Alexander S. Vindman 🇺🇸: I don't understand why Trump wrecking the White House isn't a bigger story. I've been in the

[riversedge]

Alexander S. Vindman 🇺🇸
@AVindman
I don’t understand why Trump wrecking the White House isn’t a bigger story. I’ve been in the East Wing many times. Built by Teddy Roosevelt, expanded by FDR, it served a critical function for official gatherings like Medal of Honor award ceremonies and as an emergency ops center.

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[hlthe2b]

1. Well, Col. Vindman... I, for one am devastated...

[markodochartaigh]

2. Just to build the Epstein Ballroom

n/t

[bamagal62]

4. Perfect name for it!

[ffr]

15. Epstein Memorial Ballroom

has a good ring to it too.

[PatSeg]

3. I think the purpose is to demoralize people

by destroying a symbol of democracy. The timing seemed to be in response to "No Kings Day" protests. If the next one is even bigger, maybe he'll dismantle the Statue of Liberty and sell it for scrap metal.

He really thinks he can do anything he wants and there will never be any repercussions. He is mad with power and vengeance.

[2naSalit]

5. I think so too.

And I wonder what will be the breaking point.

[PatSeg]

25. Same here

Truly a scary thought when you realize he has the nuclear codes. I can picture him starting a nuclear war if he doesn't get his way.

[pandr32]

6. I don't think the mass protests had anything to do with it.

He already had plans for this. He has more plans, too, like a giant arc-de-Trump.
Gawd knows what else is in his demented mind. His likeness carved into a mountain? He will likely add another wing onto the White House on the West side. I am betting he already has plans.
If anything, the government shut-down, which he has instructed his minions in Congress to hold the line with, gives him cover. There is no functioning Congress right now.

[a kennedy]

13. Fawk, forgot about that damn arc.

🤬 🤬 🤬

[PatSeg]

26. I know the ballroom was already planned,

but it feels like he timed the East Wing demolition in response to the protests. I know it would have happened eventually, but Trump likes putting on a show.

[yorkster]

41. Right. Already planned but very intentional timing.

[womanofthehills]

46. They didn't According to Wiki & AI - he's been talking about this renovation since 2010

He’s always thought it should look like his Mar-Largo ballroom - Greek columns, marble floor - just tacky with lots of gold leaf. Interesting- bulletproof walls??

Wiki -

“During President Barack Obama's first term in office, at least as early as 2010, then-private citizen Trump spoke to senior advisor David Axelrod and expressed a desire to build a ballroom on White House grounds.[3][4] In 2016, during the second term of the presidency of Barack Obama, then-candidate Trump offered to pay $100 million to fund a ballroom at the White House but was rejected.[2][5]”

[The Blue Flower]

8. I was thinking he'd pull down the Washington monument

He can never be a fraction of the man Washington was.

[PatSeg]

28. Sounds like something he would do

or maybe rename it the Trump monument and slap a bunch of gold on it. We all know how he loves plastering his name on everything.

[pandr32]

49. Let's hope not.

But it seems obvious he is going to do whatever the hell he wants!

[Raven123]

9. He's building a monument to himself

[Martin Eden]

22. Yep. But the ballroom in not enough to sate his bottomless ego.

Nothing is, so next up is a gigantic "Arc de Trump" dwarfing the Lincoln Memorial on our National Mall.

[Raven123]

27. I look forward to donating to whatever effort there is to demolish all of it

[PatSeg]

29. And what is sad is

there will never be anything to appease him. It is so common with the billionaire class - there is never enough.

[popsdenver]

19. I think that it is being built

so that he can relocate his Mar-A-Gago dinner grifting to his home in DC.........
He has full house dinners for donors down at Mar-a-gago, at thousands a plate.
He is just making a ballroom, ten times the size of his florida ballroom, with plans to increase his take, off of the per plate charge by ten times....
Plus, if he hosts one of those dinners for donors in Mar-a-gago.....he has to foot the complete bill for everything including food......
In this new facility, the U.S. Taxpayers will pick up the cost for everything spent to host his guests, and he will receive the money from the per plate charges deposited in his personal phony PAC.

