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Aristus

(71,172 posts)
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 10:18 AM Tuesday

Any MAGAts out there care to explain how demolishing the White House is "ownin' the libs!"?

And, how, if Joe Biden was doing the exact same thing, it would be wrong?

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Deuxcents

(24,481 posts)
7. I wish I shared your opinion. He has no intention of leaving and this is only the beginning of remodeling
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 10:39 AM
Tuesday

DBoon

(24,403 posts)
5. The White House represents the woke values of the Enlightenment
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 10:29 AM
Tuesday

Things like individual liberty, separation of church and state, representative democracy, the dignity and equality of all humans.

By replacing it with a gilded ballroom, Trump is destroying these woke values and replacing it with a 16th century absolute monarchy.

Lilithschyld

(87 posts)
6. I dont understand how ANYONE could appreciate what he's doing.
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 10:30 AM
Tuesday

It's absolutely disgusting. The historic value that is being destroyed for a lark is incomprehensible.

sop

(16,598 posts)
8. There are better ways of saying "cutting off one's nose to spite one's face" MAGA morons might understand:
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 10:43 AM
Tuesday

"Shooting yourself in the foot"..."Digging your own grave."

LeftinOH

(5,595 posts)
11. MAGAs have already justified it: The White House has undergone
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 10:59 AM
Tuesday

several alterations over time, and this is just another one. Also, the main body of the White House itself was built in only the early 1950s (which is true)...MAGAs like to trot that one out a lot.

Nevertheless, a partial demolition and alternation on this scale normally requires authorization outside of the President. That, and the optics of this action are just dreadful.

Walleye

(42,952 posts)
12. The optics must be dreadful, as they have forbidden the treasury employees to shoot any pictures of it
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 11:01 AM
Tuesday

Too bad there are no actual journalists left in DC.

yardwork

(68,395 posts)
13. Too many ignorant foolish people don't care.
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 11:03 AM
Tuesday

That's why we're in this situation now. Too many stupid, misinformed, vague, mean, un-serious people who don't have a clue about anything.

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