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Kingofalldems

(39,841 posts)
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 10:16 AM Monday

Objects being thrown from White House window:

Is this a normal White House operation? I have never thrown anything from my upstairs window. Does anyone else here do this sort of thing?



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Objects being thrown from White House window: (Original Post) Kingofalldems Monday OP
Which room of the White House is that? Does anyone have a floorplan? sop Monday #1
It is the East Room jmbar2 Monday #14
The East Room is located on the State Floor of the White House, which is the first floor of the residence. sop Monday #20
Disposing of debris during the renovation of the White House (1950) Donkees Monday #24
The thrown objects look like small trash bags. yardwork Monday #25
They are not going to fit a 90,000-square-foot ballroom in the east room. Autumn Monday #27
Despite... GiqueCee Monday #42
I'm guessing the Queen's Bedroom underpants Monday #32
That's what I thought. 70sEraVet Monday #33
I think it's the "B" room ybbor Monday #41
I agree, it looks like the stuff came out of the "b" room (bathroom?) window in the sitting room. sop Monday #45
🤣 ybbor Monday #48
I see what you're saying but it's to the left underpants Monday #52
Look again ybbor Monday #78
It's the East side AceIsThePlace Monday #87
Looks like a big bouquet of flowers? Drum Monday #2
Knowing this bunch it's probably the U.S. Constitution in a garbage bag!!!!!!! n/t Ars Longa Monday #94
Vance throwing out a dead body Ferrets are Cool Monday #3
Someone better count the dissenting journalists. n/t Hugin Monday #21
Are there actually ANY of those? I can't tell. AZ8theist Monday #72
They're all on substack. n/t Hugin Monday #74
Pootin shoved someone? SheltieLover Monday #4
Clothing? WTH? tanyev Monday #5
What sane person would work for Herr Poopy Pants? paleotn Monday #68
I'll take temper tantrum for $400, Alex. -nt CrispyQ Monday #6
Maybe the domestic help changed his bedsheets again. Norbert Monday #19
this gets my vote NJCher Monday #46
Astute insight! SheltieLover Monday #49
Looks like small JustAnotherGen Monday #7
Pieces of a corpse? Jilly_in_VA Monday #60
I wish JustAnotherGen Monday #69
Has anyone seen Melanoma today? Totally Tunsie Monday #102
Depends. sheshe2 Monday #8
Too big to be a ketchup bottle.... yardwork Monday #9
⬇️🤣 underpants Monday #11
I knew you'd see that, underpants! yardwork Monday #15
The ketchup alert status has been raised to KETCHCON 1! LetMyPeopleVote Monday #23
🤣 underpants Monday #30
Have fun with this meme LetMyPeopleVote Monday #76
Run!!! underpants Monday #10
That's what I was thinking, too! SheltieLover Monday #12
This message was self-deleted by its author jmbar2 Monday #13
Unverified reports confirm that Doodley Monday #16
Oh, my! Were these people raised in a barn? Hugin Monday #17
Why is there a "Queen's Bedroom"? milestogo Monday #18
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip stayed at yorkster Monday #63
Testing the heights?... MiHale Monday #22
Melania throwing his bum ass out newdeal2 Monday #26
Next is sheets tided together... rubbersole Monday #65
JD redecorating C_U_L8R Monday #28
👍 underpants Monday #31
Eeeeuuuuuuwww!!! calimary Monday #36
Yikes! Joinfortmill Monday #40
This may mean that trump is not in the White House LetMyPeopleVote Monday #29
Not to mention, would they be working on Labor day Weekend? I think nnot... FirstLight Monday #50
Probably a "Chamber Pot" being emptied. milestogo Monday #34
I call AI. Stupid Srkdqltr Monday #35
I agree. No independent photojournalists are allowed that close, absent WH approval. John1956PA Monday #57
There's the same metal roof in front of the camera lens as is on the WH. Looks like an allegorical oracle Monday #75
Supposedly taken from Vue Rooftop at 15th and Pennsylvania. LeftInTX Monday #93
Thank you for the information. To me, the video looks authentic. John1956PA Monday #98
It's just weird. LeftInTX Monday #99
Epstein Files? durablend Monday #37
Some of the Epstein files? Sneederbunk Monday #38
Hopefully the objects are trump and miller lostincalifornia Monday #39
Looks like a statue Cazzzza Monday #43
If its a statue I vote for Obama Tree Lady Monday #51
Welcome to DU LetMyPeopleVote Monday #85
That could be TACO, JD Sofaseducer, Herr Stephan Miller - they're all facsimiles of a man. Eric Trump? marble falls Monday #86
republicons up their occult shit BoRaGard Monday #44
Diaper service wash day? Sancho Monday #47
With President Jersey Shore Snooki, even this is now "normal." n/t flvegan Monday #53
Classified Documents? Deep State Witch Monday #54
Whatever it is, BlueMTexpat Monday #55
From your keyboard to God's screen! Jilly_in_VA Monday #62
Stephen Miller throwing out his latest skin suit after it shed off overnight. Midnight Writer Monday #56
Molting. That's how insects grow. thought crime Monday #104
Is the Secret Service aware of this possible sniper nest ? rickford66 Monday #58
Proof that Republicans are overgrown frat boys Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Monday #59
Testing for a possible defenestration? dhol82 Monday #61
The Epstein Files? surfered Monday #64
Hopefully, a long red tie stall attached to to its owner. Ping Tung Monday #66
Body parts and a second hand bone saw? 2MuchNoise Monday #67
Many.funny comments but kacekwl Monday #70
I know. It's probably contractors throwing stuff to pick up later. But still..... LeftInTX Monday #97
Testing the impact Figarosmom Monday #71
Well the only building angrychair Monday #73
Vue Rooftop at the Hotel Washington. Some one got a good pic of the WH from that lounge on Google maps. LeftInTX Monday #95
Excellent detective work angrychair Monday #103
Why is the @WhiteHouse flag flying at half mast? LetMyPeopleVote Monday #77
Minnesota shootings I believe. Kingofalldems Monday #82
Just JD hildegaard28 Monday #79
Milania making a run for it? Or JD Sofaphilia being given the "Russian" treatment for being ready to fill TACO's shoes. marble falls Monday #80
Trump has been flushing documents down the toilet again. LudwigPastorius Monday #81
Marital disagreement? Related: The other day a demented old man was photoed wandering on the WH roof. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Monday #83
Wouldn't all the windows have alarms on them? Bayard Monday #84
Do we know that this is real? OneGrassRoot Monday #88
I'm kinda doubting it too. underpants Monday #89
No one knows where it comes from. Not an official anything. I hear random guys laughing. LeftInTX Monday #91
Where This Was Filmed DET Monday #90
They mention the Vue Rooftop on Reddit. LeftInTX Monday #92
Screenshot - stop the video at 19 seconds FakeNoose Monday #96
WTH is going on down there? Kingofalldems Monday #100
A new way Faux pas Monday #101
It's been confirmed to be real Wiz Imp Tuesday #105
Great ---this will shut the gatekeepers up for a while. Kingofalldems Tuesday #106
Yeah, I think grounds were ahead of the story and Trump was behind and blamed it on AI..LOL LeftInTX Tuesday #107

