"President Donald Trump is rushing to break ground next month on a giant White House ballroom, but has not yet submitted the project for a review that experts said is required by law and often takes years to complete." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
No problem...Musk built illegal tunnels so why shouldn't trump just ignore rules & build his monumental tasteless travesty of a ballroom without submitting any paperwork. The "supreme" court gave him immunity over official acts. Self worship is an official act, probably the most important one.
the source: www.propublica.org/article/elon...
Looks like Hamas. Does he need to escape? Or have other sordid plans?
Tunnels with just electric cars..what could possibly go wrong?
With Musk involved? A lot. I don't even want to speculate. The homes underneath maybe structurally damaged by the digging of the holes or vibrations of vehicles. Since we have to "trust " musk its hard. His cars are unsafe, his rockets malfunction, and dodge took a hammer to the govt's internet.
Exactly. Strange and weird nobody seems to protest, nobody explaining the dangers.
I might be wrong but I recall hearing he started on projects without approval and paid fines as needed.
That’s what money does, yes. Just pay fines and move on illegally.
I imagine he will just disband it but am glad to hear this is in place. It belongs to the nation, not the tacky Trumps
America- enough. What does a sociopathic child rapist have to do to get you to arrest and imprison him for his open and joyful decades-long crime spree?
Trump is a real estate developer, allegedly. He should know that you have to have the designs finalized before you dig a foundation
Somebody stop the tacky! Please. youtu.be/CW7UYuouC-w
He already destroyed the Rose Garden without approval. Why is this any different?
Permits? King Trump requires no permits. He will gleefully welcome this challenge. He’ll just break ground and build whatever the hell he wants, challenging any supposed authority with a hearty, “what are you gonna do about it?” Strong-arm, payoffs or just claim another national emergency.
So much for science funding in this country at least we have a decent gold leafed room for Trump and his billionaire buddies to do YMCA in.
This makes it even clearer that Trump doesn't intend to ever leave the White House. He wouldn't be building it for President Buttigieg.
It’s cute that some of you think he will actually seek approval for anything.
I’m confident that Congress will provide strict, rigorous oversight.
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How does he have the right to just build something bigger than the White House with no oversight and no other permission and no other stakeholders? This is insane.
One of the requirements for building a large facility is to have sufficient parking for cars attending events there. He'll have to build a parking garage! There's NO room in that area and you can't go underground because DC is built on a swamp! And environmental impact? So it might not happen.
A guy who’s worked in construction, his entire life would know the process for construction projects alas it was all a Con.
Doesn't he actually need local permits for this?
What, Donald Trump go by the rules? Why should he start now.
How quaint! Does anyone really think he cares about getting reviews and permits?
This pretty much summarizes how things are and are gonna be. The REP get their stuff done, while DEM goals are lost in the discussion phase never to be fulfilled. After decades, and even centuries of scratching DEM agenda into existence those gains are whipped out within 6 months by executive order
Plus side, it'll make it easier to shut it down the second he dies.
And what will be the name? I suggest: «Trump's Big Beautiful Lawless Corruption Ballrom». 🤔
Narcissistic equity is in the promise, not the act. They rarely fulfill that promise.
He seems to want to make the WH feel like an Arabian palace. A ball room or a dictator praising room?
The planned ballroom WILL DWARF THE WHITE HOUSE. Nobody voted for this garish boondoggle.
Too bad this 'years long' review wasn't necessary for either rose garden project.
‘Stands on Roof’ is sooooo mentally competent!
Rules? Sociopath's don't follow rules. That's for the rest of us.
We're Remodeling! bsky.app/profile/opsa... Note that he expects it to be named after himself, like The Lincoln Bedroom, the Mar-a-Lago Bathroom, et al.
Laws don't apply to the felon. Supreme Court said he could do absolutely anything he wants.
Rules? What rules?
If it's illegal, somebody should sue to try to stop this. Who would have standing?
Get Hegseth on it!
“Required by law”. It is to laugh.
They’re eating the laws, they’re eating the regulations!
Because he's 80 years old and has no intention of leaving the WH.
And by not going through proper channels Trump gets to pick his own contractor. Will these employees of his preferred contractor be vetted in any way? And since this is DC won't there have to be traffic controls? A lot of moving parts going on here.
He'll just fire the experts whose job it is to approve it, then appoint his son Eric to the position who will then approve it five seconds later.
He is building a monument to appease his narcissistic ego to satisfy his need to be publicly recognized as a hero, instead of a loser.
Why should taxpayers fund his ballroom??
Building permits were never his strong suit. Hence shoddy workmanship and bribed inspectors are well known orange fascist moved.
