This is not a SFW instance. NSFW communities will be tagged, and efforts will be made to keep SFW communities clean, but proceed at your own comfort level.
Trump initially indicated that he wanted to build a ballroom, but that none of the East Wing would’ve been touched. As with any significant government building, there’s a good amount of history and significance to the East wing. It’s also where guests would enter and hosted the First Lady’s office/staff.
Trump then proceeded to ignore the standard rules/requirements for making changes to the building, which he doesn’t have unilateral authority to do. He leveled the East Wing, and spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the project during a government shutdown, money which was essentially pilfered from other allocations IIRC.
Despite various attempts to check his illegal construction efforts, he has continued unabated. Some of the funding has also come from “private donors” which has pretty transparently been influence bribery from important figures and CEOs and stuff.
There’s been a lot to it over time, but that’s some of the broad strokes.
Trump initially indicated that he wanted to build a ballroom, but that none of the East Wing would’ve been touched. As with any significant government building, there’s a good amount of history and significance to the East wing. It’s also where guests would enter and hosted the First Lady’s office/staff.
Trump then proceeded to ignore the standard rules/requirements for making changes to the building, which he doesn’t have unilateral authority to do. He leveled the East Wing, and spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the project during a government shutdown, money which was essentially pilfered from other allocations IIRC.
Despite various attempts to check his illegal construction efforts, he has continued unabated. Some of the funding has also come from “private donors” which has pretty transparently been influence bribery from important figures and CEOs and stuff.
There’s been a lot to it over time, but that’s some of the broad strokes.