What should the next Democratic president do with the White House ballroom?

[William Seger]

The White House ballroom construction is scheduled to be finished by the next administration. I saw recommendations that the next Democratic president should tear it down, which is a valid suggestion, but what else might be done with it? I'm not opposed to leaving it, if it's well done — I'm just opposed to leaving it as a place for presidents to host gigantic private parties.

My own suggestion would be to make it the National Presidential History Museum, part of the Smithsonian system, available to the White House tour groups.

[Solly Mack]

1. Blow it up.

[Jack Valentino]

2. Open a soup kitchen to feed all us folks who had SNAP taken away by Republicans,

while they gave welfare to billionaires!

[wordstroken]

5. I like this idea!!

🦋 wordstroken

[OldBaldy1701E]

42. We have a winner! (n/t)

[JBTaurus83]

3. Fill it with jail cells

Call it White House Alcatraz and throw shithole and his accomplices in for the rest of their lives.

[Deuxcents]

4. Demolish it and sell off the rest and give the proceeds to homeless and domestic abuse shelters

[RazorbackExpat]

41. Great idea!

Go back to the ideals of the Great Society, and lend a helping hand to the less fortunate!

[newdeal2]

6. Use it to troll Trump

Fill it with things he hates - the Epstein files, escalators and Tylenol.

[William Seger]

12. If it's an accurate history, it will show him in a very bad light

[Maru Kitteh]

17. Windmills.

Sharks.




Black women.

[BannonsLiver]

7. Tear it down.

[Hugin]

22. I was going to suggest...

Throwing a flare into it.

[quakerboy]

8. Perminant HQ for Independant investigators

With authority to investigate ALL past and future presidents and cabinet members, in depth, in perpetuity.

Then Build one for the legislature.

And then a third for the SCOTUS.

If fascism is defeated and democracy returns to the USA, we need strong measures to have accountability.

[LuvLoogie]

9. Turn it into an immigrant museum.

Free to the public on trump's birthday and the anniversaries of his convictions and his inevitable death.

[meadowlander]

25. 24/7 citizenship ceremonies, quinceaeras and gay weddings

[bluedigger]

10. Pickleball courts.

[hatrack]

11. Whatever it is, it should involve lots of C-4, crowbars and pneumatic construction equipment . . ..

.

[choie]

13. Nothing done by that miscreant Mussolini

should be left standing, incluing his butchering of the White House.

[Takket]

14. tear it down and the patio as well. Give the rose garden back to Jackie like Biden should have done.

[GoCubsGo]

36. And, send the bills to the RNC, Eloon, Thiel, Bezos, Murdoch...

As well as all of the other corporate whores who have been funding this motherfucker for the past decade. This is their mess. They should pay for the demolition, disposal, and restoration of the entire property. And, put Trump and all of his sycophants on a chain gang, since they love those so much, and make them help clean it all up. They can replant the Rose Garden and all of the trees they killed, too.

[Stinky The Clown]

15. Start demolition on Day One

[JoseBalow]

16. The entire WH and property should be restored to how Obama left it

As if drumpf never set foot in it.

[Grins]

18. Tear it down? The King's Throne and room...? NM

[RoeVWade]

19. Donate any gold trim in it to charity. Name it the Obama ballroom, or something similar.

nt*

[eppur_se_muova]

20. National Presidential CORRUPTION History Museum would be more appropriate. nt

[lame54]

21. Soup kitchen

[Blue Full Moon]

23. Tear it down and make trump pay for the damages

[DFW]

24. That one gets my vote

It’s a reasonable assumption that most people haven’t been in there. As a nation, we need places like that for official diplomatic events. That is not excessive. What is perverse is Trump spending a fortune of OUR money to transform traditional elegance into gaudy nouveau-riche excess of a kind that only would appeal to someone like Trump, and therefore necessarily not to much of anyone else.

[Cloudhopper]

32. Tear it down and make him pay, but I'd like all the

pieces dropped on one of his golf courses.

[BootinUp]

26. Give out raffle tickets, prizes are pieces of the ballroom.

[synni]

27. Turn it into a museum honoring all people of color

Imagine the MAGAt reaction!

