Friday, November 28, 2025

Trump Feuds with His White House Ballroom Architect

President Donald Trump is reportedly locked in a bizarre standoff with the architect he personally tapped to design a new White House ballroom ...

Posted by LampLighter at 11:32 PM | 16 COMMENTS | permalink

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Trump fighting with his architect about wanting to build a ballroom bigger than the actual White House feels very on brand wapo.st/4rqrqA2

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-- Molly Jong-Fast (@mollyjongfast.bsky.social) Nov 28, 2025 at 10:04 AM

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... Only in Trump's second-term makeover could a 90,000-square-foot ballroom"already larger than the 55,000-square-foot mansion it's attached to-be considered too small, and architect James McCrery II has urged restraint, the insiders said. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-28 12:53 AM

---- Pedo Donnie

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-11-28 12:57 AM

@#2

Ya know, you really need to try to be more expressive of your opinions.

:)

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-28 01:20 AM

True story ...

Back in the day, I used to routinely ride along a part of the NY Thruway. When i left my rental abode, and started on the trek, I would put a cassette into the car's player.

One cassette had a curious timing to it.

As it played, a song would eventually appear.

Bad Company - Bad Company (1974)
www.youtube.com

Shortly after the time that song appeared, there usually was a State Police radar trap on the NY Thruway. Almost like clockwork.

The things you remember songs for ...

:)



Back then, in my wild youth days, that song may have saved me from receiving a speeding ticket ...




#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-28 01:28 AM

@#4

oops, messed up the formatting ...

Should be ...

Shortly after the time that song appeared, there usually was a State Police radar trap on the NY Thruway. Almost like clockwork.

Back then, in my wild youth days, that song may have saved me from receiving a speeding ticket.


The things you remember songs for ...

:)

Apologies.


The line starting with "Back then" should be between the lines "Shortly after" and "
:(

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-28 01:33 AM

@#5

Messed it up yet again.

Oh well ...

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-28 01:39 AM

Trump's hidden agenda is to rebuild the White House; he just can't tell anyone his real plans so he starts with knocking down the East Wing. Now he's arguing with the architect about plans for what is to be rebuilt there. He probably wants to include more office space, conference rooms, etc. Then, once that's done, he will announce that he's moving West Wing operations to the new addition and tearing down the West Wing.

He doesn't plan on leaving the presidency.

#7 | Posted by FedUpWithPols at 2025-11-28 06:28 AM

And on the pedestal these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."

From Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias

#8 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-11-28 08:08 AM

Does anyone get the feeling that, as long as Trump is around, the existence of the White House itself is threatened?

As noted, the proportions for his Golden Ballroom are not in proportion to the residence.

He has in mind a Golden Palace that is.

#9 | Posted by Zed at 2025-11-28 08:30 AM

"Does anyone get the feeling that, as long as Trump is around, the existence of the White House itself is threatened?"

Trump likes taking hostages.
It gives him leverage.

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-28 08:38 AM

"Trump's hidden agenda is to rebuild the White House; he just can't tell anyone his real plans so he starts with knocking down the East Wing. Now he's arguing with the architect about plans for what is to be rebuilt there. He probably wants to include more office space, conference rooms, etc. Then, once that's done, he will announce that he's moving West Wing operations to the new addition and tearing down the West Wing.
He doesn't plan on leaving the presidency.
#7 | Posted by FedUpWithPols at 2025-11-28 06:28 AM"

Instead of building a huge ballroom, replace the missing East Wing with a new/modernized East Wing with one exception:
incorporate a small incarceration facility.
If/when President Trump is sentenced to a prison term, he can be imprisoned in that incarceration facility.
That way President Trump can have his wish to remain at the White House! Heck, toss in the gold toilet to sweeten the deal!

#11 | Posted by TrueBlue at 2025-11-28 09:16 AM

What's funny is people think he's planning on leaving the WH in a few years.

This is building his DC Palace and Forever Home.

#12 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-28 09:38 AM

#12

I'd give his two year survival odds as very, very low. With the strokes and dementia, he's not got much time left.

We absolutely need to demand that presidential candidates for 2028 will demolish any part of this idiotic ballroom that's actually constructed is bulldozed, and ideally any companies or individuals who 'donated' to it are charged with bribery, and hopefully fined enough to rebuild the east wing.

#13 | Posted by DarkVader at 2025-11-29 07:01 AM

A Taj Mahal to Trump...

Seal it up and Bury him in it.

But first make it the Biggest and most Expensive building in DC. A Spectacle to his Greatness. A Memorial to his Will and Ideas.

Trump's Tomb.

I like the ring of that.

#14 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-11-29 09:33 AM

Trump's Tomb.

I like the ring of that.

#14 | POSTED BY EFFETEPOSER

It would not last a year without being desecrated.

Trumpy is the Akhenaten of our day. And will be remembered in a similar fashion.

Later pharaohs, such as Horemheb, sought to erase the Amarna period from history completely by dismantling the Aten temples and removing Akhenaten's name from official records. He was sometimes referred to as "the enemy" or "that criminal".

#15 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-11-29 10:13 AM

Sadam Hussain had his palaces too.

#16 | Posted by TenMile at 2025-11-29 11:19 AM

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