It’s honestly be less mad about that.
A 25,000 sqft ballroom is opulence, a 25,000 sqft ball_ pit_ is an international attraction! In time it might also lead to the discovery of new life forms…
The Pennsylvania Ave. Ikea
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f314@lemmy.world 1 day ago
rem26_art@fedia.io 1 day ago
100% the next cause of a global pandemic is gonna evolve from that ballpit. The old Mcdonald's Play Place's were worrying enough
theneverfox@pawb.social 13 hours ago
Surely for $350 million you could design a ball cleaning system under the floor… Just capture them from one side, put them through a quick rinse and dry under UV, and then you can have a ball waterfall on the far side
saltesc@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s going to look tacky. You’ve seen what he’s done to the Oval Office. It’ll be $230M for that slap-dash look of awful design populated with gilded nonsense to try seem classy.
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I call it “dollar store-baroque,” that act of taking a piece of furniture, painting it white (or sometimes black) and sticking a bunch of golden trims and floral decorations on it. It’s what people with little money and less taste get/do when they want their place to look classy. So of course Trump is doing it to the White House.
FjordDan@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
It’s called “Dictator Chic”.
Tamo240@programming.dev 1 day ago
CNN called it ‘Temu Versailles’ the other day, seems very apt.
toynbee@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What did he do to the Oval Office? I’m not sure I could picture it before but I certainly haven’t seen it recently.
saltesc@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Vertelleus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I expect the White House to have its own McDonald’s after this.
Aqarius@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
…Niw that you say it, it’s kinda oddly fitting…
toynbee@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t think less of anyone for including an apostrophe in a possessive “its,” but I appreciate when someone doesn’t.
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 17 hours ago
He still isn’t allowed to build, just demolish. I assume he demolished first to force the hand of the build approvers.
theneverfox@pawb.social 13 hours ago
They don’t even have coherent plans yet… There’s stairways leading nowhere and windows facing walls
The point was the demolition, I’m not sure why but someone has been talking to Trump non-stop about the ballroom to do it
Maybe it’s some weird sexist thing, maybe it’s just because they hate America… But the demolition was the point here, someone wanted to get rid of the east wing
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 13 hours ago
He wants to build a big monument to himself, and they won’t let him be on Mt Rushmore.
So he’s going to build this enormous monument to himself and attach it to the most iconic, most photographed building in America, so that any future photo will have the Trump Ballroom looming over everything, and they will remember him.
That’s why I’m saying that IF (a big IF) we get out of this mess, the second thing the new president should do is order the destruction of that architectural atrocity, and rebuild the original East Wing, and make Trump pay quadruple out of his pocket for the whole thing.
I say it should be the second thing, because the first order should be to arrest Trump and all his henchmen, and send them to Gitmo for extensive interrogation, before they book it to the Argentina sanctuary he just bought that for them with taxpayer money.
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 12 hours ago
I think he just generally doesn’t want to acknowledge that he doesn’t have permission from someone.
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
They don’t even have coherent plans yet… There’s stairways leading nowhere and windows facing walls They got AI to design it? Who the fuck let Trump have access to AI?
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
They have concepts of plans.
MBech@feddit.dk 16 hours ago
Who’s gonna stop him if the building starts? Laws don’t matter, and never have for the rich.
magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
More like the one at dashcon…
carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
well, we know where we’re hosting Dashcon 3!
it’s convenient too, i was needing new shoelaces!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
you know, if they make it self cleaning and shit i could actually go for this
Lumidaub@feddit.org 1 day ago
I mean. Intriguing concept, ball pit the size of the WH east wing.
Btw, ball pits are Heaven for back problems.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Can I use HSA funds to build my ball pit?
Lumidaub@feddit.org 1 day ago
Definitely. That was part of the very initial vision and the pitch for the entire program, a ball pit in every household, for the medical benefit of all Americans. Just fill in the request form for permit A38 and let the tax guy down by the harbour do the rest.
🔴🔵🥎🧶🏀🎱
Ianal nor USian, had to look up what HSA even is, don’t believe a word from my mouth. Except for when I tell you how fantastic ball pits are for your back.
zexyqag@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Etterra@discuss.online 5 hours ago
Kindly don’t associate AC/DC with the Orange Jackass.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If only he could be fun like that.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
I got a ball room for ya, in my pants!
Etterra@discuss.online 5 hours ago
I can’t wait until it comes out that the contractors did a shit job, the gold is so spray paint, the contractors never got paid, Trump embezzled every possible cent, and the things is a decaying mess before the decade is out.