Between the White House ballroom currently under construction, and the proposed Arc du Trump currently in the planning stage, Washington DC could look entirely different when President Trump leaves office. The classic elements are genuinely inspiring.
PRESIDENT TRUMP – “This beautiful building will be, when complete, the much-anticipated White House Ballroom — The Greatest of its kind ever built! It is a rendering from the Treasury Building, directly across the street, and replaces the very small, dilapidated, and rebuilt many times, East Wing, with a magnificent New East Wing, consisting of a glorious Ballroom that has been asked for by Presidents for over 150 years. Being an identical height and scale, it is totally in keeping with our historic White House. This is the first rendering shown to the Public. If you notice, the North Wall is a replica of the North Facade of the White House, shown at the right-hand side of the picture. This space will serve our Country well for, hopefully, Centuries into the future! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP“
Who do you think will be the first “guest of honor” at a state dinner using the completed ballroom?
One of the proposals for the Washington DC “Arch”
Professor Sundance should be in invitation. Not sucking up.
I hope it’s Putin!
The kill crazy and power mad Iranian Ayatollah’s biggest supporter?
No thanks.
Never mind that Putin led Russia out of communism and supported the return of a Christian nation.
Never mind that Russia has been the target for destruction from Europe ever since the second world war ended and Putin has managed to deal with it and slowly rebuild the Russian Federation.
Never mind that Putin found ways to keep the Russian Federation from crumbling even when facing severe financial and trade restrictions (maybe one reason he traded with the Iranian government).
People like you who pick and choose ignore the reality of complex issues and are unable to see the whole. At this point in time, Russia is our natural ally.
By the way, according to Tousi’s reporting, Putin is no longer supporting the Iran government.
Never mind that Putin led Russia out of communism and supported the return of a Christian nation.
Never mind that Russia has been the target for destruction from Europe ever since the second world war ended and Putin has managed to deal with it and slowly rebuild the Russian Federation.
Never mind that Putin found ways to keep the Russian Federation from crumbling even when facing severe financial and trade restrictions (maybe one reason he traded with the Iranian government).
People like you who pick and choose ignore the reality of complex issues and are unable to see the whole. At this point in time, Russia is our natural ally.
By the way, according to Tousi’s reporting, Putin is no longer supporting the Iranian government.
You are violating the First Commandment.
Where does he say he is a god?
You begin to sound like the corrupt media……Russia, Russia, Russia!
Wake up! Things are not as you have been told, or believe.
And unfortunately for many….their god is and….has become……their religion!
You suck.
You’ve been taught to worship Them as if they were co-equal with the Creator.
“We couldn’t have a God without them”
Apologies for copying text twice and ran out of time to edit.
Grateful to know that Tousi reports Putin has withdrawn his support – all the illegitimate, gangster Islamic regime has to offer is discounted oil as they asset-strip the country.
Restoration of legitimate government would offer far more benefits – Russia’s Caspian INSTC corridor down through Iran would be secure (note how Trump started with an Armenian base to stymie Erdogan’s influence), as well as secure the China-Iran pipeline – note too that Iran would be able to join the Sunni states in the Abraham Accords, as the royals want to diversify out of oil into regional development.
The Sunni states crush Islamic insurgent militias, they don’t want to be the next Syria along the Shia Crescent. The Minnesota fraud was down payments on Somaliland for the Palestinians to be moved there, as that region too is ripe for development.
I am sorry Israel plays very dirty, but nobody squawked when 3 million Germans died being force marched out of their Sudenten homeland on foot in the middle of winter, and 1.5 million more died in the Rhineland Meadows camps, and millions more, as women and girls from Soviet rape, as POWs in Soviet gulags, as 700,000 German slaves in France…
….and despite Hagana’s rumor that the deportation transfer camps were actually a secret experiment, atrocity propaganda to push unwilling colonists to go settle Palestine, used as a justification cooked up after the war.
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In 1917, as the Bolsheviks took Russia, Balfour, a one-man political disaster in both Ireland and England, saw a chance to plant a British outpost in the Great Game of oil, defend the Suez Canal, put a check on the Arabs as a weapon against the Ottomans, rally American Jews to the war, and get rid of Jews in England.
