White House Ballroom / Secret Bunker Will Be Paid For By US Taxpayers

A top-secret underground bunker beneath the White House East Wing is being quietly dismantled and rebuilt as part of President Donald Trump’s sweeping renovation plans — reviving a shadowy Cold War relic first ordered by Franklin D. Roosevelt after Pearl Harbor.

An expensive project paid for by the public.

The original facility, hidden beneath the East Wing built in 1941, housed what later became the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC) — a hardened command bunker designed to withstand nuclear attack. For decades, it served as the ultimate last refuge for presidents during national emergencies.

It was here that Dick Cheney was evacuated on 9/11, where Joe Biden’s secret trip to Ukraine was planned, and where presidents once inspected a “tomb-like” shelter stocked with beds, food, water and independent power, air and communications systems.

Now, as Trump pushes ahead with construction of a massive new East Wing ballroom, the aging underground complex — described by insiders as a “1940s-era submarine” — has been completely removed, including the PEOC itself.

What replaces it remains classified.

White House officials have acknowledged only that the project involves “top-secret” work essential to national security, arguing in court filings that halting underground construction would “endanger national security.” A classified declaration has been submitted to justify bypassing normal planning approvals.

Security experts say the rebuilt facility is likely designed to counter modern threats far beyond Cold War nuclear fears — including cyber warfare, electromagnetic pulses, chemical or biological attacks, and precision strikes — using technology that may not even exist commercially yet.

While Trump says private donors are funding the ballroom above ground, any new underground security complex will be paid for by taxpayers, with costs likely impossible to fully disclose.

As one former Secret Service agent put it: whatever is being built beneath the East Wing is designed not just to survive catastrophe — but to do so without revealing a single detail to America’s enemies.

Key Takeaways

• Historic White House bunker removed and rebuilt as part of Trump’s East Wing overhaul

• Replacement facility classified, aimed at modern and future threats

• Taxpayers will fund underground security, with true costs likely never revealed

SOURCE: CNN

I think it's for his golf clubs !

I wonder if it will be fitted out with gaudy gold trimmings. Trump Mar a Basement

18 hours ago, Social Media said:

White House Ballroom / Secret Bunker Will Be Paid For By US Taxpayers

A top-secret underground bunker beneath the White House East Wing is being quietly dismantled and rebuilt as part of President Donald Trump’s sweeping renovation plans — reviving a shadowy Cold War relic first ordered by Franklin D. Roosevelt after Pearl Harbor.

An expensive project paid for by the public.

The original facility, hidden beneath the East Wing built in 1941, housed what later became the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC) — a hardened command bunker designed to withstand nuclear attack. For decades, it served as the ultimate last refuge for presidents during national emergencies.

It was here that Dick Cheney was evacuated on 9/11, where Joe Biden’s secret trip to Ukraine was planned, and where presidents once inspected a “tomb-like” shelter stocked with beds, food, water and independent power, air and communications systems.

Now, as Trump pushes ahead with construction of a massive new East Wing ballroom, the aging underground complex — described by insiders as a “1940s-era submarine” — has been completely removed, including the PEOC itself.

What replaces it remains classified.

White House officials have acknowledged only that the project involves “top-secret” work essential to national security, arguing in court filings that halting underground construction would “endanger national security.” A classified declaration has been submitted to justify bypassing normal planning approvals.

Security experts say the rebuilt facility is likely designed to counter modern threats far beyond Cold War nuclear fears — including cyber warfare, electromagnetic pulses, chemical or biological attacks, and precision strikes — using technology that may not even exist commercially yet.

While Trump says private donors are funding the ballroom above ground, any new underground security complex will be paid for by taxpayers, with costs likely impossible to fully disclose.

As one former Secret Service agent put it: whatever is being built beneath the East Wing is designed not just to survive catastrophe — but to do so without revealing a single detail to America’s enemies.

Key Takeaways

• Historic White House bunker removed and rebuilt as part of Trump’s East Wing overhaul

• Replacement facility classified, aimed at modern and future threats

• Taxpayers will fund underground security, with true costs likely never revealed

SOURCE: CNN

"Costs impossible to disclose"??? Just like the DOD budget!

Surely the most loved President in the history of the world cant be worried about his own safety.

Well of course!

Who but the schmucks will pay?

I rather expect that the whole bloody thing will end up being funded by the US taxpayer. Even if (as I suspect) it s never completed the tax payer will inevitably have to foot the bill for pulling it down and rebuilding the East Wing of The White House.

A secret bunker. A top secret bunker. Now everyone knows.

21 minutes ago, Purdey said:

A secret bunker. A top secret bunker. Now everyone knows.

22 minutes ago, Purdey said:

A secret bunker. A top secret bunker. Now everyone knows.

25 minutes ago, Purdey said:

A secret bunker. A top secret bunker. Now everyone knows.

Still haven't addressed the "clear previous edit" problem I see!