Best idea I've heard about what to with "the ballroom" when we have a Dem president

[tulipsandroses]

Turn it into a museum. The person that brought it up said it should be a museum so we never forget how we lost our way. I like that idea.
Turn it into a Civil Rights/Civics museum. Just like you have school buses taking kids to various museums, 50 years from now, school kids should be going to this museum to see what happened in this era. Appropriately, call it The trump museum.

[Aussie105]

1. Couple of big screens around the room . . .

Each playing an endless loop of all the things Trump has done to send the US off the rails.

Should be a short loop, 4 to 6 hours only. lol

Healthy drinks and snacks should be provided for the school kiddies of course.

The Dem president or his First Lady could drop in and say a friendly Hi! to the kids - being future voters and all that.

After school hours and weekends - repeat for adults.

(Missed my calling to work in PR earlier in life, it seems.)

[markodochartaigh]

2. Show the crimes of Trump and his minions and his cronies.

And show clips of his supporters saying that they don't care if he does away with fair elections, separates children from their families, kills innocent foreigners in boats, takes trillions from workers and gives it to the 1%, tears down the East Wing of the White House...
Also fund a media studio to develop brief snippets of the history through which we are living.
If these facts are not frequently shown to the public, in five years people will say that they never happened.

[Maru Kitteh]

3. It's an abomination. It must be wiped off our metaphorical national shoe

and consigned to a display at the Smithsonian and a Wikipedia page.

[calimary]

4. Don't call it the trump museum.

If it were up to me, I’d be taking steps to remove the name “Trump” from ANY place or building or billboard or any such thing.

TOTAL Removal and Rehabilitation. AND GETTING RID of that stupid, phony-ass, over-embellished temple of ego-massage he sets up there.

WIPE IT OFF the face of the Earth.

[Justice matters.]

18. Place a tombstone with the EPSTEIN BALLROOM plaque on it.

To Never Forget.

[Mordred]

5. Convert to DEI Museum

right after it hosts a Nuremberg Trials-equivalent for the current administration.

[RockRaven]

6. It must be destroyed. It is grotesquely disproportionate to the rest of the WH.

If they want to make a 9/11 style footprint memorial/museum of the old East Wing, however, that might do. But the new construction has got to go.

[Aussie105]

7. Nope, taxpayers' money wasted.

Paint it green and plant some tall dense trees around it.

[eppur_se_muova]

10. It's absurdly impractical. Gobs of largely useless space. Turn it into a greenhouse, and let visiting tourists enter ...

through the greenhouse on the way to the WH.

[Seinan Sensei]

20. Epstein Ballroom gonna be 90,000 sq feet

Average Walmart is 104,000 sq feet

(Don’t tell TSF)

[GReedDiamond]

8. My preference would be to convert it...

...into landfill.

Then restore the East Wing as much as possible.

Also, restore the Rose Garden and eliminate the maga-lardo-style pavement that displaced it.

Lastly, fuck the orange nazi dipshit and his enablers with a syphilitic, rusty chainsaw.

[charliea]

17. Sounds almost like my preference

with one exception. After a controlled implosion offer the rubble for sale as souvenirs. Perhaps the remaining MAGA faithful will want a relic.

[Aristus]

36. Careful dismantling, not controlled implosion.

I want all of the materials to be in good condition to be offered for re-sale, then the proceeds used to restore the Rose Garden and East Wing to their original specs.

[Jack Valentino]

9. Re-education day-camp for magats.....

[Baitball Blogger]

11. I saw the plans. This ballroom has to be removed.

It should not overshadow the White House.

[unblock]

12. If I were the next democratic president, I'd raze the whole White House

Secret service could find 100 listening devices and I'd still worry they missed one. Or booby traps or secret drug stashes planted to incriminate later. Who knows.

Besides, it would be the only way to get rid of the stench of rotting sulfur....

[0rganism]

13. Completely agree, been saying that for a while - it's repulsive in every way and it has to stay

Should we be so lucky as to have a second chance, it's a perfect setting for the tribunals of the cabal, after which it becomes a museum to what Americans must never do ever again. That'd be the way to do it. Every president gets a "library", let that horrible edifice stand as the sarcophagus of F47's legacy.

If it's even built well enough to last a decade safely without excessive upkeep.

[oldmanlynn]

14. Yeah, with some exhibits of the January 6 insurrection

I’m sure we’ll have to boss down the Trump statue that he builds in the middle of the hall

[Mountain Mule]

15. Turn it into a mausoleum!

Is he dead yet?

Dammit!

[tinrobot]

16. It will always be associated with him. It has to be demolished.

Just like we had to dump the body of Bin Laden into the sea rather than give him a grave that his followers could visit, this atrocity of a building also needs to be buried at sea.

