He also doesn’t have to murder Venezuelan fishers, shoot/kidnap/torture Americans and our guests, rob the poor and deprive them of medical care and food to pay his wealthy loyalists, or rape children.
He does it because he wants to.
I hope the next President makes two changes to the WH:
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Restore the previous incarnation of the East Wing, but with a plaque listing all the people and companies that supposedly paid for it, labeled “In remembrance of these individuals that bribed the President.”
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Leave the paved-over Rose Garden, and rename it to the Donald J. Trump Memorial Concrete Slab.
I’m with you on 1.
But can’t on 2.
Everything he did to the White House needs to be reversed.
Then also to the rest of the country.Plus eradicate his name from everything. Remove “Trump” from any building his family owns. Redact his names from donations and fundraisers, anonymize them. Basically remove him from history. Undo anything he did and make sure people cannot even know something was undone.
I want people to remember he was in the Epstein files… so leave that aspect of his legacy intact.
leave his name on the public toilet that his grave will become at least
The US could pay off the national debt by charging admission to use that toilet!
Mr Bones Wild Toilet
That’s definitely an E ticket!
I want to get off Mr Bones Wild Toilet
I’d like to do more than reverse what he did. I’d like to reverse up to Reagan
we could probably lift the slab and put it someplace. like his library, maybe. Or one of his golf courses.
THAT’S A GREAT IDEA!
I’ll get it for my museum of all Rumps failures. It’s something I’ve been dreaming of. Exhibits covering all his horrendus and failed buisness. From casinos and condos to steaks and sneakers.Great idea for his library. Since you know… he won’t put books in it.
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So, quick question: what exactly does he need a ballroom for? It’s not like he’s any good at dancing, even though he is somewhat famous for his double-handed cock milker move.
What’s more, he doesn’t have any balls, either. Certainly not the kind that would require a dedicated room.
I really don’t get these brain farts of his. But hey, I’m not the one with syphilis-induced dementia here.
God, I can’t wait until you guys finally muster the courage to oust this wannabe dictator and his clique.
His entire life has been based around his perception of what people above him think of him. That’s why he plastered the oval office with garish gold leaf everywhere. He thinks it will impress people like putin and erdoğan and kim . Even more so because he’s showing that he has the power to spend lavishly on stuff the country doesn’t want or need because that’s what dictators do.
That’s what this is for
You missed another thing he loves doing. He smashed an historical building in the early '70s in NYC during the starting of his “real estate” career. He smashed an historical building while other people were offering to pay to have the historical artifacts properly recovered. His excuse at the time? “It would have been too expensive.” Meanwhile he knew it would have been free to him, it just would have taken 6-8 months later for him to break ground.
He’s continued desecrating any historical site he can get his hands on, to this day.
He gets off on destroying historical monuments.
Not even that long. According to “John Baron”, it was 2 weeks.
Trump surprised New York’s art community on June 5, 1980 when a demolition crew jackhammered the sculptures off of the building. In addition, the intricate grillwork was removed. The destruction drew a public outcry. The Met received no advance notice.
Trump initially avoided any comment about the Bonwit Teller artwork. But John Baron, a spokesperson with the Trump Organization, contacted the New York Daily News to discuss the situation. Baron informed the Daily News that “the merit of the stones was not great enough to justify the effort to save them.” Baron stated that the removal process could have set back Trump Tower’s construction timeline by two weeks. Baron also told the New York Times that he had no idea what happened to the ornate grillwork.
Because the Kremlin has one.
Because it is not so much a ball room as it is a throne room. He wants a giant hall where he can preside at a throne in the end, where people who wants to see him has to walk through the entire thing feeling humbled, just like his dictator pals does it.
What heads of state sit on a throne in a big room where petitioners walk across to address them in 2025?
Ones in fantasy novels
Man… Seriously! Fuck this guy. I hope when the Epstein files finally get released he fucking burns
He led an insurrection on live TV, got away with it, and got reelected. Nothing is going to happen until the propaganda machine is torn down; or, more likely, the whole system just caves in on itself under the weight of its own greed and mismanagement.
I’d say the evangelical base won’t appreciate sex with teens but… given their track record they’ll probably say well actually sex with teens is just a-ok with us now
Christians are decrying Jesus Christ as “too woke” now. All bets are off
At that point you can’t even call yourself a Christian
And yet they will continue to do so
I dunno… I think there’s a timeline where he winds up like Il Duche
He wanted to make distracting headlines, and he got them.
