Its not about the money.....it is about the not giving a flying fuck what we think and saying so....and the getting away with this finger in our eye.
Very Dark Times Ahead.
Ballroom Derangement Syndrome Now Besets the Pathetic Left
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Very Dark Times Ahead.
The Ballroom Deranged Left decries the great gift, which will be in NEO CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE, in keeping with the existing architectural style of the actual White House, and still they bitch, claiming this will be a "monstrosity" ??
Meanwhile, not a peep as Obama inflicts this on the people of Chicago:, an ACTUAL MONSTROSITY :
Meanwhile, not a peep as Obama inflicts this on the people of Chicago:, an ACTUAL MONSTROSITY :
Your argument would fly better if we were asked 6 months ago, before the East Wing was gone.The Ballroom Deranged Left decries the great gift, which will be in NEO CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE, in keeping with the existing architectural style of the actual White House, and still they bitch, claiming this will be a "monstrosity" ??
Meanwhile, not a peep as Obama inflicts this on the people of Chicago:, an ACTUAL MONSTROSITY :
But that is not what happened.
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https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing...s-white-house-ballroom-construction-to-begin/. https://www.whitehouse.gov/visit/.
I don't mind it at all...
Jackie O would have loved it...it's what she dreamed of...
I don't mind it at all...
Jackie O would have loved it...it's what she dreamed of...
Which one of those renovations left the Whitehouse looking like a French whorehouse?A privately funded GIFT to the American People, which will allow us to treat Presidential guests with common dignity, instead of outside, in the weather forced to use Port-a Pots, etc....
This, of course, has driven the perpetual-burr-up-the-ass left into a foamy-mouthed frenzy...."Ballroom Derangement Syndrome".
Meanwhile, here is a list of previous White House renovations:
Major White House renovations include the 1902 addition of the West Wing, the 1948-1952 structural reconstruction under Truman for $5.7 million (approx. $70–$85 million today), and the 1934-1942 construction of the East Wing. Other notable changes include Theodore Roosevelt adding the West Wing in 1902, William Howard Taft adding the first Oval Office in 1909, and recent projects like the 2025 Rose Garden and East Wing renovations.
Major renovations and costs...starting with Obama: (who spent $376 million taxpayer dollars)
2025 to 2029: Construction of a new ‘State Ballroom’ addition to the East Wing under President Donald Trump
Scope: To put a 90,000-square-foot ballroom in perspective, the original White House footprint was about 8,000 square feet; the current Executive Residence covers about 55,000 square feet; and together, the East and West Wings measure about 12,000 square feet.
Cost: An estimated $300 million in private donations, according to Trump.
2007: Press briefing room renovation under President George W. Bush
Scope: The James S. Brady Press Briefing Room covers roughly 2,200 square feet and is surrounded by small offices for the White House press corps. Bush modernized the whole area.
Cost: $8.5 million at the time (or $14 million to $18 million, adjusted for inflation). Of that total, $2.5 million came from the media itself; the remainder came from tax revenue.
1975: Construction of an outdoor swimming pool on the South Lawn under President Gerald Ford
Scope: Ford built a roughly 1,200-square-foot outdoor pool to replace the indoor pool that his predecessor, Richard Nixon, had covered and converted to the press briefing room five years earlier.
Cost: $66,800 in private donations (or $404,000, adjusted for inflation)
1948 to 1952: Full structural reconstruction of the White House under President Harry Truman
Scope: Truman’s "total reconstruction" of the White House preserved its exterior walls while rebuilding its foundation, adding steel and concrete to its structure and upgrading its systems. In the process, Truman added six rooms and two new sub-basements, bringing the total square footage close to where it
Cost: $5.7 million (or $70 million to $85 million, adjusted for inflation)
1934 and 1942: Overhaul of the West Wing and construction of the current East Wing under President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Scope: In 1934, Roosevelt added a second floor and a larger basement to the West Wing while relocating the Oval Office to its current location; in 1942, he built the current two-story East Wing office building (primarily to cover the construction of an underground bunker). Today these two nonresidential wings of the White House measure in at 12,000 square feet.
Cost: Unspecified, but substantial
1929 and 1930: Renovation and reconstruction of the West Wing under President Herbert Hoover
Scope: In 1929, Hoover spent seven months remodeling the West Wing, excavating a partial basement and supporting it with structural steel. But on Christmas Eve of that year, a four-alarm fire significantly damaged his newly completed project. Hoover was forced to rebuild the West Wing the following year.
Cost: Unspecified
1927: Renovation of upper floors and attic of the White House under President Calvin Coolidge
Scope: Coolidge replaced the White House’s original wood trusses with steel while rebuilding the roof and adding third-floor living spaces and offices for servants and secretaries.
Cost: $185,000 (or $3.5 million, adjusted for inflation)
1909: Expansion of the West Wing and creation of the Oval Office under President William Howard Taft
Scope: Taft expanded the existing, temporary building southward, covering the tennis court, and placed the first Oval Office at the center of the addition's south facade.