Thus his deal with Lord Rothschild, with Herzl and Faisal’s support.
By 1937, the Zionists were running out of money, Jewish emigrants had stopped coming, and European farming techiques didn’t work in Palestinian terrain. The Resurrection looked doomed to fail.
Ben Gurion and Hagana made a deal with both Germany and Britain, the Havarra Transfer program – make Israel your Australia, and send us rich Jews with German products – the Zionists would tax the emigrants 39% to recapitalize Israel, and bypass the Boycott in order to fulfill their vision of the Resurrection of Jerusalem.
Th Iranian Ayatollah and Putin have one very big thing in common which overrides all else. . They both like to have as many of their own people killed as possible. Th Iranian Ayatollah in the streets of the cities of Iran and Putin in eastern Ukraine in his 4 years long “Special Military Operation” However, Putin is running well ahead of his blood thirsty counterpart, the Iranian Ayatollah.
Total bull crap, as usual.
Too many Israel First followers here.
Too many Ortho-bros here. 😉 I mean, c’mon people, do you hear yourselves as you write these things. Now, I know I am just joking…but you?
Only serious question I’d ask you is: precisely how many mosques are there in Russia today?
And my follow-up: how many times did Putin emasculate his priests publicly v. times he legally protected muslims -whom his citizens saw as getting ‘out of sorts’?
Putin conducts attrition war in order to minimize casualties, and save Russian lives, such as both his soldiers and the Russians living in the Donbas that the Ukrainians have been shelling for the last 11 years. He is a moderate facing great pressure from the hardliners for going too slow.
Zelensky, however, is Jewish, as were the heads before him – he is happy to get as many Christian Slavs killed as he can so that whites in Ukraine might be replaced with Muslim and African migrants working on Blackrock plantations.
Just as the Ayatollah’s regime is an occupier hiring foreign troops (such as Pakistanis and Afghans as Basiji street thugs), so too is Zelensky with his Azov Galicians.
Boy howdy, you can say that again!
No problem.
Well said and totally worth repeating, MsWords.
Thank you. Excellent review of President Putin/s work. Christian orthodox family background has properly led President Putin in his life; All Praise be to God almighty!
You forgot Russia’s success of getting rid of monarchy; like the US it was the beginning of real freedom that many nations don’t understand…….many, many monarchies abound around the world.
Monarchies and slavery go together hand in hand, true communism and Islam are inseparable.
God Help US
The Russian people are akin to US in their struggles for freedom. Hope the US gets a grip on The US Constitution and The 10 commandments.
Neither Putin nor the Russian people got rid of the Russian monarchy. The 1916 Bolsheviks did that.
That said, I agree with the spirit of your comment.
The Bolsheviks weren’t an equivalent to the D party in the US?? Made up of Russian people, like the D party, that led an insurrection made up of Russian citizens.
Isn’t Obama close to the equivalent of Lenin; not completely successful, but had the same ends in mind with his Arab Spring. Only it was called the NWO/communism by both D’s and Rs – the Uniparty.
The Russian people got rid of Lenin.
I would agree with you! Putin and Trump are more aligned in taking on the cabal than the facade that the cabal puts on to be aligned with us!
And yet…….there are so many that believe the city of London and those aligned with it are more aligned with us than Putin.
In many ways……we are fighting the same battle and the same enemy as in 1776! Just different weapons, tactics and tools!
Agree with you 100 percent!
One of the best sites for getting info about the city of London is prometheanaction.com.
Sometimes things are not as they appear.
There should be a lottery for U.S.A. Citizens ONLY (winner must show proof of 2nd generation or older citizenship), and sell tickets. Winner would be one of the first to enter the finished building. Funds would then help pay for the Arch.
Only 2 generations ????
Forget that, make it 14 generations or older so there would be few enough eligible that i might get a chance to attend.
Wait a minute! My family has been here since the 1650’s,when New Sweden became part of New Netherlands, and we are only 13 generations.
We have a habit of marrying late and living long!
lol. 14 generations would take us back to the slavery days and the left would not tolerate that at all. Even if you could prove your ancestors were not involved in the trade. BLM would incinerate the place🤣🤣🤣
As a Native American I think I can document that with my family tree.
