Trump is building a White House ballroom. It kind of looks like a Home Depot without the aisles and a sale on gold chairs.
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Ugh wishful thinking - had posted "This is not the action of a man who thinks he'll be gone in 2.5 years" - deleted that cause of course it's actually 3.5...🤦😢 *headdesk.gif*
jul 31, 2025, 8:10 pm • 19 1 • view
Understandable considering the last six months have felt like a year and a half *at a minimum*
jul 31, 2025, 9:09 pm • 14 0 • view
You know what else it looks like? You know that room Putin strides into for big occasions when those big gold double doors open and he walks down that endless red carpet to speak to assembled dignitaries and toadies?
aug 3, 2025, 12:55 am • 1 0 • view
Sounds like the fuker isn't planning on leaving anytime soon.
jul 31, 2025, 8:48 pm • 3 0 • view
fake gold chairs is the epitome of cheap looking. i don’t get why his aesthetic is like this
jul 31, 2025, 11:04 pm • 3 0 • view
WTF??? The sheer weight of all the flailing bimbos' filler will collapse the floor.
jul 31, 2025, 6:27 pm • 3 0 • view
the next president should gut and turn this space over to the Smithsonian and turn it into The Museum to American Immigration
jul 31, 2025, 9:23 pm • 4 0 • view
It's exactly what a cheezy 2-bit developer and failed game show host would build, all right.
jul 31, 2025, 9:52 pm • 3 0 • view
As a symbol of imperial decadence and decline this is a little too on-the-nose.
aug 1, 2025, 12:37 am • 3 0 • view
Oh God, you just *knew* it was going to be hideous, didn't you?
jul 31, 2025, 9:27 pm • 6 0 • view
300 ft by 300 feet = 90,000 square feet. That's 3 football fields long and wide. Imagine this, plus two more fields alongside.
aug 1, 2025, 12:34 am • 1 0 • view
Better check your math there
aug 1, 2025, 12:38 am • 0 0 • view
Thanks...a little course correction... It's still typical Trump; get someone else to pay for his extravagances.
aug 1, 2025, 2:33 am • 1 0 • view
That is still ginormous
aug 1, 2025, 3:34 am • 1 0 • view
aug 1, 2025, 4:45 am • 4 0 • view
At least the fascists of old had style
jul 31, 2025, 9:26 pm • 1 0 • view
Im not even going to speak about how it's paid for, it's not his house. He should have to pay to restore all the damage he's doing to the WH.
jul 31, 2025, 9:30 pm • 2 0 • view
He's probably extorting his buddies on the Epstein client list.
jul 31, 2025, 9:32 pm • 2 0 • view
Not sure why we get so worked up over these things. The WH probably needs a ballroom. Now what about those Epstein files?
aug 1, 2025, 10:56 am • 0 0 • view
FFS .. I've been thrown out of more tasteful whore houses
aug 4, 2025, 7:17 pm • 1 0 • view
Simply another purse of federal money opened for him to dig into, 85% theft, 15% "something", where something = parade, inauguration, PPE funds, rose "garden"...
aug 1, 2025, 12:22 am • 2 0 • view
As a point of comparison here's the ballroom from Buckingham Palace, which is from around the same time period as the WH:
jul 31, 2025, 7:06 pm • 29 0 • view
With the big difference that that ballroom was built at the same time BP was built I guess!?
jul 31, 2025, 9:08 pm • 5 0 • view
jul 31, 2025, 9:06 pm • 3 0 • view
In his dreams.
jul 31, 2025, 11:13 pm • 1 0 • view
It looks exactly like Trump is a pedophile whose name is all over the Epstein files, which he is trying to distract the public from demanding the release of with this gaudy trash that probably looks like one of the beauty pageants he should have been banned from!
aug 1, 2025, 8:34 am • 4 0 • view
How did this work out for the Romanovs?
jul 31, 2025, 8:49 pm • 4 0 • view
🤮🤮🤮
aug 3, 2025, 9:29 pm • 1 0 • view
It's not complete without a gold-plated guillotine. Please tell me there's a gold-plated guillotine. Please.
jul 31, 2025, 11:11 pm • 4 2 • view
This is so disgusting, so despicable, and Kamala Harris said today she's given up on democracy. Keep that in mind. She doesn't want to fight for it she just wants to Glow in it. I think her interview will follow her the rest of her life and she will never get elected to anything
aug 2, 2025, 2:35 pm • 0 0 • view
He wants MAGA rallies there so they can shit all over it.