Cost: Unspecified
1902: Major renovation and expansion beyond the White House residence under President Theodore Roosevelt
Scope: First lady Edith Roosevelt hired the architects McKim, Mead & White to separate the White House’s living quarters from its offices, creating a temporary West Wing on a site previously occupied by stables and greenhouses along with an “East Wing” entrance for formal and public visitors. The Roosevelts also enlarged and modernized the White House’s public rooms, redid its landscaping and redecorated its interior.
Cost: Congress appropriated $475,445 for the project (or $18 million to $22 million, adjusted for inflation)
1881: Redecoration under President Chester A. Arthur
Scope: Among other changes, Arthur cleared rooms, sold off furniture and commissioned Tiffany lighting.
Cost: $110,00 (or $3.5 million to $4.5 million, adjusted for inflation)
1824 and 1829: Additions of South and North Porticos under Presidents James Monroe and Andrew Jackson
Scope: The White House’s iconic colonnaded porticos were added by original architect James Hoban within a five-year period in the early 1800s.
Cost: About $19,000 for the elliptical South Portico and about $25,000 for the rectangular North Portico (or a little more than $1 million combined and adjusted for inflation).
1815 to 1817: Rebuilding of the White House under Presidents James Madison and James Monroe after burning by British troops in the War of 1812
Scope: Presidents Madison and Monroe oversaw a multi-year reconstruction of the original 8,000-square-foot White House after its interior was destroyed by the British during the Burning of Washington. Only the exterior walls remained, but they were weakened by fire and the elements and had to be mostly rebuilt as well (except for portions of the south wall).
Cost: Approximately $500,000 (or $11.5 million to $13 million, adjusted for inflation)
1792 to 1800: Original construction of the White House Executive Residence
Scope: The original 8,000-square-foot, Hoban-designed White House took eight years to build after the cornerstone was laid on Oct. 13, 1792. Many of the workmen were European immigrants who had not yet attained citizenship; enslaved African Americans quarried the stone used in construction.
Cost: $232,371 (or $5.9 million to $7.5 million, adjusted for inflation)
How have presidents altered the White House? A list of major renovations — and their costs — as Trump's East Wing demolition draws scrutiny.
A timeline of all the major changes Trump's predecessors have made to the White House — including how long they took to complete and how much they cost.www.yahoo.com
Renovation and complete reimagining are not remotely the same thing.
The lies just keep on coming....and too many of these moronic fucks we live with fall for them.
Cults are very difficult to break away from.
One of the many failures of the conservatives, who continue to fail all the way, is that they never figure out that language matters.
Don't you think you should try a little harder?A privately funded GIFT to the American People, which will allow us to treat Presidential guests with common dignity, instead of outside, in the weather forced to use Port-a Pots, etc....
This, of course, has driven the perpetual-burr-up-the-ass left into a foamy-mouthed frenzy...."Ballroom Derangement Syndrome".
Meanwhile, here is a list of previous White House renovations:
Major White House renovations include the 1902 addition of the West Wing, the 1948-1952 structural reconstruction under Truman for $5.7 million (approx. $70–$85 million today), and the 1934-1942 construction of the East Wing. Other notable changes include Theodore Roosevelt adding the West Wing in 1902, William Howard Taft adding the first Oval Office in 1909, and recent projects like the 2025 Rose Garden and East Wing renovations.
Major renovations and costs...starting with Obama: (who spent $376 million taxpayer dollars)
2025 to 2029: Construction of a new ‘State Ballroom’ addition to the East Wing under President Donald Trump
Scope: To put a 90,000-square-foot ballroom in perspective, the original White House footprint was about 8,000 square feet; the current Executive Residence covers about 55,000 square feet; and together, the East and West Wings measure about 12,000 square feet.
Cost: An estimated $300 million in private donations, according to Trump.
2007: Press briefing room renovation under President George W. Bush
Scope: The James S. Brady Press Briefing Room covers roughly 2,200 square feet and is surrounded by small offices for the White House press corps. Bush modernized the whole area.
Cost: $8.5 million at the time (or $14 million to $18 million, adjusted for inflation). Of that total, $2.5 million came from the media itself; the remainder came from tax revenue.
1975: Construction of an outdoor swimming pool on the South Lawn under President Gerald Ford
Scope: Ford built a roughly 1,200-square-foot outdoor pool to replace the indoor pool that his predecessor, Richard Nixon, had covered and converted to the press briefing room five years earlier.
Cost: $66,800 in private donations (or $404,000, adjusted for inflation)
1948 to 1952: Full structural reconstruction of the White House under President Harry Truman
Scope: Truman’s "total reconstruction" of the White House preserved its exterior walls while rebuilding its foundation, adding steel and concrete to its structure and upgrading its systems. In the process, Truman added six rooms and two new sub-basements, bringing the total square footage close to where it
Cost: $5.7 million (or $70 million to $85 million, adjusted for inflation)
1934 and 1942: Overhaul of the West Wing and construction of the current East Wing under President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Scope: In 1934, Roosevelt added a second floor and a larger basement to the West Wing while relocating the Oval Office to its current location; in 1942, he built the current two-story East Wing office building (primarily to cover the construction of an underground bunker). Today these two nonresidential wings of the White House measure in at 12,000 square feet.