Sure does love the gold! It’s going to be awesome when completed.
Imagine every Dollar backed by gold!! And every penny worth earning and owning. God’s riches are the foundation of life.
God Help US
Everything God made is valuable and necessary for Life/living: every thing ‘manmade’ may be labor saving, entertaining, and money making they are not fundamental elements necessary to Life.
Those wanting so very very much to make Vladimir Putin the first honored guest might have just a little bit of compassion for the freedom fighting Iranian people, and how those that are still alive anyway, might feel abut such an honor being bestowed on a man who has helped keep the monster Iranian Ayatollah in power these many years.
But then, I suppose not.
You were doing great until last sentence.
The freedom fighting Iranians; oxymoron? OR mind games? Either way Iran should never be an example of fighting for freedom; the Iranians don’t know what ‘freedom’ really means IMHO. Their Ayatollah follows their ‘Scripture’ to a tee; rule by the sword.
God Help US
Go look up Jimmy Carter’s (and the CIA) role in the religious re-enslavement of Persia.
Great example of why for the most part the US of A ought stay home and mind own business.
I am perfectly capable and do possess compassion for the Iranian peoples, and amazingly, at the same time have gratitude for President Putin’s accomplishments in Russia. The two issues are not mutually exclusive. I reserve much of my hatred foe the “Intelligence ” apparatus in the US, not voted for by We the People, that has fomented much death and destruction at the behest of the profiteers of the military industrial complex and their purchased legislators who have commandeered the supposed consent of WE THE PEOPLE to perpetuate forever wars against many nations on earth. Remove the blinders from the eyes of the uninformed nonbelieving commentators on this site. Compassion for all citizens of Europe, Japan, Southeast Asia, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Great Britain, Russia, Korea, USA, Canada, and all other ordinary people who have lost their lives to wars throughout the history of OUR MIC.
A nation that is truly ready for ‘Freedom’ can be successful; The USA and Russia are prime examples.
The ‘PEOPLE’ of free nations deserve all the praise; monarchies, socialist, and communist nations continue as long as the can ‘control’ the ‘People’……….break the control and true freedom prevails.
But be wary; there are many, many, people who want free things more than freedom. The ‘comfort’ of someone ‘looking after them’…….
God Help US
People going to Iran to fight for them is not the same as the Iranian people ‘winning’ the battle. God’s People know that.
Here is more about evil Russia under Putin for you, Tom Tomorrow:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/who-weaponizes-children-russia-ukraine-conflict/5914690
So cool. Never been to DC so if I ever go, I’ll definitely enjoy it up close.
Walk in the parks, on God’s ground; a tree is more of a monument than all the flamboyance IMHO. Wild flowers taking root……many pull them up, calling them weeds.
A spire/tower/monument to Heaven isn’t practical and never efficient; ya can’t buy your way, nor climb your way. Being lifted is the only route. Or of course there is digging ……..
God Help US
Milei and Bukale (throw in Orban and Meloni) FTW!
Our veterans should be the first guests of honor.
It looks big enough that everyone will fit !!
The new rendering / plans appear scaled back, which if true, is great. Prior depictions were too large and out of scale. It was too, too much, over-the-top.
I wish POTUS would take his name off the Kennedy Center. Unneeded.
Want long-lasting impact? Hire some bona-fide attorneys to take down the Deep State. Even Sidney Powell seems disturbed by a lack of progress.
Farage as PM of the UK could be a possibility if he turns the UK around.
Once we flush out all of the illegals, we can offer to loan ICE teams to Britain in exchange for Diego Garcia.
Too late.
They already gave it away.
Diego Garcia deal was trashed by Starmer recently. It needed Parliaments approval and after what Trump said at Davos, Starmer sidelined his proposal. I don’t know if its totally dead for certain
On left wing message boards they are already ALL saying they are going to knock down the arch when they are back in charge.
Of course, a movement built on people who think something like that WILL NEVER BE IN CHARGE.
They can’t beat us with that sentiment.
A forest with wild flowers in the midst of DC; more practical, more memorable, destroy it and it rebuilds itself.
