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I have no idea how he has been allowed to do it, but it got me thinking… What other public buildings would benefit from a TrumpianExtension™?

 

I think that The Tower of London would benefit from a series of flumes.


 
Posted : 21/10/2025 11:09 am
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I wonder if Downing Street still has all Johnson's glam up features.


 
Posted : 21/10/2025 11:13 am
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I wonder if Downing Street still has all Johnson's glam up features.

I would think it would be covered in Israeli flags these day.


 
Posted : 21/10/2025 11:16 am
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Wrestlemania ring in the Capitol?


 
Posted : 21/10/2025 11:22 am
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That's being installed in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Building for Linda McMahon I suspect.


 
Posted : 21/10/2025 11:27 am
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A gravy wrestling ring instead of the despatch box in the houses of parliament 

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Posted : 21/10/2025 11:55 am
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Chequers could do with a "Gracelands" make over surely seeing as it looks so old and tired.


 
Posted : 21/10/2025 12:04 pm
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I wonder if Downing Street still has all Johnson's glam up features.

Hope so.  Who'd want to live in a place full of stuff from John Lewis?  Imagine the embarrassment when people found out that your armchair only cost £2000


 
Posted : 21/10/2025 12:08 pm
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Chequers could do with a "Gracelands" make over surely seeing as it looks so old and tired.

Johnson was going to build some treehouse thing in the grounds (not sure he was planning for it to be a tourist attraction after he'd gone, but you never know).


 
Posted : 21/10/2025 12:31 pm
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I'd like to see Windsor Castle get a cage with a swing for Andy to be gloated on by the public. 


 
Posted : 21/10/2025 12:38 pm
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Posted by: kelvin

Johnson was going to build some treehouse thing in the grounds

Add that to the list of wildly overenthusiastic infrastructure projects he pushed forward: Boris Island (airport in the Thames thing), Garden Bridge, bridge / tunnel to Northern Ireland, 40 new hospitals...

Treehouse in the grounds of Chequers...

Guess it would have been good for his 6 / 7 / 8 /9 children.


 
Posted : 21/10/2025 12:40 pm
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Posted by: Harry_the_Spider

I have no idea how he has been allowed to do it

He won the election, became the President, and then gets to decide stuff. Not saying he's making good decisions, but it's because he won the election.

As far as the ballroom goes, there are much more important things to worry about than that.


 
Posted : 21/10/2025 12:44 pm
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Posted by: Caher

I'd like to see Windsor Castle get a cage with a swing for Andy to be gloated on by the public. 

Pretty sure the Tower has some good contraptions that could be borrowed for that particular installation. I know a few yeoman warders so I'm sure we could make it happen...

 


 
Posted : 21/10/2025 12:46 pm
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As far as the ballroom goes, there are much more important things to worry about than that.

That maybe so - but sometimes it can be something like this that brings a man down


 
Posted : 21/10/2025 12:47 pm
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The images are an good pictorial representation of his respect for the office, traditions, and peoples of America.

He literally doesn't care as long as it makes him look better in his distorted world view.


 
Posted : 21/10/2025 1:00 pm
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I’m sure it’ll be as tasteless as we can imagine.  But I note (i) many presidents over the years have remodelled various parts of the White House, and (ii) if it were in the UK we’d still be debating if we shouldn’t hold a public enquiry as to whether it may even be possible to contemplate the possibility of doing the work.


 
Posted : 21/10/2025 1:06 pm
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Stonehenge is looking a bit dull nowadays. Maybe gold plate the stones and build a golf course and massage spa around it?

That guy Andy something likes money and golf and is not busy - I am sure he would be up to being the manager of it.

 

 
Posted : 21/10/2025 2:04 pm
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The images are an good pictorial representation of his respect for the office, traditions, and peoples of America.

He literally doesn't care as long as it makes him look better in his distorted world view.

It's also not the action of a bloke who is going to move out in 3 years.

It's a shocking waste of public funds

 


 
Posted : 21/10/2025 2:09 pm
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Taj Mahal needs more bling doesn't it?


 
Posted : 21/10/2025 2:14 pm
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Maybe, when the time comes, they'll display the Epstein List in there like the Bayeux Tapestry.


 
Posted : 21/10/2025 2:17 pm
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It’s being paid for by Trump and his mates - naming rights no doubt to be offered.


 
Posted : 21/10/2025 2:40 pm
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Trump has expressly forbidden anyone from taking photos of the demolition.

So here's a video.

https://bsky.app/profile/cwebbonline.com/post/3m3oetlytss2x


 
Posted : 21/10/2025 3:26 pm
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Ball Room, was this a Clinton thing?


 
Posted : 21/10/2025 3:59 pm
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Add that to the list of wildly overenthusiastic infrastructure projects he pushed forward: Boris Island (airport in the Thames thing), Garden Bridge, bridge / tunnel to Northern Ireland, 40 new hospitals...

 

Garden Bridge was actually a pretty cool idea that, if delivered well, would have been ace


 
Posted : 21/10/2025 4:09 pm
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Garden Bridge was actually a pretty cool idea that, if delivered well, would have been ace.

