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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat should the next Democratic president do with the White House ballroom?
The White House ballroom construction is scheduled to be finished by the next administration. I saw recommendations that the next Democratic president should tear it down, which is a valid suggestion, but what else might be done with it? I'm not opposed to leaving it, if it's well done I'm just opposed to leaving it as a place for presidents to host gigantic private parties.
My own suggestion would be to make it the National Presidential History Museum, part of the Smithsonian system, available to the White House tour groups.

Solly Mack
(95,791 posts)Jack Valentino
(3,389 posts)while they gave welfare to billionaires!
wordstroken
(1,323 posts)
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OldBaldy1701E
(9,154 posts)JBTaurus83
(688 posts)Call it White House Alcatraz and throw shithole and his accomplices in for the rest of their lives.
Deuxcents
(24,209 posts)RazorbackExpat
(623 posts)Go back to the ideals of the Great Society, and lend a helping hand to the less fortunate!
newdeal2
(4,242 posts)Fill it with things he hates - the Epstein files, escalators and Tylenol.
William Seger
(11,837 posts)Maru Kitteh
(30,734 posts)Sharks.
Black women.
BannonsLiver
(19,685 posts)Hugin
(36,910 posts)Throwing a flare into it.
quakerboy
(14,561 posts)With authority to investigate ALL past and future presidents and cabinet members, in depth, in perpetuity.
Then Build one for the legislature.
And then a third for the SCOTUS.
If fascism is defeated and democracy returns to the USA, we need strong measures to have accountability.
LuvLoogie
(8,286 posts)Free to the public on trump's birthday and the anniversaries of his convictions and his inevitable death.
meadowlander
(4,992 posts)bluedigger
(17,325 posts)hatrack
(63,637 posts).
choie
(6,154 posts)should be left standing, incluing his butchering of the White House.
Takket
(23,262 posts)GoCubsGo
(34,393 posts)As well as all of the other corporate whores who have been funding this motherfucker for the past decade. This is their mess. They should pay for the demolition, disposal, and restoration of the entire property. And, put Trump and all of his sycophants on a chain gang, since they love those so much, and make them help clean it all up. They can replant the Rose Garden and all of the trees they killed, too.
Stinky The Clown
(68,811 posts)JoseBalow
(8,505 posts)As if drumpf never set foot in it.
Grins
(8,901 posts)RoeVWade
(678 posts)nt*
eppur_se_muova
(40,143 posts)lame54
(38,506 posts)Blue Full Moon
(2,904 posts)DFW
(59,025 posts)Its a reasonable assumption that most people havent been in there. As a nation, we need places like that for official diplomatic events. That is not excessive. What is perverse is Trump spending a fortune of OUR money to transform traditional elegance into gaudy nouveau-riche excess of a kind that only would appeal to someone like Trump, and therefore necessarily not to much of anyone else.
Cloudhopper
(137 posts)pieces dropped on one of his golf courses.
BootinUp
(50,475 posts)synni
(558 posts)Imagine the MAGAt reaction!
regnaD kciN
(27,312 posts)flor-de-jasmim
(2,240 posts)It will be such an eyesore if left as it.
AND Trump should be prosecuted for destroying the historical trees. This is OUR property, not his.
taxi
(2,546 posts)No trace of the man-baby can remain standing.
Emile
(37,897 posts)dem4decades
(13,186 posts)RandiFan1290
(6,617 posts)I am willing to bet that it will be allowed to stand.
The Rose Garden was never restored.
Randypiper
(546 posts)probably not enough square feet.
usedtobedemgurl
(1,848 posts)There will not be enough room for everyone who wants to attend, but maybe a raffle to attend? The proceeds could go to cover the building cost and any leftover could be donated to schools, Planned Parenthood, and maybe some LGBTQ+ groups.afterwards, have it as a memorial of the place the admin was tried and found guilty. Have it as a warning to others who mess with our democracy.
Emile
(37,897 posts)
marble falls
(68,743 posts)... same time.
Swede
(37,431 posts)Plant grass and roses.
William Seger
(11,837 posts)... but I think a more positive (and less divisive) use would be dedicating it to something the faux-king revisionist absolutely abhors: accurate history. That should include the fact that the building itself was originally intended as a faux-king royal ballroom for massive celebrations of elitism, until President [fill in the blank] made it a public museum dedicated to remembering our best and our worst.
bigtree
(92,761 posts)...they can bring over stuff from the National Archives.
William Seger
(11,837 posts)A White House History Museum should definitely include a plaque stating the history of the building itself: A royal ballroom conceived by an authoritarian president, converted to public museum by a Democratic president.
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Heidi
(58,836 posts)the slave laborers who built the White House, all POC, immigrants, the unhoused, the mentally ill, LGBTQ+, women, those othered by poverty, dissidents, whistleblowers
Emile
(37,897 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(129,170 posts)JHB
(37,838 posts)After all, how much of it would have to be disassembled anyway to sweep for bugs embedded in its structure?
Hell, the whole White House may have to be gutted and rebuilt like it was in 1948.
sunflowerseed
(459 posts)When we have no homeless lottery for attendance with the president if she chooses to.
BeyondGeography
(40,680 posts)and bringing back the Rose Garden to replace the latter.
Hope22
(4,180 posts)He will collect money and pocket it. Unless the real purpose of the building is to house their new form or government and scrape the Capitol Building off the planet. Keep everything real tidy at the White House. I feel like it could go either way.
William Seger
(11,837 posts)... but the building itself technically does need a D.C. permit we'll have to see how that plays out, but I don't expect anything will stop it.
1WorldHope
(1,659 posts)CrispyQ
(40,266 posts)Invite architects to submit new designs & have a national contest/election to select which design, & then build the People's House with union labor.
snowybirdie
(6,362 posts)Will hopefully restore some dignity to the beautiful historic building. Get rid of all that crappy faux gold though!
William Seger
(11,837 posts)It's nothing but a crass display and celebration of wealth and elitism, just like the Royal Ballroom.
murielm99
(32,368 posts)MustBeTheBooz
(337 posts)Its the only way to be sure.