Put God’s gold in Our monetary system where it belongs and let the decorations and dedication/monuments to God’s natural flora. IMHO
Like Grassroots it has to come about ‘naturally’…….
God Help US
Dismantle D.C., spread it in small increments around the country. Very small!!
Most of the National Mall sits on reclaimed wetland marsh. If it went “back to nature”, everything west of the Washington Monument would be fetid, mosquito ridden SWAMP river bottoms that, rather than the beautiful bucolic trees you describe would instead be a bounty of bubonic DISEASE AND FILTH.
There’s even a creek (Tiber Creek) that used to flow across the Mall between the Smithsonian and the Capitol that now travels under it in drainage pipes.
Hey, while we’re satisfying your misanthropic fetish, should we plow up all the dead bodies in Arlington Cemetery and dump them into the river for good measure?
Much of what you advocate ruining are actually MEMORIALS BUILT TO HONOR BRAVE PEOPLE WHO SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES SO THAT YOU COULD FREELY BE STUPID IN A BLOG COMMENTS SECTION.
Your comment is foolish. Please use common sense.
Pawatcher was indulging in a little thought experiment about spreading federal offices around the country thereby making our federal government more in tune with average Americans and less concentrated in their ivory towers, a suggestion Trump himself has made.
Paw remarked that it would be nicer to see wildflowers on the Mall than narcissistic power brokers running around. Paw NEVER SAID ANYTHING about digging up graves.
Lighten the F’ up, Francis
Yes, what Pawatcher describes ALREADY EXISTS.
On the north side is what’s called “The Serpentine”. Comprising almost the ENTIRE length of the Reflecting Pool, and broken ONLY by the Vietnam War Memorial. LITERALLY WILDFLOWERS AND WHATNOT, AROUND A LARGE BEAUTIFUL POND.
On the south side, broken only by the Korean War Memorial, is a gigantic half-forested / half- open space untouched expanse. In good weather the grassy part is usually used as baseball and soccer fields.
BOTH of these spaces are almost a mile in length. Where once stood the physical infrastructure that housed the winning of TWO world wars.
2026:
1948:
Wow, that is amazing.
Cool photo comparisons, too.
Obviously taken from the top of the Washington Monument. It looks like the 2nd picture is a deliberate attempt to mirror the 1st picture (even lthough i lifted both photos from separate sources.
Is this area accessible to the public on tour of the WH? They can walk around the lake, etc??
May get a trip in before my departure. I only saw the WH at a distance as a teen. I’m more in tune with the 1948 view.
The whole entirety of The Mall is completely accessible and open 24/7.
There are National Park Police present and sometimes you can even find officers — all of whom are huge history buff and SPECIFICALLY enjoy working down there — who will give you your own “tour”. There are public bathrooms here and there that are all safe and clean.
I used to be big into running and have run at least 10,000 laps around the mall over the years. I prefer being down there in the middle of the night because you have the whole thing to yourself. It gets QUITE crowded during the day especially on weekends.
If you go there late at night you can park your car right next to the memorials so it’s way more convenient that way. There are ALWAYS people at the Vietnam memorial and on the Lincoln memorial steps, milling around.
There are homeless people around the outside perimeter of the Mall but NEVER on the inside of it. The whole are is VERY safe. I’ve literally never heard of any crime occurring in the Mall proper. Everyone is very respectful of that space, even vagrants. Homeless people tend to be very nice, actually.
You can walk right up to Lincoln’s feet inside the Lincoln Memorial 24/7. Arlington Cemetery is closed at night but you can walk right up to the entrance.
Between November and February almost all of the tourist activity vanishes so i think that’s the best time to see things.
I once got a free impromputu guided tour of the FDR Memorial at 3am.
I’m now out in the suburbs, but I lived in the heart of D.C. for 25 years. I’ve been everywhere and seen everything pretty much. I know every corner and intersection of the city pretty much.
Remember DC is SMALL. You can WALK from one end of it to the other more or less. From the Capitol to Georgetown is only 30 blocks. The new stadium they are building is only 20 blocks from the Capitol. But Capitol Hill actually IS a hill and it can be exhausting to walk up.
