Anger as White House Begins Demolishing East Wing

Monroes - What Do All The People Know (1982)
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Lyrics excerpt ...

...
[Verse]
You know I told you once tonight
That you could always speak your mind
You work so hard to say what's right

I watch you do it all the time
And when I called you on the phone
You said that I could be the one
But here I'm standin' all alone
And you're out lyin' in the sun

[Chorus]
Tell me, am I getting in too deep?
Every night I'm talkin' in my sleep
Lately, I am so confused
I really don't know what to do
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Monroes - What Do All The People Know (1982)

Great song. My band covered that last century.

@#26 ... Great song. ...

Agreed.

A shame it seemed to have been relegated to college radio, though.

The "White House Windbag" doesn't give two cents about us and acts like he's never leaving power.

See for yourself: www.msn.com

"(Trump) acts like he's never leaving power"

He's not, if he has anything to say about it.

If he can't manipulate and steal the mid-term elections, he'll do something worse to make sure that he does not have to deal with a loss, a loss that he is almost guaranteed to have and which will endanger his power, money, and freedom.

Trump is exactly what he appears to be: a criminal and sadistic megalomaniac. A megolomania that is entirely unsupported by any shred of competence.

MAGA has lost each and every argument concerning Trump. Their continued support for him is an expression of loyalty towards a mentally ill dictator.

That photo is the perfect visual metaphor for Trumps absolute disaster of a presidency.

Cinderella ballroom with no parking spaces. If you think it's all independent donations building that monstrocity, I got a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you. It'll be over a billion when it's finished.

Cinderella ballroom with no parking spaces.

#31 | Posted by lee_the_agent

Trump also plans to install a heliport.

And also, I think, a petting zoo.

But why do you have no interest in the $1.6 billion expansion of Gavin Newsoms California Capitol that is 100% taxpayer funded and 100% cloaked in NDA's and cronyism?

Because I don't live in California and Trump has no right to destroy property that is ours, not his.

But you being a foreigner with zero knowledge of our civics here in the US wouldn't know that so kindly STFU.

It'll be over a billion when it's finished.

#31 | Posted by lee_the_agent

The contracts and receipts will make for some *ahem* good reading, I'm sure...

What's funny is people think he's going to leave the WH in a few years after all the "improvements".

He'll only go when he can sell it for a profit.

Pedo 47 Calls White House Demolition Music to My Ears'

www.thedailybeast.com

Remember when Michelle Obama planted a vegetable garden and republicans lost their minds?

Trump is literally tearing down the White House.

Where's the Republican outrage?

I hope that the next POTUS, a Democrat, will promise to return the WH to its former glory, before the diaper dumper went all Marie Antoinette on it. What he has done is simply disgusting, so ---- garish and tacky. The Kryon gold all over the place resembles the MAGAt ish smeared all over the Capitol, destroying the rose garden to make a cheap Motel 6-like "patio" and now tearing down a wing to build an unnecessary ballroom. We will have to de-Dotard so much, starting with formalizing into law what were previously understood to be good government agreements, because the founding fathers did not foresee a POS like Dotard. We need stronger laws with teeth to stop another fascist from trying to do this again. At the same time, the next POTUS needs to put the people's house back to what it was!

To undo all of the physical, financial, psychological, institutional, economic, diplomatic, and moral damage that America's Godzilla wreaked will take decades. Think on the scale of German Reunification or US Reconstruction. And the next non-Republican POTUS has the unenviable task of righting all of Dummkopf Trumpf's wrongs with less geld in the coffers, thanks to the uninterrupted multi-decade exodus of capital from the bottom of the pyramid to the top, and hence outside the US: www.oxfamamerica.org

Meanwhile for the rest of us, we can expect austerity measures and cuts to Medicaid/Medicare and SNAP.

I'm shocked the guy who hired undocumented immigrants (Polish laborers) w/no safety equipment and paid them $4 an hour in 1980 (then stiffed them) to tear down Bonwit Teller (including art deco friezes promised to the MET) is demolishing the East Wing of White House w/bad intent.

~ Noel Casler ~

Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of Pedo 47's Ballroom Construction

www.wsj.com

" Trump has no right to destroy property that is ours, not his.

