[bdangubic]

as useful as it was before this administration when big tech was sucking up to whomever was running the country (e.g. “macho man” Zuck was getting ready to tattoo DEI on his forehead couple of years ago) or just now it’ll be magically useful?

[exasperaited]

You miss my point. This is a list of people engaging in something flat-out corrupt. The ballroom is an inherently corrupt project.

It will prove to be simple corruption.

[mrbungie]

Why is that relevant if there is no one willing to prosecute and convict?

[wyre]

A forest can still exist despite people choosing to not see or look at it.

[bdangubic]

so corruption exists, that’s the pitch? learned something new today…

[bdangubic]

it is completely irrelevant but people still waste internet bandwidth with nonsense :)

[bdangubic]

whats the punishment for corruption (especially when you have 100’s of billions of dollars) I wonder…

[nutjob2]

If justice is served it'll be knocked down by the next admin, if it is ever built.

[deaux]

Why would it have to take 4 years? It sure hasn't taken the current admin 4 years to disappear people into Salvadorian torture prisons.

[moogly]

Destroying things and outsourcing to already-built prisons is easy. Building things is not.

All they have is a demolition site. There's no final design. Trump keeps changing his vision of his mausoleum. They don't have an architect since the previous one quit.

They have less than a week to submit construction plans[1], and they're clearly missing that deadline. It is of course not the end, but it's a sign of things to come, about half a year in.

Trump is personally running the project instead of delegating it and as we all know he's ruled by whims and disorganized plus rapidly mentally deteriorating at 79 years of age. He's talking about getting into heaven and desperately slapping his name on random physical things because he's obsessed with leaving a grandiose "legacy", any kind of mark on history. He will, but it'll rather be as a seditionist and corrupt ravager of civil institutions and the rule of law -- a pitiful despoiler.

There's no section about the ball room in Project 2025, and no one else but Trump cares about this pet project.

[1]: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-denies-request-to-tempora...

[tormeh]

Are you sure this is how he'll be remembered? Half the US thought him preferable to AOC and Hillary Clinton. It's hard to conclude in any other way than that the perception of his legacy will be equally divided.

[crote]

Most of his actions are, to the majority of the population, merely transient actions. A few letters on an arts center are trivial to remove, a cancelled wind turbine farm easy to forget. The CECOT stuff deeply impacts only a small part of the population, so it'll at most be a few lines in a history book.

But demolishing a third of the White House? That'll be clearly visible in every single aerial shot of the building during every single political event for years. It is, quite literally, a scar on the political face of the country.

It's like turning the Pentagon into a Square, or blowing Washington's face off Mount Rushmore, or selling Alaska back to Russia: you're not going to forget when you are constantly being reminded of it.

[nutjob2]

> Half the US thought him preferable to AOC and Hillary Clinton

What do those people have to do with anything besides being popular right-wing targets?

His approval rating is currently around 42%.