I’ve been in the Oval Office twice (1997 and 2003) and seen every part of the White House, even the secret parts. The kitchen, the bowling alley, the movie theater. I have NOT seen the private family quarters upstairs but i’ve been on the stairs that lead there before. I’ve stood at the Press Room podium and pretended like i was fielding questions lol.
They don’t let you take pictures inside the White House proper but i’ve taken photos of the whole grounds. The jogging track and tennis court. I have a photo of myself in Kennedy-esque “quiet contemplation” standing alone on the colonnade next to the Rose Garden right outside the Oval Office.
DC is a beautiful city. Personally i think it looks best in the winter when the trees are bare and you can see a lot more of places when they aren’t hidden behind foliage. It’s majestic in the snow with the white on white aspect of the buildings covered in snow. It’s all buried under snow RIGHT NOW actually.
SPECIFICALLY regarding the Serpentine, yes you can walk all around it. Over by the corner of 17th Street and Constition there is a multi level terraced area with tables you can sit down at and eat or hang out. That whole area was MASSIVELY refurbished when they built the World War II memorial.
The whole thing is very beautiful, clean and well kepr.
Before the WW2 memorial was built, I once swam in the small reflecting pool with some law school friends after losing a bet.
I have no idea if people can see these (i set the visibility to “public.”)
These pics were all taken inside the White House grounds (December 1997 — contemporaneous to most of the events surrounding the Monica Lewinsky scandal including the Bettie Currie gift exchange etc). The interior pics are pretty much the extent of they will let you photograph inside the non public part of the facility. I had a friend who worked in the Clinton administation. We had the whole West Wing to ourselves, inside and outside. Once you get past security (and i have a funny story because i walked thru security next to Wolf Blitzer) — once you’re “in” you are watched by secret service but as long as the door is open you can walk into any rooms. I sat at the cabinet room table, I saw Teddy Roosevelt’s nobel peace prize in the Roosevelt Room. We went in the Navy Mess downstairs. And of course the Oval Office. They let us walk into the room and stand as far as the edge of the oval carpet.
I hope these pics are visible because it was a very rare opportunity to something few ever get to see.
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I went there again in 2003. I had another friend who was an aide to Dick Cheney, who got us private access to stand on the south lawn jogging track and watch President Bush take off in Marine One from right up close. After the helicopter took off, we had unfettered access to the West Wing so i got to the Rose Garden during daytime. This time around we got to eat lunch in the Navy Mess. I have no photos of any of that, because it was post 9/11 and we had to leave our belongings in the same cubbies where the cocaine was later found. Good times, good times.
Thank you for the tour. You recognize beauty. Thanks again.
I have all kinds of wacky stories from over the years lol. I used to smoke weed and was pretty good friends with Sandy Berger’s daughter. The executive head of the peace corps lived down the hall from me in my apartment building. My best friend lived next door to Sonia Sotomayor. Heck I used to see Sandra Day O’Conner at the bodega at the end of my block. I even know somebody who used to ride the elevator up to his apartmnent with the Obamas from time to time. They lived in the building when Barack was a senator.
For a time i worked pretty high up in Conservatism Inc.
I’ve RIDDEN the Senate subway under the Capitol. We got a guided tour of the whole thing with Ron Paul. He showed us around and took us to lunch.
One of my “jobs” was to organize straw “visitors” to high profile Supreme Court arguments. We paid people $500 a day to camp on sidewalk in front of the Supreme Court — usually in February and sometimes in the extreme cold and snow. These people were “placeholders” so that VIPs could jump into those spots in line at the last minute and attend the actual Supreme Court argument. That’s a TOUGH ticket. Only about 100 people fit in the Supreme Court gallery so we would camp in the street for DAYS sometimes. Those are highly coveted spots lol. People came around in vans every hour ALL NIGHT with hot chocolate and coffee. We had generators and screened movies out there. Right on the damn sidewalk between the east facade of the Capitol and the Supreme Court. And there would always be a massive catering spread of sandwiches and cookies inside the Heritage Foundation headquarters a block away.
It was a whole OPERATION. Part of life in the capital of the world. What i described above is an “industry”, that exists here. We had to HIRE all those people to camp out and then disburse cash etc.
