In a normal universe? He wouldn't need to hide at all. Because he'd be in jail from all the crime. Or, if he was a normal President, worst case he'd just do what the Secret Service told him because that's their job to know these things.
But this orange cuntsicle wants everything gilted like a fascist live-laugh-love orgasm.
The problem... well one of the many problems... with Trump is that he is so basic and surface-level, people simply can't bring themselves to believe that he could possibly be so petty and self-involved that he'd tear down a nationally listed building without permission JUST to build a stupid-ass ballroom that nobody but him really cares about. There HAS to be more to it. An upgrade to the secret bunker! Something! Not just a ballroom FFS!
If it comes to the point that they need to retreat to this bunker, then just weld the doors shut, pour cement into the access ways, and rebuild our democracy atop their self-imposed tomb. Problem solved.
Yes, there is a PEOC bunker under the east wing. It has been used by G. W. Bush after the 9/11 attacks and by Donald Trump during the George Floyd protests.
Remember when Trump cowered in that bunker due to street protests distant from the WH? What a man Trump is. He is probably tearing down the east wing to eliminate all vestige of that incident.
all this aside, it would be really finny if something "bunker worthy" happened during this deconstruction. watching a bunch of incompetent SS carry trump through the rubble to get to a freshly exposed entrance would be fantastic photo ops
I don't like the Hitler thing but I will agree that Trump is probably going to get thrown out.
These gerrymandering initiatives aren't as simple as rigging the election, Trump has a specific reason to not want midterms to happen, he'll lose majority in the House and Senate, and Democrats are going to turn out for midterms and '28. They did in 2018, and in 2020, so we'll probably see more of the same.
I'd just like to point out just before the Watergate scandal floodgates opened, Kissinger fucked off to Israel to facilitate peace in the Middle East.
Vance AND Rubio have fucked off to Israel to facilitate peace in the Middle East as Johnson's running out of excuses not to seat the latest member and kick open the Epstein floodgate.
Its more the fact he straight up ran across the world to get out of the way of the shit avalanche. Here's hoping Vance and Rubio are doing it for the same reason.
That's actually not that weird. Every president is given a budget to redecorate the Oval Office and any staff offices they feel need it, it's one of the 'perks' of the job to redesign things to suit your own aesthetic. It's just that until tRump those redecorations were usually tasteful and modernising, not tacky 1790s French royalty.
Simpler explanation - by going ahead with the demolition before any approval process, this gives Trump a complete out when Congress re-opens and any consequences ultimately occur. As it was an illegal demolition/construction (Also explaining why they're going ahead in late October in D.C. with something like this), obviously the contractors can't expect payment and indeed, DOJ has filed a lawsuit against them.
Simpler explanation: Trumps handlers needed to give him a make-work project to keep him out of their hair, and reminded him about the time that Obama put up a tent.
"The President in particular is very much a figurehead—he wields no real power whatsoever. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it." -Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Reminds me of those fake villages they built in parts of Europe to keep dementia patients busy with the tasks they were familiar with so they didn't get into trouble. Our president is an octogenarian former real estate developer who can barely form a coherent sentence anymore. The shoe certainly fits.
The fact Blasphemy Barbie the Press Secretary said the Ballroom is the President's number one priority says it all really. He's become his dad. Give him a busy-work project while the others actually run the stuff.
If the US survives this, in 50 years they’ll be reading about it in textbooks and it’ll be a thing… “In 2025 President Trump added onto the Whitehouse.”
It’s so that he has a “legacy.”
That’s how narcissistic people work… anything to remember them by when they die.
Overall I agree, just one tiny remark: the urge to leave a legacy behind is a human urge deeply rooted in most of our minds, not just something narcissists do. This can manifest in many ways, the most common of which is through your offspring. Others do so writing, creating art, building something... I guess I'll add 'destroying everything around you' to the list.
RichardPenne
Chat says it's true - https://chatgpt.com/share/68fae8fd-d65c-8013-a9a8-62ecc09ffcb2
ShadeMeadowsArt
Aaand history repeats itself
Frobizzle
Nice theory but I'm sure current security measures are more than adequate and I'm not sure which army is going to come knocking on his door.
bananabonanza3
Oh cool. He really does idolize hitler and is playing all the greatest hits
Bojovnik84
Well, Hitler did dine on a bullet in his bunker, so can history repeat itself again, please?
InitHello
"coincidence"
getnaughtyshowmehowyoupotty
No, I think ballroom is the proper term here. He will be dancing on all our graves soon.