It is being reported that the ballroom addition in DC will hold 1,000 dinner guests......multiply that at his "per plate" dinner charge........
I can imagine that the construction will be fast tracked so he can start grifting the "spoils" by next spring......LOL

We all will have to watch the construction closely for what goes on BELOW GROUND LEVEL..... under this monstrosity.......

[PatSeg]

30. Good points

In his first term, he referred to the White House as a "dump". Now he's determined to change all that and in ways that will benefit him personally and financially.

[maddiemom]

35. Macron should have taken the Statue of Liberty back when he was here. nt

[Karma13612]

40. That was my reasoning as well.

The cruelty is to make us realize we are powerless right now.
No one is going to rescue us this time.
All bets are off.

[PatSeg]

57. Sounds like his (their) reasoning

But I think such actions will only inspire people to resist even more. His hubris doesn't allow him to comprehend what he's up against. Unfortunately I think he will just get more and more aggressive and outrageous, not to mention dangerous.

[yellow dahlia]

54. Agree.

[mdbl]

58. he has many enablers.

[usonian]

7. MADE YOU LOOK

He will do MUCH WORSE as the Epstein Event Horizon nears.

[hvn_nbr_2]

10. I understand completely why it isn't a bigger story

The reason it isn't a bigger story is that CorpoPravda (AKA Plutocracy Pravda, AKA Billionaire Bullshit Media) doesn't want to talk about it, doesn't want you to know about it, and doesn't want you to think about it.

[ffr]

16. But if this had been Hillary Clinton doing it, if you could imagine that happening in a million years,

Fox Entertainment would have them all calling for her head or civil war on democrats.

No doubt about it.

Which is why I don't understand how people seeing propaganda headlines sill fall for it with all their might.

[yellow dahlia]

55. MSNBC is covering it.

And they are not sane washing or soft pedaling or both sidesing it.

[raccoon]

62. Dah winnah!

[RainCaster]

11. It's to disable the Emergency Command Center

This was requested by Putin.

[a kennedy]

12. I believe what others have mentioned, he is not planning on leaving Our House EVER.

Why else would he actually go through with this monstrosity??? He is not ever leaving there now. He’s got everyone behind him, no one is ever gonna rebuke him so yup, he’s just gonna stay there forever. JMHO.

[slightlv]

60. I fear you're right... getting him out of "OUR" House is going to take a ...

well, I was going to say an act of Congress. (LOL) He'll die there, refusing to leave. So, let's build him a little mausoleum out back just for his body. Or, if there is a golf course of ANY kind already on the grounds, dig up a hole and bury him in it, just like he did to Ivana.

[cksmithy]

14. Vast right wing conspiracy!

Ever heard that blown out of proportion, Hillary was right.

[angrychair]

17. Not even just that

But he is building a giant, garish eyesore that is larger than WH itself...by a lot. It's disgusting. An insult and makes the WH look like palace, instead of The People's House.

Eat. The. Rich.

[popsdenver]

21. Have you seen the pictures

of the similar one that Putin built for himself?????? It even has all the plethora of Gilded Gold Gawdy Garbage like Trump's oval office remodel.....

With the speed at which this was conspired/started, I can only imagine that Putin gave him his blueprints and architectural plans that normally take a year to produce.............

[angrychair]

23. Absolutely

Putin has had a fixation on the old Czars for a long time. I truly believes he would love to take the title of "Emperor".

[Wednesdays]

50. Along with Russia's 1914 borders.

Which included all of Ukraine, the Baltic States, Finland, and most of Poland.

[BurnDoubt]

18. Traitors' Hall

[BurnDoubt]

20. Or... Trump/Epstein Victims' Memorial Hall

[txwhitedove]

24. I believe part of the answer to why such demolition is in part of Vindman's post. East Wing built

by Teddy Roosevelt, expanded by FDR, also housed First Lady's office and Eleaner Roosevelt Room. Things and people he hates. M'fcker.

[popsdenver]

45. The entire Republican Party

LOATHES those individuals for all the things THE REPUBLICANS detest...........

