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As soon as trump ia gone that ballroom must be levelled, and then the east wing must be rebuilt exactly how it was.
Leave no visual evidence that that fat out every lived therr
I was thinking of turning into an anti-fascism memorial/museum. Leave the building there as a reminder of what we should be fighting against.
Nah set it on fire with napalm and leave the husk, then turn the rest of the Whitehouse into a museum. The president can live out of a crack house in Baltimore for all I care
Fuck that. How about Americans own up to the fact that Trump is a symptom of long-term problems and is actually quite representative of what the US stands for these days. Once America has decided to elect a government who isn't outright fascist, then it would make sense to turn this ballroom into a museum to expose this nastiness rather than sweeping it under the rug.
FWIW this is a common post-regime debate. Visit Berlin to see a number of creative solutions.
Indeed, here is a good essay on the topic of counterpreservation.
I mentioned this elsewhere, but even if we just remodel it later (for all it's gaudy "splendor"), the taxpayers are going to wind up paying for this boondongle twice. The fact that it's clearly a money-laundering-grift scheme is just salt in the wound at this point.
Un-doing all of this is the right thing to do, but it'll be seen as divisive and will ultimately cost more, making it politically problematic for anyone in office that cares about all that. You'd need another authoritarian to pull this off, and I'm not sure we want that.
The people need to seize and liquidate the entire Trump family's assets to pay for it.
Trump was worth like $6.3 billion last summer, now he's worth less than $1b. Just something fun to think about. Hard to make and lose that much imaginary money but he did it.
We'll be lucky if we only have to pay twice for all these asshole's Fuck Ups
Make the lobbyists and billionaires that donated the first time around fix it. If they don't pay up, we can eat them.
Don't care. Gone.
We should turn it into a homeless shelter.