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Miles Archer

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Sat Oct 25, 2025, 09:00 AM Oct 2025

Trump's $300 million monument to himself includes a staircase "leading up to no clear landing" and "colliding windows" [View all]

Trump’s ballroom design a ‘hurried process’ that includes stairs to nowhere: report

https://www.rawstory.com/white-house-2674232645/

“Architects and historians say that it is not unusual for designs to change during a project like this, but that Mr. Trump has not followed the typical process for White House renovations, which normally involve reviews by organizations like the National Capital Planning Commission,” the report reads. “And the various plans Mr. Trump has shared have suggested a hurried process.”

Trump revealed more details on the plans for the proposed ballroom this week, including new design renderings of the facility’s exterior. The Times, however, noted in its report that there were “some mistakes” in at least one of the design renderings, including a staircase “leading up to no clear landing,” and “colliding windows.”

The price of the ballroom ballooned this week from $200 million to $300 million, and construction on the project – originally slated to begin last month – has been delayed to an undetermined date.

The Trump administration has also received scrutiny for destroying the East Wing to make way for the ballroom, with images and video
of a bulldozer gutting the historic building shocking critics. The fallout from the East Wing’s was so severe that Secret Service agents closed access to a nearby park from which members of the media were taking photos and videos of the facility’s demolition.

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It also has a two story connector that goes to the second story of the main house, forever fucking up the integrity Blues Heron Oct 2025 #1
Trump will be able to walk directly from the residence and descend regally down the gold staircase to the applause sop Oct 2025 #12
A gold Slip-N-Slide!!! ret5hd Oct 2025 #21
Yes, let's hear all the moderates tell us how very qualified the architects travelingthrulife Oct 2025 #2
Winchester house................... Lovie777 Oct 2025 #3
My first thought. Maybe it'll be haunted, too. nt Buns_of_Fire Oct 2025 #6
GMTA - sounding eerily similar... Wounded Bear Oct 2025 #18
It's going to be th Winchester House of Ballrooms... haele Oct 2025 #4
Trump doesn't care. The US taxpayer will have to repair, fix, maintain the wreck of a building. Irish_Dem Oct 2025 #5
The only thing taxpayers should have to pay for is tearing down the monstrosity and rebuilding the original East Wing. sop Oct 2025 #9
Trump should have to pay to repair the damage he has caused. Irish_Dem Oct 2025 #23
I'm starting to think it's a bunker, not a ballroom. yardwork Oct 2025 #7
I'm sure it will be festooned past the point of wretched excess with gold on everything, but... Miles Archer Oct 2025 #14
I'm with you on that. yardwork Oct 2025 #19
I for one do not care about his plans as he plays with his doll house... Hope22 Oct 2025 #8
Howard Roark, he ain't. no_hypocrisy Oct 2025 #10
Trump University School of Architecture dalton99a Oct 2025 #11
"My scheme for collecting money includes a fake ballroom!" struggle4progress Oct 2025 #13
I hope they hold the new Nuremberg trials there orangecrush Oct 2025 #15
A I architecture dweller Oct 2025 #16
If I were a rich man ... Emrys Oct 2025 #17
No one has mentioned snowybirdie Oct 2025 #20
Expect that figure to climb louis-t Oct 2025 #22
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