TheRealArclight
Sturdycrotch
Cool, cool. Can we just skip to the part where he fucking kills himself in said bunker already? I'm so tired of him existing without consequences
LurkingSarcasm
So where does he hide when his bunker is under construction, asking for a friend
rdewalt
In a normal universe? He wouldn't need to hide at all. Because he'd be in jail from all the crime. Or, if he was a normal President, worst case he'd just do what the Secret Service told him because that's their job to know these things.
But this orange cuntsicle wants everything gilted like a fascist live-laugh-love orgasm.
Telemapus
The problem... well one of the many problems... with Trump is that he is so basic and surface-level, people simply can't bring themselves to believe that he could possibly be so petty and self-involved that he'd tear down a nationally listed building without permission JUST to build a stupid-ass ballroom that nobody but him really cares about. There HAS to be more to it. An upgrade to the secret bunker! Something! Not just a ballroom FFS!
LivingDeadX
If it comes to the point that they need to retreat to this bunker, then just weld the doors shut, pour cement into the access ways, and rebuild our democracy atop their self-imposed tomb. Problem solved.
losamigos
Yes, there is a PEOC bunker under the east wing. It has been used by G. W. Bush after the 9/11 attacks and by Donald Trump during the George Floyd protests.
losamigos
Remember when Trump cowered in that bunker due to street protests distant from the WH? What a man Trump is. He is probably tearing down the east wing to eliminate all vestige of that incident.
Hovencl00f
Very Interrresting!
MrStealYourGiF
Oh right, let's speedrun it then, need to get to the equivalent of 30th April 1945 ASAP.
Dyamonde
Yes, let's speedrun bombing america to rubble
Chromentor
Trump gonna love his new ball room.
Fendeezy
not enough neck vagina
Fireninja404
all this aside, it would be really finny if something "bunker worthy" happened during this deconstruction. watching a bunch of incompetent SS carry trump through the rubble to get to a freshly exposed entrance would be fantastic photo ops
Fireninja404
noooo I left a typo in my post. *funny, not finny
SalmonTheWise
Do you mean secret service or schutzstaffel? Is there a difference anymore?
NotNotascientologist
I don't like the Hitler thing but I will agree that Trump is probably going to get thrown out.
These gerrymandering initiatives aren't as simple as rigging the election, Trump has a specific reason to not want midterms to happen, he'll lose majority in the House and Senate, and Democrats are going to turn out for midterms and '28. They did in 2018, and in 2020, so we'll probably see more of the same.
NotNotascientologist
The Democrats always fight best from the back foot, and after 2 more years of this hell, I'm sure the actual silent majority will turn out and vote.
GCRust
I'd just like to point out just before the Watergate scandal floodgates opened, Kissinger fucked off to Israel to facilitate peace in the Middle East.
Vance AND Rubio have fucked off to Israel to facilitate peace in the Middle East as Johnson's running out of excuses not to seat the latest member and kick open the Epstein floodgate.
It's a small hope, but it is a hope.
neptix
I dunno if you can credit Kissinger with facilitating anything related to peace. He was really only good at facilitating war crimes
GCRust
Its more the fact he straight up ran across the world to get out of the way of the shit avalanche. Here's hoping Vance and Rubio are doing it for the same reason.
PileOfWalthers
I can loan out a Walther PPK if needed. No cost, just let me have it back after.
SalmonTheWise
Too big for his hands, needs something smaller.
Rips4w
A lot of people would take offense at offering him such a quick way out.
FelixT93
Maybe a kolibri?
JCentauri
Let me guess. These fuckwits lost the code to get in the bunker, didn't they?
Magjee
Hopefully once locked inside
eadanke
I'm glad I wasn't the only one who had this thought.
manystripes
Of course not, they know right where the code is. It's in the bunker
marengnr10
Seriously? It's 1-2-3-4-5. Just like he uses on his luggage.
rubypilgrim
it's that or "admin"
Raventhief
Dude, you don't need a tinfoil hat when you're saying things that everyone knows.
ourari
You might look stylish doing it tho, depending on the design of said hat.
Raventhief
This guy knows.
EpochEclipse
I want to be friends with this dude.
Raventhief
There's more: /gallery/sL8yw0R
EpochEclipse
Thanks for these. Also LOL, I unintentionally copied your comment on that post.
zombiejedediah
Cool. So the Epstein Ballroom is going to be right above a concealed bunker. How appropriate.
mrthewhitee
Some of this is probably true but there's no need to expand the bunker. It's fully furnished as is. One of the most luxurious bunkers in the world.
Although he probably does like the symbolism of having a ballroom over his bunker like his hero did.
makirabduloblongatamuhammed
Like you said, some of it's probably true.And i'm concerned with the track record of investors
TheWombatStrikesAgain
There was also no need to refurbish the Oval Office, but Trump prefers a certain level of tackyness.
mrthewhitee
Putting 15 dollar Amazon decoration on the wall is a far cry from building or expanding a bunker.
