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by mesk 258 days ago
Yeah, it looks like when everything is now hyper effective and all unnecessary spending was already cut, thanks to DOGE and BBB, there is no problem spending few millions on Shuttle moves, Ball rooms etc... /s

btw. Where is DOGE now ? Was it self-optimized to 0 employees now - like when there is no cost cutting needed anymore - than cost cutting agency is the most ineffective part of the government ;-)
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theultdev 258 days ago
Ball room is privately funded btw.
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ceejayoz 258 days ago
Privately extorted funding, that is.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/youtube-agrees-pay-245-milli...

> YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump and other plaintiffs after he was suspended from the platform in 2021, according to a court filing.

> According to the filing, $22 million will be used to support Trump’s construction of a White House State Ballroom and will be held in a tax-exempt entity called the Trust for the National Mall.

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superxpro12 258 days ago
I'm not sure thats any better. A metaphor of corruption if I've ever seen one.
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theultdev 258 days ago
A president privately paying for a ball room that they will only use for 3 more years?

I don't think that's really peak corruption. He could have just kept the money.

It's simply a donation of a building. Not sure how you can spin that as corruption.

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ceejayoz 258 days ago
> A president privately paying…

There's zero evidence of this. (And plenty of evidence to the contrary, like the YouTube settlement.)

> He could have pocketed the money.

He effectively is. https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2025/09/09/preside...

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theultdev 258 days ago
The Youtube settlement is his money. Youtube censored him, admitted it was the Biden admin directing it, and settled.

Trump can either donate the money or pocket it.

I'm not sure why you linked his net worth gain, has nothing to do with this conversation of donating this specific building.

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ceejayoz 258 days ago
> The Youtube settlement is his money…

… obtained via the power and threat of the public office. There's a good reason all these suits started getting settled only after he regained office.

> I'm not sure why you linked his net worth gain…

Because he's growing his wealth via the Presidency far greater than $20M he's "donating" out of someone else's pocket?

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DFHippie 258 days ago
No, they burrowed a bunch of commissars into various agencies.
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