“Distracting headlines” as a canard gets a bit old. Everything is a distraction from everything else, because we have a heavily monopolized mass media and a shrinking pool of investigative journalists with any kind of budget.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_of_newspapers#United_States
When you had twice as many newspapers and half as many people, the idea of “distracting headlines” was more a matter of consumer choice (you could read serious news at the New York Times or junk pop-media at the New York Post). Now media functions as a cartel, with papers all echoing one another on topics of the day. Or deliberately remaining silent on embarrassments the business community owners would rather not talk about.
This isn’t a “Trump” problem, though. Its a problem of consolidation and privatization on a national scale.
Well, look at lemmy anytime someone posts a link that requires you to pay for the journalism. Pitchforks and torches. People don’t want to pay for quality journalism, do they get whatever billionaires want to feed them.
Well, look at lemmy anytime someone posts a link that requires you to pay for the journalism. Pitchforks and torches.
People don’t want to pay for something they don’t think is quality.
It’s not like these companies would clean up their act if they got another viable revenue stream. We can see that because when companies do, they regularly just keep the extra cash.
What you’d need is a boot strapped organization that actually had standards people cared about and didn’t bend. Its an impossibly hard situation, yes, but that does not make your snark prescient or clever. More than that, it doesnt at all back up your conclusion that people don’t want to pay for quality journalism. It just doesnt exist, because it gets bought out by billionaires.
It was bought by billionaires after people stopped paying.
it was already owned by billionaires when people were still paying
If you want to think so to make yourself feel better…
anytime someone posts a link that requires you to pay for the journalism
People subscribing to random newspapers via links on Lemmy would not be a sustainable model for funding local journalism. And - historically - plenty of people did subscribe to local outlets. Plenty still do. Hell, go on Patreon or Substack and see how well the nascent podcast journalism marketplace is doing.
What changed over the last 40 years was a wave of M&As targeting smaller papers to consolidate the news markets. Case in point, my own city of Houston had half a dozen different newspapers chugging along just fine for decades. But because they were small, they were also very cheap. Loose monetary policy in the 90s made buying up papers very cheap. So the Houston Chronicle went around town buying the smaller papers and shutting them down. Now its the only major newspaper of record remaining.
“Well, people on Lemmy should have paid for more subscriptions to the Houston Post” is a fucking asinine statement, given that their stated reason for failure was cost of newsprint rising in the early 90s and they stopped existing before most of the people on this site were even born.
I don’t thing the likes of wsj, nyt or similar are “random newspapers”, and they still get hate for asking for money. Bezos finds that useful.
The NYT is what billionaires want to tell me, and if they expect me to pay for the privilege they’re out of their minds. Oughta be paying me to read that trash.
If you were talking about actually independent sources providing other perspectives then you might have a point.
I’m talking about all sources, the average lemmy user doesn’t distinguish nuance, they complain about all paywalls. And billionaires take advantage of that and obviously buy the papers with the widest reach first, but with time they’ll reach everywhere.
I’m talking about all sources
Yet the only ones you listed are the billionaire backed ones. Curious.
Almost as if your argument is in bad faith because you yourself don’t have any great examples of the sort of thing people would want to support that are also news outlets with reporters, and so you are forced to use bad examples.
Ill give you an example though, just like the other person pointed out, there are smaller sources popping up everywhere. Even youtube journalism such as HowTown are pockets of not yet corporate information sources that people are fine with supporting.
heres the secret reason in my theory: the east wing is where Trump gave a bj to Bill Clinton. ok who has the guest logs on when they were both present?
Great, let’s tear down a well-preserved historic building in pristine condition for no absolute reason at all!
But God help you if you want to remove a statue honoring a Confederate general
Might as well go back to the 1812 method of renovating at this point.
Probably less insulting to the concept of the USA than whatever the fuck this is.I think the next president should tear down and start from scratch. Eho nlknows what kind of bugs that traitor has let his foreign ‘pals’ put wherever.
The east wing was built in like 1902. It’s historic but it’s not super duper old and was rebuilt in the 40s to hide a bunker under it.
Still is historic and well-preserved.
Aside from 80 years of constant renovation sure.
ngl I don’t care about some old building but kind of want a society where thats the biggest problem
This applies to everything he has ever done
The right and Trump’s own base really didn’t like him doing this. This will do as much if not more harm to him from his own side than the goddamn Epstein files.
I thought this was obvious from the start.
I hope the non-union contractors does not receive a single cent and files a lawsuit against the Orange Moron they voted for.
Rumors says they are working into a shelter under it. I am not sure if true or not