IHaveGreatKittenRecipes
That's actually not that weird. Every president is given a budget to redecorate the Oval Office and any staff offices they feel need it, it's one of the 'perks' of the job to redesign things to suit your own aesthetic. It's just that until tRump those redecorations were usually tasteful and modernising, not tacky 1790s French royalty.
TChallaVanDam
Yeah but does it have golden toilets? Not yet.
HaniiPuppy
Wtf is up with him and shitting? If he were a fictional character, I'd swear the thematic analogy was getting a bit heavy-handed.
ConstantMissclicks
Came here to say they needed to expand the bunker for all his gold painted bullshit.
MattTheImperialRadarTechnician
I can't wait for the day when they strip out and throw away all that gawdy crap on the sidewalks.
mormonbatman
Simpler explanation - they're going to build a big dumb ball room for like $1 million and grift the rest.
kahooki
make it $1.2m. gold spray paint prices increasing in the dc-area nowadays.
Endocrom
1mil buys a lot of gold spray paint
GCRust
Simpler explanation - by going ahead with the demolition before any approval process, this gives Trump a complete out when Congress re-opens and any consequences ultimately occur. As it was an illegal demolition/construction (Also explaining why they're going ahead in late October in D.C. with something like this), obviously the contractors can't expect payment and indeed, DOJ has filed a lawsuit against them.
Classic Trump with Contractor shit.
WhatisBug
Seriously. He grifts and gets bribes at Mar a Lago, he wants to have a spot to do it at in D. C.
WhatzitTooya
Sounds about right, how else can you spent over a quarter billion dollar on a fucking ballroom?
thedarkcanuck
And yet a rural 2 bedroom house on 1 acre would cost me half a million. Make it make sense.
Frostedjakes
At that point you're not as much buying a house as you are buying the land it's on.
Mechwarrior719
And it will be built with flypaper and plaster of paris.
spiggyspaggy321
Insulated with used diapers.
XaoJet
Could be both.
mormonbatman
True.
MeowWoof
Simpler explanation: Trumps handlers needed to give him a make-work project to keep him out of their hair, and reminded him about the time that Obama put up a tent.
Amanda55andcows
"The President in particular is very much a figurehead—he wields no real power whatsoever. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it." -Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
xmaneds
@ZaphodBBX, you're up, Buddy
MarkRavingMad
Reminds me of those fake villages they built in parts of Europe to keep dementia patients busy with the tasks they were familiar with so they didn't get into trouble. Our president is an octogenarian former real estate developer who can barely form a coherent sentence anymore. The shoe certainly fits.
TheRealFireFrenzy
or the old white man who is worried about his legacy wants to add the words "trump ballroom" to the white house ensuring his legacy lasts forever
Eyeetsass
So, he’ll tear down Roosevelt’s east wing. The act itself ads a real temporary feel to the project. They’re expanding the bunker.
GCRust
The fact Blasphemy Barbie the Press Secretary said the Ballroom is the President's number one priority says it all really. He's become his dad. Give him a busy-work project while the others actually run the stuff.
richardstinks
I think Trump is a very simple man, but he's being used by people not so simple and who would do this just because they're getting away with it.
SarcasticComment
yup. it not illegal to get overpaid for bad work. Like the My Pillow guy, the smart people winding him up were never caught holding the bag
Meowsma
I'm willing to ascribe a lot to the shady people behind Trump, but grifting money through construction projects? Nah, that's Trump's bread and butter.
LamarTrillington
In addition to being simple, Donald Trump is also an evil racist piece of shit and the world will celebrate his death.
Toqom
Exactly, but I feel they are all pedophiles, only a pedophile would be ok with letting one run the country
corndude101
No, it’s so that he’s remembered.
If the US survives this, in 50 years they’ll be reading about it in textbooks and it’ll be a thing… “In 2025 President Trump added onto the Whitehouse.”
It’s so that he has a “legacy.”
That’s how narcissistic people work… anything to remember them by when they die.
Katiger
Looking forward to the future demolition of said ballroom and restoration of the original East Wing
TheDreadPirateMontoya
"... Which was later renamed by President Ocasio-Cortez to the 'Dolly Parton Memorial Ballroom' after the hero of World War 3."
smolduck
Overall I agree, just one tiny remark: the urge to leave a legacy behind is a human urge deeply rooted in most of our minds, not just something narcissists do. This can manifest in many ways, the most common of which is through your offspring. Others do so writing, creating art, building something... I guess I'll add 'destroying everything around you' to the list.
corndude101
I don’t think so… I have no “urge” to leave anything behind. Just live my life, be a good person, and eventually fade into nothingness.