removed. Baitball Blogger Oct 24 #11

If I were the next democratic president, I'd raze the whole White House unblock Oct 24 #12

Completely agree, been saying that for a while - it's repulsive in every way and it has to stay 0rganism Oct 24 #13

Yeah, with some exhibits of the January 6 insurrection oldmanlynn Oct 24 #14

Turn it into a mausoleum! Mountain Mule Oct 24 #15

It will always be associated with him. It has to be demolished. tinrobot Oct 24 #16

You'd have to make an adult only section... rubbersole Oct 25 #19

Should be wiped off the White House Campus pioche4 Oct 25 #21

Maybe but I can't bear the plans to diminish the White House by this gargatuan monstrosity. hlthe2b Oct 25 #22

Controlled demolition. I watched one of those once, it was spectacular. Ocelot II Oct 25 #27

Bulldoze it down completely... LPBBEAR Oct 25 #23

I Agree WiVoter Oct 25 #25

Agree with you, 100%. Paladin Oct 25 #31

Its by a gate and making free hospital clinics there Johonny Oct 25 #24

No Way! Are there museums in Germany dedicated to Hitler? the_liberal_grandpa Oct 25 #26

Not to Hitler specifically but there is a museum in Nuremberg that chronicles the rise of National Socialism BannonsLiver Oct 25 #28

Germany has many museums relating to WWII. Ocelot II Oct 25 #29

Shelter for the Unhoused, complete with medical facility. MineralMan Oct 25 #30

Hold the trials there orangecrush Oct 25 #32

it's a virtually perfect idea...BUT democratsruletheday Oct 25 #33

K&R UTUSN Oct 25 #34

It has to be removed. Blue Full Moon Oct 25 #35

The Ukrainians did it best. Tommy Carcetti Oct 25 #37

We can do that just as easily at Mar-a-Lago. jmowreader Oct 25 #39

Use baseball as an example of what to do with it jmowreader Oct 25 #38