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lostnfound

(17,254 posts)
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 10:58 AM Tuesday

I don't much care about trump damaging the East Wing of the White House

It’s a building. On the list of nearly-sacred and beautiful things that his occupation of the presidency is destroying, it hardly even rates a mention.

US superpowers too numerous to mention have been undermined, sold off in secret deals, or trampled for the fun of it.
Immigrant families have been blown apart using destructive, racist gestapo-like tactics. Some of them died.
Children traumatized by ICE.
Innocent (that’s what people are, until ‘proven guilty’) guys in boats murdered by the most powerful country on the planet, as if they were ants to be flicked off a log.
Partnerships with allies dating back 80 years or more betrayed.
MAGA turned into unthinking zombies, ready to betray anyone or anything for their cult leader.
The Supreme Court acts without shame to prop up the oligarch party.
A lapdog like Mike Johnson…? Really?
Anxiety and stress, family disruption, and fear sits like a suffocating blanket over the lives of probably 100 million people or more, due to Trump’s actions, inside the US alone. Ticking time bombs are pervasive.
Elections will worsen (hard to believe it is even possible), due to gerrymandering, lack of accountability, and likely the destruction of the VRA.

When Obama left in January 2017, the grace of the presidency gave way to a gaping black hole of a man who values nothing but himself and his money. It became occupied by all “id”. Four years of reprieve under Biden were temporary relief but not a thorough disinfectant, and the mold on the walls is simply growing faster.

At this point, if he wants to tear the White House down entirely, let him. At least it would be very visible, and the sleeping nitwits might start to question their choices.

“Conservative”. What a joke that word has become.

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Irish_Dem

(76,692 posts)
1. Trump destroys anything Americans value or cherish.
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 11:00 AM
Tuesday

It is painful, traumatic and devastating to watch.

The American White House was a symbol of our country.
It hurt to see Trump take a wrecking ball to it.

hlthe2b

(111,856 posts)
3. Taking a wrecking ball to our national symbols & treasures is more than symbolic...
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 11:02 AM
Tuesday

it reflects his total disdain for the Constitution and democracy itself. It is why he can care not a bit for the horrors you list and why he feels NO RESTRAINT from doing so. So, you damned well ought to care.

hlthe2b

(111,856 posts)
7. Fortunately, he can't. There is not sufficient stone to prevent a total collapse per the experts...
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 11:09 AM
Tuesday

While I sarcastically might suggest Stone Mountain (GA) to (more appropriately) join the confederate leaders, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Jefferson Davis, I'm pretty sure the same issue rises...

taxi

(2,609 posts)
10. Cherry picking what parts of how things were into what's acceptable
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 11:18 AM
Tuesday

and what's not weakens us by a thousand cuts, one at a time. It is a big deal.

Silent Type

(11,590 posts)
11. It's a metaphor for what trump is doing to country. However, I agree it's way down list and sometimes it hurts us
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 11:28 AM
Tuesday

griping about stuff like this. The White House East Wing was last renovated in 1942, when a second story was added.

So, it probably needs renovation for lots of reasons; however, wish it had been done under Biden's Admin.

But that photo ought to be in background of Democratic midterm ads.

Baitball Blogger

(51,234 posts)
12. Don't give away a valuable photograph opportunity that can reach people in ways
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 11:55 AM
Tuesday

that words have failed to do.

rampartd

(2,742 posts)
13. we really can never use it again.
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 12:33 PM
Tuesday

the damn thing is more bug than brick

a city inspector should give him a stop work, order . he needs a permit

lostnfound

(17,254 posts)
14. To all. Of course it is awful. My point is just how much deeper all of the other damage goes
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 03:05 PM
Tuesday

Yes, there is obvious damage. Whatever he’s gonna do to the White House itself, it won’t be good. In normal times, this would be infuriating.

But these aren’t normal times. Hell he could be melting down the Liberty Bell, tearing down the Lincoln Memorial, and pissing on the Constitution. Effectively those would be symbolic actions that would mirror what he is doing every day at a deep level in reality.
He is already destroying liberties, he is already dividing the union that Lincoln preserved, and I don’t even have to mention the constitution because I think the protest last week probably did an accurate job of assessing that. The damage he’s done to the White House versus the damage he’s done to the presidency itself? The latter is far more consequential.

The sleeping nitwits (a few of them at least ) could at least comprehend this classic old building being ripped apart with an excavator. It is not abstract. The arrogance of their king is apparent.

The White House? Yeah whatever. We’re so far past worrying about a building. We might as well be mourning the loss of the figurehead on the Titanic. “There were people on that there ship…”

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