A convicted felon is literally destroying the White House. And half this country approves.
Yeah, but didja see how he owned the libz? I might not have clean air, clean water, health care, food, shelter, or a job with dignity, but I get to fly some Chinese junk with Taco’s name on it!
Well, their SNAP and Medicaid haven’t been cut yet.
They know they’ll be an emergency. They will want command and control at that point.
Mr. Trump had pledged that the East Wing would not be touched by the construction
And he lied. Again.
New Yorkers know he has done shit like this before
Good photo.
The symbolism of this is astonishingly perfect.
IMO, nowhere near the top 100 shittiest things he’s done (like, this act of vandalism is a way smaller crime than the murders we’ve been doing to people on boats in the Caribbean), but it is shitty (I know most of our presidents have sucked and the white house was built by slave labor, but tearing it down isn’t going to undo any of that, it’s just going to make history harder to understand for people in the future)
Not disagreeing with the sentiment in general, but the East Wing that’s being “renovated” was built in 1902 so no chattel slavery there.
they probably watched this music video and took the white house in the background literally
My house was built in 1902 overlooking our state capitol which was also under construction. Prison labor was used to dig the foundations, there was already a prison on that site. Guess what color everyone in that prison was.
Also in the 1910s my great grandmother had a black girl her own age who dressed her, cooked for her, etc but didn’t go to school. My great grandmother said they were “like sisters.” I’m like, damn grandma, you had yourself a functional slave.
Changes course? I bet this asshole planned on doing this the whole time. Wasn’t this stupid ballroom not even supposed to actually touch the WH originally?
As a Canadian, I’m very disappointed. That was our job.
It’s about Hitler having a better bunker/operations center this time:
The East Wing was built on top of the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, a secure emergency underground shelter for the president.
Ah. That makes a bit more sense.
Should just keep going and tear the whole thing down. Don’t think we need it anymore.
I would not trust it, after his handlers passage, the place will be more bugged than an ant hill.
Of course he would but the company and workers doing the work should also not escape blame.
just demolish the whole thing at this point.
How long before our friends in Europe suit up, like we did nearly 100 years ago, land on our shores and help us eradicate the world of Nazis once and for all?
We never should have let that symbol or acting like one be nothing short of a lengthy prison term or worse after we declared Victory.
Nukes. Europe will never liberate us. We have nukes. And drone strikes. Raiding the shore of the USA would be an act of war, and the response to a nation-ending threat like that fr a nation with nukes is Mutually Assured Destruction.
I’ll also note that the whole world right now is trending towards Fascism; So support for a War with the USA is unlikely. Wars always suck; and there’s a good portion of every European nation who would want the USA to win, who could leverage the impact of war to breed discontent.
Well, the people in charge of maintaining the nukes are all furloughed indefinitely so pretty soon the nuclear threat of the USA will be similar to that of Russia.
You spent the last 30 or so years alienating your European “friends”
Don’t exaggerate it hasn’t been that long. Imagine if we had felt this indifference in the 1940’s. No, our friends in Europe know that this is their problem, too, both abroad and at home.
30 years ago it was the mid-1990s- you were very much starting to to burn bridges with international allies by that point, and we told you so.
“Their problem too”? No- it’s your problem that you’ve foisted on the rest of us by not fucking listening for decades.
Shit, I bit the apple! As in, my first thought was, “haha, funny headline, The Onion!”
You’d think they’d need congressional approval and like a long time of back and forth of people agreeing on stuff.
Nah. Trump treats it like his own house.