I even had a secret “spot” scouted out in an out of the way bathroom at Heritage and we would go smoke weed there. Good times lol
I used to be pretty good friends with Jamie Raskin. He was my constitutional law professor and then my best friend (a girl) was dating the best friend of Raskin’s brother. We socialized frequently out at bars in DC. This was long before Jamie entered politics. He peeled off from the scene when his first son was born — the one who committed suicide a couple of years ago.
One of my best friends ARGUED the Kelo case. We just recently hung out, we went to see Spinal Tap 2 together. I was a key player in the strategic design operation that got the Kelo case before the Supreme Court. My work was made into a major motion picture in 2017 called Little Pink House. The executive producer was one of my mentors. My “life coach”.
What a life you’ve led, great to hear. I’m small town, but did see Bush enter an arena here in PA. Since then I cursed him for all his ‘antics’ with little boys.
Oh, and JFK road through our town when he was campaigning.
That’s my life among the DC crowds.
You may notice a small island near the edge of the serpentine. That is a PRIMO photo spot, for things like prom and wedding party pictures. I’ve seen it set up for weddings before, although i would imagine such a thing would be near impossible to snag.
So, only accessible for elites? Just asking for a friend.
You seem to know the area very well.
Wow, the pictures, I’ve never seen these views; AND it is so much more beautiful and meaningful than the hinted at over the top ‘Arch.’ IMHO Statuary can’t compete with natural living beauty.
Thanks, I have never seen this side of DC. It is idyllic, and contains everything I revere,
PA Watcher
Interesting question: For some reason in the back of my mind I’m going to put my bet on Putin. I’d like to see Orbin walk through that gate. And, the Argentina guy, Mil…. Domestically, Marco (Trump’s endorsement?)!
The first event in the new ballroom should be a Wu Tang Clan concert. Bring em ALL together — method man, GZA, the RZA, inspectah deck and raekwon and OF COURSE ghostface.
With a special tribute segment for Ol Dirty Bastard.
Bold choice! Can you imagine??
THAT would seal the coveted Stapleton projects vote in Shaolin.
Jerome Powell needs 3 BILLION to do what?
King Charles/William. To cock a snoot at the British empire ;/ sarc
Seriously an American hero
Or a lottery among decorated vetarans
My thoughts exactly.
That’s going to look great when it’s done. You know they’ve always used the East Room for big events, but it was never as spacious as a true ballroom.
Always leave something better than when you found it.
…..unless you’re a democrat.
I vote for Tina Peters as the first guest of honor.
It’s a Lid!…….
What may be underneath could be the most interesting!
Good possibility that the youngsters figured it out…months ago! 🙄
I like her reporting the best…great investigation…and she has some
pretty good “receipts “ which leads to….AI DATA Center…. Time will tell.
Her original video had over 8 million views….and it was taken down. 🤷♀️
This is her latest on YouTube…..
Drey Dossier….
Trump’s ballroom is a lie – YouTube
Trump Isn’t Building a Ballroom – The Drey Dossier
I agree “In God We Trust” inscribed on the Arch – some where – God is part of this ! He built this country
What would be proposed to be located inside of the walls of the arch?
Now compare this with that ugly abomination of Obama library in Chicago
That arch is so Warhammer 40K I hope it goes in; the Internet loved all those God-Emperor memes back in 2016 and that would just bring it full circle.
In all seriousness, how nice it is to see proper Neo Classical architecture!
The Independence Arch looks much nicer than the Washington Arch (built to commemorate the centennial of George Washington’s 1789 inauguration).
Dang, now I’m gonna have to listen to Washington Square by The Village Stompers.
I can imagine the first shin dig will be for all the donors and people involved with doing all this.. it’s going to be an event they all want in on for sure.
I love the Arch, I like the gold, I think it’s a nice departure from all the granite stone, marble in DC, the addition of the gold color is a nice break that is needed now that I think about it and see it.
It’s also incredibly Trumpian.. he loves gold and fancy.
On a side note, I wasn’t sure what I thought about all the snazzy new gold in the oval office but it’s grown on me.
I’ve started noticing in all my decorating magazines that those gold applicates are becoming a thing.
See the current issue of Veranda magazine where they’ve done this in white.
