Administration now proposes to demolish both entire White House and Jefferson Memorial

[struggle4progress]

Leavitt Says Trump Can Destroy Entire White House if He Wants

Leavitt Says Trump Can Tear Down Jefferson Memorial if He Wants

White House press secretary says Trump can tear down anything he wants

[Fiendish Thingy]

1. Propose?

Not seeing a proposal in that reporting, just trolling.

[struggle4progress]

3. It's a bit late to believe the Administration's threats of desatruction

are just trolling

[Fiendish Thingy]

14. Do you seriously believe he will tear down the Jefferson memorial? Nt

[struggle4progress]

15. I didn't expect him to tear down the East Wing

but he's really a megalomaniac

[Fiendish Thingy]

17. That doesn't answer my question

Do you expect him to tear down the Jefferson memorial?

Take a stand.

[haele]

19. Yes. Especially if he wants to build guest cabanas the water

I'm pretty sure the Mall is going to become a golf course, also.
Just fence it all up, and charge admission to keep the hoi-polloi out.

[Fiendish Thingy]

20. That belief is not grounded in reality

Meanwhile actual evil atrocities are committed daily.

Dystopian fantasies distract from the important business of saving democracy.

[stopdiggin]

6. Correct. The briefing included no such proposal - making the header

egregiously misleading.

(what Leavitt kept asserting was presidential authority - whether or not that is a correct, or fully legally grounded, assertion. nonetheless, quite different from saying that they 'propose' or 'plan' to tear down .. )

[struggle4progress]

9. They told us they wouldn't tear down the East Wing, then said

they were only adjusting the facade -- before they tore it down without notice

So let's not be naive: if they're now saying they have the right to tear down the White House and Jefferson Memorial, that's exactly what they're planning to do

[stopdiggin]

13. and yet - the difference between asserting that somebody SAID something

and them NOT having said any such thing - remains substantive - and fairly important. (at least to some minds)

Neither the president nor the press secretary has 'proposed' tearing down the White House. Not what happened, and thus completely misleading to say so. Full stop.

[struggle4progress]

16. There's also a gap between somebody saying they WON"T do something

and then doing it

I see no reason to float tearing down the White House after tearing down part of it unless one planned to tear down the rest

[stopdiggin]

18. the JOURNALIST floated the idea !

NOT the press secretary ! Seriously, it helps to read the material.

As for the first part - regardless of the veracity (or lack thereof) of the presidents remarks, that does not provide excuse for erroneous material or statement put forth by posters on DU. Two wrongs - n' all that .. ?

[MerryBlooms]

12. Trolling is a stretch

How about siding on protection of Our House. The language used by this administration all along has been deceiving, or out right lies. I don't think the headline is what we should have issue with, it's this damn administration that is shoveling absolute horrific garbage downhill on us, 24 7. It's not one or two things, it's constant.
Find a better hill to die on, instead of a headline that pissed you off. Eh?

[Skittles]

2. I cannot listen to that Trump humping POS Leavitt

[redwitch]

5. I don't think I could be near her without giving her a slap in her smirking face

Despicable woman.

[Matthew28]

4. Yet his

Idiotic base will continue to vote the same! These fuckers are traitors and hate everything about this country.

[Cha]

7. Are the Neo Nazis Still Denying being

Nazis?

[BBbats]

8. Well.....What The Hell!

They're letting him tear down our government with no pushback.

[IcyPeas]

10. "Destroy" ?

Note: nowhere in the actual article does Leavitt use the word "destroy"

Yes, that's what he's doing.... but she never says it.

[Irish_Dem]

11. This is what they think about our country.

They value none of our history or principles.
They can destroy anything important to the American people.

And no one can stop them.

[MurrayDelph]

21. I don't know landlord/tenant law in DC

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but in most places, if a tenant destroys the landlord's property, or makes changes without approval, he is responsible for the cost of restoration.

We need to get the costs of repairs taken out of Trump (or his estate).

I'd say we should make the demolition company tear down the Epstein Ballroom gratis for restitution of performing non-permitted work, but they'll probably be out of business by Christmas.

[maxrandb]

22. Mark my fucking words

Donnie Dipshit's plan is to make the White House inhabitable so he has an excuse to move WH operations to Mar-a-Lago.