If the Oval is any predictor, the ballroom is going to be hideous. Where did they find all of that bolt-on gold or those "chalice" things on the ledge behind them? To say it looks like Liberace threw up in there is an insult, obviously, to Liberace. (Who was an entertainer, of course . . . which actually is what Trump is, too. . .)
The ballroom will be named after Trump in the same way that palaces, castles, and great homes in Europe are named after monarchs or other nobles. And you know what--if you have a fucking monarchy (or even if *had* one) . . . that's fine! Good for the Europeans. We fought a war to get away from that. (I guess "we" lost in the long run . . .)
Keep in mind, almost any one of the European nations--to include those which still have monarchies--comprising NATO which the Secretary General Marc Rutte (in the above photo) represents . . . are more open & free than American is today. With the exception of Hungary and maybe one other that has backslid . . . we're the ugly duckling now.
Actually . . . in all seriousness, "we" are not. "We" were represented by the *7 million* people who carried the tradition of 1776 at the No Kings rally. Donald Trump & his administration are not synonymous with the country. Even in the first Trump term, it still made sense to talk of the US on the foreign stage as "we" or "us." The State & Defense departments, after all, were still staffed by thousands of professionals and run by normies at the top. All of that is gone. So I have to catch myself when I talk about what "we" are doing vis-a-vis Ukraine, for example.
And back home, it is also a case of Trump's regime / criminal enterprise at work, not a legitimate government that I might happen to disagree with on policy. He was elected freely, of course. But a government can lose its moral legitimacy even if it retains its legal status. Did Trump's *ever* have any "moral legitimacy," now that I think of it? Maybe for mid-day on Jan 26th and gone by the evening?
What would someone really interested in America's interests, Europe's interests, Ukraine's interests and even Russians' interests do? Whatever, definitely not what Trump has been doing. This loser, who said he would sort it in 24 hours, is playing some grand game with himself, and keeping the world guessing while he's doing it. He could still, while appearing to get tough, be Putin's poodle, just not wanting to look like his is. All the play acting from day one can still be seen as handing Ukraine to Russia and worse, so as to be able to say, "Oh, I tried!" as the jackboots rampage. Lives are being lost and when not, shattered, infrastructure destroyed so Trump can not look like what he actually is, with a result that is already clear in his mind, The sanctions will soon enough be revealed as not especially mean. That's my generous interpretation!
Someone should start a boycott campaign of all these corporations that are funding tearing down the people's house!! I am cancelling my t-Mobile plan this weekend!
Every day Trump seems to move deeper into his dementia, becoming like a young child doing what he wants without any understanding of ramifications and repercussions. He's like a 5-year old with a new erector set as he destroys one wing of the People's House to build a massive structure which will be a vulgar addition to a historical building. The oval office has become a garish display which would fascinate pre-schoolers, but causes mature adults to wince. The bombing of boats from other countries without warning, proof, or process is like a toddler in his bath ramming toy boats and rubber duckies together in a feast of violent confrontation. When oh when will the American people understand what they now have as president and begin to ask what can be done to save us all from this old, demented man?
It disturbs me greatly that law-respecting writers are expressing the 2025 and Trump’s goals as « faits accomplis. ». Where is the résolve to do everything possible to STOP it? C’mon, patriots, don’t throw in the towel.
So now we are going to have a dismantled White House and a gold plated theme park instead of the seat of the government of the United States of America.
How is it that Trump (yes, I understand that HE has immunity) gives daily orders to break the law (not to mention breaking the Constitution0 and it all just happens? How the hell do you trundle a hydraulic excavator (20-30 tons of machine) onto the grounds of the White House and start tearing the building apart and nobody stops the process? How do you order people - whose names you don't even know - to be killed by the US military and no one says a word? How do you skim the US Treasury for $230 million and no one says "what the hell?" Can we dream of a day when the people who actually did all of this stuff get the Nuremburg Trials treatment, like the people who carried out these travesties in Germany did or are we just condemned to asking ourselves "do you remember when there was a process to everything and someone would say, but what will the people think?"
"If Donald Trump actually decides to pursue his hilariously unethical plan to extract $230 million from the Department of Justice..." Let's not forget that the money would be coming from taxpayers, for whom Trump and Republicans complain that we can't afford the ACA subsidies, had to cut Medicaid and SNAP for tax cuts to the wealthy, and can afford to give Argentina $40B to buy up pesos. In MO, approximately 650,000 people will lose SNAP benefits beginning Nov. 1 but all we hear from our Republican legislature and Congressional members is crickets.