Cost: Unspecified, but substantial
1929 and 1930: Renovation and reconstruction of the West Wing under President Herbert Hoover
Scope: In 1929, Hoover spent seven months remodeling the West Wing, excavating a partial basement and supporting it with structural steel. But on Christmas Eve of that year, a four-alarm fire significantly damaged his newly completed project. Hoover was forced to rebuild the West Wing the following year.
Cost: Unspecified
1927: Renovation of upper floors and attic of the White House under President Calvin Coolidge
Scope: Coolidge replaced the White House’s original wood trusses with steel while rebuilding the roof and adding third-floor living spaces and offices for servants and secretaries.
Cost: $185,000 (or $3.5 million, adjusted for inflation)
1909: Expansion of the West Wing and creation of the Oval Office under President William Howard Taft
Scope: Taft expanded the existing, temporary building southward, covering the tennis court, and placed the first Oval Office at the center of the addition's south facade.
Cost: Unspecified
1902: Major renovation and expansion beyond the White House residence under President Theodore Roosevelt
Scope: First lady Edith Roosevelt hired the architects McKim, Mead & White to separate the White House’s living quarters from its offices, creating a temporary West Wing on a site previously occupied by stables and greenhouses along with an “East Wing” entrance for formal and public visitors. The Roosevelts also enlarged and modernized the White House’s public rooms, redid its landscaping and redecorated its interior.
Cost: Congress appropriated $475,445 for the project (or $18 million to $22 million, adjusted for inflation)
1881: Redecoration under President Chester A. Arthur
Scope: Among other changes, Arthur cleared rooms, sold off furniture and commissioned Tiffany lighting.
Cost: $110,00 (or $3.5 million to $4.5 million, adjusted for inflation)
1824 and 1829: Additions of South and North Porticos under Presidents James Monroe and Andrew Jackson
Scope: The White House’s iconic colonnaded porticos were added by original architect James Hoban within a five-year period in the early 1800s.
Cost: About $19,000 for the elliptical South Portico and about $25,000 for the rectangular North Portico (or a little more than $1 million combined and adjusted for inflation).
1815 to 1817: Rebuilding of the White House under Presidents James Madison and James Monroe after burning by British troops in the War of 1812
Scope: Presidents Madison and Monroe oversaw a multi-year reconstruction of the original 8,000-square-foot White House after its interior was destroyed by the British during the Burning of Washington. Only the exterior walls remained, but they were weakened by fire and the elements and had to be mostly rebuilt as well (except for portions of the south wall).
Cost: Approximately $500,000 (or $11.5 million to $13 million, adjusted for inflation)
1792 to 1800: Original construction of the White House Executive Residence
Scope: The original 8,000-square-foot, Hoban-designed White House took eight years to build after the cornerstone was laid on Oct. 13, 1792. Many of the workmen were European immigrants who had not yet attained citizenship; enslaved African Americans quarried the stone used in construction.
Cost: $232,371 (or $5.9 million to $7.5 million, adjusted for inflation)
How have presidents altered the White House? A list of major renovations — and their costs — as Trump's East Wing demolition draws scrutiny.
A timeline of all the major changes Trump's predecessors have made to the White House — including how long they took to complete and how much they cost.
Whoa. Gonna cost $300 million...but it will be private donations ACCORDING TO TRUMP.
Ummm...the Trump of whom you speak...he was the guy who said this "ballroom" was not going to impact on the East Wing of the White House at all...was not even going to touch it...right?
MAGA morons have got to be the stupidest humans alive right now. They are the absolute bottom of the intellectual barrel.
My guess:
Trump privately makes more than $300 million because of this project...
...and that has been his plan all along.
Anything Trump says he is doing in the interests of our nation should be taken as total bullshit. He obviously considers doing anything for anyone or any institution other than himself...to be an absurdity.
And my further guess is that whatever results in the ballroom's construction will be as lacking in class and taste as everything else associated with that guy.
Trump privately makes more than $300 million because of this project...
...and that has been his plan all along.
Anything Trump says he is doing in the interests of our nation should be taken as total bullshit. He obviously considers doing anything for anyone or any institution other than himself...to be an absurdity.
And my further guess is that whatever results in the ballroom's construction will be as lacking in class and taste as everything else associated with that guy.
I bet it will be more than $300 million. DonOld’s tariffs will increase the cost.
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Every trumper is a N4T.
Every time trump lies in your face you thank him by swallowing....The Ballroom Deranged Left decries the great gift, which will be in NEO CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE, in keeping with the existing architectural style of the actual White House, and still they bitch, claiming this will be a "monstrosity" ??
....it.
That's a new building, not the historic, publicly owned seat of our government, stupid hillbilly.Meanwhile, not a peep as Obama inflicts this on the people of Chicago:, an ACTUAL MONSTROSITY :
And it's not even completed yet, so of course it looks bad now.
When it's finished it will look like this.....
....stupid hillbilly.