Destroying iconic architecture is his hobby. Trump Tower in NYC replaced the iconic Bonwit Teller building, which was one of the last standing examples of its distinctive architectural style.
He announced his intention to tear it down, and historians went nuts. The Metropolitan Museum of Art offered to take the famous bas relief sculptures from the facade, and he agreed.
Then one morning, NYC woke up to Trump simply destroying the building, including the iconic friezes that he had promised to save.
So destroying iconic architecture is just standard Trump behavior.
He’s such worthless fucking filth.
Honestly say this point be is everything the usa deserves. They deserve every pain every heartache and every atrocity they is happening.
There is no reason this should have ever been allowed. So the checks and balances have been eroded for years by all parties involved and the people are actively letting it happen.
It is absolutely terrible for many individual people who don’t deserve the horror they find themselves facing but the people en masse are to blame.
Burn it to the ground and start over. Such a disgrace
The problem with the idea of burning it all to the ground and starting over is that’s exactly the Republican plan. Destroy so many institutions and cultural beliefs that there’s nothing left to stop them. Meanwhile Democrats are writing a strongly worded letter to the person swinging the sledgehammer.
The better plan would be to fix what’s broken, I admit it may be too late though.
If the rest of America is going to let it happen then again that’s what they deserve
You are horrible for wishing this on us when the majority of us didn’t vote for this and never have voted for this. Your ignorance is embarrassing.
You’ve had how many years to fix this bullshit. Your methods have only produced failure and further enshtification. Now you gave the world another Hitler.
That’s on the masses who don’t vote
Who bury their head in the sand and say I’m not into politics.
Enough is enough
I never wanted it to go this way but your country has failed at every opportunity to hold your leaders accountable.
Yes it’s horrible
But when less than 35% of you bother to do your fucking job (voting) then this is what you get after decades of it.
You have only yourselves to blame and I’ve heard many of you say as much.
Take responsibility finally or accept your fate.
My own country isn’t innocent either in our own bullshit
Well the USians have always been content to limp on a broken system, impotent to change it to a modern democracy. It’s not something that happened overnight or something we can blame ‘the Democrats’ for. It’s a failure of the people
I would like to take this opportunity to remind people that Trump got less than 50% of the popular vote, more than half the country wants nothing to do with him. The GOP has been playing the gerrymandering game to great effect to the degree that their candidates can lose the popular vote but still win the election.
He even got less votes than he did in 2016, and that’s including the suspected rigged votes.
You have to put the fucking stupid loser asshats who didn’t vote because <pearl clutching reason> into that basket of people who voted for him. We, the voters, have to do a better fucking job voting, specifically in the primaries. Something is really broken when 80% of voters don’t like the job congress is doing…then they reelect the same god damn awful representatives.
He is the personification of everything that makes humans bad
So he agreed to give the sculptures but then destroyed them anyway?
He has a tell when he is lying. It’s a bit tricky to spot, but when he opens his mouth you can tell he is lying
Not always true. He told the world he wanted to be a dictator. That he had help rigging the election. That he was going to deport all the immigrants, legal or otherwise.
All true, and all happening. A lot of his followers thought those were lies though, because that was more convenient than admitting they had been had by a conman.
Agreed. I think a better summary would be to say if that he tells you what he is going to do, it’s usually true. Everything else before and after that is usually a lie.
I’d say, if what he says he’s going to do is going to benefit him personally in any way. He’s going to do it. If it doesn’t, it’s complete bullshit.
Fuck… you’re right. I apologize
Someone needs to sue to draw out the construction and leave this gaping mess as a metaphor for the administration as long as possible
Given the fact that he’s sure as shit not using union labor, that’s almost garaunteed
Why not? He’s not paying for it. U.S. citizens are.
He supposedly is paying for it along with
donationsbribes.He coincidently is demanding 230m from the DOJ for past cases and said he’d even potentially donate it…sooo yeah.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/us/politics/trump-justice-department-compensation.html
Yup. We are 100% paying for it.
Principle, I would imagine. And the fact that paying bottom dollar labor means more grift for his contractor buddy doing the job
I doubt he’ll pay the bills. Why change the habit of a lifetime?
Once the workers checks start bouncing that’ll happen. Remember, a Trump never pays their debts.
It’s not his money he’s spending though, he’ll happily pay his debts with our money
He’s claimed he will cover the 250 million dollar bill himself. (And then immediately asked for 230 million in retribution from the JD for investigating him).
He won’t mind. It’s not like he’s planning on leaving.
Just a friendly reminder trump said in July the ballroom wouldn’t touch the existing building and everything would remain intact. Add it to the pile.
He’s not known for telling truths.
This is HORRIBLE! I TOLD you Obama hated America SO MUCH he would Literally DESTROY the White House!
Trump did this? GOOD! The White House NEEDED a Renovation!
-Free Thinking Republicans!
Anderson Cooper once said to Mr. Lord in the first term 2017 during the Russian concerns:
“If he took a dump on his desk, you would defend it.”
To be clear, the White House was destroyed the moment a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and literal insurrectionist made it his home.
So this is just finishing the job.
Trump is a fascist pedophile who will probably have to be killed to leave. The White House has been home to genociders and rapists many times before though. To occlude the historical brutality of the United States is self-destructive and makes you less curious about how and why a pedophile rapist is right at home in the White House.
