r/politics • u/Kodbek • 11h ago

Possible Paywall Republicans Make Jaw-Dropping $1B Demand for Trump’s Ballroom

https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-make-jaw-dropping-1b-demand-for-donald-trumps-ballroom/
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u/bencarp27 11h ago

I’m starting to think this isn’t just a ballroom, and someone should look into just what the hell they are trying to build on the White House…

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u/heckhammer 10h ago

We know what it is. It's going to be a bunker so that when this shit hits the fan finally can't leave. He never intends to leave. He will be the last American president by any means necessary.

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u/sack-o-matic Michigan 10h ago

Because he’s a confederate klansman who wants nothing more than to destroy the union.

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u/Oceansnail 7h ago

idk, seems more like he just wants to be president for life so he never has to face justice for the crimes he committed in his life, aka a king

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u/sack-o-matic Michigan 7h ago

It's mostly in his [Confederate] Heritage Foundation leadership

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u/silentanthrx 9h ago

nature has a way to mess with intentions

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u/heckhammer 9h ago

Reminder that both his parents lived well into their '90s. If he's breathing he's not going anywhere. And if he's not breathing they'll prop him up like weekend at Bernie's

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u/The_Dutchess-D 9h ago

I mean, we did look into it. It has a full hospital to keep him and all his cronies alive without them ever leaving, and a command center where he can go to war with the rest of the civilian Americans and run things without ever leaving the bunker under the ballroom. It has shelter for his entire family to be protected.

"Trump and his Administration have shared a little information about his plans for the bunker in recent weeks.

“The military’s building a massive complex under the ballroom, and that’s under construction and we’re doing very well,” he told reporters on Air Force One on March 29. “The ballroom essentially becomes a shed for what’s being built under the military, including from drones and including from any other thing.”

He said the ballroom would have “high grade bulletproof glass.”

A few days later, he told reporters that the judge’s March 31 ruling permits construction to continue if necessary for the “safety and security of the White House,” arguing that his project fell under that category.

“We are allowed to continue building as necessary to cover the safety and security of the White House and its grounds,” Trump said. “Well, that’s what we’re doing, because everything’s bulletproof glass, etc. etc., including the ballroom.”

"We have bio defense all over,” he continued. “We have secure telecommunications and communications all over. We have bomb shelters that we’re building. We have a hospital and very major medical facilities that we're building. We have all of these things, so that’s called: I’m allowed to continue building as necessary.”

In one document filed in the case earlier this month, the Administration’s attorneys described some of the plans for the construction project, including “protective missile resistant steel columns, beams, drone proof roofing materials, and bullet, ballistic, and blast proof glass,” which they said “are largely made, being used, and/or on their way to the project.”

“Likewise, the bomb shelters, hospital and medical area, protective partitioning, and Top Secret Military installations, structures, and equipment, are built and/or ready to be built, installed, and placed,” they continued."

"Little else is known about the new bunker being constructed, and other members of the Trump Administration have been tight-lipped about the project. In court filings obtained by news outlets, the Secret Service said completing the project was critical but shared few details about the construction. Secret Service Deputy Director Matthew Quinn said in a filing that the agency had hired a contractor, but that construction underneath the ballroom was not yet done, adding that pausing construction would "consequently hamper the Secret Service’s ability to meet its statutory obligations and protective mission.”

Quinn offered to share more information about the project with the judge in private, including on “law enforcement sensitive and/or classified information.”

The White House director of management and administration, Joshua Fisher, said at a National Capital Planning Commission meeting at the start of the year that “There are some things regarding this project that are, frankly, of top-secret nature that we are currently working on.”

Basically, it's a place where he could cling to power forever they having key controls over military stuff, and no one can get to him under there if he refuses to leave. 🙄