Donald Trump is facing legal action over the demolition of the White House’s East Wing, part of a $300 million plan to build a new ballroom on the executive grounds.
A Virginia couple, Charles and Judith Voorhees, filed an emergency motion in federal court on October 23 seeking to halt the project, alleging that it violates multiple federal preservation and planning laws.
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The founding fathers would be turning in their graves. This time line is fked man. He’s going to rig the next election if he doesn’t get rid of elections all together. One thing he doesn’t realise is dictatorships like RUS and China have unarmed controlled citizens.
The USA has the most heavily armed population on the planet.
He’s fucking with fire and he is absolutely going to be burnt.
Bro just bulldozed history for a ball room… Insanity.
I am still waiting for Americans to use their guns to rise up against tyranny instead of using them to shoot minorities
In an all out war, (which I doubt will happen) all these guns in the population don’t matter against drones, aircrafts, tanks and trained snipers or other soldiers. If the military and all other agencies decides to support Trump, all these weapons will be useless. The pentagon surely has plans for a civil uprising in their own country.
I don’t think the US has enough ordinary citizen that would actually risk their lives for democracy, to make a difference. Media and social media is controlled by the oligarchy, and even the progressives don’t seem to want to cut themselves loose of twitter, Facebook/Whatsapp, google, bluesky, discord and so on. Where would they don’t even organize?
Implying the national guard and now heavily armed PDs of all the states support the federal coup, and don’t instead go full guerilla
How much of that heavily armed population are Trump supporters though?
Not as many as there’d need to be.
Hopefully we won’t find out. Feel like there’s heavily tilted scale towards Trump/republicans when it comes to gun ownership as the other side tends to be more for restricting gun ownership.
Hey if they’re looking to redecorate, I’m sure we can find some staunch Canadians to help.
If those staunch Canadians need anywhere to stay, they can hit me up. I’m 4hrs from DC but down to give them a ride or whatever
He should be arrested for vandalism.
Wouldn’t it be hilarious if this is the thing that gets him removed from office? Wishful thinking, I know
A guy spray paints his favorite words under a bridge so he gets 10 years. Orange guy demolishes the most iconic building in the nation… down to the ground… Jail? Nope, presidential!
Don’t forget about rape and the other crimes.
But you be hardworking, you’ll make it for sure!
He should be arrested for vandalism.
… and about ten thousand other things. No-one seems to give enough of a shit.
I still can’t get over how cartoonishly evil trump is. Dude is literally destroying the white house and tweeting AI videos of himself shitting on the US flag, the Constitution, and the American people. He is literally destroying our culture and heritage and he hasn’t even finished with his first year in his new admin. He isn’t the antichrist. He’s the devil made flesh.
And about half of the US basically see him as their god.
That’s one of the devil’s tricks.
Schrödinger’s devil
I love how cartoonishly evil, dumb and uncharismatic he is, and americans were like: “let’s see what he has to offer a second time.”
History lesson in the future has to be absolute wild. People will imagine some well spoken George Clooney like person and then they see a video of Krang talking about grabbing pussy.
Honestly though I do only feel I learned how dumb and ridiculous and drug-fuelled and self-destroying the Nazis were after I left school. History class took them much more seriously than people did at the time.
Hopefully there will be some commentary on media consolidation and how successfully propagandized the american public is.
… and the percentage of adults that read at 12th grade level
Good. The demolition is disgusting, and apparently illegal. If legal efforts don’t lan out, the couple can send their son, Jason, to scare the courts
Wouldn’t it be amazing that he would lose and have to put it back out of his own pocket? I mean won’t happen in this reality as we’re all in hell but still would be nice to think about.
If you’re sending Jason anyways you might as well have him fix the Supreme Court.
I feel like this is a pop culture reference I’m missing. Jason?
Cue SCOTUS saying, “It’s the President’s house! Of course he can renovate it!”
He has demolitional immunity!!!
/cracks neck
It’s just been revoked
the couple can send their son, Jason
You’re thinking the New Jersey Voorhees. They lived on Shades of Death Rd.
Bravo
We should make this a class action suit. Every patriotic / matriotic US citizen should sign on. We all have cause, we all have been harmed. If any of us tried to destroy a historic building, or modify it in any way with out a plan, with out approval from a host of government entities we would have been stopped on the very first day. FTS!
“The defendants are listed as Trump, in his official capacity, and Jessica Brown, director of the National Park Service.” Excellent, J. Brown is not protected by SCOTUS. Go after the little fish. Charge the company doing the work, the guy running the backhoe, and everyone involved in this active destruction of The People’s House.
I’d be up to join the class action suit. As a Canadian it’s our right to be the ones to demolish the Whitehouse.
THIS IS CULTURAL APPROPRIATION.