aug 3, 2025, 10:37 am • 0 0 • view
What you need to know about the new ballroom at the White House is that President Trump is a paedophile who raped children trafficked to him by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
aug 1, 2025, 9:08 am • 6 1 • view
I kinda get doing it (maybe??)...but this is utterly tacky.
aug 1, 2025, 5:10 pm • 0 0 • view
I agree. I truly feel devastated.
jul 31, 2025, 8:43 pm • 2 0 • view
It looks like part of Hitler's plan for a new Berlin.
aug 1, 2025, 2:46 am • 3 0 • view
Lmao that’s just an AI image and this whole thing is probably just one more stupid distraction. Has an architect even been contacted?
jul 31, 2025, 10:41 pm • 1 0 • view
All it needs now is the bartender from The Shining.
jul 31, 2025, 7:56 pm • 21 1 • view
I think there's some kind of committee that has to approve major structural changes to the White House. I doubt he's bothered to try to get approval. He thinks he's king.
aug 1, 2025, 1:22 am • 3 0 • view
Next admin is going to have to tear the whole WH down to the studs
jul 31, 2025, 7:10 pm • 89 1 • view
If there is an election.
jul 31, 2025, 8:43 pm • 3 0 • view
I think if we can take back one or both houses of Congress, the chances increase exponentially of that happening
jul 31, 2025, 8:58 pm • 2 0 • view
I agree. I wouldn't doubt it, though, if there was another coup bolstered by oligarchs. The more changes he makes to the WH, the more I despair because he's making it "his".
jul 31, 2025, 10:12 pm • 0 0 • view
I think the Democrats cannot do that because they are either intentionally (my theory) or unintentionally (boring theory) so thoroughly incompetent *and* unwilling to relinquish party power to competent politicians who like to do things like win national power. But if they did win, he'd strike.
jul 31, 2025, 10:10 pm • 5 0 • view
lol ok
jul 31, 2025, 10:17 pm • 0 0 • view
But. They're going to have to strip it down to the studs simply on the basis of security threat alone. They should've done that in 2021 and it is also totally inexplicable that Biden did not.
jul 31, 2025, 10:10 pm • 0 0 • view
as before, but with multi-faith exorcism ceremonies this time
jul 31, 2025, 7:21 pm • 67 1 • view
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jul 31, 2025, 7:29 pm • 35 0 • view
And replant the rose garden.
aug 1, 2025, 9:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Only way to get every last Russian listening device.
jul 31, 2025, 10:21 pm • 5 0 • view
jul 31, 2025, 8:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Maybe Hitler's plans for Berlin are in the national archives. They should appeal to Trump's monumental tastes.
aug 1, 2025, 10:39 pm • 1 0 • view
To paraphrase Dolly Parton, it takes a lot of money to look this cheap (only in her case she's got a heart as well as bags of talent).
aug 1, 2025, 9:55 am • 5 0 • view
Reminded me of Versailles but Kremlin Cosplay as well. Wont be long before Melania says to let them eat cake.
aug 3, 2025, 2:37 pm • 3 1 • view
It really has no class whatsoever. Well, just like Trump himself.
jul 31, 2025, 9:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Hope its the first thing they tear down on the way to dig up the concrete in the Rose Garden
aug 1, 2025, 5:23 pm • 3 0 • view
Looks like the lighting department of home Depot, where you walk through asking yourself, "who the fuck buys this shit?"
jul 31, 2025, 8:42 pm • 16 0 • view
How did i know everything was going to be gold?
aug 1, 2025, 3:19 am • 1 0 • view
I KNEW it would be guady as hell. Such an embarrassment.
jul 31, 2025, 9:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Versailles only with less subtlety.
jul 31, 2025, 8:49 pm • 0 0 • view
The pedos will have a safe place to party. - Mar a lago is no longer safe as some pedos steal children from other rapists despite being asked nicely not to.
aug 1, 2025, 1:13 am • 2 0 • view
Or a brothel in the 1890s.
jul 31, 2025, 11:10 pm • 1 0 • view
The architect
jul 31, 2025, 9:52 pm • 2 0 • view
Not a surprise. Dictators have no ceiling for spending on their own glorification.
aug 1, 2025, 7:26 am • 1 0 • view
The enshittification continues.
jul 31, 2025, 8:16 pm • 17 0 • view
the overlook hotel from the shining
aug 1, 2025, 6:51 am • 1 0 • view
It looks like a shack of sit.