Since laws don’t seem to apply to him and he’s doesn’t ever appear to have any issue breaking them anyways I don’t anticipate that there will be much pushback on his gaudy tacky ballroom. I will enjoy seeing it torn down someday.
Waste of money not need for it at all. Except it something he’s going to put his name on. If I was the next democrat president I’d destroy it down immediatly
Rules don’t apply to him.
Whatever's going to be buried beneath the foundations can't wait for no damn approval process.Gotta be done now.
Let those DC bureaucrats take their sweet time approving all reviews, permits, and inspections. Hopefully they can drag it out until he croaks.
Procedures and law matter not to a person hardly held accountable.
I am an architect who specialized in federal projects. I was appalled at the news of this ballroom (boondoggle) to begin with and hoping the federal rules would slow or stop it. Trump just steamrolls right over rules. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Donald Trump is breaking with tradition? Violating decorum? Doing something against the law? It must be Monday.
He will have everything fast tracked
The sad reality is that Trump is going to go ahead next month and no one will attempt to stop him.
In all honesty, a bigger ballroom isn't a bad idea. I am just very skeptical that Krasnov is doing this for the right reasons. If this was any other president doing it, I'd be fine with it.
Rapists don’t ask for consent.
Perhaps Trump's crackdown on "rampant" crime in DC is a way to get leverage over the district and its review process for his Trump Ballroom. It's a card game, and he wants to hold all the cards.
So you’re saying there will be no consequences when Trump illegally builds an extension on the whitehouse.
Or when he buries the Epstein files underneath.
lol. That was my first thought when I saw all that concrete in the Current # rose garden. WTF is under all that concrete.
Any moral standing the US ever had in the world?
There were no consequences for Trump being outed as a pedophile and human trafficker. As long as he has a third of this country held hostage neither party will budge.
There are never any limits for this vile goon!
I'm old and disabled, but just out of spite I will live long enough to see that whore house destroyed and the Rose Garden restored.
Maybe it can be delayed until he’s out of office and then we don’t waste the money on it
Shouldn't the Rose Garden "remodel" have been reviewed as well?
Like he cares about laws.
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And when he's completed that ballroom and he is worm food in the ground, we should turn it into a museum about democracy and it's greatness... They're also should be a wing to teach the people of the dangers of megalomaniacs here and abroad.
This is a completely VOMITUS project. Trump, can't govern, he doesn't know how, but he can dream up ways to spend enormous amounts of money, on ludicrous, distasteful, wasteful, GOUCHE, GAUDY, UGLY.........SHIT! Can anyone stop this stupid project?💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩👹
Trump is not bound to the law or to regulations. Trump is treating White House as his personal property instead of a rental owned by American people
This will be a quick test to see if he is a dictator or not. If they bypass the normal process and start building the ballroom he is a dictator.
Let him rip! Build the piece of shit! No engineers! No Building inspectors! Just build it! Then let him host all his comrades in crime and let it collapse on all of them! C’mon Don, I’m sure your the best builder too!
He'll do it anyway. Who will stop him? This is The Peoples' House , not his!
"any exterior construction project at the White House is required by federal law." WHERE'S the lawsuits stopping FELON/Sexual Predator Trump from destroying the "People's House?" He's a TEMPORARY visitor in OUR house. He DOESN'T own it. Taxpayers own it! STOP that monster from destroying OUR house!
This 🍊💩 just does whatever "it" wants... I hate this
I'm sure he'll try to find a way around the project review
Awww, they think he's gonna follow the law. That's adorable.
Since when has he followed rules?
It's so adorable when media outlets report on stuff like this as if it's taking place in a normal, functioning democracy.
Do you really think he cares? He's acting as a full on authoritarian dictator now
I can somehow understand how desperate Germans after WW1 and the ‘29 crisis could fall for a guy like Hitler. I find it utterly incomprehensible though, that in ‘24 Americans could fall again for a total tacky vulgarian, felon, con man, sexual predator, objectively stupid orange clown like Trump.
Surely, that will stop him.
If we had an oppositional leader, they could announce that any construction firm taking on this project, without public approval and oversight, will be held accountable when Trump is put of power. Every contractor, every truck driver, every painter - can kiss their career goodbye.
Who builds it? Army Corps of Engineers? Knowing Trump, it will be some construction firm with ties to Russia.
I can't wait to see which contractors he stiffs.
You think he cares?
No one can impose rules on dictator Donald #Trump. #TrumpDictator
The Supreme Court gave him immunity for breaking this law and any other laws.
I read bathroom.
