They might as well build a white trailer house.

In a couple years, we will need those same sponsors to pay for the tear down.

More graft.

ETA: looks like a lot of the usual suspects.

To donate money to build more hospitals, provide educational scholarships, green energy technology, and things like that….

We, the taxpayers, will pay to maintain it. And we'll have to look at it forever.

It will no longer be the People's House. It will be a monument to the billionaire class.

The only way the rest of us will see it is while standing on the poor people's side of the red velvet rope looking in.

We taxpayers will foot the bill for equipping and maintaining this white elephant. And the fact that it’s so much larger than the White House should not be allowed. The recent state dinner for Trump put on by the Brits was for 160 people, and their state dinners are about as lavish as you can get. We do not need a gaudy ballroom seating 650 people.

How the fuck can this pig face anus mouth do this/

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That's what the point is....it's not built for the people... its built for the Rich people.....though WE are paying for it.....while we have all our underpinnings beneath us cut out from under us.

It's literally a Confederate monument to Classism...to Class War... it very much speaks of "Handmaids Tale" to me, a Ballroom for the "Commanders".

Its also bigger than the entire White House and will put it in it's shadow. Eclipse it..m Putin is loving this.....Trump wants a giant Throne room

Maybe his wealthy donors, but we all know that Trump doesn't pay for anything he doesn't have to.

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Hard to believe how gullible some of these rich people are. Do they realize how temporary Trump is?

"It’s called OPM. I do it all the time in business. It’s called other people’s money," Trump said. "There’s nothing like doing things with other people's money because it takes the risk – you get a good chunk out of it and it takes the risk."

Trump can be bizarrely honest about the most peculiar things. He is always saying the quiet parts out loud.

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(Edited to add) ... which reminds me of this:

I've just found it odd that he blurts out the truth now and then about things that should harm him and his credibility, but oddly enough it doesn't. I think he actually enjoys it, like he is challenging anyone to do something about it. Of course, there are exceptions and the Epstein files is one of them. To my mind, that means he is very guilty and even he can't condone what he's done.

The only marginally acceptable thing about it: the expanse of light which pours in through the tall windows. If they got rid of all the cheap gold leaf it would be helpful.

So how many state banquets or other large events does the White House host anyway? This seems like overkill (but what else would you expect). Maybe the idea is to offer it as an event center to the general public, which would be hugely expensive to rent and the money would probably go into some sort of private enterprise and not the White House budget.

We will see, won't me


It is still ugly

I had no idea it was going to be that large. Like so much of Trump's tastes, it IS ugly and obtrusive.

Damn thing spoils the White House's clean lines. What a mess.

the "peoples" ballroom

Looks like it could be larger than the White House and their inside renderings are all a big lie,
they don't show how they will construct his majesty's throne at one end.

His entire reason to build this "ballroom" was to get his throne ready after he stops elections.

Wish there was a way to stop this!

It will be much bigger than the White House, dwarfing it.

The next Dem president should demolish whatever portion of the addition is completed (even if it's the whole thing) and restore the original structure.

Trump's gonna re-paint Air Force One soon. The next Dem president should restore that back to the original Jackie-O version, too.

TRump is going after the crazed Roman tyrant look

The Domus Aurea (Latin, "Golden House&quot was a vast landscaped complex built by the Emperor Nero largely on the Oppian Hill in the heart of ancient Rome after the great fire in 64 AD had destroyed a large part of the city.[1]

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A symbol of decadence that caused severe embarrassment to Nero's successors, the Domus Aurea was stripped of its marble, jewels, and ivory within a decade.

The East Wing will be removed for this monstrosity.

Only question is before or after July 4, 2029.

It will be paid by Medicaid money.

McCrery should be ashamed.

The AIA should revoke his membership.

But Albert Speer would have loved it.

A frickin' Greco Roman monstrosity dominating the WH and everything around it.
Disgusting.

It looks like a neoclassical tumor attached to the White House.

Trump is now too lazy to hop on a plane to go to one of his Nazi rallies, so he'll start holding them down the hall from where he squats.

I could be wrong of course it but looks like in that first rendering they are using a forced perspective to make it look so much larger than it really will be. If you look at the second rendering with the site of the trees and the windows it looks to be about 3 - 4 stories high so assuming about 12' for a story you're at 48' high. The White House is 70' high. Let's be generous and say this is the same height as the WH then that first rendering is still off in scale. My guess is they purposely did this for the benefit of one person's viewing.

It's still an idiotic idea and desecration of what the WH is supposed to be.

ordered by Pres. Ceaușescu of Romania prior to him being tried and convicted of sabotaging his own nation and sentenced to death for it.

I will just go with this

You know, for President for Eternity Trump?

It completely ruins the whole concept of the elegance and uniqueness of the White House and now just looks like any other oversized building with a steep stairway and columns. The dignity of the White House and what it represented has been lost.