[muriel_volestrangler]

32. Obviously it is a big story on DU, but I can see why other Trump news could be bigger

in some people's eyes: most of the other stuff he's been doing involves killing people (Caribbean boats, HHS, Ukraine, Gaza, USAID), putting Americans into poverty (which might kill them) - budget cuts, especially AHA, kidnapping people (and putting them at higher risk of death) - ICE, stealing millions of dollars from taxpayers (the demand for $230 million), doing the bidding of foreign actors for billions of dollars, doing the bidding of domestic billionaires for billions of dollars (crypto scams), covering up for pedophiles (could be himself, or could be his donors). There's probably more, if you care to add to the list.

Cultural and architectural destruction is bad, but it's possible to put it down the list of evil.

[txwhitedove]

44. Also big news story on other news platforms. Read that other news too and cried over it all, but

I can walk, chew gum, spit, curse and cry over this news too.... the destruction of more of We The People's democracy, symbols, heritage and history!

[womanofthehills]

47. Agree - all the human killing & suffering over takes this story

Everyday - killing fishermen in Venezuela, shredding babies in Gaza, putting American kids in handcuffs, bombing all over the Middle East.

It’s hard for me to get more upset over a building than the horrors Trump’s policies are committing every day on human lives.

[leftstreet]

48. +1

[intrepidity]

33. There should have been a J6- type response

That place should have been surrounded by mobs by now.

[pwb]

34. To Trump a Ball Room makes other people small.

His conspicuous consumption makes me puke. Fuck your money donny.

[lastlib]

43. And it's the only way he can have big balls.

(Did I really say that???)

[kairos12]

36. From a general building perspective, I think it's fairly rare

that someone does a multi-million dollar renovation and then intends to leave. Just wondering.

[Blue Owl]

37. It's the fucking M$M cherry-picking fake outrage at Democrats only

The Guardians of Pedophilia (GOP) party is like that one spoiled kid who gets away with everything while the parents are busy scolding the well-behaved child over a small trifle.

Fuck them all for helping destroy America all for a few dollars.

[mcar]

38. MSM is, once again, complicit

[maxsolomon]

39. It's not a bigger story because TRUMP FLOODS THE ZONE WITH SHIT.

There are tons of equivalent stories that need reporting. The Govt isn't even open. ICE is arresting American citizens without warrants. He's threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act on Portland. The military is summarily executing drug smugglers in international waters. It goes on and on every day.

There's also a sense of confusion in reportage over whether he's allowed to just do this or not. It appears that, if you're willing to just be a dominating bully asshole, and he's always been that, there's no process and no one that can stop it.

The reason it's not a bigger story is not that the "MSM" is evil and in Trump's pocket.

[twodogsbarking]

42. The work crew is comprised of criminals from Jan 6 that he pardoned.

[Lovie777]

51. It is..................

USA citizens are taking notice. Quite a few American know what is happening, and it's not corporate news, BUT word by mouth and what happening in plain sight in states.

[bucolic_frolic]

52. Really, one of the most important and famous buildings in the world /nt

[bucolic_frolic]

53. When you're a star they let you do it /nt

[tblue37]

56. This & the Rose Garden.

[BComplex]

59. It's a HUGE deal to me, Mr. Vindaman. I can't stop crying about it.

Trump has no respect for anyone but Dick-taters. But democrats are shut out of the news. The entire media is owned by republicans.

[red dog 1]

61. Trump lied about the ballroom project.

Link to tweet

[B.See]

63. It isn't a bigger story because

1. The LAMEstreamer cowards have already become too complicit in all that is happening, because of their normalizing of Trump's repeated outrages. So now they're in a state of numb denial.

Just like they'll be when Trump starts bombing his perceived political enemies with something OTHER than AI generated poop.

Believe him, when he shows us who, what, he is.

[Joinfortmill]

64. Remove Him.

[Martin68]

65. The lack of outrage and strong pushback has puzzled me.

[Jilly_in_VA]

66. I'm not only disgusted and devastec

I'm furious! I want to ho after him about this, but with what? He's already been sued into the ground, and it doesn't seem to matter to him or to anyone else. I'd like to take a wrecking ball to his head!

[Mysterian]

67. The media is owned by billionaires

I thought it was obvious.

[Clouds Passing]

68. Could it be the media? Huh?