BearlySane88 said:Eastern Oregon Bear said:BearlySane88 said:dajo9 said:BearlySane88 said:Eastern Oregon Bear said:Cal88 said:
The main criticism about the new WH ballroom is that it dwarfs the White House, arguably the most iconic landmark building in the US. They should have built it somewhere else in DC.
Also that Trump started demolition without dealing with niceties like approval from oversight boards.
The claim is made that it is all privately funded. Have they released any details? Privately funded by who?
Trump, who also offered $100 mil for the project during the Obama administration.
Google is paying $22 mil from a lawsuit and $5mil on their own
Lockheed Martin is paying $10 mil+
Blackstone is paying an undisclosed amount. Others as well
Reading Albert Speers memoir is a pretty good how-to on what is happening these days. Speers talks about how Hitler would force industrialists and business people to fund his pet projects. This is nothing new in the authoritarian world.
Again with the Hitler references. The left surely does love bringing that guy up.
Forced? What evidence do you have of Trump forcing anyone to pay for this?
You are naive, aren't you?
Again I ask, what evidence do you have of anyone being forced to pay for this ballroom? Call me whatever name you want but you didn't answer the question
It depends on how you define forced. If the names of donors are divulged, I'll expect that many of them have problems, "investigations" or tariffs pending that affect themselves or their businesses and a generous donation made everything get put on the back burner.
Just a hunch, but I was reading that NASA was threatening to drop SpaceX from the project to send men back to the Moon. Elon Musk was having a meltdown on X. It wouldn't surprise me if Musk makes a large public spirited donation in the near future to one of Trump's pet projects.