FFOTUS puts on a show of trying to deal with Putin because he has no other choice. I think the reality is he doesn't give a hoot about Ukraine. Perhaps some day we will learn what Putin has on him.
One of the saddest outcomes will be if Vlad has no pee pee tapes or many laundering scandal evidence. T***p just did it for free so he could grovel at a" real man's "feet.
I understand there is a call out for an artist with the skill set of Jacques-Louis David:
"Painter wanted who can re-recreate the famous scene *The Coronation of Napolean* but with the soon-to-be crowned Emperor of the United States, Donald 'His Majesty' Trump in place of Napolean.
Applications with a rendering of the scene are to be submitted to the White House Press Secretary, who will forward them to the First Lady for final decision.
The actual modeling session for this painting of the greatest historical significance will take place soon after the election of 2028 as part of the opening ceremonies of the new *Donald Trump Grand Ballroom* and the inauguration (i.e. "coronation") ball held there."
Insiders say that they will have no problem finding the appropriate substitutes for the figures in the original painting, except for Pope Pius VII, because the current Pope Leo XIV has already expressed his disapproval of the project.
>"Trump-worshiping streamers: Real America’s Voice, Mike Lindell’s Lindell TV, the Gateway Pundit, the Post Millennial, RedState, and Tim Pool’s TimCast."
You mean the Russia funded Tim Pool’s TimCast? That's gonna work out great for Putin, especially since Kegsbreath signaled to Russia that he's on their side when he wore a Russian flag necktie to the meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office.
That Rand Paul wasn't extended an invitation to Trump's lunch reception at the paved Rose Garden when every other Senate Republican was is all you need to know about the GOP politicians and their insatiable need to be in the room where it happens as Will Saletan pointed out about Lindsey Graham in 2023. Paul is ostracized. Few humans can tolerate that - another one of Trump's great insights about people in power and what they'll do to keep it. They're just like him.
If the Oval is any predictor, the ballroom is going to be hideous. Where did they find all of that bolt-on gold or those "chalice" things on the ledge behind them? To say it looks like Liberace threw up in there is an insult, obviously, to Liberace. (Who was an entertainer, of course . . . which actually is what Trump is, too. . .)
The ballroom will be named after Trump in the same way that palaces, castles, and great homes in Europe are named after monarchs or other nobles. And you know what--if you have a fucking monarchy (or even if *had* one) . . . that's fine! Good for the Europeans. We fought a war to get away from that. (I guess "we" lost in the long run . . .)
Keep in mind, almost any one of the European nations--to include those which still have monarchies--comprising NATO which the Secretary General Marc Rutte (in the above photo) represents . . . are more open & free than American is today. With the exception of Hungary and maybe one other that has backslid . . . we're the ugly duckling now.
Actually . . . in all seriousness, "we" are not. "We" were represented by the *7 million* people who carried the tradition of 1776 at the No Kings rally. Donald Trump & his administration are not synonymous with the country. Even in the first Trump term, it still made sense to talk of the US on the foreign stage as "we" or "us." The State & Defense departments, after all, were still staffed by thousands of professionals and run by normies at the top. All of that is gone. So I have to catch myself when I talk about what "we" are doing vis-a-vis Ukraine, for example.
And back home, it is also a case of Trump's regime / criminal enterprise at work, not a legitimate government that I might happen to disagree with on policy. He was elected freely, of course. But a government can lose its moral legitimacy even if it retains its legal status. Did Trump's *ever* have any "moral legitimacy," now that I think of it? Maybe for mid-day on Jan 26th and gone by the evening?
What would someone really interested in America's interests, Europe's interests, Ukraine's interests and even Russians' interests do? Whatever, definitely not what Trump has been doing. This loser, who said he would sort it in 24 hours, is playing some grand game with himself, and keeping the world guessing while he's doing it. He could still, while appearing to get tough, be Putin's poodle, just not wanting to look like his is. All the play acting from day one can still be seen as handing Ukraine to Russia and worse, so as to be able to say, "Oh, I tried!" as the jackboots rampage. Lives are being lost and when not, shattered, infrastructure destroyed so Trump can not look like what he actually is, with a result that is already clear in his mind, The sanctions will soon enough be revealed as not especially mean. That's my generous interpretation!
Trump's Ballroom will have one thing in common with Versailles: You will smell the excrement before you see it.
Someone should start a boycott campaign of all these corporations that are funding tearing down the people's house!! I am cancelling my t-Mobile plan this weekend!
