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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump tore this down. This was the hallway to a door on the East Wing. He needs to be stopped now.
The White House is not Trumps property it is owned by the American people. He is also
ruining the colonnade walkway from the residential quarters to the West Wing with gold crap
and some kind of Hall of Fame garbage too.

The herring bone pattern on those bricks was exquisite.
Make the Republicans own this too. The businesses who are paying for the ballroom have
something like 380 billion in contracts with the federal government they also own the
destruction of Americas treasures to.

RainCaster
(13,315 posts)Those businesses who paid for this shit need to pay for the complete tear down and rebuild.
LiberalArkie
(19,106 posts)justice was put under one person under Bush.
LuvLoogie
(8,404 posts)Women are getting dragged out of cars and shot and abducted in the streets of Chicago by our government. Dems just capitulated to trump again after voters marched in the streets and swept the special elections.
Leadership is shooting us in the back.
RainCaster
(13,315 posts)I'm thinking NEVER!
I know he voted against it, but he orchestrated the whole vote, abdicating all our power. He's the one who helped choose those Dems who are not up for election for 4+ years. For what? He gave up all the power that we showed in last week's election.
eppur_se_muova
(40,530 posts)markodochartaigh
(4,617 posts)Sure some businesses, universities, and media have been coerced by Trump's mob-style shakedowns, however many others have willingly "obeyed in advance" looking for ways to serve their master.
eppur_se_muova
(40,530 posts)"You forgot to assign homework!"
{teacher turns back, objects are hurled}
Farmer-Rick
(12,277 posts)Just because they willingly bribed and gave away millions of their corporations profits to pedo Trump doesn't make it OK.
Yeah, if you're a criminal working for a corp. you will still act criminally.
All these corporations, CEOs, executives and pedo Trump suck ups working for businesses, using the corp to hide behind, are still very prosecutable.
This time, there will be no Obama to protect the Nazi criminals and tell everyone to look forward not backwards. No ones going to save them this time.
markodochartaigh
(4,617 posts)neither is what you want but it is important to know the difference.
AllaN01Bear
(27,996 posts)reACTIONary
(6,834 posts)... no quid pro quo? Let's call it a subrosa bribe.
allegorical oracle
(5,973 posts)of the White House." She said it was a gathering spot for casual conversation and camaraderie.
CTyankee
(67,537 posts)But they deserve a nice retirement and relief from the stress of the presidency.
C_U_L8R
(48,521 posts)That stink lingers.
erronis
(21,903 posts)Dave Bowman
(6,242 posts)RandomNumbers
(18,986 posts)many will realize that it was NEVER about making America "great" again, by any definition (even a racist one).
It was always about destroying America. Little by little, crush a good thing here, a good thing there ... until what's left is garbage.
Putin is so happy.
Walleye
(43,157 posts)slightlv
(7,029 posts)With the destruction of everything meaningful to us.
But trump even said straight out this would be his revenge tour. And so it's been...
PatSeg
(51,448 posts)but really he is a destroyer. Like a toddler, he loves knocking things down, even those that he builds.
Norrrm
(3,399 posts)
William Seger
(12,043 posts)Walleye
(43,157 posts)We should be making and playing advertisements constantly from now until election day
twodogsbarking
(16,654 posts)Botany
(75,852 posts)ChicagoTeamster
(148 posts)Trump's penthouse in Trump Tower was used for Satan's apartment in the movie Devil's Advocate.
https://uproxx.com/movies/donald-trump-tower-apartment-the-devils-advocate/
He inherited his wealth and has survived all of his bankruptcies by partnering with the Russian Mob and ripping people off. He has no sense of design thinks that covering everything in cheap bonded gold knick knacks makes everything beautiful because it exudes wealth. The creativity and craftmanship that had always gone into everything from tile floors to the choice of paint, paneling, and wall art, rugs and grapery was always lost on someone like Trump. He thinks making something look more expensive means it's better. Quality and detail aren't considerations.
Botany
(75,852 posts)From angle of the walls, to the herring bone brick, to the windows, to the granite cobbles* on the
drive up to the front door, and the winterberry holly fruits it was all top of the line workmanship
and materials and Trump just shit on it.
*. Those granite cobbles would have lasted for hundreds of more years
they were perfect.
ChicagoTeamster
(148 posts)Fil1957
(372 posts)guy was now the occupant. He posted several really nice pictures he took during his tour of the East Wing.
When it was torn down he made no comment, but he has removed his East Wing pictures from his Facebook account.
the_liberal_grandpa
(254 posts)bulldoze mar-a -lago
flashman13
(1,755 posts)Cheesy geegaws and greasy burgers are his style.
John1956PA
(4,611 posts)Ignorant MAGAs argue that the only architecture which was demolished had been constructed in the 1940s.
My memory of entering thru the east wing and The one and only time I was there was in Feb 1971 for a MOH award ceremony where Nixon presented my Army 1st Sgt (had been promoted to Cpt by then) Bob Howard the honor. I remember Nixon asking Bob if he would stay for lunch and Bob replied no thank you, I want to go to the Tomb that being the Tomb of The Unknown Soldier. Thats who Bob was.
When I saw the wing being torn down I cried and I screamed.
FDT
Farmer-Rick
(12,277 posts)It was surprisingly cozy and had a nice comfortable feel to it. I thought it would be awful, museum like, all marble and gold. But it wasn't, it had a feeling of warmth and intimacy.
Not anymore. It's going to be ugly marble and gold. So cold, unapproachable and uncomfortable. Just like a badly designed museum. Why do the filthy-rich like so much cold marble and boring gold? Do they go to museums and say, "Yes, this is where I want to live?"
littlemissmartypants
(30,882 posts)Last edited Mon Nov 10, 2025, 03:48 AM - Edit history (1)
with Presidents throughout the ages no longer exists.

