Stalin
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for once, the malignant narcissus is on the money...your money
the fuhrer bunker proceeds apace...
Shouting over the banging and clanging sounds from heavy construction equipment, Donald Trump on Tuesday gave a group of reporters a closer look at the construction for the White House ballroom he’s building on the site of the former East Wing to mount a defense of the project that has hit a speed bump in Congress.
The administration has asked for $1bn from taxpayers for security additions on the White House campus, including for the ballroom. But the Senate parliamentarian ruled the proposal could not be included in a bill to fund immigrant enforcement agencies for three years, and several Republican lawmakers have balked at the price tag in an election year where voters are grappling with gasoline, grocery and other prices spurred to new heights by the Iran war and the disruption in oil supplies.
So Trump surprised White House reporters by bringing them to a platform overlooking the construction site on a hot and breezy morning as workers in hard hats and fluorescent yellow vests milled below.
Easels had been set up to display renderings of the ballroom building and at least one of them blew off in the wind. “Give that to me, I’ll hold it,” Trump told an assistant.
“There will never be another building like this built, that I can tell you,” Trump told reporters.
He highlighted the security aspects of the building, notably its “dead flat” roof made of “very strong steel” and said it would be “drone-proof” because “if a drone hits it, it bounces off, it won’t have any impact – but it’s also meant as a drone port, so it protects all of Washington, the roof of the building”.
He said the military would “stay on it” to keep watch over the city.
There would be no air conditioning or other equipment on the roof for safety reasons, Trump said, explaining that all duct work and equipment like it would be hidden within the walls of the complex, which would serve as a “shield” for a military hospital, research facilities, offices for the first lady and her staff, and a full-service kitchen – in addition to a ballroom big enough for 1,000 people.
www.theguardian.com
any comparison with any number of paranoid dictators is totally valid
comrade stalin
moscow
the fuhrer bunker proceeds apace...
Shouting over the banging and clanging sounds from heavy construction equipment, Donald Trump on Tuesday gave a group of reporters a closer look at the construction for the White House ballroom he’s building on the site of the former East Wing to mount a defense of the project that has hit a speed bump in Congress.
The administration has asked for $1bn from taxpayers for security additions on the White House campus, including for the ballroom. But the Senate parliamentarian ruled the proposal could not be included in a bill to fund immigrant enforcement agencies for three years, and several Republican lawmakers have balked at the price tag in an election year where voters are grappling with gasoline, grocery and other prices spurred to new heights by the Iran war and the disruption in oil supplies.
So Trump surprised White House reporters by bringing them to a platform overlooking the construction site on a hot and breezy morning as workers in hard hats and fluorescent yellow vests milled below.
Easels had been set up to display renderings of the ballroom building and at least one of them blew off in the wind. “Give that to me, I’ll hold it,” Trump told an assistant.
“There will never be another building like this built, that I can tell you,” Trump told reporters.
He highlighted the security aspects of the building, notably its “dead flat” roof made of “very strong steel” and said it would be “drone-proof” because “if a drone hits it, it bounces off, it won’t have any impact – but it’s also meant as a drone port, so it protects all of Washington, the roof of the building”.
He said the military would “stay on it” to keep watch over the city.
There would be no air conditioning or other equipment on the roof for safety reasons, Trump said, explaining that all duct work and equipment like it would be hidden within the walls of the complex, which would serve as a “shield” for a military hospital, research facilities, offices for the first lady and her staff, and a full-service kitchen – in addition to a ballroom big enough for 1,000 people.
Trump leads media tour of ballroom building site as Congress balks at $1bn price tag
President says $400m building costs to be funded by private donors, but has asked for taxpayers to cover security costs
any comparison with any number of paranoid dictators is totally valid
comrade stalin
moscow
