• LangleyDominos [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    40·
    7 days ago

    The East Wing was built in 1948. Trump was born in 1946. He can’t regard it as a historical place because that would mean he’s old. He also didn’t build it so he inherently doesn’t respect it and probably thinks it’s tacky. He definitely feels he can and will do better. Trump calculus says it has to go. Washington oversaw the first one being built, which didn’t have the balconies and porticoes. Adams changed it as soon as he moved in. It was burned down in 1814 except for the stone walls making up the original residence. They rebuilt it and almost every president since has changed or added something. It’s not some sacred historical site. It was created specifically to serve as the private residence for the President. It wasn’t created as a museum or monument to one period of time.

    It was inevitable that Trump did this. Nobody should be surprised. It’s not even a violation of decorum other than he’s doing it in an unceremonious way. He’s a real estate developer. He’s going to develop his real estate. It’s sad that they threw FDR/Truman’s doorknobs in the trash. It’s nice to keep old stuff around because there isn’t much of it left. Anything valuable will have gone to a donor in a nice farm upstate, I’m sure. These are the same people that were carrying out lamps and crates of curios when Trump left in 2021.

    Don’t worry libs, there are still plenty of places on the grounds where Presidents pooped while carrying out racial exterminations. Trump will keep the old slave quarters intact.

  • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    22·
    7 days ago

    global icon of democracy

    As long as your country is white, Western-aligned, and performs valuable services or exports valuable things to the US at a discount, probably. Not guaranteed though, see ‘Nordstream pipeline’ and ‘Canadian sanctions’.

    And if you’re not…

  • ChaosMaterialist [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    13·
    6 days ago

    From a little further down the article:

    Trump has instructed Johnson to keep the House in recess to avoid a vote on the discharge petition [for the budget], which would, in turn, force a floor vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

    Pedophiles protect pedophiles.

  • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    11·
    6 days ago

    Ok, I’m pulling my ‘old world’ (yuck) card here and stating for the record that even apart from being built by slaves and being the throne of the geopolitical devil, the White House is also just really tacky and shit looking. It looks like the kind of post-80s Essex golf course where all the members are the heirs to double-glazing window company fortunes (most of which were actually built on selling coke). It looks like it should have a Porsche Cayenne with an obnoxious Mansory Bodykit on it parked out front. Like a Barrett Homes new build for an aspirational-emporer who had an underground pool put in but doesn’t use it because heating is too expensive and he spends most of the year on the Costa Del Sol anyway. The kind of place where there’s two or three bits of old gym equipment forgotten in otherwise large, empty rooms because the owners don’t have enough interests to come up with ideas of what to do with them. Trump’s aesthetic is probably the most fitting the White House has ever had.