I wondwer if the grifter is putting a souvenir shop at the front of the white house soon,to sell all the crap that he cannot get rid of online. He may as well, the grifting just never stops and now the animal is so open about it,no one cares.

On 10/22/2025 at 12:40 PM, billd766 said:

The US taxpayers are paying for it

No they are not. Billionaire and corporate bribes are 🤷😔

On 10/21/2025 at 2:04 PM, bubblegum said:

Google the pictures of the White House, demolition of the East wing. Not a permit, total disregard of the laws (as per usual). For me this is a symbol of the collapse of the USA.

Alterations to the Whitehouse have taken place several times under previous Presidents so, according to your logic, the USA must have collapsed many decades ago.

On 10/22/2025 at 1:23 PM, bubblegum said:

Here’s how the process is supposed to work:

1. Initial Proposal: The White House is managed by the National Park Service (NPS) but used by the Executive Office of the President (EOP). Any proposed change, even by a sitting president, begins internally through the Office of the Curator and the White House Facilities Management Division.

2. Historic Review: The NPS, as custodian of the White House under the Presidential Residence Act and National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), must review all alterations for compliance with Section 106 of the NHPA. This requires assessing potential impacts on historic and cultural resources in consultation with the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) and the D.C. State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO).

3. Planning & Environmental Oversight: The National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) evaluates all major federal projects in the National Capital Region, including work on the White House grounds, for design, planning, and environmental impacts under NEPA (the National Environmental Policy Act). Public comment and design reviews are part of that process.

4. Aesthetic Review: The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (CFA) reviews and advises on the design and appearance of any exterior modifications to the White House or its grounds.

5. Final Authorization: After approvals from NPS, NCPC, and CFA, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the White House Chief Usher / Facilities Management Office finalize funding, scheduling, and logistics.

Only after completing this full process could any major construction or demolition legally begin.

Yet Trump ignored every step, acting unilaterally through executive order, bypassing oversight, and ordering demolition as if he were a monarch. The result: the people’s house, altered without the people’s consent.

More details:

Section 107, let’s talk about it.

The above process has always been the process taken, and here’s why.

Section 107 of the National Historic Preservation Act exempts the White House, the U.S. Capitol, and the Supreme Court from being legally required to go through the Act’s formal Section 106 review. In other words, the law doesn’t automatically force those branches to follow the same procedures as other federal buildings. That exemption exists only because each branch of government controls its own seat of power, it was never intended as a free pass to ignore preservation, planning, or environmental rules altogether.

In practice, every administration since the 1960s has followed the same review structure out of duty, accountability, and executive-branch policy. The White House is still federal property, managed by the National Park Service under the Presidential Residence Act and subject to Executive Order 11593, which requires federal agencies to protect and consult on historic resources. Major exterior or site work still triggers National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) and U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (CFA) design reviews, along with NEPA environmental assessments. Any project involving government resources must also comply with the Anti-Deficiency Act and federal ethics rules on funding and gifts.

So yes, Section 107 means the NHPA can’t force compliance, but presidents are still bound by a network of executive orders, planning statutes, environmental laws, and constitutional duties. That’s why the process described isn’t optional, it’s the framework that has always protected the people’s house from unilateral or politically motivated alteration.

These executive orders:

- Executive Order 11593 (1971) – Protection and Enhancement of the Cultural Environment - Requires all federal agencies (including the Executive Office of the President) to “locate, inventory, and nominate to the National Register all properties under their control” and to consult with the Secretary of the Interior before altering historically significant structures. (Demolishing part of the White House without such consultation would conflict with this order.)

- Executive Order 12148 (1979), delegates emergency and historic property responsibilities to the Department of the Interior, reaffirming that federal agencies must protect historic resources even when exemptions exist.

 

Or you can just wait until the Dems shut down all those organs of Gub'ment and hire some can-do blue-collar workers to get after it before they all get back.

 

I wonder if he got Mike Rowe's input?

 

 

On 10/21/2025 at 2:20 PM, bubblegum said:

it still is an ugly thing that is happening.

What is so "ugly" about construction of an improvement to the Whitehouse?

1 minute ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Alterations to the Whitehouse have taken place several times under previous Presidents so, according to your logic, the USA must have collapsed many decades ago.

Yeah right, the whole wing is getting destroyed dude.

Just now, Liverpool Lou said:

What is so "ugly" about construction of an improvement to the Whitehouse?

Look at the picture does it look nice? Another Versailles atrocity. 

8 minutes ago, bubblegum said:

Yeah right, the whole wing is getting destroyed dude.

The whole wing is being improved, dude.   You have no problem with the "destruction" that occurred in the several previous Whitehouse improvements, eh?

10 minutes ago, bubblegum said:

12 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

What is so "ugly" about construction of an improvement to the Whitehouse?

Look at the picture does it look nice? Another Versailles atrocity. 

You expect construction in progress to be pretty?

Just now, Liverpool Lou said:

You expect construction in progress to be pretty?

You like [laying dumb?

1 minute ago, bubblegum said:

2 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

You expect construction in progress to be pretty?

You like [laying dumb?

Not really, I can't compete with you but, if you responded to my points sensibly, I may change my mind.  

30 minutes ago, theshu25 said:

I wondwer if the grifter is putting a souvenir shop at the front of the white house soon,to sell all the crap that he cannot get rid of online. He may as well, the grifting just never stops and now the animal is so open about it,no one cares.

He beat you to it — Trump’s already got an official WH merch shop.



