Is there an equivalent of disbarment for architects? If this monstrosity gets built, let's make sure the next Congress will raze it to the ground.

(gift link) https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/03/29/upshot/white-house-ballroom.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XFA.q-Jk.Ke1iUCIbOeBo&smid=url-share

Trump’s Ballroom Design Has Barely Been Scrutinized

A stairway to nowhere: Three months that could change the White House for generations.

The New York Times
@gleick I think they tried that with Howard Roark

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Oh, just make it bigger, no one will notice.

Needs more columns maybe?

@tomjennings @gleick It is a very important project, as they can hide documents in the many columns.
@gleick Needs a McMansion Hell review ASAP.

@gleick I'm guessing it's getting slow-walked in the construction phase as contractors like to know they will get paid.

If the Dems take the mid terms I would expect construction to grind to a halt.

EDIT: Except for the giant military bunker that's being built below the ballroom - announced for the entire world on Air Force One by you know who.

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Stairs leading to nowhere is a dead-giveaway his idiotic #ballroom was "designed" by #ChatGPT.

The chance there are ACTUAL blueprints is about zero.

And he actually said aboard AF1 that he plans to pay for it by redirecting part of the Pentagon budget (which he thinks he can justify by putting a military bunker beneath it.)

A new Dem-controlled Congress will NEVER allow this, so his idiotic Ballroom is dead-on-arrival. 🤦‍♂️

@gleick Ballroom barely scrutinized, he's not been scrutinized at all.
@gleick The whole of DC is abominable festival of imperialism to celebrate an emoire of racist violence. Raze it all!
@gleick Given Trump’s track record of paying contractors for his Atlantic City projects I can see some bidding hesitation on this one.
@gleick The first 3d print entirely from bullshit.
I think a not too distant future outcome image would resemble this
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Very probably done by an AI-rchitect. My guess is: SpeerGPT. 😆
@gleick An egomaniacal mad emperor with hideous taste and a history of not paying contractors. What could possibly go wrong?