Since when has he let laws get in his way?
Rules are for democrats.
When have proper procedures, rules, laws, etc stopped Trump?
He is running roughshod over every rule, law & norm he can get away with, which is pretty much anything and everything his twisted heart desires BECAUSE NO ONE IS STOPPING HIM!
Yet the Epstein files still exist.
“Required by law”. Good one, George.
Dear Leader will bribe the National Capital Planning Commission
Since when does he follow the law?
He'll bribe them and they'll nod through his plans. No question.
You think waiting on permits and reviews is gonna stop him?
I'm waiting on the gold-plated casket.
It needs to be done correctly.
90,000 sq ft at $200mill cost? That’s $2200 per sq ft of construction costs; more than 2x what it would cost to build a high end commercial project. Where does the excess $100 mill go? Trump’s pocket? Is that why he’s rushing to build this thing. Is this another grift?
Will the builder even get paid? Trump will probably argue it's their patriotic duty to do it for free
The GRIFT OF ALL GRIFTS. And he’ll hire LIVE NATION to book the entertainment. The second biggest grifter in America.
You bet it is. It is what he does.
This shit is going to the Supreme Court, isn’t it?
This is such a dumb idea rearranging existing facilities is how this is done. But the megalowmaniac has to have his structure. FFS.
I’m so tired of his BS. #StopTrump #GOPCowards
Another of its code violation buildings. #FDT #Epstein'sBFF
And what makes you think that a criminal with a get outta jail free card is going to follow the law.... he probably won't even pay the contractors, so we will be sidled with the debt when he is gone.
So will anyone actually stop him or no?
He's a NYC real estate developer. It won't be the first time he's had to bribe a building inspector to approve shoddy work done without the right permits.
Feeling like he's not planning on leaving since he is trying to turn The People's House into his palace
He will just ignore the rules and what he wants
Hope the contractors know they won’t get paid
In love fest this morning, taco stated old law about national monuments. Dumbass didn’t realize that the White House is a National Monument, placing your hands or any changes must be approved by Congress, the money people.
Required by law? 🤣🤣🤣
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Does he even have to if he takes over the city? Sickening
Do you honestly think Trump will follow the law???
I hope it takes as long as a stolen documents prosecution with a corrupt judge and SCOTUS stalling the proceedings.
He’ll break ground next week. The law doesn’t apply to Trump. SCOTUS said so and the GOP are wimps.
How many people is Trump planning to Jimmy Hoffa into the concrete of the White House ballroom’s foundation?
It's all part of he's legacy ¡
He’ll just fire the commissioners and find some braindead loyalists to ram it through
Enough, Republicans! Do your job!
Isn’t it really just going to be a freak off room?
He's like a 5-yr old girl who wants a pony.
Donald does not care and congress won't say anything about it.
That’s our tax money!
Doesn’t he need to get at least three bids for a govt project, or can he just give one of his buddies a no bid contract and get a kick back?
This guy is so dirty and sleazy they will have to raze the White House for the next occupant.
trump is illegitimate in so many ways.
It’s depressing to me that no one can seem to hold Trump to the law.
He needs a party room for the 1% aristocrats that helped him cheat his way into power. Climate change is making Mar-a-lago to hot. Fuck children's cancer research, this year Christmas at the White House is celebrating the Billionaires.
The “king” is the law, judge and jury.
Why is he even allowed to make permanent structural changes of this magnitude to a building that does not belong to him? I don't care who he claims is paying for it. This says to me that he doesn't plan to ever leave.
The WH is a protected historical site. They just cannot do what they want to it, can they?
But, dictators don't care about laws.
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vandalism
Distraction #25… release the Epstein files
There is no law he won’t break.
Megalomaniac’s Mausoleum Merits Mention as Megatrend Microcosm.
Imagine the joy that would result if the orange alleged pedophile president slipped and fell into the concrete foundations of Trump’s Monstrous Ballroom. Is it though Trump’s subconscious compensation for being laughed at so many times by so many women for having unimpressive ball room himself?
Further, any building contractor that's available at the last minute for a job this large is NOT a company you want building ANYTHING in the first place.
You’ll all be on your podcasts and substacks and cable news shows complaining about it.
I don’t trust laws and regulations to stop this abomination. It’s going to take hundreds/ thousands of people physically blocking construction. And thats just not gonna happen because Americans have become too comfortable to get off their asses. Who’s planning the protests? Fucking no one.
Yeah because he isn’t planning on leaving. He now has the Proud Boys dispatched across the country and a masked military police that is capable of taking the Capitol. And he doesn’t give a 💩about process or the historical building. He’s a narcissist.