jmbar2

(7,265 posts)
14. It is the East Room
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 10:31 AM
Monday

The one that tRump wants to convert into a ballroom.


From Grok:

The East Room has been a focal point for various renovations and events throughout White House history. Given the context of the Trump administration's plans for a significant expansion and renovation, including the construction of a new ballroom, it is plausible that activities related to this project, such as debris removal, could be occurring in or near the East Room.


sop

(15,840 posts)
20. The East Room is located on the State Floor of the White House, which is the first floor of the residence.
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 10:38 AM
Monday


That stuff looks like it came from a second floor window. Would workmen be throwing stuff from the second floor of the White House?

Donkees

(33,092 posts)
24. Disposing of debris during the renovation of the White House (1950)
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 10:51 AM
Monday


Description
Wooden chute to hopper erected from southwest window of Room 22 for disposal of plaster and debris from second and third floors of the White House. Inside the room, an extension of the chute leads through the ceiling to the third floor.
Date(s)
February 6, 1950

https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/photograph-records/58-531-043

GiqueCee

(2,787 posts)
42. Despite...
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 11:52 AM
Monday

... the limited view of the building in the video, I'm betting that the second window from the end would have to be the Queen's Bedroom.

ybbor

(1,665 posts)
41. I think it's the "B" room
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 11:51 AM
Monday

Off of the Sitting room. If you watch the video, you can see the curve of the front of the house on the left. Also the arched window to the right is also in the plans.

sop

(15,840 posts)
45. I agree, it looks like the stuff came out of the "b" room (bathroom?) window in the sitting room.
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 11:58 AM
Monday