aug 1, 2025, 2:34 am • 4 0 • view
Vulgarian in Chief.
aug 1, 2025, 12:52 am • 2 0 • view
jul 31, 2025, 9:25 pm • 11 0 • view
WTAF? Who’s designing this bloated imperial monstrosity? Did they somehow resurrect Albert Speer?
jul 31, 2025, 9:18 pm • 1 0 • view
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aug 1, 2025, 3:32 pm • 1 0 • view
The trifecta: Waste. Fraud. Abuse
jul 31, 2025, 10:33 pm • 7 2 • view
Along with the golden gew-gaws in the Oval Office, the used-car-lot flagpoles, and the patio that's replacing the Rose Garden, it's almost as tacky as Mar-a-Lago. Almost. I expect he'll be planting the first palm trees around the White House to complete the transformation soon.
jul 31, 2025, 10:58 pm • 10 1 • view
Looks like Versailles, I wonder whatever happened to the French monarchy?
aug 2, 2025, 3:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Is this monstrosity replacing something existing in the White House? Is he going to destroy a bunch of rooms for this crap?
jul 31, 2025, 7:14 pm • 1 0 • view
"The site of the new ballroom will be where the small, heavily changed, and reconstructed East Wing currently sits." www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...
jul 31, 2025, 7:35 pm • 7 2 • view
Will ICE make raids on the construction site?
aug 1, 2025, 1:13 pm • 2 0 • view
Ho Depot you say?
aug 1, 2025, 1:47 am • 2 0 • view
It looks like the Aqua Turf Club in Connecticut. Are there enormous room dividers, so they can have 2 parties at once? Can kids have their prom there?
jul 31, 2025, 9:59 pm • 4 0 • view
Waste, fraud, abuse
jul 31, 2025, 8:41 pm • 3 0 • view
It's so fucking ugly.
jul 31, 2025, 9:54 pm • 2 0 • view
That would be one truly ugly ballroom.
jul 31, 2025, 10:17 pm • 1 0 • view
And his ballroom (90,000 sq.ft) will be almost twice the size of the actual White House (55,000 sq.ft). Make your own conclusions...
aug 2, 2025, 1:22 am • 1 0 • view
Temu Versailles
jul 31, 2025, 8:52 pm • 13 1 • view
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jul 31, 2025, 9:02 pm • 5 1 • view
Super tacky
jul 31, 2025, 10:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Reminds me of the Titanic. In more ways than one.
jul 31, 2025, 8:26 pm • 28 4 • view
Oh. So true. So depressing. SMH.
aug 1, 2025, 2:29 am • 0 0 • view
Been there, seen them first hand. And you're absolutely correct.
jul 31, 2025, 9:49 pm • 25 0 • view
Trump is entirely ungepatchka - dictator chic. www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
aug 1, 2025, 3:18 am • 3 0 • view
This is calling out for a McMansion Hell post
jul 31, 2025, 7:12 pm • 6 0 • view
jul 31, 2025, 9:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Congress should require him to learn to dance first
aug 1, 2025, 12:18 am • 4 0 • view
Underrated post
aug 1, 2025, 2:24 am • 0 0 • view
It’s not even in his top 50 worst traits but he is completely tasteless
jul 31, 2025, 7:53 pm • 8 0 • view
im surprised that he never installed a gaudy as fuck golden toilet somewhere in the whitehouse dude has one in trump tower in NY and he had years to do it too
jul 31, 2025, 8:24 pm • 2 0 • view
He's renovating the bathroom in the Lincoln bedroom.
jul 31, 2025, 9:00 pm • 0 0 • view
There's gotta be a grift in there.
aug 1, 2025, 2:33 am • 1 0 • view
Let’s not accept in advance. He’s being challenged. We can challenge him too—“no big-box stores in the White House, Donny Johnny!”
jul 31, 2025, 10:38 pm • 2 0 • view
That's a lot of money wasted to listen to bad disco music.
jul 31, 2025, 8:03 pm • 6 0 • view
Is it wise to have that many window with so many "important" people inside? Especially at night?
aug 1, 2025, 3:44 am • 2 0 • view
He’s not leaving.
aug 1, 2025, 12:23 am • 2 0 • view
At least not willingly.
aug 1, 2025, 12:49 am • 2 0 • view
And it reflects Trump's understanding of what a ballroom IS, aka not a place to dance but a place for your donors to sit.