Tear it down with him in it.
Right, because it was fine when it was the home of slave owners, rapists, racists, genociders, imperialists, war criminals?
Americans need to learn their own history better.
The pages of mankind’s history are written in blood by the victors. Provide us with one example of a sovereign nation that does not have a violent, oppressive history.
“Unless someone else is perfect, I refuse to stop killing children😤”
That’s a fair response but my point was if we intend to tear down buildings because of dark pages in history we’d be rebuilding every nation from the ground up
Sounds good
If you’re too cowardly to try, then step aside.
Oh? And what are you doing?
Haven’t you heard? I blew up the White House all on my own with the MQ-9 reaper drone I keep in my garage.
Tell me more about how much you don’t read history.
Given that he is now making his gestapo work without pay, I think Trump now essentially falls into every one of those categories.
That’s not what it represents to any actual Americans. Yes shitty people moved through its halls, but so did national and international heroes. Reducing it as you have done isn’t going to do shit but annoy people.
Based on the .au instance I’d assume you’re from Australia, it’d be mighty silly to throw stones while living in a glass house.
Of course, because why would it represent reality to Americans when it can represent a mass delusion.
Every US president is a war criminal to some degree, they are not heroes.
And really? You think because my own country is shit that I can’t point out others issues? What a weak arse attempt at whataboutism.
Sometimes it feels like every time an American laments the shitty state of our country someone has to come along to remind us that it has always been shitty to make us feel worse.
Because you’re not, you’re lamenting the shitty state of Trump. If he was gone or not here, you would not be here commenting on the shitty state of your country at all.
And how about instead of feeling bad about your history, you learn from it, recognise it’s an issue that goes far beyond Trump and fight to ensure it never repeats itself?
You do understand that there are massive protests going on around the country right now? Telling a single person you don’t know that they should fight to fix their country does nothing, we already know the country is fucked.
And do you blame Trump for fucking your country or do you accept your country was fucked before Trump and will remain fucked after Trump?
Lol it’s not whataboutism, it’s pointing out the hypocrisy of your statement. I didn’t attempt to downplay the US’ checkered past or even say what in particular I was referencing, just making an observation that our countries have both done fucking awful things.
Don’t bother responding, I won’t read your reply.
You will read this.
That’s not what it represents to any actual Americans.
North or South? or the people in the middle that stole that for themselves?
I think it represents their values quite well.
Burn it to the ground.
Almost like this narrative is a way to salvage US imperialism in light of the undeniable immorality of its current leader.
To be clear, the White House was destroyed the moment a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and literal insurrectionist made it his home.
Unfortunately, crooks and rapists and insurrectionists are the norm for occupying the White House over its history. Like, if you want to apply this standard, the White House was destroyed back under the Jefferson administration.
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I would not be surprised if he bulldozes the entire thing so no one be president there again, and then rule from his shithouse in Florida.
This is almost certainly part of the idea. “It’s too loud and noisy here, I’m doing president stuff from Mar A Lago now”, so now the USSS and everyone else has to ship out there and rent from HIS properties and his cabinet is either making daily flights there, moving there, or simply discontinuing daily briefings because there’s simply things you can’t say or talk about on a Teams call.
What about a signal group chat, though?
Something that really pisses me off about that whole thing, is that the entire thing was framed as “hurr durr they accidentally invited a reporter” rather than about how outright fucking illegal it is for them to even use Signal at all.
Well, actually, that was just footage from the movie Independence Day, but the real laser would be a lot like that. Yeah. Scary.
-Dr. Evil
Good. Finish what we started. 🇬🇧
Credit where credit is due. 🇨🇦
Trump was envious of the Canadians work there
The Canadians did it cheaper.
We’ll see if they get paid…
How I learned about it (am European so not part of my history) https://youtube.com/watch?v=o7jlFZhprU4
Goodbye White House hello Golden Trump House sponsored by Raid shadow legends
And government sponsored privacy service Nark VPN.
Nark VPN. We already know.
I thought this was a misinformation joke post Ohmygoddddd
He needs his throne room.
I think it’s a good visual. A good representation of America in 2025.
$300 million. Could build a skyscraper. Instead building a big, mostly empty room.
The grift
How do you even spend 300 million on a ballroom?
That’s been my question this whole time. 30 million I could see if you factor in bombproofing, bullet-proof glass, state-of-the-art engineering, and vetting all the contractors. But ten times that beggars belief. It’s clearly lining pockets.
step 1. give 299 million to your crony “construction company” friends
The child predator meeting space
Is he building a church?
I think that’s what they call “networking”.
Hidden rape cellars don’t come cheap, my man.
The first ladies office was in the east wing. At least nothing of importance was lost there
What do you want to bet the contractors currently working on it aren’t going to get paid?
Well since the construction project hasn’t actually been approved thru the official channels yet I would say the chances of this are pretty high because it gives him a great excuse to not pay them.
Mexico will pay for it.
They are going to have to pay Trump for the honour of constructing his
ballroomthrone roomThat’s how it always works when contractors get stiffed. All that labor and machinery is not cheap.
Not to mention hiring lawyers
Exactly. That’s why his gambit worked so often. He could always afford the lawyers and he knew they probably couldn’t
Either that or they are all owned by his friends.
