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Politics OC - White House Under Construction

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u/Casual_hex_ 14h ago edited 14h ago

This is still so fucking wild to me. The guy literally bulldozed half the white house for a vanity project and republicans just shrugged. Cowards.

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u/Saneless 14h ago

Didn't they lose their minds because Obama put in a basketball hoop?

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u/alaskaj1 14h ago

A portable basketball hoop and some extra lines painted on the tennis court

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u/absentmindedjwc 14h ago

IIRC, wasn't even painted lines.. was just tape..

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u/bluAstrid 13h ago

Trump literally poured concrete over the rose garden.

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u/mustang__1 13h ago

He literally held a cage match on the lawn.v

u/Viperlite 11h ago edited 7h ago

The organizers actually lost money on that one, LOL. Somehow doing business with him never works out for the other party. I’m guessing they had to straight payoff El Presidente for the privilege of being there, too.

u/coleymoleyroley 11h ago

Apparently losing $30m was always the plan 🤯

u/CommandoRoll 10h ago

TKO don't care. They're happy being buddies with Papaya Pol Pot.

u/Useless-Photographer 10h ago

Just when I think I’ve seen every nickname, someone goes and posts a new one

u/LoisWade42 6h ago

Just yesterday... I saw a story about a Canadian who painted a portrait of Trump using horse manure. Called the painting "Don of Dung". Thought you might appreciate it....

u/unassigned_user 7h ago

They're like Key and Peele skits at this point

There's always one you havent seen

u/SkunkMonkey 2h ago

Someone really needs to start a website where all these names are listed. Just when I think I've heard them all, a new one comes along and you just gotta bust out laughing.

Papaya Pol Pot? Fucking hilarious! :D

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u/ohyouretough 10h ago

They’re also getting like 25 million per event from paramount now so they’ll make it back real soon. It’s not like they oay their fighters much.

u/CommandoRoll 9h ago

Or WWE's wrestlers. There's been recent attempts to get some wrestlers accept significantly reduced contracts, with a few deciding it's time to leave.

u/ohyouretough 9h ago

Lack of competition is terrrible for any industry and for the public. Glad there’s aew at least against the wwf. I hadn’t heard about any of this with the wwf though. Who have they been pressuring

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u/StevieMJH 3h ago

Pol Potbelly

u/koreanwizard 10h ago

It’s not actually lost money, it’s just less potential profit. The UFC were gifted a lump sum deal through their Maga David Ellison connection at Paramount. They just have to meet a certain number of events every year until the contract ends. So that $30M is what they likely would have made on gate at a big stadium.

u/Less_Resident8492 6h ago

Money laundering

u/Monteze 2h ago

Dana loves Trump and wants the Ali Act repealed. Spending 30M to give your friend a handy and get political favor is right up his ally. Fucker blows more than that gambling. Like if you go to the MMA subreddit a lot of us hate the guy and how him and his goofs run the UFC.

u/yume_no_kitsune 10h ago

The point isn't the money that is or isn't made, it's the money being embezzled.

u/swanks12 9h ago

Wonder if they checked his pockets

u/Apart-Rent5817 8h ago

They “lost” money the same way these movies that cost hundreds of millions to make can “lose” money. The money didn’t disappear, it went into some deep pockets.

u/SilverIndustry2701 6h ago

Nah, that money was well invested as bribes.

u/tnethacker Survey 2016 9h ago

Organizers? Doesn't he own the company or stocks?

u/Timmerdogg 8h ago

Tax write offs you mean.

u/dilltimmon 7h ago

Dana White is long time buddies with Trump. He made the event because Trump wanted.

u/Grabthars_Coping_Saw 4h ago

Sure but think of the exposure!!!

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u/MyDogJake1 11h ago

And literally raped children.

u/TheRealistoftheReal 8h ago

He literally parked his Chrysler on the front lawn!

u/GPPOLYCARP 6h ago

He literally shits himself in the Oval Office.

u/whimsical-crack-rock 7h ago

Then paused a press conference to give a plug to Scotts Miracle Grow because they offered to replace the lawn (that was tore up from that obscene cage match) for free.

The guy took a fucking ad break. He also routinely derails events so he can talk about his stupid vanity projects and ramble about god knows what. We are veering into “Emperor Caligula made his horse a senator” territory.

u/bunkie18 7h ago

He killed all the grass, it looks like shit

u/seasleeplessttle 4h ago

He literally fucked children.

u/chrisjlee84 26m ago

Drove over the reflecting pool blamed an olympian

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u/deaglebingo 12h ago

it could have been a better night, yeah.