jul 31, 2025, 9:21 pm • 15 0 • view
Looks like a whorehouse waiting room
aug 1, 2025, 9:07 pm • 1 0 • view
I don’t approve this plan one little bit. If the WH even needs a ballroom (it doesn’t), this is tacky as hell!
aug 2, 2025, 11:49 am • 1 0 • view
Future site of Spirit Halloween
aug 1, 2025, 1:30 am • 6 0 • view
lol. 😝
aug 1, 2025, 12:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Nixon did this on a much smaller scale. Imperial uniforms. youtu.be/8jnGNYtd56w
aug 1, 2025, 4:05 pm • 1 0 • view
The ingordigiousness of this greedily ignorant #kakistocracy is mind numbing...
aug 2, 2025, 7:05 am • 1 0 • view
It's a Vegas or Mar-a-Lago version of 'classy'. An overly decorated, vast shed with ornaments glued on to a basic box with golden chandeliers for effect. Trump thinks he is building Versailles when he's really just building another casino.
aug 2, 2025, 9:11 am • 2 0 • view
Some yacked up after huffing’ too much gold paint from the Depot.
aug 26, 2025, 11:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Is that the Overlook Hotel ballroom because all I see are dead people dancing in that
jul 31, 2025, 11:38 pm • 4 0 • view
I kind of wonder if there's an interior designer out there who cries themself to sleep at night but sticks around because the checks clear as long as they continue to give in to their worst impulses. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG6s...
aug 1, 2025, 1:33 pm • 2 0 • view
Everything he does looks like shit
jul 31, 2025, 11:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Next president needs to undo everything
jul 31, 2025, 11:21 pm • 4 0 • view
He's gutting the east wing, kicking out his wife and all future first ladies staffs.
jul 31, 2025, 7:48 pm • 6 0 • view
Is Melania even there? people.com/melania-trum...
jul 31, 2025, 9:29 pm • 7 1 • view
Is he gonna actually pay the contractors?
aug 1, 2025, 1:59 am • 3 0 • view
If it's a ballroom, where's the dance floor?
aug 1, 2025, 7:46 am • 1 0 • view
So if I am getting this right. Destroying USAID, which helps starving children around the world, is saving taxpayers money.
aug 1, 2025, 3:12 pm • 4 0 • view
But spending 400 million dollars of taxpayer money on a Qatari jet and another 200 million on an unnecessary and ugly ballroom is for the people.
aug 1, 2025, 3:13 pm • 4 0 • view
I hope the next president tears that fucker down and restores the rose garden
jul 31, 2025, 7:00 pm • 17 0 • view
The Rose Garden needs to be restored and some sort of legislation passed preventing it ever being torn up again. As for this... thing? The less I have to see of it on TV the better.
jul 31, 2025, 7:04 pm • 18 0 • view
The White House is not his fucking house!!
jul 31, 2025, 9:24 pm • 4 0 • view
He's just trying to recreate MAL.
jul 31, 2025, 9:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Gaudy doesn’t even begin to describe this atrocity! But cutting millions off of Medicaid is A-OK!🤬
aug 1, 2025, 2:40 pm • 1 0 • view
I mourn for the prehistoric plant life that died to become the fossil fuels that were used to power the computer farm that generated this AI slop
jul 31, 2025, 7:04 pm • 51 0 • view
I hope it’s bs
aug 1, 2025, 1:46 am • 2 0 • view
I just imagine Pachelbel's "Canon in D" playing at a wedding with zero non-white people in attendance
jul 31, 2025, 8:00 pm • 5 0 • view
It's empty like his head
aug 1, 2025, 12:37 am • 1 0 • view
Looks like a wedding venue I went to a few years ago.
jul 31, 2025, 10:57 pm • 6 0 • view
Maybe that’s why he is building it—so he can rent it out for weddings (with all the cash going in his pocket). No logical reason for it.
aug 1, 2025, 12:06 am • 6 0 • view
Clearly wasteful renovation spending, should be fired the same way he wants Jerome Powell ...
jul 31, 2025, 10:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Absolutely no class. None.
aug 1, 2025, 1:43 am • 3 0 • view
The thing is, that image probably doesn't even give the impression of what a monstrosity it would be. 90k sq feet is over 2 acres! That shows, what, 8 or 9 tables into the distance on, maybe, 20-25 foot centers? That's around 200 feet. A hall of golden ratio shape would be 380' long x 236' wide.
aug 1, 2025, 12:10 am • 2 0 • view
He’s the new Ceaucescu. www.rearviewmirror.tv/romanias-out...