I think this is all very funny because most all of the people in this industry are Lefties, both magazines and decorating and yet they are liking the President’s taste even though they’d never admit this.
We’re going to see a resurgence in this classic American, Iconic architecture- which was what Donald Trump wanted to happen.. he’s quite into all this stuff. He’s got fantastic taste.
I don’t think there’s enough gold on the arch for the boss’s liking 😝
The first guest? Who controls our congress? Who was the biggest donor to Trump? Come on treepers it’s not that hard.
Poor Democrats! Heh.
1st State Visit – Saudi Arabia Crown Prince, MBS, who might even be King by then. PDJT even alluded to it potentially when the were recent guests in November.
Having key leaders from several countries, including Putin.
Have new allies who won’t stab USA in the back.
The White House Ballroom in progress, detailed… beyond spectacular – typical Trump;
of note, the Carrera-adjacent marble floor is Calcutta Gold
I don’t like the proposed design of the ‘Arc du Trump’….it looks like something Michael Jackson would design…quite gaudy and over the top. Actually, I don’t even like it being called ‘Arc du Trump’…and would prefer ‘Arc du Triumph’, if, indeed, we triumph over the socialist onslaught our country is facing. In the meantime, it just might be a good idea to start focusing on the midterms, and indicating and supporting the Republicans that we will need to win the House.
It’s a joke, a meme in the God Emperor Trump style
Have you submitted your plans? Have you submitted your suggestions? They actually haven’t decided yet on what the arch will look like.
Any and all world War 2 vets that are still with us!!!
My $$$ is on it being Putin!
Hitler had big plans for Berlin, too. (/sarc)
The PDJT45/47 National Ball Room will be a source of pride for a long time to come, or at least until the New Confederate Anarchist Party regains control of the government.
He’ll invite Macron to humiliate him for what he’s done to Paris and the Cathedrals, especially Notre Dam, and filling the shithole with trash and Muslims
It sure is a lot better than that monstrosity on the right.
I vote for the King of England or the future King and wife. 🤴🇬🇧😉
Sorry, this arch is unnecessary. I don’t find it attractive. I’m totally in favor of the ballroom. That makes sense.
This was just a little joke in the God Emperor Trump meme style. There’s no arch.
Just a comment I read elsewhere…
When Trump announced a $300 million ballroom at the White House, something went off in my brain. The pattern recognition part started tingling. Ninety thousand square feet, $300 million, underground construction at a secure government facility. I had heard about something like this before. Something with those exact specifications, that scale, that price point.
It took me a minute to place it, but then I remembered: Oracle’s underground data centers in Jerusalem. Built in 2021 for Israeli military intelligence. Nine stories into bedrock, designed to survive missile strikes, built to house AI systems that make life-and-death decisions in real time. Ninety thousand square feet. $319 million. Nearly identical specs to what Trump just announced.
That’s the moment I started digging.
Digging In… Jerusalem?
I’d first learned about those Jerusalem bunkers months earlier while researching Larry Ellison’s relationship with Israel and Oracle’s involvement in the war in Gaza. The facilities weren’t typical corporate server farms. They were built for what’s called data sovereignty – a physical location where Israel’s most sensitive military and intelligence data could exist under complete government control, protected from both digital and physical attacks. When you’re running classified military operations and operating AI systems in active conflict, you can’t have that infrastructure vulnerable to destruction. So they built it nine stories down into solid bedrock, 160 feet below the surface, completely invisible to satellites. You know, normal light reading.
I’d filed that information away at the time, not sure what to make of it. But when Trump’s ballroom announcement came through with those matching specifications, I knew I needed to look deeper. Because when you see that kind of pattern match, you have to ask: is this actually about a ballroom?
So I started with the most basic question: who’s building this thing?
The Contractor
The lead contractor is Clark Construction. I went to their website to see what they normally build, and their “Critical Facilities” portfolio immediately caught my attention: the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Campus, CISA Cybersecurity Headquarters, USCENTCOM Headquarters at MacDill Air Force Base. These aren’t ordinary buildings. These are top-secret intelligence campuses and military command centers.
