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.
Trump: Does horrible thing
Two weeks after it matters: People: Sue over horrible thing
One year later: Court: Trump shouldn’t have done that horrible thing.
Result: Horrible thing is done. No consequences for having done said horrible thing. Lawyers get paid. Courts give themselves pat on back. Democracy manifest!
Too bad nothing will happen just like all the other lawsuits and “illegal” activities he’s done
I’m the grand scheme of things, I REALLY don’t give a FUCK about him tearing down part Of the WH. There are a thousand things more pressing.
Release the Epstein Files.
I mean they are never going to be released. And people keep on asking for them is just stupid. Like what in this political climate is going to make them release them?
There should be a class-action lawsuit against him personally on behalf of the entire population of the United States. Force him to pay out of his pocket to return the site to its previous glory, then pay punitive damages to every single citizen of the United States…all out of his own pocket.
And make him sign each individual check, like in The Jerk. He loves to sign his name, this would make him HATE it.
I think the majority of the country should have a class action suit against him for all the stress he’s caused over 10 years. His shitty 20-25% of hardcore fans can maybe have their taxes bumped up to cover it.
Given that the new model is just to pull numbers right out of our ass, apparently, from watching the pedo-in-chief, I think each of us is due about 250 million dollars.
$250 million? Sounds low, but I’ll accept, just to put this whole mess behind us.
Has anyone else heard that tRump is planning to bury the Epstein Files in the foundation of the Epstein Ballroom?
He didn’t even get permits to do the demo.
That didn’t stop him.
What the hell is a lawsuit going to do?
He don’t need no stinking permits, he’s a REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER!
The WH answer to this is that there’s precedent for them not needing permits for demo, but building the new construction requires permits. Although they could say anything, how many people really know?
A nice gesture from some patriotic people, I’m sure, but we all know that laws meant to hold powerful people accountable for their actions are now meaningless.
I expect that if this suit does not get outright dismissed, a Trump-appointed circuit judge or the SCOTUS will swoop in to save Trump yet again.
You’re right, but I think this falls into the “don’t obey in advance” rule of resistance to autocracy.
I’ve long since lost the will to support this type of action, like yourself I suppose. Everything is fucked all the way down. You can’t not-lose in a corrupt court system.
However, I think it’s important that every authoritarian action is challenged, because if you don’t challenge then you really are kind of obeying in advance.
Quick, get Merrick Garland on the case.
See you in two years.
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.
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.
Yep. I absolutely hate how Hitler is portrayed. He’s always made to look scary. Trump isn’t scary by any stretch of the imagination. That’s why so many people missed the similarities. Trump/Hitler are just unstable. History should teach Hitler as unstable, not fearsome. Apparently there’s a trend with young men to develop some kind of admiration for Hitler precisely because of how “tough” he’s made to look in history class. Absolutely appalling.
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
Isn’t he the child of disgusting German immigrants?
We call them expats to save the whites their feel-feels.
Call them what they are. Fucking fat old white gringo immigrant gentrificators.
Gentrifiers?
Fuck this joke of a language that doesn’t even have gendered nouns.
And about half of the US basically see him as their god.
Not as a god, but an instrument of God. Steve Bannon called Trump a vehicle of divine provenance which sidesteps him not being churchy / religious.
Anything can be labeled an instrument of God because “God works in mysterious ways”.
Another idea he took straight from Hitler.
That’s one of the devil’s tricks.
Schrödinger’s devil
I think I see what you’re trying to say but I believe he’s a devil whether you’re looking at him or not so I’m not sure if that actually applies. 😂
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
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.
The most American thing to say. When they are really cowards holding onto their guns cause they’re scared.
And yet you’d think with the whole right to bear arms and use it against kings would have kicked in already tho.
They still just use the guns on children and minorities.
This has been the most anticlimactic flex I’ve ever seen.
We will not be forgetting this one should another gun toting citizen from the US boast their reasons of the constitution.
Prepare to have this thrown in all the faces for generations to come.
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 even organize?
Well the citizens of Afganistán and Vietnam proved this wrong. Never underestimate guerrilla warfare
Sure, but we are talking about the US here.
Or are you all busy building tunnels and bunkers over there? Organise in your neighborhood and build local groups?
Pretty sure that if the media starts calling these guerrillas terrorists, anti-american, instigators of violence, Communists, Antifa, and so on, they will loose public support and without broad local support in the population, guerilla fighting will not work.
Afganistán and Vietnam fought guerilla against a foreign invasion. US would have to fight ‘guerilla’ against their neighbors and other Americans, against people like them… I don’t think this is comparable.
Implying the national guard and now heavily armed PDs of all the states support the federal coup, and don’t instead go full guerilla
Bro just bulldozed history for a ball room… Insanity.
THRONE room!
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.
Those are the optics, but is it true?
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…
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!
This dude has committed so many crimes I’ve lost count. I’m stuck looking stupid when people ask me why I call him a criminal. I just stand there like an idiot like “The stuff… with the things… all of it.”
Yeah it’s always infuriating if one needs to do that. It’s like people willingly ignore it.
He should be arrested for vandalism.
… and about ten thousand other things. No-one seems to give enough of a shit.
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”.
Sweet sweet summer child
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.
Where’s Arthur Dent when you need him?
Nah, peaceful protest will totally solve this.
/s
Hey if they’re looking to redecorate, I’m sure we can find some staunch Canadians to help.
To be fair, it wasn’t the Canadians. It was the British. Canada wasn’t a Canada in 1814.
But yes, we’d be happy to come help disinfect that building with fire. I think when your civil war kicks off, torching that building early on and then rebuilding it after the sane people take over would make great imagery.
hey he’s taking away the Canadian tradition of destroying the White House
Shit is all backwards
Cultural appropriation, that’s what it is.
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
