The WH ballroom will not be built

[Wilson23]

Nothing is looking good.

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.

For anyone who has dealt with any renovation project more complex than patching drywall, the ballroom’s construction is waving every red flag possible, signaling endless delays that will stretch for months — and, in all likelihood, for years. Despite announcing plans for the ballroom in July, it’s clear there’s no idea what it’s going to look like, how big it will be or how it will be laid out. Trump keeps changing things, driven by a short-sighted impulsiveness that keeps pushing him to expand the scope of the project. Initially, it was supposed to seat 650 people in 90,000 square feet, but he kept throwing tantrums about how he wanted it bigger. Earlier this month, he even ran off the initial architect, and odds are that will happen again.

The projected price tag has already ballooned from $200 million to $400 million, but those numbers have almost no meaning since they don’t correlate to any plans that would generate an estimate. On Tuesday, the Washington Post published an update on the project, and the overall takeaway is that no one seems to know what’s going on. There’s no final design and no specifics about location. There’s not even an agreement on whether it will seat 650 or 1,000 people or more, since those details seem to depend on Trump’s mood.

 

[Rightguide]

Nothing is looking good.

https://www.reuters.com/world/judge-allows-trumps-ballroom-project-proceed-now-2025-12-17/

 

[Wilson23]

https://www.reuters.com/world/judge-allows-trumps-ballroom-project-proceed-now-2025-12-17/

The problems are not legal.

 

[Rightguide]

The problems are not legal.

It will be built. Just like all of the other additions and subtractions from the White House over history by other Presidents.

 

[Hel_Books]

Nothing is looking good.

And who is going to pay for those cost overruns? The taxpayers of the USA!

 

[briancamdudetenger2018]

i wonder why ball room will not be bult

 

[Wilson23]

i wonder why ball room will not be bult

Because incompetents are in charge of the project. Read the link in the OP.

 

[RoryN]

Trump Baja all over again.

 

[DeluxAuto]

It will be built. Just like all of the other additions and subtractions from the White House over history by other Presidents.

It will be the first one to be bigger than the White House and over budget by more than double, dipshit.

 

[Wilson23]

It will be the first one to be bigger than the White House and over budget by more than double, dipshit.

I've seen early post-Independence plans for a much bigger WH complex.

 

[Holy_Seduction]

Versailles on the Potomac.

It’s about social class.

Except when we say ‘classless society.’

But we know . . .

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

And who is going to pay for those cost overruns? The taxpayers of the USA!

The office building that contained paper pushers working for First Ladies is gone. The typical bureaucratic roadblocks that delay construction projects have been removed. Private donations are funding the project. You’re going to love America’s big beautiful ballroom.

 

[RoryN]

You’re going to love America’s big beautiful ballroom.

We're going to love tearing it down.

Would be great if the next President holds events where voters get sledgehammers and the money goes to people in need.

 

[DraggonStone]

Rumor is that the plans changed Trump now wants to recreate Studio 54 in NYC where he had so many great times growing up as a playboy. Those were his formative years when he was learning how to be a good President of the United States.

 

[Holy_Seduction]

going to love tearing it down

Or, would it be better to convert it to the Museum of Versailles on the Potomac, to teach future generations what happens when the ruling class has all the power and workers have no agency aside from enriching the wealthy?

 

[Saint_Ann]

We're going to love tearing it down.

Would be great if the next President holds events where voters get sledgehammers and the money goes to people in need.

That's destruction of property, Rory. Like you guys do when you riot.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

The left is having a hard time accepting the demolition and replacement under way. Oh well.

 

[Bray123]

Without plans the contractors don't even know where to start putting in the services, like water and electric supply, which happens before the foundations. This will drag on and on beyond his lifetime unless someone gets a grip.

But there are always fools ready to believe a fraudster.

 

[briancamdudetenger2018]

Because incompetents are in charge of the project. Read the link in the OP.

i heard that donnie j trump fired the original architects or was it architecture who was supposed to build the so called ballroom

 

[jomar]

And who is going to pay for those cost overruns? The taxpayers of the USA!

Obviously more pay to play donations, like the tech bros and big oil. Why, Russia might even kick in a few Rubles for the cause.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

That's destruction of property, Rory. Like you guys do when you riot.

The next President can do whatever he wants with the Trump ballroom. The sledgehammer party sounds like fun. Let the guests haul off pieces of wreckage as souvenirs.

 

[Bray123]

That's destruction of property, Rory. Like you guys do when you riot.

Smearing your shit on the walls and stealing government property is far more civilised.

 

[Saint_Ann]

The next President can do whatever he wants with the Trump ballroom. The sledgehammer party sounds like fun. Let the guests haul off pieces of wreckage as souvenirs.

There's something wrong with you.

 

[Saint_Ann]

Smearing your shit on the walls and stealing government property is far more civilised.

I'm not advocating the destruction of public property. It's why we can't have nice things.

 

[DeluxAuto]

The office building that contained paper pushers working for First Ladies is gone.

Good. Not like Melanoma is ever there anyway.