Possible fate of Trump's ballroom

[Segnosaur]

So, as everyone here probably knows, Trump tore down the east wing of the white house, with a plan to build a huge ballroom.

So far, what we have been told or have seen:
- Trump has claimed that the costs of building the ball room will be privately funded (by both himself and donations)
- The east wing has already been torn down

But, what we also know:
- Trump is incompetent when it comes to building things. Well, he's incompetent at pretty much EVERYTHING, but his skills as a "builder" are the most relevant here. (Witness the border wall in his first term, parts of which collapsed in the rain,)
- None of this has gone through any sort of open public review. We have artist sketches, but these are sometimes vague and contradictory
- People have already been lied to at least once, with the initial claim that the 'east wing would not be touched', but that was later demolished

So there are reasons to doubt the ability of Trump to finish the project as promised. The promised money could run out, there could be grifting involved, delay might pop up, etc. We could see the project finished (with or without additional government funding), or we could see the project ultimately scrapped and possibly replaced by something more... useful.

So how do people think the ballroom development will go?

 

[Flo]

All that Trump has ever done has been a big probe into Planet X (which is in fact a black hole)

 

[Steve]

So, as everyone here probably knows, Trump tore down the east wing of the white house, with a plan to build a huge ballroom.

So far, what we have been told or have seen:
- Trump has claimed that the costs of building the ball room will be privately funded (by both himself and donations)
- The east wing has already been torn down

But, what we also know:
- Trump is incompetent when it comes to building things. Well, he's incompetent at pretty much EVERYTHING, but his skills as a "builder" are the most relevant here. (Witness the border wall in his first term, parts of which collapsed in the rain,)
- None of this has gone through any sort of open public review. We have artist sketches, but these are sometimes vague and contradictory
- People have already been lied to at least once, with the initial claim that the 'east wing would not be touched', but that was later demolished

So there are reasons to doubt the ability of Trump to finish the project as promised. The promised money could run out, there could be grifting involved, delay might pop up, etc. We could see the project finished (with or without additional government funding), or we could see the project ultimately scrapped and possibly replaced by something more... useful.

So how do people think the ballroom development will go?

Need to get well past artist sketches and engage architects and engineers. Wonder how an actual design is coming along.

Curious if anyone here knows the building codes, permitting and building inspection processes in effect for this building.

Also wondering if professional designers and builders engaged for this project are realistically expecting to be paid in full for their work.

 

[Jack by the hedge]

Curious if anyone here knows the building codes, permitting and building inspection processes in effect for this building.

The magic sharpie fixes all problems. It scoffs at your regulations and drives all before it.

Also wondering if professional designers and builders engaged for this project are realistically expecting to be paid in full for their work.

Nobody ever gets paid. The only constant in Trump's crazy, turbulent world.

 

[Flo]

Need to get well past artist sketches and engage architects and engineers. Wonder how an actual design is coming along.

Curious if anyone here knows the building codes, permitting and building inspection processes in effect for this building.

Apparently nobody has better artistic taste and knows building better than Trump, so he's coded, permitted and inspected it already.

Also wondering if professional designers and builders engaged for this project are realistically expecting to be paid in full for their work.

There obviously are quite a lot of people who actually believe everything falling from his mouth, there must therefore be people who truly believe they're going to be paid …

 

[thaiboxerken]

Trump has no plan to have the ballroom completed. The project is just another way to grift money from the government and take bribes.

 

[Helen]

Ballroom blitz?

 

[Segnosaur]

Also wondering if professional designers and builders engaged for this project are realistically expecting to be paid in full for their work.

Well, there are 3 ways they can end up working "for free"...

- The company volunteers their time and effort, in an attempt to curry favor with Trump (I think they have a company that is donating the heating and ventilation system)
- Do the work expecting to get paid, but stiffed afterwards (the way Trump acted when he was a "real estate developer"
- Blackmail a company into providing work (like the way he supposedly got free legal work, by threatening certain law firms)

 

[LDE1976]

It'd be amusing if it appeared on a future episode of Abandoned Engineering. Extra points to the programme makers if the section describing its ignominious end is assigned to Canadian transsexual Lynette Nusbacher.

 

[P.J. Denyer]

Need to get well past artist sketches and engage architects and engineers. Wonder how an actual design is coming along.

Curious if anyone here knows the building codes, permitting and building inspection processes in effect for this building.

Also wondering if professional designers and builders engaged for this project are realistically expecting to be paid in full for their work.

He'll sign an Executive Order stating that 2x4's are perfectly acceptable in all load bearing applications. And if they're not quite 2x4, well, who's counting.

 

[P.J. Denyer]

Ballroom blitz?

And the man at the back said 'Everyone Attack' and it turned into a resignation matter at the BBC...

 

[Norman Alexander]

It's not about the ballroom at all. Underneath that site is the secure presidential bunker. It is that which he is getting refurbished with all the latest high-tech Coke dispensers and a MacDonald fry-station at great expense, not the surface construction which will be the usual Trumpian skin-deep bling.

 

[P.J. Denyer]

It's not about the ballroom at all. Underneath that site is the secure presidential bunker. It is that which he is getting refurbished with all the latest high-tech Coke dispensers and a MacDonald fry-station at great expense, not the surface construction which will be the usual Trumpian skin-deep bling.

"In the event of an attack on the capital, Agent Smith you're assigned to secure the President and get him to the bunker. Agent Roberts fetch the First.. Forget that, she won't be here.. get the VP. Agents Jones, Sanchez and McPherson, Blue light it to the nearest McDonalds and get all the staff. ALL the staff! At the last drill you missed the guy that salts the fries and POTUS was pissed as Hell. Actually, there's a note here in Sharpie, you can leave the guy that prepares the salad. That guy can burn."

 

[alfaniner]

As the diapers get thicker, there will be much less of it.

 

[azazal]

It'd be amusing if it appeared on a future episode of Abandoned Engineering. Extra points to the programme makers if the section describing its ignominious end is assigned to Canadian transsexual Lynette Nusbacher.

As a fan of Mysteries of the Abandoned and similar shows that feature Lynette, looking forward to seeing this future episode is what gives me hope.

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

All the costs willbe borne by the public purse. Every single penny of provate funding will be siphoned off by TACO's minions before he remembers to grab his piece of the pie.

 

[Ranb]

I think the exterior of the ballroom will be completed sometime in 2026. Then the interior will require more funds than are being privately donated. But who knows?

Taxpayers will pay plenty over the years for Trump's massive ballroom, experts say - Roll Call

President Trump says his new ballroom will be privately funded, but White House observers say taxpayers will pay plenty.

rollcall.com

 

[Regnad Kcin]

I assume the construction will secretly include rebar coated with nano-thermite and embedded miniature explosive charges to be detonated such that it collapses in its own footprint at greater-than-freefall speed by tragic accident when, during a state dinner in the ballroom, a waiter asks Don Jr. for his order and he replies, “Pullet.”

 

[Orphia Nay]

It'll be made of the cheapest concrete slabs you can find, much like a Walmart.

 

[Norman Alexander]

It'll be made of the cheapest concrete slabs you can find, much like a Walmart.

Drywall.