I'm a design professional in the building industry. I couldn't imagine wanting to take on that gigantic liability.
I get that this would normally be a big deal but I don't see how it warrants a spot even in the top 10 terrible things he's doing right now
Lol, which law? He will revoque it. And dems keep posting and doing nothing on the field
As IF.
From what I can tell, the GOP is becoming generally unconcerned about the law… or digging through the minutia of history to find any possible workaround when they are.
Which will instantly change when they lose power to them being absolutists regarding rules & the constitution
Stop Trump!
Hahahaha. The experts say a review is required. I agree, buh-buh-buh-buuttttt…. That ain’t happening with this administration. There are no experts in the White House.
Isn’t anyone paying attention? There will be no review process. He is doing whatever he wants.
typical. Not ballroom. Desecration & abomination. He isnt planning on leaving so he's demolishing the east wing where 1st lady office was. Nobody will need that ever again BC Jill Bien may well have been our final First Lady.
You’d think as a proper and legit property developer he would understand the importance of impact studies and planning permission. It’s almost as it he thinks he’s above the law or something. 🤔
I'd stay clear of any of his buildings too! 🤣
"required by law" - good one.
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"Required by law" is a joke to Trump. Expect all construction contracts to go to Trump's friends with benefits. Throw in a few foreign spies and we're done for.
I always thought tha historical buildings were protected by laws, and there is hardly anything more historical in the USA than the WH. I believe it was built around the time of the John Adam's presidency. And it belongs to us, not to 🥭💩
Laws mean nothing to Trump. He's got immunity from the Supreme Court, so even laws that require submission of the project for review are not going to happen. Ground will be broken for this stupid ballroom and nothing will be done to stop it.
Here's to hoping it never gets approved- such a colossal waste (ballroom and prez)
Stop that sob.
I’ve worked on planning kitchen remodels in school districts that have taken years, but somehow he thinks he can start to build on a 90,000 sq ft addition to a historic building in less than 8 months!
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Why the big rush to do all this? What does he know that we don't? Is he not well and trying to do as much damage as he can because he feels he has nothing to lose?
Fuck that scummy bastard and his whore wife! Im fucking sick of his stupidity. Impeachment #3
He must have more bodies to bury under the concrete 🤔
This has to stop! He's trashing the Whitehouse. He needs to keep his skanky decorating in Florida. I don't want to pay for a ballroom that we did very well without for over 200 years.
He’s building a “bug” room! He’s got Musk eyes (Starlink) attached to the WH already.
So he says it's important for Presidential business - then he's above the law???
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Someday the ballroom is going to be torn up looking for Ghislaine Maxwell's body.
He will just fire the planning commission and appoint a ludite that will rubber stamp his wishes. That's the trump playbook.
He ripped up the rose garden pretty darn fast
Have you not been watching, there are no rules?
He don't care
Pretty sure Trump didn't request NCPC approval to destroy and pave over the Rose Garden last month either. Or add two giant flagpoles.
He wants to use it for the inauguration of his third term.
HE CAN NOT FUCKING DO THIS!!!!!
He doesn't care about any laws that don't benefit him.
The fix is in: On July 9, 2025, President Donald Trump appointed William Scharf as the at-large Commissioner to the National Capital Planning Commission and named him Chair. Chair Scharf currently serves as Assistant to the President and White House Staff Secretary.
Maybe he's planning G. Maxwell's final resting place.
Oh goodness, everyone is puzzled. How will Donald Trump manage to get his ballroom but expediently when it looks like there are so many delays and necessary regulatory checkpoints in place. I see several soon-to-be unemployed regulators in Washington. Trump will just be Trump.
Law, Trump?
Meanwhile, hard working Americans are struggling to keep a semblance of our healthcare.
Not to worry. Trump isn't going anywhere in 2029, so no rush.
By 2029, you could put Trump anywhere with an attached golf course, tell him he's king of the world & he'd be happy in blissful dementia
This won't help a single American in any way. MORE WASTE!
What? There are laws? When did that happen?
Y'all made him King of Merica, so he can do what he likes and get away with it.
Not in a dictatorship. What the fat ankled Alzheimer's patient decrees is implemented immediately, and anyone who stands in his way is instantly fired (soon to be arrested and deported to an overseas death camp) via the Supreme Leader's social media platform.
He wants it done before he thinks he can have his next inauguration ball there 🤣🤣
America doesn’t want a ballroom
Yep ,for real
real intelligent Americans wants that crazy fucker out of the white
ps# excuse my language
Stop the Steel!
This exactly