Maybe Trump clogged up the toilet trying to flush one of his soiled diapers, then tossed it out the window?

underpants

(192,691 posts)
52. I see what you're saying but it's to the left
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 12:09 PM
Monday

So I’d think it the room between the hall and the kitchen

AceIsThePlace

(5 posts)
87. It's the East side
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 03:55 PM
Monday

Just to clarify…

This is an east side view of the White House; the left side around the corner as one looks at the front of the structure from Pennsylvania Avenue. Note the Eisenhower Executive Office Building (sometimes called the ugliest building in America), in the background. The Eisenhower Building is on the west side of the White House, so this is the east side.

Looking at the floor plan, second window from the left would make this the ‘B’ room off of the Lincoln Bedroom. Below this window there is no ground, but rather the roof of the East Colonnade, leading to the East Wing.

As noted by angrychair, this video is likely being recorded from an upper floor of the Treasury Building, which is across a narrow closed off side street from the East Wing. The background noise would indicate it is in a dining area or possibly during a reception of some sort.

Norbert

(7,323 posts)
19. Maybe the domestic help changed his bedsheets again.
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 10:38 AM
Monday

The nerve of them doing their job.

NJCher

(41,284 posts)
46. this gets my vote
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 12:00 PM
Monday

the only reason you would do this is to avoid carting something with an awful smell through the rest of the house.

Only reason.

Response to Kingofalldems (Original post)

Doodley

(11,284 posts)
16. Unverified reports confirm that
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 10:37 AM
Monday

because they believed Trump was dead, they started to throw out his diapers.

Hugin

(36,857 posts)
17. Oh, my! Were these people raised in a barn?
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 10:37 AM
Monday
No need to answer that…

From the diagram above that window is near a “Sitting Room”. I can very easily imagine that Jettro Trumpet thinks it says “Shitting Room” and does what he’s always done.

yorkster

(3,376 posts)
63. Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip stayed at
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 12:33 PM
Monday

the White House in 1957. He was in the Lincoln Bedroom and the Queen was in the Rose Bedroon, now known as the Queen's
Bedroom.
Eisenhower was president at the time.

rubbersole

(10,419 posts)
65. Next is sheets tided together...
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 12:43 PM
Monday

..and a woman climbing down wearing a trench coat with "I don't care do you?" printed on the back.

LetMyPeopleVote

(169,320 posts)
29. This may mean that trump is not in the White House
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 11:14 AM
Monday


People don’t realize that this is weird because after 9/11 the windows were all replaced with sealed bullet proof windows including in the residence.

To throw something out the window, means taking the window out of the window pane itself.

BUT, security protocol says that contractors can’t have access to the residence while the President is staying at the White House.

So if work is being done by a contractor on the private residence that means Trump wasn’t at the White House last night/this morning…

FirstLight

(15,733 posts)
50. Not to mention, would they be working on Labor day Weekend? I think nnot...
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 12:08 PM
Monday

soiled bedsheets? something foul, no doubt...

strange and weirdly encouraging...

milestogo

(21,710 posts)
34. Probably a "Chamber Pot" being emptied.
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 11:32 AM
Monday

With all that gold, TSF is turning the White House into the Palace of Versailles.

John1956PA

(4,417 posts)
57. I agree. No independent photojournalists are allowed that close, absent WH approval.
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 12:18 PM
Monday

Last edited Mon Sep 1, 2025, 01:49 PM - Edit history (1)

Also, it does not appear to be a zoom shot from south of the ellipse.

_______________________________

ON EDIT: I see I was mistaken when I first posted. I now see that the view is to the east side of the White House. As mentioned by another poster, the window seems to be that of the second floor sitting room. A post below accurately mentions that the Treasury Building is located east of the White House, and it may be the location from which the video was recorded.

allegorical oracle

(5,667 posts)
75. There's the same metal roof in front of the camera lens as is on the WH. Looks like an
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 01:28 PM
Monday

adjoining building that's on the grounds.

marble falls

(68,088 posts)
86. That could be TACO, JD Sofaseducer, Herr Stephan Miller - they're all facsimiles of a man. Eric Trump?
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 03:53 PM
Monday

Deep State Witch

(12,159 posts)
54. Classified Documents?
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 12:13 PM
Monday

Maybe they're bags of classified documents? Or probably just Donnie's dirty Depends.

