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Tanuki

(16,313 posts)
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 07:17 AM Sep 2025

WH weighs engraving donors' names on ballroom wall.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-weighs-etching-corporations-names-into-new-trump-ballroom/

"Corporations donating millions to President Donald Trump’s new ballroom project at the White House may be rewarded by having their name etched into the historic building, a report claimed Friday.

Sources told CBS News that donors so far include Google, R.J. Reynolds, Booz Allen Hamilton, Palantir and NextEra Energy. Lockheed Martin, the aerospace and defense company, contributed $10 million to the project.
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Three sources told the network that Trump has personally lobbied businesses for donations. It is unclear how many donations came about from that lobbying.

The donations are not limited to just companies. CBS News reports that Blackstone Group CEO Stephen Schwarzman has personally pledged money to the project.".... (more)
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WH weighs engraving donors' names on ballroom wall. (Original Post) Tanuki Sep 2025 OP
I can see it now... Trueblue Texan Sep 2025 #1
Engrave it on the bathroom stall walls. You know, where the classified documents are stashed. . . . .nt Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2025 #2
Where they go to snort cocaine. Irish_Dem Sep 2025 #14
It's going to take a generation to de-trumpify the White House aeromanKC Sep 2025 #3
Gonna take a lot of exorcists to do the job. Irish_Dem Sep 2025 #15
Tacky, tacky, tacky. nt Dulcinea Sep 2025 #4
A wall of shame. Irish_Dem Sep 2025 #17
What a fantastic idea, gab13by13 Sep 2025 #5
+1 dalton99a Sep 2025 #9
We will have a list of traitors to prosecute. Irish_Dem Sep 2025 #16
They make donations expecting to get something back in return. Pure corruption. Doodley Sep 2025 #6
They are so proud of themselves for bribing a sitting president. Irish_Dem Sep 2025 #18
Give each one a presidential Sharpie and let them write their names on a wall. Buns_of_Fire Sep 2025 #7
A rogue's gallery documented for the future? OK. tanyev Sep 2025 #8
Right, they are too rich and stupid to know they are shaming themselves. Irish_Dem Sep 2025 #19
No matter how many times I read the headline I see bathroom. Hugin Sep 2025 #10
Remember that time Joe Biden's son told a business in Ukraine his dad was the VP Takket Sep 2025 #11
A nice fresco, like in the middle ages, and it becomes part of the wall! Leonardo da Vinci would love it! CTyankee Sep 2025 #12
All of Trump's Barbie Doll Ho's could engrave their bra sizes too. Irish_Dem Sep 2025 #13
They're actually gonna document something? WestMichRad Sep 2025 #20
That's where their name belong. Martin68 Sep 2025 #21
And then, when the next Democratic president is elected... jmowreader Sep 2025 #22
Oh, for crying out loud... trumpet the corruption everywhere! nt slightlv Sep 2025 #23

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
2. Engrave it on the bathroom stall walls. You know, where the classified documents are stashed. . . . .nt
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 07:20 AM
Sep 2025

Irish_Dem

(80,014 posts)
14. Where they go to snort cocaine.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 08:29 AM
Sep 2025

So all of Trump's friends and supporters will see it for sure.

aeromanKC

(3,830 posts)
3. It's going to take a generation to de-trumpify the White House
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 07:24 AM
Sep 2025

and America as a whole. Ironically, that's when MAGA will happen.

gab13by13

(31,336 posts)
5. What a fantastic idea,
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 07:31 AM
Sep 2025

Post the names of the people who own Krasnov.

May as well also do what NASCAR does, put patches on the cabinet members, put patches on the fascist members of the Supreme Court.

Next, move on to Congress, have them wear patches, my House Rep., Glenn Thompson can have patches from the oil and gas corporations.

Fantastic idea, but take it to the next level.

Irish_Dem

(80,014 posts)
16. We will have a list of traitors to prosecute.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 08:30 AM
Sep 2025

And the list of people who bribed Trump for political favors.

Yep sounds like a good idea.

Buns_of_Fire

(19,018 posts)
7. Give each one a presidential Sharpie and let them write their names on a wall.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 07:58 AM
Sep 2025

That way, it can easily be painted over when they fall out of favor and made ready for the next sucker donator.

Irish_Dem

(80,014 posts)
19. Right, they are too rich and stupid to know they are shaming themselves.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 08:33 AM
Sep 2025

In public and for posterity.

Takket

(23,500 posts)
11. Remember that time Joe Biden's son told a business in Ukraine his dad was the VP
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 08:18 AM
Sep 2025

And the right lost their minds about for years and are still losing their minds about it?

Meanwhile drumpf is just openly accepting bribes from corporations and “whatever”, not even a blip on anyone’s radar.

CTyankee

(67,816 posts)
12. A nice fresco, like in the middle ages, and it becomes part of the wall! Leonardo da Vinci would love it!
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 08:19 AM
Sep 2025

Irish_Dem

(80,014 posts)
13. All of Trump's Barbie Doll Ho's could engrave their bra sizes too.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 08:28 AM
Sep 2025

Would add more class to the trash pit.

jmowreader

(52,917 posts)
22. And then, when the next Democratic president is elected...
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 04:55 PM
Sep 2025

...An inscription can be engraved above the names:

THESE INDIVIDUALS AND CORPORATIONS OWNED THE DONALD TRUMP ADMINISTRATION

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