Trump shows off merch teasing third term as Zelensky visits seeking end to Ukraine war: ‘Exit through the gift shop’

24 minutes ago, bubblegum said:

Look at the picture does it look nice? Another Versailles atrocity. 

This is what it will actually look like. Where did the fake picture come from? The fake media?

 

If you use fake information to form your views on a subject then your views will be wrong. Try going to the right source ie The White House website.

What he said.

 

 

 

1 minute ago, peterrabbit said:

This is what it will actually look like. Where did the fake picture come from? The fake media?

 

If you use fake information to form your views on a subject then your views will be wrong. Try going to the right source ie The White House website.

 

You mean the same site that said the East Wing wouldn't be touched?🤣

5 hours ago, Tug said:

Mike the groomer of the stool

Aka Mr Squeaker?

37 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

What is so "ugly" about construction of an improvement to the Whitehouse?

Well considering there are no plans submitted yet how would anyone know if its an improvement. Based on his other constructions and taste in decor it will be very questionable

The Super-Gov has some thoughts. "Crouching tyrant, hidden toddler" - epic! 😄

 

 

 

 

25 minutes ago, Dan O said:

Well considering there are no plans submitted yet how would anyone know if its an improvement. Based on his other constructions and taste in decor it will be very questionable

Where has it been stated that the new construction is Trumps design?  Which of his own constructions have been objectively "very questionable" to the point of being objectionable and which have been favourable in your opinion?  

56 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

The whole wing is being improved, dude.   You have no problem with the "destruction" that occurred in the several previous Whitehouse improvements, eh?

 

You mean the minor modifications that were done as per the relevant rules and regulations?

3 minutes ago, BLMFem said:

1 hour ago, Liverpool Lou said:

The whole wing is being improved, dude.   You have no problem with the "destruction" that occurred in the several previous Whitehouse improvements, eh?

 

You mean the minor modifications that were done as per the relevant rules and regulations?

I mean everything that has been done in the past, minor and substantial.  The current modifications comply with all relevant Federal regulations that apply to the Whitehouse.

20 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Where has it been stated that the new construction is Trumps design?  Which of his own constructions have been objectively "very questionable" to the point of being objectionable and which have been favourable in your opinion?  

Trump stated it himself that this is a "pet project" and is a nod to the his design at Mar a largo. If you were an American and spent time there to see his past design inspirations you would also wonder at the end product

2 hours ago, EVENKEEL said:

Classic example of lefties sick, perverted humor. 

 

The government is in its second longest ever shutdown, food stamp benefits will not be going out next month, many government workers are not getting paid, inflation is rising, unemployment is climbing as businesses lay off more workers, more government workers have lost their jobs, soy bean farmers are bankrupt because exports to China halted, housing costs are continuing to skyrocket, prescription drug prices are soaring again, Trump is giving billions to bail out Argentina while many Americans don't even have enough food to eat. To top it all off, Trump is suing his own DOJ for 230 million dollars while building a 250 million dollar ballroom at the White House that nobody wants. Are we winning yet?

In summer, Trump said the East Wing would be "modernized." Its ballroom will ultimately be more than 8,300 square meters (89'340 squre feet) in size. By comparison, the floor space of the White House next door is only 5,100 square meters (54'895 square feet).

 

So his ballroom is bigger than the rest of the white house.

 

Okok.

More important: What is with the Epstein files?

On 10/21/2025 at 2:04 PM, bubblegum said:

Google the pictures of the White House, demolition of the East wing. Not a permit, total disregard of the laws (as per usual). For me this is a symbol of the collapse of the USA.

and you know this how?

8 hours ago, NoDisplayName said:

Trump Said He Wouldn’t Touch the East Wing. Then He Tore It All Down.

President Trump initially said the ballroom construction would not affect the East Wing. The White House now says it was cheaper and more structurally sound to simply demolish it.

...

President Trump acknowledged on Wednesday that he was having the entire East Wing demolished to make way for his 90,000-square-foot ballroom,

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/us/politics/east-wing-white-house-demolition-trump.html

 

 

 

2 hours ago, short-Timer said:

 

The government is in its second longest ever shutdown, food stamp benefits will not be going out next month, many government workers are not getting paid, inflation is rising, unemployment is climbing as businesses lay off more workers, more government workers have lost their jobs, soy bean farmers are bankrupt because exports to China halted, housing costs are continuing to skyrocket, prescription drug prices are soaring again, Trump is giving billions to bail out Argentina while many Americans don't even have enough food to eat. To top it all off, Trump is suing his own DOJ for 230 million dollars while building a 250 million dollar ballroom at the White House that nobody wants. Are we winning yet?

You can thank the Democrats for this shut down.  

4 hours ago, bubblegum said:

You like [laying dumb?

Check out your man Obamas monstrosity of a "Presidential library" a total eyesore. Bet Trump's alterations are easier on the eye once completed. Btw did you vent over Obamas soulless concrete monstrosity that cost a kings ransom? No. So why blurt now?

6 minutes ago, Mike_Hunt said:

 

 

Yes, that was the "part demolished Monday."

 

There's more to come (down).

 

Trump administration plans to demolish White House's entire East Wing as ballroom cost grows to $300 million

 

The Trump administration is planning to demolish the entirety of the White House's East Wing as early as this weekend, two senior administration officials told CBS News, part of a project championed by President Trump to add a ballroom to the complex.

 

.... during the process of planning the new ballroom, it became apparent that the best option would be to demolish the entire structure.

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/demolish-white-house-east-wing-ballroom-trump-cost/

The "ballroom"/Pedo Palace will be bigger than the WH. The first Dem who promises to destroy this monstrosity is gonna win.