The president is a psychopath. Chaos and destruction are what psychopaths live and breathe for.
1. Aggressive, callous, and cunning
2. Complete absence of conscience and empathy
3. Very adept at manipulating others
4. Willingness to engage in immoral, criminal conduct
5. Willingness to take what they want and do as they please, regardless of who is hurt or wronged
6. Deceptive ability to appear outwardly benevolent
7. Deceptive ability to behave in superficially charming ways to hide purely selfish motives
8. Willingness to use intimidation and violence to control others in order to satisfy their own needs
9. Willingness to intentionally violate the basic inherent human rights of others
10. Complete absence of any sense of guilt or remorse for the harm their actions have caused to others
11. Rationalization of their own immoral behavior
12. Will attempt to lay blame upon someone else for their own conduct
13. Denial, will deny their own wrongdoing outright
14. Utter contemptuousness toward the feelings and desires of their fellow beings
15. Pathological lying, will say anything without any concern for truth to advance their own hidden agendas
16. Ablity to feign [fake] normal human emotions and empathy
17. Distorted sense of the consequences of their actions
18. Total failure to accept any responsibility for their own socially irresponsible ways
19. Strong bellef that they will never be brought to justice for their criminal behavior
Botany
(75,852 posts)which was compacted in lifts, then had a layer of limestone sand over the gravel, all the time drainage
and grading was taken care of, then the cobbles were installed according to designed pattern, and
then sand was swept into the joints between the granite pieces to lock em into place. It was a work
of art.
littlemissmartypants
(30,882 posts)Botany
(75,852 posts)
.. number that could do that kind of design and build with those cut granite cobbles that were in
that picture is very few. If there is really a God she would then strike Trump dead right now. Almost
every piece of granite in that driveway was measured and hand cut.
Joinfortmill
(19,489 posts)republianmushroom
(22,023 posts)but, piss poor are building thing up, except, finical debt.
Exp
(681 posts)housing.
greatauntoftriplets
(178,502 posts)That was the entrance for the White House tours when they had them.
Totally Tunsie
(11,434 posts)shows him in an orange jumpsuit, behind bars. It would be such a fitting replacement for Joe Biden's autopen insult.
thomhartmann
(3,993 posts)And Trump tore it down
Emile
(39,090 posts)letting him move in.
bagimin
(1,643 posts)I can take. This goes way beyond "depressing".
Grammy23
(6,075 posts)Few would argue against it since he ticks nearly every descriptive box of a malignant narcissist.
Above all, a person like this wants to hurt others and cause pain.
tRump was angry and decided he knew exactly how to inflict pain on a lot of people all at once. Just start destroying the Peoples House. And it worked. Dont you know he just sat back in his chair and laughed and laughed at what he did?
Kid Berwyn
(22,262 posts)Im so old I remember when it was a Federal Offense.
Emile
(39,090 posts)Buddyzbuddy
(1,884 posts)Thanks to Kraznov and a whole slew of people that intelligence agents tried to warn us against. Manafort, Stone, Rudy, etc., etc.
Botany
(75,852 posts)
for decades now. Putin put Trump up to running for President in 2013 in order to cripple
America from inside with a malignant egotistical sociopath. And with that he has been very
successful. Trumps appeal to a shockingly large % of the American population,
. 35%
.
that is racist, sexist, and anti intellectual, a voting system that is wide open to abuse and hacks
along with a built in let the person who got less votes win called the electoral college which is a
legacy of slavery, and billionaires/fossil fuel industries with their think tanks, citizens United money,
and crypto shit has ruined America.
Buddyzbuddy
(1,884 posts)TommieMommy
(2,492 posts)He should have been in prison years ago.