Amid backlash over partial demolition of East Wing, White House reportedly intends to send blueprints

The White House has not submitted plans for Donald Trump’s new ballroom to the federal agency that oversees construction of federal buildings, though demolition is already under way.

On Tuesday, the White House told Reuters it intended to send plans to the National Capital Planning Commission, an agency that typically approves and monitors construction on federal buildings. Demolition began earlier this week, with reporters taking video of a backhoe ripping out chunks of the White House’s exterior.

The New York Times reported Wednesday, citing a senior administration official, that the ballroom plans will mean the demolition of the entire East Wing.

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    6 hours ago

    Can’t have the secret rooms and wiretap infrastructure documented.

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    I just want to know how the hell it’s supposed to cost $250 million. I searched for $250 million buildings and found a 25 storey tower, a SpaceX launch facility and the hangar that holds the entire fleet of Air Force One jets. A stupid ballroom should cost a few million tops.

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    This is the most egregious neighborhood building code violation ever.

    Busybody neighbors see obvious construction: “DO YOU HAVE A PERMIT FOR THAT??”

    Trump: Mind yer own business.

    Busybody neighbors: report it to municipal building code authorities

    Trump: I suddenly need the govt to pay me $230 million settlement for the litigious mud they’ve dragged me through over the years, and that $230 million will come from taxpayers.

    Methinks he owes the white house demolition crew $230 million, and you know how wealthy people refuse to ever pay for anything out of their own pocket.

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    At my house, I got very little ball room. But I just scratch them if I’m not comfortable.

    Anyway, I just sanded my whole car down with 80 grit sand paper. The house also looked like it needed it, so I sanded the garage. I’m going to go ask the dog what the plan is. My wife said the car could use a wash.

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    I guess there was no other place in DC to build a ball room. Maybe even a dedicated one.

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    14 hours ago

    Oh! I get it. He’s destroying the white house as a symbolic metaphor for him destroying America.

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    Rape now, apologise never.

    Except this time it’s a building he’s raping instead of children and women.

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    FSB, MSS, Mossad and other foreign spy agencies must love this.

    I wonder how good the security is.

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      Took me easy too long to realise that wasn’t an actual photo of the current state of the white house…

      From Zombieland/2?

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          I won’t hear a word against president camacho, guy was completely uneducated but actually pretty intelligent all things considered. Aknoweldged things were fucked but that he couldn’t fix them, created a national program to find someone who could and upon finding that person immediately put them in charge. Better leader than most in the western world right now.

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            The most unbelievable part of that entire film is that President Dwayne Elizondo Mountian Dew Herbert Camacho didnt take credit for solving the crisis at the end of the movie.

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          That increasingly sounds like it is the current state of the White House.

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    Sure seems like a distraction from the Epstein files.