BlueMTexpat

(15,603 posts)
55. Whatever it is,
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 12:14 PM
Monday

please let the next "object" thrown out the window be the Fascist Felon Pedophile!

kacekwl

(8,543 posts)
70. Many.funny comments but
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 01:13 PM
Monday

someone threw something out of the upstairs window of the White House and there needs to be questions asked and answered.

Figarosmom

(8,228 posts)
71. Testing the impact
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 01:17 PM
Monday

To see what happens when people "fall" from the windows? Or someone stealing something? Or maybe just JD being his hillbilly self?

angrychair

(11,086 posts)
73. Well the only building
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 01:20 PM
Monday

That has a view of that side of the WH is Treasury. I hear people and background noise, music and talking for sure, just I've only been in that building a couple times so I can't imagine where this video is being filmed from in that building but it seems real but you never know nowadays.

angrychair

(11,086 posts)
103. Excellent detective work
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 10:14 PM
Monday

That looks exactly like the video footage and would make sense given the music and talking.

Still doesn't answer what the hell they captured on video because I didn't even know those windows opened.

hildegaard28

(776 posts)
79. Just JD
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 01:42 PM
Monday

Cleaning out Trump’s junk. The White House might have a new tenant soon. Nothing to see here.

marble falls

(68,088 posts)
80. Milania making a run for it? Or JD Sofaphilia being given the "Russian" treatment for being ready to fill TACO's shoes.
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 01:42 PM
Monday

LudwigPastorius

(13,348 posts)
81. Trump has been flushing documents down the toilet again.
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 02:04 PM
Monday

Some poor bastard has to unclog that shit.

Bernardo de La Paz

(58,020 posts)
83. Marital disagreement? Related: The other day a demented old man was photoed wandering on the WH roof. . . . . nt
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 02:07 PM
Monday

OneGrassRoot

(23,813 posts)
88. Do we know that this is real?
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 04:10 PM
Monday

Honest to god that’s always my first question now. I genuinely don’t know what or who to believe if it’s not from an official account. 🤷‍♀️

LeftInTX

(33,581 posts)
91. No one knows where it comes from. Not an official anything. I hear random guys laughing.
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 06:46 PM
Monday

Reddit speculates it was taken at a roof top lounge at the Washington Hotel next door. But who knows? I don't live there and only visited once or twice in the 1960s.

DET

(2,189 posts)
90. Where This Was Filmed
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 06:42 PM
Monday

The Treasury has been mentioned several times as the location where this may have been shot. I doubt it. The only potential area within the building with that kind of noise would be the cafeteria. When I worked at Treasury a million years ago, the cafeteria was on the first floor, and it didn’t sound like a nightclub. I don’t know if it even exists any more.

However, there is a restaurant near Treasury that shows a view of the White House that seems to match the video here. The place is called the Vue Rooftop and is at the top of the Hotel Washington, which is higher than Treasury. I’d post a picture but I don’t know how to do that.

Why does everything this White House does have to be weird.

FakeNoose

(38,514 posts)
96. Screenshot - stop the video at 19 seconds
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 07:01 PM
Monday


It looks like something heavy ... maybe a book? I can't tell whether it's a man or a woman who threw it out the window.
Totally bizarre! I don't believe a White House employee would have done that.

Wiz Imp

(6,881 posts)
105. It's been confirmed to be real
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 03:58 PM
Tuesday
https://time.com/7313902/white-house-video-window/
White House Says Viral Video of Object Tossed Out Window Was Result of ‘Regular Maintenance’
A video posted online on Monday of a black bag being heaved out of the White House showed maintenance work being done by a contractor, according to a White House official.

The video was originally posted on an Instagram account called “Washingtonianprobs” and spread widely on social media, prompting jokes about White House security protocol and speculation about what was being thrown out. It shows a person wearing white pants stepping a foot out onto a windowsill on the second floor of the White House and tossing down what appears to be a black plastic bag. Later someone tosses something long and white out the window. The second floor of the White House is where the President’s private residence is located.

“It was a contractor who was doing regular maintenance while the President was gone,” the White House official said in a statement in response to questions about the images.


I'm sure all those people who insisted it was AI will be back to admit they were wrong


LeftInTX

(33,581 posts)
107. Yeah, I think grounds were ahead of the story and Trump was behind and blamed it on AI..LOL
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 04:01 PM
Tuesday

He doesn't know everything about the WH.

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