jul 31, 2025, 9:53 pm • 4 1 • view
The King sure likes spending taxpayer money. Getting a little too comfy.
jul 31, 2025, 8:56 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s so big I can see the curve of the earth.
jul 31, 2025, 9:01 pm • 3 0 • view
And, not many blocks away, there is the incomparable, sophisticated, government-owned ballroom where Lincoln danced..... npg.si.edu/host-event/g...
jul 31, 2025, 11:25 pm • 7 0 • view
That looks like a beautiful room -- wish every photo of it didn't have the garish uplighting.
aug 1, 2025, 1:37 pm • 2 0 • view
it looks like his bordello in florida
jul 31, 2025, 9:46 pm • 2 0 • view
Wasn’t aware there were that many balls in the White House. Take that for what you will.
jul 31, 2025, 7:09 pm • 27 0 • view
The president has a large amount of discretion over the amount of state dinners there are a good number of those.
aug 1, 2025, 12:16 am • 0 0 • view
Nobody cares about that. We care that he’s spending an obscene amount of money on something no one needs when people are losing healthcare and can’t afford to eat.
aug 1, 2025, 2:41 am • 0 0 • view
There are fewer than you think.
jul 31, 2025, 10:24 pm • 0 0 • view
One of those balls could be converted into a much larger Situation Room (the current one being housed in a former indoor pool)
jul 31, 2025, 8:47 pm • 0 0 • view
I understood.
jul 31, 2025, 9:08 pm • 1 0 • view
That should be swellegant. But who will be responsible for holding Trump's balls.
jul 31, 2025, 10:10 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s just another way for Trump to skim money out of the contractors. This is like a replay of his casino days
aug 1, 2025, 12:01 am • 2 0 • view
None of this would have happened if it had been okay in 1950s Queens for boys to be into makeup and interior decorating.
aug 1, 2025, 1:26 am • 7 1 • view
That room will be empty 99% of the time.
jul 31, 2025, 8:48 pm • 1 0 • view
He’s not planning on moving out… MFer is going to squat on that bitch, visit it 5 times a year like his wife, kids or a toilet
aug 1, 2025, 2:37 am • 1 0 • view
Here's hoping he gets to go out Louis XVI style. projects.tampabay.com/projects/201...
jul 31, 2025, 8:09 pm • 27 4 • view
Versailles-sur-Potomac.
aug 3, 2025, 12:57 am • 1 0 • view
💯
jul 31, 2025, 10:31 pm • 1 0 • view
This is why he did that trip to Fort Knox, right? Had to find out how much gold was available for decorative purposes.
jul 31, 2025, 8:51 pm • 3 0 • view
![meme image of Donald Trump as Oldfinger, after James Bond supervillain Auric Goldfinger. [spoiler] In the 1964 movie adaptation of Goldfinger, the audience is initially led to believe Auric Goldfinger is going to steal the gold, but the real plot is to render the gold contained in the Depository radioactive and useless with an Atomic Bomb, crippling the economy and driving up the price of the gold Goldfinger already owns. Oldfinger certainly seems intent on crippling the US economy...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreie2u22yqfd6nxswp2hzrjliibo4tcai5thj2xbmekavuqxfp4olom@jpeg)
jul 31, 2025, 9:02 pm • 3 1 • view
Guess who else liked that ornate gilded style Trump is so fond of?
jul 31, 2025, 9:07 pm • 6 0 • view
Everything Trump does has Monarch written all over it. And we should treat his Regime the same way we treated the last one.
jul 31, 2025, 9:27 pm • 11 0 • view
You need some Nac Mac Feegles. They know how to treat kings, quins (sic), lairds and masters.
aug 1, 2025, 6:34 am • 3 0 • view
I’ll have to take your word for it. Even Google translate couldn’t help this yank out. 😂
aug 1, 2025, 6:47 am • 1 0 • view
They are from the Disc world novels by Terry Pratchett. Although they appear in earlier books, the first book to really feature them was the Wee Free Men. Picture Scottish warriors in kilts and painted blue, but only 6" high. They have a chant, "Nae Kings, nae Quins, nae lairds and nae masters".
aug 1, 2025, 1:15 pm • 2 0 • view
As long as I don’t imagine a wee Mel Gibson among them. 😂
aug 1, 2025, 4:53 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 1, 2025, 4:02 am • 1 0 • view
Looks like a nice place to host future "presidential beauty pageants"...
aug 1, 2025, 8:27 am • 1 0 • view