I Lived Through Collapse. America Is Already There.

[commonsense]

Roughly half of the project is taxpayer-funded.

The rest is funded from private donors.

Private donors eh? The quid pro quos will end up costing taxpayers more than if they just paid from the get-go. The corruption is so blatant and shameless.

 

[commonsense]

So far it's just an eyesore dwarfing the WH with no forseeable completion date. If security upgrades were priority then he didn't need to demolish the entire East wing of the WH or build a ballroom in order to accomplish that. It, like all his other pet vanity projects, deserve to be criticized because they're a waste of taxpayer money.

Trump really is pathetic. He wants to leave a legacy and leave his name everywhere, thinking that will boost his soiled reputation. Remember when he was floating the idea of having his face chiseled into Mt Rushmore. What a total loser! What an object of ridicule!

But in a way I feel bad for him. What calamity of misfortune caused him to have been born with such a malignant brain? What influences was he exposed to in his formative years to create, I'll say it, such a monster? Can anyone name someone who has caused more damage to the world and the post-war order?

 

[JudgeRightly]

Projected completion date is August 2028? Well, take that with a pinch of proverbial salt,

Moving the goalposts.

still waiting for his wall to be completed and the reflecting pool is an ongoing farce.

Red herring. Neither establishes your claims:

Chances are it won't get built anyway and need demolishing. likely to remain that way.

What about security considerations in the meantime?

Addressed in the Justice Department's filing, which I linked to earlier.

And the court expressly permitted temporary presidential security measures and construction necessary to protect the White House and the construction site.

There was no need for a ballroom or to demolish the East wing to improve security and make upgrades.

And your engineering evidence for this assertion is...?

The Justice Department's filing, page 2, specifically addresses why the original East Wing was considered inadequate for the proposed security improvements.

Whether the entire ballroom is necessary is a separate question, but you have yet to substantiate your assertion that the demolition was unnecessary.

I can distinguish between fact and opinion just fine thanks.

Yet you've done very little other than post your opinions on things in this thread, in spite of being asked multiple times to substantiate your claims.

Trump acts like a risible, petulant manchild, fact, be it his bonkers meltdowns on social media to the way he talks to reporters and journalists who put him on the spot. Try and refute it.

... Case in point.

You've described behavior and attached your own characterization to it.

What, precisely, does any of that establish about the necessity or merits of the White House renovations?

 

[JudgeRightly]

Private donors eh? The quid pro quos will end up costing taxpayers more than if they just paid from the get-go. The corruption is so blatant and shameless.

Perhaps. But that's speculation unless you have evidence of actual quid pro quos.

I'm no fan of the way things are going in general, but I'm not going to engage in the same utter vitriol I see from your side simply because you hate Trump.