Are we sure the people doing the work aren’t slave labor that just weren’t yet human trafficked?
I think they only retroactively count as slave labour after the bill makes it to trumps hands, and promptly into his toilet…
Well, the East Wing is demolished now. Just goes to show you how effective all this hand wringing is. You have to stop him, forcibly.
Once the building is a pile of rubble, he can just point at the pile of rubble and say well now we got to rebuild it I guess, oh and by the way I’m the one who gets to pick how it’s rebuilt. Ironic this is not a bad metaphor for the state of the country.
No. If courts decide that the demolition was illegal, he has to put it back exactly the way it was. It’s not a free pass to “rebuild it the way he wants”.
Tell ya what Chester, I’ll take great big ol’ deep breath and hold it until that happens.
You may wanna contact Guinness world records. It’s gonna be a while.
And what happens when he ignores that order too?
Lol I would bet my next paycheck that this will never happen.
I’m the one who gets to pick how it’s rebuilt
What if he’s not, though? What if the courts ordered that the building must be rebuilt the way it was? I don’t think that’ll happen, but I wouldn’t mind if it did.
Nah, peaceful protest will totally solve this.
/s
Where’s Arthur Dent when you need him?
I feel like Trump is setting a record for the most sued president while in office. And probably outside of office too.
Read that as “the most suave president”, and you didn’t make a whole lot of sense.
HAVE YOU NOT HEARD THE MAN SPEAK?!?!? The biggest best beautiful speaker ever.
“Maybe in your dreams!” responded Trumps lawyer Frederick Kruger.
I hope this demolition company is doing this work for fun. No chance of getting paid with the shutdown and all…
The demolition and the general idea doesn’t bother me as much as the fact that we all know it’s gonna be filled with gold-colored tacky shit and other fugly crap.
Not to mention the fact there is really no reason for a ball room at the White House. They hold these events in more fitting venues.
This isn’t a ball room though. This is a throne room for the great Hamberder King.
I am vastly more concerned over the actual people being affected by this admin than destroying some stupid building. Who cares this much about the white house? Are we serious? Are we really talking about banding together to save the white house rather than the people being kidnapped and assaulted on the streets every day?
Well, my mother is a Trumper and even she said the WH demo is “ridiculous and disgusting”, so, maybe it’s a crack to pry open with louder complaints to help open more eyes like hers.
Non magats can do more than one thing at a time, you know…
People can be upset about multiple things. Just because I am upset about the White House being destroyed doesn’t mean I am not also upset about the lives of Americans being destroyed.
“We” are not but some people might react stronger to this. I don’t like it either, but every little bit helps.
On one hand, yes, many Americans’ morals are backwards and ideally humans being killed, brutalized and disappeared by this administration and it’s agents would get more attention than an old building.
But on the other hand, that’s unfortunately not where we’re at. But where we are at is many people who would otherwise support or at least feel apathetic to what this administration is doing are appalled by the destruction of a national icon and I’ll welcome any step towards eroding the support this administration has from a significant group of Americans.
I get this take and am in the same boat. The thing though is that the people who disapprove with trump is about the same as the number that “strongly disapprove” of trump. We have no more loathing to give.
Righting the ship will require breaking through to the disconnected and mildly red.
And the WH destruction is a) not a traditionally partisan issue, b) strongly symbolic, and c) a powerful visual.
So is it the worst thing he’s doing? Not by a mile. Will I be happy if it wakes people up? Vehemently.
Hey, they got Capone on tax fraud
Well, it is Trump’s #1 objective right now. Not reopening the government or funding SNAP. Those are poor people problems.
Yes, we are. There are plenty of lawyers and resources to fight this admin on all fronts. Any attempt to put him in check is not a loss on another.
You can be more personally concerned about the people being thrown in gulags and blown up on fishing boats - rightfully so - but it doesn’t stand to reason that this fight is not worthy of pursuit. Lawyers who specialize in zoning laws, permit violations, and historical building renovation processes surely shouldn’t have their efforts dismissed.
He already fuckin demolished it! Better late than never, I guess.
What will that achieve?
Courts already decided that he’s above the law when “carrying out official duties”, and this of course will be one of his duties.
He’s immune to prosecution and personal consequences from anything he does. They have not (yet) ceded the ability to tell him that government cannot legally do a thing and what it must do to correct it.
It’s not his duty to be an orange skinned, raisin brain moron.
Hey! Raisins have too many wrinkles, and too much surface area, to be found in any orange skull.
I imagine the people who were tasked with carrying this out, gently trying to hint (for fear of losing their jobs) that this is a very bad idea.
Fuck those people the hardest. They would rather save their own skin than ise their position to take a stand and do the right thing.
They’re already writing their books about how they (quietly) thought it was all abhorrent. Please send them millions of dollars.