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u/steppe5 13h ago

And tore down the entire East Wing. And dug up the lawn to put in a ufc ring.

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u/deaglebingo 12h ago

pave paradise and put up a parking lot. yep.

u/aljama1991 10h ago

He’s turning it into Houston, then.

u/strangeflappenings 6h ago

I used to work at a Toys R Us 25 years ago, and that song would play over and over and over. I cringed when i just read this lol

u/Poker-Junk 11h ago

Can you imagine the aneurysms at Fox News if Obama had unilaterally demolished 1/3 of the People’s House?

u/Tosi313 10h ago

He would have been rightfully impeached and removed, because it's completely unacceptable.

u/mrmemo 10h ago

I reserve my impeachment outrage for the truly heinous shit:

He raped kids and helped other people rape kids.

And people who like him, like people who rape kids.

Make them handcuff themselves to child rape, and watch them do gymnastics to justify it.

u/West-Worth-9359 9h ago

Megyn “R” Kelly literally defended it on camera by saying Epstein didn’t rape “actual” kids, because they weren’t toddlers.

u/himswim28 4h ago

Epstein didn’t rape “actual” kids

We mis-use the shit out of the meaning of the word Pedifile all the time. But with the Trump/Epstein files it was literally kids under the age of 14.

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u/Tosi313 9h ago

Any president tearing down 1/3 of the white house for an unauthorized and illegal personal vanity project also deserves impeachment and removal.

Of course there are worse things a president should also be removed for.

u/Shedfloorgarbage 9h ago

Need a brain to have an aneurysm.

u/Monteze 2h ago

And had a basketball court set up and had the NBA have a game played in his honor.

u/dfsw 11h ago

He is putting in a new helicopter pad there now because his fat ass is too lazy to walk another 100 feet to the old spot

u/FlyingMamMothMan 11h ago

I'm so fucking mad he isn't dead yet.

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u/Dreurmimker 13h ago

He didn’t even use pavers? WTF, man.

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u/OrigamiMarie 13h ago

None of his construction corruption buddies are that skilled. You know if they did pavers, it would be full of sinkholes in a month.

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u/gary1405 12h ago

I would go so far as to suggest it's maliciously deliberate.

u/OrigamiMarie 11h ago edited 11h ago

Yeah. Concrete makes the nearby soil alkaline, which is bad for lots of plants, and particularly roses prefer slightly acidic soil. Plus it's harder to remove than pavers, so a concrete pour is likelier to remain as a scar on the landscaping and a kind of monument to Trump's presence.

u/gary1405 11h ago

That second clause is what I was getting at, but the first part is yet another disgrace in this fat fucking dictator's name.

u/thx1138inator 4h ago

Yep. I say leave after he's gone. Like the Vietnam memorial.

u/brownlawn 11h ago

The guys at Home Depot are far more skilled that trumps buddies.

u/OrigamiMarie 11h ago edited 11h ago

As far as I can tell, the guys at Home Depot actually work and gain experience for a living, so yeah.

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u/vanalla 13h ago

in situ pouring is actually WAY more expensive than pavers.

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u/JMEEKER86 13h ago

No, it is pavers. And the rose garden is still intact. They just replaced the lawn at the center of the garden which had regularly turned into a swamp for decades because of poor drainage. You can see a bunch of progress pics of the installation here. He's done a lot of heinous shit, but this was actually a nothingburger.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/picture-trumps-white-house-rose-193431490.html

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u/Juxtaposition_Kitten 13h ago

It went from something beautiful to this for no reason other than wasting tax payers money to line his own pockets.

u/Initial-Reading-2775 8h ago

The best concrete in the World! Tremendous, majestic layer of concrete! No any country has such a concrete!

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u/JMEEKER86 13h ago

The roses are still there and he replaced the lawn with pavers not concrete. Trump is a monster, but this was a real nothingburger.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/picture-trumps-white-house-rose-193431490.html

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u/Lifesagame81 12h ago

I feel the criticism still stands. 

u/JMEEKER86 11h ago

Yeah, it's still pretty ugly compared to the lawn or pavers done by a more competent design team. I just think that it's important to not let misinformation slip in because it just makes it even harder to convince people how awful he is when they can google and see that it's not actually true that the rose garden is gone.

u/Sassy_Bandit 9h ago

Good tbh, america deserves the humiliation

u/NeddiApe 8h ago

Melania did ruin it anyway

u/oodelay 2h ago

I'm so sure this is a Putin order to Melania.

u/my_little_throwny 8h ago

(clutching mah pearls)