I'm pretty sure the £50M + spent on not building it could have been put to much much better use elsewhere in the country.


 
Posted : 21/10/2025 4:29 pm
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Ball Room, was this a Clinton thing?

Clinton did not have relations with that room.

 

As an aside, at this stage in Trump's presence in the presidency, I'm by default assuming the company doing the demolition & build are his?


 
Posted : 21/10/2025 4:40 pm
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I'm pretty sure the £50M + spent on not building it could have been put to much much better use elsewhere in the country.

I'm sure the Mone's could put it to good use...


 
Posted : 21/10/2025 4:56 pm
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Given I'm not a US tax payer and don't GAF about a nation that elected Trump....I do think it's going to provide some excellent laughs for future presidents. This is Donald Trump commissioning it here so it's going to be in the worst possible taste. As a future leader you'll be able to take VIPs on televised tours of your gaff and all piss yourself at the shite decor in the Trump ball room. Chip bits off and donate it for charity raffles just to engage the orange one in his retirement home somewhere. Selfies with a horrific gargoyle or chandelier. Use it for parties for immigrants. The list will be endless.   


 
Posted : 21/10/2025 5:15 pm
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He’s just making money from it. The donations to fund it will be a tax write down so the tax payers will fund it and it’s probably being built by one of his companies. So the us taxpayers gets a ballroom and trump makes lots of money from it


 
Posted : 21/10/2025 7:43 pm
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Posted by: mrmonkfinger

Clinton did not have relations with that room.

 

Just held his balls there.

 


 
Posted : 21/10/2025 9:18 pm
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Posted by: franksinatra

Garden Bridge was actually a pretty cool idea that, if delivered well, would have been ace

Was that the one that Joanna Lumley didn't want to let cyclists use?

 


 
Posted : 21/10/2025 9:51 pm
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I do think it's going to provide some excellent laughs for future presidents.

Yeah I'm not sure Trump's factoring that in to any decisions.


 
Posted : 22/10/2025 5:24 am
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Are there not planning restrictions in America like we have here? Given how difficult making changes to some unremarkable, but still grade 2 listed, buildings is,  you’d think there’d be someone to step in if some bellend wanted to mess about with one of the most recognisable buildings in the world?

He’d just fire them, and install some one with a less discerning eye for taste, but still. 


 
Posted : 22/10/2025 5:52 am
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Are there not planning restrictions in America like we have here? Given how difficult making changes to some unremarkable, but still grade 2 listed, buildings is,  you’d think there’d be someone to step in if some bellend wanted to mess about with one of the most recognisable buildings in the world?

He’d just fire them, and install some one with a less discerning eye for taste, but still. 


 
Posted : 22/10/2025 5:52 am
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Given I'm not a US tax payer and don't GAF about a nation that elected Trump

Given that we have politicians modelling themselves on the orange shitgibbon and his antics, I think that might be an overly optimistic approach


 
Posted : 22/10/2025 7:47 am
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He's just carrying on the fine work that the Redcoats started in 1814.


 
Posted : 22/10/2025 7:54 am
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Are there not planning restrictions in America like we have here? Given how difficult making changes to some unremarkable, but still grade 2 listed, buildings is,  you’d think there’d be someone to step in if some bellend wanted to mess about with one of the most recognisable buildings in the world?

He’d just fire them, and install some one with a less discerning eye for taste, but still

Yes, in theory there are. This (BBC) report talks about the National Parks Service having some sort of oversight, but "something, something Woke, something, something DEI" would doubtless kick in first.


 
Posted : 22/10/2025 9:47 am
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Given that we have politicians modelling themselves on the orange shitgibbon and his antics, I think that might be an overly optimistic approach

 
What I meant was - It's not my money he's spaffing and if it's mostly the money of people that voted for the orange shitgibbon I'm not going to lose too much sleep about the waste. 

 
Posted : 22/10/2025 9:55 am
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He's building a mausoleum for himself. The 21st century equivalent of a pyramid. 


 
Posted : 22/10/2025 9:59 am
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No Pharos?


 
Posted : 22/10/2025 10:08 am
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Wonder if Melania's got secret plans for an extra patio out the back? Seems like the perfect opportunity


 
Posted : 22/10/2025 10:09 am
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He's building a mausoleum for himself. The 21st century equivalent of a pyramid. 

I reckon he's been to Windsor Castle and a couple of other royal buildings on his two state visits and gone home thinking "I want me some of that but more golder-er"

It'll be an absolute tat-fest. Like when the Allied forces reached Saddam's palace and found gold and marble fittings everywhere, gold-plated AK47s. It's the tackiest of tack. 


 
Posted : 22/10/2025 10:41 am
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The metaphors are just amazing though, the white house is being demolished and the Constitution is closed to the public


 
Posted : 22/10/2025 3:30 pm
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Apologies if I've fundamentally misunderstood US politics but,

Isn't Trump's increasingly deranged behaviour exactly why they (still) have the Second Amendment?


 
Posted : 22/10/2025 3:47 pm
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I think it's the reason they have the 25th amendment (and yes, I did have to search for that one)


 
Posted : 22/10/2025 3:53 pm
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