But you being a foreigner with zero knowledge of our civics here in the US wouldn't know that so kindly STFU.

#33 | POSTED BY JPW AT 2025-10-21 10:53 AM | FLAG: |"

You are clueless. The WH has undergone renovations on numerous occasions.

Patricide Jeff's child-raping hero said he wasn't going to touch the White House.

"You are clueless. The WH has undergone renovations on numerous occasions.
#44 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-10-21 08:43 PM"

This and the Rose Garden renovations are on a par with the renovations the British troops did in 1814.

This and the Rose Garden renovations are on a par with the renovations the British troops did in 1814.
#46 | POSTED BY TRUEBLUE

Teddy Roosevelt built the West Wing.
Taft made the Executive Office oval.
FDR added the entire East Wing and included an indoor pool for himself.
Truman gutted the entire White House.
Nixon added a bowling alley.
Obama added a basketball court.
Trump is building a ballroom.
Biden installed cocaine.

I am not sure what the big deal is... YIMBY progress!

47 | POSTED BY IAMRUNT

Your daughter-boning, child-raping hero is destroying the East Wing after saying he wasn't going to touch it.

...destroying the East Wing after saying he wasn't going to touch it.

He lied? My God. See what happens when you don't give him a Peace Prize?

You are clueless. The WH has undergone renovations on numerous occasions.

#44 | Posted by BellRinger

You're just a gullible dumbf(*& accepting the talking points without question.

Only one of those (1881 under Chester Arthur) were for modernization and necessary expansion.

www.architecturaldigest.com

This is an addition of a gaudy pile of s*&^ that is being done unilaterally and illegally because Trump views The People's House as his own.

Just STFU already you idiot. You sold your country out and didn't even get a bag of silver.

"I am not sure what the big deal is... YIMBY progress!
#47 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT AT 2025-10-21 09:38 PM"

I don't think you know what that word (YIMBY) means.'
- apologies to the screenwriters of The Princess Bride

That word was invented to promote expansion of housing developments to increase the availability of housing and thereby reduce its cost. Please explain how destroying the Rose Garden and expanding the East Wing into a Ballroom helps the housing situation in DC! Are you proposing those areas could be used by the homeless between patio brunches or ballroom cotillions?

More on point: those other renovations addressed a specific shortcoming. Besides the obvious placation of President Trump's ego (as if it were possible to ever satisfy that need!), what is the actual requirement being fulfilled?

The WH has undergone renovations on numerous occasions.
#44 | Posted by BellRinger

Demolishing the East Wing is just a renovation.
Send All Jews To Death Camps is just an opinion.

White House Reconstruction
en.wikipedia.org

... The White House Reconstruction, also known as the Truman Reconstruction, was a comprehensive dismantling and rebuilding of the interior of the White House from 1949 to 1952. In 1948, after nearly a century and a half of wartime destruction and rebuilding, hurried renovations, additions of new services, technologies, the added third floor, and inadequate foundations, architectural and engineering investigations found that the Executive Residence portion of the White House Complex was facing near-imminent collapse, and it was deemed unsafe for occupancy. President Harry S. Truman, his family, and the entire residence staff were relocated across the street to Blair House, and over the next three years, the White House was gutted, expanded, and rebuilt. ...

Emerging problem

When the Trumans moved into the executive mansion in 1945, they found it badly in need of repair after twelve years of neglect during the Great Depression and World War II. In 1946, Congress authorized $780,000 ($11 million in 2020 dollars) for repairs. ...

Key participantsCommission on the Renovation of the Executive Mansion

Congress created the Commission on the Renovation of the Executive Mansion following the March 1949 recommendation of the president. It was granted authority to act on behalf of the federal government in the execution of the project, including responsibility for the White House and its site. It was composed of six men: two each appointed by the president, the Senate, and the House of Representatives.[27] ...

Trump is building a new $200 million ballroom at the White House (July 31, 2025)
abcnews.go.com

... The ballroom addition will be separated from the main building and positioned off the White House East Wing.

"It won't interfere with the current building ... It'll be near it, but not touching it and pays total respect to the existing building, which I'm the biggest fan of. It's my favorite," Trump said. ...