Every day Trump seems to move deeper into his dementia, becoming like a young child doing what he wants without any understanding of ramifications and repercussions. He's like a 5-year old with a new erector set as he destroys one wing of the People's House to build a massive structure which will be a vulgar addition to a historical building. The oval office has become a garish display which would fascinate pre-schoolers, but causes mature adults to wince. The bombing of boats from other countries without warning, proof, or process is like a toddler in his bath ramming toy boats and rubber duckies together in a feast of violent confrontation. When oh when will the American people understand what they now have as president and begin to ask what can be done to save us all from this old, demented man?
That Lincoln quote is beautiful. It shows how much we have to lose. Money in politics is destroying our republic.
It disturbs me greatly that law-respecting writers are expressing the 2025 and Trump’s goals as « faits accomplis. ». Where is the résolve to do everything possible to STOP it? C’mon, patriots, don’t throw in the towel.
So now we are going to have a dismantled White House and a gold plated theme park instead of the seat of the government of the United States of America.
Trump’s latest real-estate development has Bon Scott running through my head:
“Well, I'm upper, upper-class, high-society
God's gift to ballroom notoriety
And I always fill my ballroom, the event is never small
The social pages say I've got the biggest balls of all”
— AC/DC, “Big Balls,” 1976
How is it that Trump (yes, I understand that HE has immunity) gives daily orders to break the law (not to mention breaking the Constitution0 and it all just happens? How the hell do you trundle a hydraulic excavator (20-30 tons of machine) onto the grounds of the White House and start tearing the building apart and nobody stops the process? How do you order people - whose names you don't even know - to be killed by the US military and no one says a word? How do you skim the US Treasury for $230 million and no one says "what the hell?" Can we dream of a day when the people who actually did all of this stuff get the Nuremburg Trials treatment, like the people who carried out these travesties in Germany did or are we just condemned to asking ourselves "do you remember when there was a process to everything and someone would say, but what will the people think?"
"If Donald Trump actually decides to pursue his hilariously unethical plan to extract $230 million from the Department of Justice..." Let's not forget that the money would be coming from taxpayers, for whom Trump and Republicans complain that we can't afford the ACA subsidies, had to cut Medicaid and SNAP for tax cuts to the wealthy, and can afford to give Argentina $40B to buy up pesos. In MO, approximately 650,000 people will lose SNAP benefits beginning Nov. 1 but all we hear from our Republican legislature and Congressional members is crickets.
FFOTUS puts on a show of trying to deal with Putin because he has no other choice. I think the reality is he doesn't give a hoot about Ukraine. Perhaps some day we will learn what Putin has on him.
One of the saddest outcomes will be if Vlad has no pee pee tapes or many laundering scandal evidence. T***p just did it for free so he could grovel at a" real man's "feet.
I understand there is a call out for an artist with the skill set of Jacques-Louis David:
"Painter wanted who can re-recreate the famous scene *The Coronation of Napolean* but with the soon-to-be crowned Emperor of the United States, Donald 'His Majesty' Trump in place of Napolean.
Applications with a rendering of the scene are to be submitted to the White House Press Secretary, who will forward them to the First Lady for final decision.
The actual modeling session for this painting of the greatest historical significance will take place soon after the election of 2028 as part of the opening ceremonies of the new *Donald Trump Grand Ballroom* and the inauguration (i.e. "coronation") ball held there."
Insiders say that they will have no problem finding the appropriate substitutes for the figures in the original painting, except for Pope Pius VII, because the current Pope Leo XIV has already expressed his disapproval of the project.
"Our house is a very, very, very fine house. With two cats in the yard" ... But they're eating the cats and the dogs!
Those cats are the hours d'ouevers for the banquets in the ballroom .
sorry auto correct keeps m making to hours instead of hors ..
>"Trump-worshiping streamers: Real America’s Voice, Mike Lindell’s Lindell TV, the Gateway Pundit, the Post Millennial, RedState, and Tim Pool’s TimCast."
You mean the Russia funded Tim Pool’s TimCast? That's gonna work out great for Putin, especially since Kegsbreath signaled to Russia that he's on their side when he wore a Russian flag necktie to the meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/team-trump-responds-hegseth-tie-151600042.html
That Rand Paul wasn't extended an invitation to Trump's lunch reception at the paved Rose Garden when every other Senate Republican was is all you need to know about the GOP politicians and their insatiable need to be in the room where it happens as Will Saletan pointed out about Lindsey Graham in 2023. Paul is ostracized. Few humans can tolerate that - another one of Trump's great insights about people in power and what they'll do to keep it. They're just like him.