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Yes! Disregard the code! Don’t even think about the building code!
And don’t worry, the ballroom certainly won’t fall down with you inside it, piggy!
I have never been horny before in my life, on account of being asexual, but the thought of this ballroom collapsing under shitty building practices while housing the top thousand richest bastards in society, is certainly making me feel something hormonal.
We should be so lucky.
It'll probably collapse on a kindergarten tour group while piggy is in Europe meeting with Putin.
Along those same lines, they should have a Wizard of Oz ball using the original snow recipe from the movie.
I'd be surprised if he didn't
Look on the bright side; hopefully it'll catch on fire due to an electric short, or Canada, or something, during one of Trump's shindigs and him and nine hundred of his “friends” will get trapped inside due to overcrowding and insufficient emergency exits and will burn to death in abject agony.
🤌 GORLAMI
I am confused, what ballroom is this talking about? Do you mean the Epstein ball room? That makes sense...
White trash doing white trash shit
Code requirements? Dude those are not just useless regulations. Those are for your safety and the soundness of the building. Only a complete moron signs off on a build that ignores building codes. But here we are.
I expect they'll probably follow code anyway? Because you know as soon as dipshit is out of there, they're going to have to inspect that thing for safety reasons. And the contractor probably doesn't want the reputation of building absolute crap.
On the other hand, if he's as good as picking construction contractors as he is at picking lawyers or cabinet positions, well...
I'm sure it will be built by a contracting company incorporated just for this purpose. And after this, it will be dissolved. They'll have no reputation to defend.
Four Seasons Total Landscaping is about to land another big job
Seriously. i get ignoring zoning and permitting because fuck everyone else, but skipping CODE requirements just means your building fucking sucks.
I've seen what happens when a construction guy gets to build their own buildings out of sight of inspectors. It's not pretty.
All he’s doing is giving a future president an excuse to tear it down. Plus, visiting politicians and influential businesspeople usually don’t like to hang out in unsafe buildings.
Everything he's doing is probably going to have to be torn down and rebuilt.
Hey, Canada, that's kind of your thing isn't it? Seriously, though, please just burn the while fucking White House to the ground! (again) Cause we're never gonna be able to get Diaper Donnie's stench out, anyway...
Uh, it looks like you guys are well on your way to burning it down without our help.
~~probably~~ certainly
FTFY.
Even if by some miracle it isn't an unsafe, condemned piece of shit, it's still a blight and a travesty of historical proportions that will need to be corrected by restoring it to the previous design.
I think we Canadians would be happy to help with any extensive remodeling your White House requires.
Maybe you can paint it orange this time.
Wouldn’t it be a shame if the Epstein Ballroom collapsed in on Donald?
They'll have to tear it down inside of ten years, I guarantee it.
It's the same playbook as his father in NYC.
It’s probably filled with foreign listening devices anyway and will need to be completely destroyed
If that ballroom is finished by the end of his term, I'll eat my shoes.
If the US gets a new president in 2029, I'll be devastated if they don't take the opportunity to do a major speach or something against the backdrop of a half derelict East Wing - it would be iconic.
If Trump leaves office willingly before it's completed, I'll eat mine.
Please let this end the way I hope it will…..
With an electrical fire in a ballroom full of 900 of Trump's enablers and the doors fail to open due to corner cutting?
This feels like a Nero burning Rome moment.
Funny thing is, even Nero wasn't this blatantly corrupt and evil. Most of the myth of the 'fiddling while Rome burned' story came as propaganda from his enemies (long after he was dead too). What we're seeing here is undeniable proof that Trump is the biggest POS in America
"No one knows more about construction than me."
so, same standards as his NY condos.
What a surprise? Trump is cheating again! Who woulda thunk it, other than EVERYBODY?
And in this case, cheating is even stupider. He's not a normal developer in this case, he's not paying for this, he doesn't have to wait for anything, he can expedite anything he wants. There is no reason to not do this by the book, but Trump is one of those guys (I've known several) who when offered a choice between the honest way, and the dishonest way, they will take the dishonest way every time, because they think that somehow it will get them something extra, even if it doesn't. It's just their nature to cheat at everything.
But the Dems assure us that the 2024 election was totally "fair & square," and Donald Trump didn't cheat in the only election that would literally keep him from a life sentence in prison. Sure, he's cheated on literally EVERYTHING ELSE IN HIS LIFE, just for fun, but he didn't cheat to keep himself out of prison. Makes sense.
No wonder Democrats lose every election.
Headline says he told them to disregard but the first sentence says he encouraged them to disregard.
Pick one and make it accurate...
He has a history of destroying historical buildings if he has any opportunity.
White House ballroom project has become costlier and larger than originally anticipated
You don't say! And nobody except everybody expected this?
The only other unsurprising thing here is that they managed to balloon it like that while ignoring building permits and code, as many times those cause the ballooning in some way. Incompetence and corruption go far too with ballooning though
Burned down, fell over, sank into the swamp