Get rid of it.

[rubbersole]

19. You'd have to make an adult only section...

...for the Epstine/"Melania modeling" history.

[pioche4]

21. Should be wiped off the White House Campus

Redo the Rose Garden

Do something non Trump related…maybe a large scale monument of the Constitution, with a reflecting pool for people to be able to hold space for all the social trauma, the millions of lives that have been affected, a space of quietude, because this era has utterly lacked that

[hlthe2b]

22. Maybe but I can't bear the plans to diminish the White House by this gargatuan monstrosity.

It will be so damned repulsive; my fantasies go more toward an implosive event on camera.

[Ocelot II]

27. Controlled demolition. I watched one of those once, it was spectacular.

And it would be so satisfying to blow that architectural tumor to bits.

[LPBBEAR]

23. Bulldoze it down completely...

and restore the area to its original state.

Also, when Trump gets around to pasting his ugly mug on US currency and stamps return them all to a burn pit and burn it all.

Erase every trace of this prick from existence.

[WiVoter]

25. I Agree

[Paladin]

31. Agree with you, 100%.

Obliterate it completely, at the earliest possible opportunity. Whatever the tear-down costs are, it will be worth it---to avoid centuries of use, and referrals to, a shameful trump edifice.

[Johonny]

24. Its by a gate and making free hospital clinics there

Given the access, space, and symbolism feels appropriate.

Also, changing the name to Ballroom of America is a must.

[the_liberal_grandpa]

26. No Way! Are there museums in Germany dedicated to Hitler?

I don't know of any museums dedicated to Hitler in Germany or Mussolini in Italy.

EVERYTHING related to the orange anus needs to go and I would include Mar-a-Lago.
Let's wipe that off the face of the earth.

[BannonsLiver]

28. Not to Hitler specifically but there is a museum in Nuremberg that chronicles the rise of National Socialism

I’ve been twice. Some of the Third Reich buildings are still in use today. But I take your point. The ballroom should be destroyed. Problem is our right wing media would turn it into a scandal for whoever that new Democratic president is, while continuing to ignore or sane wash the Trump atrocities.

“Why is President (fill in the blank) wasting taxpayer money demolishing a perfectly good building? Is it petty revenge against Trump?”

That would be the tone. Of course, I say do it anyway and fuck the both sides scumbags in our national political media.

[Ocelot II]

29. Germany has many museums relating to WWII.

One in particular, the German Resistance Memorial Center, commemorates the members of the German Army who tried to assassinate Hitler in 1944, and is also a memorial to the German resistance in general. Germany doesn't want to forget the Nazi years, and we don't dare forget the Trump years. I like the idea of razing the thing, but I also like the idea of making it into a museum of Trump atrocities and what we did to stop them - our own resistance museum. Erasing Trump's name and evidence of his presidency won't erase the factors that gave him power, which is why we have to remember him. We have a Holocaust museum and the Legacy Museum re: slavery; we need to memorialize the bad things in our history so they don't happen again.

[MineralMan]

30. Shelter for the Unhoused, complete with medical facility.

Let homeless people use the gilded toilets and space. Make it a showcase for how America handles homelessness.

Also, require everyone entering the White House to enter through the homeless shelter.

[orangecrush]

32. Hold the trials there

[democratsruletheday]

33. it's a virtually perfect idea...BUT

I was thinking to make it a homeless shelter. That would drive the Maga(t)s right over the edge!

[UTUSN]

34. K&R

[Blue Full Moon]

35. It has to be removed.

Everything with his name and or likeness needs to go. Rebuild the east wing.

[Tommy Carcetti]

37. The Ukrainians did it best.

They turned the former home of their corrupt former president Viktor Yanukovych into a “Museum of Corruption.”

[jmowreader]

39. We can do that just as easily at Mar-a-Lago.

[jmowreader]

38. Use baseball as an example of what to do with it

The ballroom is an abomination unto man, and it can't be allowed to stand - especially since Fat Fuck plans to name it after himself. The ideal thing to do would be to rent the same excavator they used to tear down the East Wing and let Army Engineers who didn't get paid for a few months thanks to Trump's shutdown tear it down.

In Major League Baseball, when a new stadium is built and the old one torn down, they like to put a marker where either home plate or where all the bases in the old stadium were. Rate Field in Chicago has a home plate memorial with the foul lines extending from it. Citi Field in New York has plaques at each base. What I'm thinking is after we rebuild the East Wing, getting the money for it by liquidating Trump's assets as part of his sentence, we put a bronze plaque in the ground at each corner of the ballroom.