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On Saturday, Fox News host Jesse Watters revealed that Trump sees the ballroom as a monument to himself.
Watters recounted an exchange he had with the president during the Turning Point USA AmericaFest.
So he brings us over to the executive room and he sits down and were having, like, Mexican food. And he goes, Jesse, do you want to see the rendition of the big beautiful ballroom? I said, Sure, let me see it, he began.
He rolls the whole thing out, and guys, I dont know if you know this, the ballroom is huge. I said, Mr. President, the ballroom is four times the size of the White House, he went on. He said, Jesse, its a monument. Im building a monument to myself because no one else will.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-shows-off-what-little-he-salvaged-after-demolishing-east-wing/
The Wizard
(13,586 posts)Joinfortmill
(20,073 posts)Miles Archer
(21,783 posts)Especially the one about how there's been a demand for it a hundred years before he was born.
I think it's been pretty clear all along that the sole reason was "to build a monument to himself."
buzzycrumbhunger
(1,651 posts)
that no one fucking likes or respects him. All this slapping his name on every conceivable thing is just a childish routine to make people NOTICE him. If he cant get respect, hell at least get attention.
IOW, it simply proves he has the mentality of a spoiled child no one likes, even his own parents or children. Pathetic.
Skittles
(169,557 posts)not sure who said this but this quote accurately describes him
"He respects himself so much he relieves others of the duty of having to respect him at all."
Miles Archer
(21,783 posts)1). He knows people hate it
2). He knows no one will have the spine to tear ANY of this garbage down until he's gone
3). It COSTS MONEY to build this crap, so it will COST MONEY to tear it down, unless Democrats can mobilize activists willing to do it for free
4). He's doing so much of it that it will be impossible to take it all down in one day (and he knows it)
5). He's had a boast since day one of the first term that he's "BETTER THAN WASHINGTON" and "BETTER THAN LINCOLN," but no one ever tells HIM that, so he had to prove he's better than JFK by giving him second billing on his own performing arts center
Trump's pathology IS NOT "complex" at all. It's pretty easy to see what motivates him, and the amount of disturbing thought that goes into his seemingly "impulsive" actions.
Deuxcents
(25,512 posts)No one will build him a monument so he destroys the East Wing of our White House..wtf