[regnaD kciN]

28. Make it a homeless shelter for LGBTQ+ Latinx atheists...

[flor-de-jasmim]

29. If it truly ends up being larger than the White House, it should be cut down in size to be harmonious with the rest.

It will be such an eyesore if left as it.
AND Trump should be prosecuted for destroying the historical trees. This is OUR property, not his.

[taxi]

30. Like the statue of Saddam Hussein in Iraq it must be toppled.

No trace of the man-baby can remain standing.

[Emile]

31. Put me in the tear it down column. Just like Trump's casinos.

[dem4decades]

33. Return it to its former glory.

[RandiFan1290]

34. It should be demolished and the rest of the White House restored.

I am willing to bet that it will be allowed to stand.

The Rose Garden was never restored.

[Randypiper]

35. trump atrocity library

probably not enough square feet.

[usedtobedemgurl]

37. Hold the Hague trials there.

There will not be enough room for everyone who wants to attend, but maybe a raffle to attend? The proceeds could go to cover the building cost and any leftover could be donated to schools, Planned Parenthood, and maybe some LGBTQ+ groups.afterwards, have it as a memorial of the place the admin was tried and found guilty. Have it as a warning to others who mess with our democracy.

[Emile]

38. Museum to display the Epstein files!

[marble falls]

39. Let DC building inspectors in to condemn it and then tear it down. Restoring the Rose Garden at the ...

... same time.

[Swede]

40. Erase it.

Plant grass and roses.

[William Seger]

43. I can definitely appreciate that sentiment

... but I think a more positive (and less divisive) use would be dedicating it to something the faux-king revisionist absolutely abhors: accurate history. That should include the fact that the building itself was originally intended as a faux-king royal ballroom for massive celebrations of elitism, until President [fill in the blank] made it a public museum dedicated to remembering our best and our worst.

[bigtree]

44. white house museum

...they can bring over stuff from the National Archives.

[William Seger]

45. Good idea; it might not be big enough for a good Presidential History museum

A White House History Museum should definitely include a plaque stating the history of the building itself: A royal ballroom conceived by an authoritarian president, converted to public museum by a Democratic president.

[Heidi]

47. A space to honor and welcome *all* who've been disenfranchised and/or brutalized by The Cult:

the slave laborers who built the White House, all POC, immigrants, the unhoused, the mentally ill, LGBTQ+, women, those othered by poverty, dissidents, whistleblowers…

[Emile]

48. Turn it into a roller skating rink.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

49. Turn it into a homeless shelter.

[JHB]

50. Establish a commission to decide, with "demolish" prominent as "Option #1"

After all, how much of it would have to be disassembled anyway to sweep for bugs embedded in its structure?

Hell, the whole White House may have to be gutted and rebuilt like it was in 1948.

[sunflowerseed]

51. Temporarily house the homeless

When we have no homeless lottery for attendance with the president if she chooses to.

[BeyondGeography]

52. Restore honor and dignity to the White House by tearing both it and the Predator Patio down

and bringing back the Rose Garden to replace the latter.

[Hope22]

53. It will not come to fruition.

He will collect money and pocket it. Unless the real purpose of the building is to house their new form or government and scrape the Capitol Building off the planet. Keep everything real tidy at the White House. I feel like it could go either way.

[William Seger]

58. Site work has already started -- it doesn't need a permit

... but the building itself technically does need a D.C. permit — we'll have to see how that plays out, but I don't expect anything will stop it.

[1WorldHope]

54. Or a homeless shelter.

[CrispyQ]

55. Doze the entire compound, White House & all.

Invite architects to submit new designs & have a national contest/election to select which design, & then build the People's House with union labor.

[snowybirdie]

56. I like your idea

Will hopefully restore some dignity to the beautiful historic building. Get rid of all that crappy faux gold though!

[William Seger]

57. Absolutely, cleaning up the Oval Throne Room should be on the Undo List

It's nothing but a crass display and celebration of wealth and elitism, just like the Royal Ballroom.

[murielm99]

59. Burn it to the ground.

[MustBeTheBooz]

60. Nuke it from orbit...

It’s the only way to be sure.