It may be that Donald Dumb simply wants history to remember him. But building a huge ballroom after demolishing half of the White House, all stacked with tacky golden crap, implies that at the very least you get to use it once or twice. Slated to be completed by the time the dumb jackass is set to leave the Outhouse, the ballroom might not be available to King Don the Dumb unless, of course, he intends to stay beyond - unconstitutionally - his secomd term.
Asked whether building a ballroom has any symbolism, comedian Bill Maher responded, “The symbolism is he’s not leaving. That’s what bothers me about it. Who puts in a giant ballroom if you’re leaving?”
OutHouse officials have said the 90,000-square-foot is privately funded and issued a list of donors - all sycophant billionaire asskissers and CEOs of giant corporations - and will be completed before Trump’s second term ends in 2029.
The indicators of Donald Dumb's intentions of staying beyond what the law allows him are piling up, including Donald Dumb's own statements that "he wouldn't mind" and that "many people are asking him to stay for a third term". Even the composting Radical Right weirdo Stave Bannon has said there was a “plan” to get Donald Dumb to stay for a third term, explaining there are ways to get around the two-term limit set in the 22nd Amendment.
“Trump is going to be president in ’28, and people ought to just get accommodated with that,” he said, adding that at “the appropriate time, we’ll lay out what the plan is.”
Donald Dumb has joked ambiguously about running for a third term before. Last August he said he will “probably not” run in 2028. “I’d like to run,” Trump said. “I have the best poll numbers I’ve ever had.” But earlier in March, he clearly said he was “not joking” about the chance to run for a third term. This "strategic" ambiguity is Donald Dumb's master card in his deal-making. It's also a way to test the idea by throwing it in public and watch for reactions. Further, by planting a clearly repugnant idea in the public domain and in the stream of political discourse, he immunizes people into accepting it when the time comes.
So many things Trump did say that everyone thought were out of wack have in fact materialized. Things we would never have countenanced have been normalized and no longer shock.
He did tell NBC News’s Kristen Welker, “And, and you know, we’re very popular. And you know, a lot of people would like me to do that. But, I mean, I basically tell them, we have a long way to go, you know, it’s very early in the administration.” Which is consistent with Steve Bannon's delayed gratification with a "plan" to be announced in due time.
The 22nd Amendment, which prohibits presidents from seeking a third term, was ratified in 1951, after President Franklin D. Roosevelt secured an unprecedented fourth term.
To repeal the amendment, Trump would need support from two-thirds of the House of Representatives and the Senate or a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds of the state legislatures. The amendment would also require approval from three-quarters of state legislatures.
But Donald Dumb is not one to worry about laws and constitutions. He is more likely to declare a state of emergency, suspend the laws, and indefinitely postpone elections on the pretext of fighting crime, for which he is training his Federal military forces by deploying them unnecessarily in "hostile" Democrat cities and states. This will allow him to remain in power for life, as long as he can justify the state of emergency. That is how dictators around the world have always done it. In which case, he can enjoy his new ballroom at 83 years of age and beyond, perhaps assisted by a cane or a wheelchair on account of his every enlarging cankles.
Elsewhere, Democrat commentator James Carville chimed in along the same lines of thinking, saying that Donald Dumb despises his own Republican voters whom he believes to be of the same moron caliber like him, and cannot be bothered with “any kind of rules” that constrain him.
Carville believes that as Donald Dumb's electoral chances dwindle, it will only accelerate his craziness, thievery, authoritarianism and lawlessness, citing Steve Bannon's “plan” for a third term beyond 2028 and his calling Trump “a vehicle of divine providence.”
Carville thinks that the MAGA crowd are "just getting started, and when they start seeing they’re losing, it’s going to get crazier and crazier, and they’re going to redistricting ...If you’re a Republican out there, remember, Trump doesn’t care about you. He hates you... Trump 'hates the United States. He hates the Republican Party. He hates any kind of system that we have here, any kind of rules.'"
“I hate to be like this, being an old man, but I’m telling you, we’re at a really dangerous point in the United States,” Carville said Friday. “And I believe that from the bottom of my heart, and a lot of other people I know that are really smart historians … totally agree with me.”
“We’re up against — as a country — we’re up against the wall,” Carville added. “And right now, there is no hope. There is fear. And people are justified to be afraid.”
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Jen Psaki Says Trump’s Gaudy White House Ballroom Shows His ‘Horrible Taste’: ‘A Walking, Talking Parody of Himself’
"Trump is literally making himself the punchline of a 14-year-old joke," the MSNBC host notes of his East Wing demolition
Jen Psaki said President Donald Trump’s $300 million White House ballroom makeover proves not only that he has horrible taste, but also that he’s the “walking, talking parody of himself” that Barack Obama joked about 14 years ago.
“I want to take you back to the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Yes, that one. You know, the Correspondents’ Dinner — it’s the annual Washington tradition, kind of a weird one where the president and members of the press get together, maybe have a few drinks,” Psaki said on Thursday night’s episode of “The Briefing.” “They tell a few jokes at each other’s expense. But in 2011, the dinner was especially notable because that was the year that Barack Obama got up and absolutely roasted Donald Trump. And there was one joke from that night that I think has a certain resonance today.”
Psaki then played a clip of Obama from the dinner where he said, “Say what you will about Mr. Trump. He certainly would bring some change to the White House.” The former president then showed a mockup of the White House made to look like one of Trump’s casinos. In the clip, the entire room erupts in laughter — well, everyone except Trump.
“He does not look thrilled,” the MSNBC host noted. “But that was then-President Barack Obama imagining what felt at the time like a completely crazy, bananas universe — an alternate one where Trump becomes president and renovates the White House to look like one of his tacky hotels and casinos.”
She continued: “But now, of course, we are living in that crazy, wacky alternate universe that Obama conjured up that night a long time ago. By now, you’ve seen the images of Donald Trump’s construction crews tearing down the entire East Wing of the White House to make room for a gaudy new ballroom Trump plans to build in its place.”
This week, the Trump administration demolished the East Wing of the White House with plans to build a $300 million dollar ballroom in its place. The move has sparked backlash from the public and many Democratic politicians because Trump did not seek approval from Congress or the NCPC (National Capital Planning Commission). Psaki empathized with the frustration many are feeling, but also pointed out that Trump has unwittingly made Obama’s joke about him all those years ago true.
“Trump is literally making himself the punchline of a 14-year-old joke. A joke about what might happen if a narcissistic real estate developer with horrible taste became the president of the United States. He’s proving once again that he remains kind of a captive of the very stereotype that’s made him a target of ridicule like that for so many years. He just can’t seem to help himself.”
Psaki went on to call Trump “a walking, talking parody of himself.” She noted that this doesn’t minimize the dangerous decisions he’s made while in office, but did point out that “authoritarian leaders can become so caught up in projecting their own power that their levels of blatant public corruption just get more laughable as they go.”
She also said his actions expose the president for the “small man that he is,” as California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker took new actions against Trump’s ICE deployment and attempts to redraw congressional maps.
“He is cruel and he is very corrupt. He’s knocking down the White House for a ballroom, shaking down American taxpayers and pardoning a crypto CEO who has been a huge proponent of his own crypto business,” Psaki concluded. “All of that is true. All of that is insane. But he is weak. He’s not strong. And he is growing more and more unpopular. He’s become a version of his own joke — a joke about himself. And Democrats know it.”
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