But what’s listed publicly is only part of the story. I started digging through government contract databases, and that’s when I found them. Six separate contracts for data centers where even the client names are redacted. Just listed as “Confidential Client Data Center 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.” The facilities themselves are so classified that acknowledging who they’re built for would compromise national security.
So building classified data centers for clients they legally cannot name is actually Clark Construction’s specialty. And they have the contractual mechanisms to hide what they’re building – they hold a NAVFAC contract with a $950 million ceiling where the total value is public but individual task orders can be classified. Which means you can effectively hide the true cost and scope of specific projects by funneling them through pre-existing military construction contracts.
The Firing
Then on December 4th, something happened that made the picture even clearer. Trump fired his original architect. James McCrery, who designs beautiful churches and the Supreme Court gift shop (say what you want about the guy, but he’s got range), was replaced with someone named Shalom Baranes. When I looked into who Baranes is, I understood immediately what had changed.
McCrery Architects, New Carmel, Wyoming
After September 11th, when the Pentagon needed to be rebuilt and hardened against future attacks, they hired Shalom Baranes. This man designed the Pentagon’s post-9/11 hardening project – the secure wedges, the SCIFs, the bomb-resistant architecture. His entire portfolio is federal facilities requiring classified spaces and hardened infrastructure. And Trump hired him after demolition had already started, after the East Wing was already gone. The aesthetics had stopped mattering. You don’t replace your church architect with the Pentagon’s bunker guy because you want prettier chandeliers.
At this point I wanted to see what was actually happening on the ground. If this were really a data center, there would be physical evidence. And data centers need one thing above all else: massive amounts of power.
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DC’s Power-grid
So I started looking at what’s been happening with DC’s power infrastructure, and that’s where the timeline becomes impossible to ignore. In August and September 2025, just weeks after Trump announced the ballroom in July, Pepco filed emergency requests for major infrastructure work near the East Wing. They’re not making incremental improvements. They’re replacing 45-year-old power feeders and increasing power capacity in this area by five times. Five hundred percent.
Here’s what makes that absurd: downtown DC office occupancy has been declining since COVID. Buildings sit half-empty. Commercial real estate demand has shrunk. Power demand in this area should be flat or declining. But Trump announces a ballroom in July, and by August, emergency filings go in to increase power capacity by 500 percent. Downtown DC is half-empty, but apparently we need five times the power for a dance floor.
During this same period, DC Water increased capital spending by $300 million with specific focus on the Federal Triangle area. The Washington Aqueduct – run by the Army Corps of Engineers – issued warnings that “data centers are planning to use Potomac River water for cooling.” They’re explicitly acknowledging that data center development is driving new infrastructure demands. The GSA Central Heating and Cooling Plant completed upgrades including industrial-scale cooling towers and magnetic bearing chillers designed for cooling infrastructure that generates tremendous heat.
All of this infrastructure work, happening in the immediate aftermath of the ballroom announcement, in the specific geographical area surrounding it.
The Donor List
Then I started looking at who’s actually paying for this thing. The project is being privately funded, which means no congressional appropriations, no budget hearings, no public scrutiny. We have a partial donor list, though most dollar amounts remain undisclosed. And when I started going through that list, I realized I was looking at it wrong. I shouldn’t be looking for dollar amounts. I should be looking at what these companies actually do.
My anatomy of a ‘ballroom’ diagram to show the flow of operations (if my thesis is correct)
Carrier Corporation is donating HVAC systems. But Carrier has a division called Carrier Quantum Leap – their data center solutions offering “comprehensive energy efficient solutions for data center thermal management.” Are they donating a basic ballroom AC system, or their specialized data center cooling infrastructure?
Paolo Tiramani from Boxabl is on the list; which I find to be curious. Boxabl makes foldable prefab buildings, marketed for disaster relief. But they’ve also sent over 150 units to Guantanamo Bay, they work on Class 5 military installations, and their units come pre-installed with Faraday caging – electromagnetic shielding needed for SCIFs. And Oracle’s own documentation for their Jerusalem facilities describes using modular construction techniques for rapid deployment underground.
Then there’s Caterpillar, which makes industrial generators providing over 100 megawatts of backup power. Union Pacific, which owns 14,000 miles of classified fiber optic cables serving as the Department of Defense’s secure telecommunications backbone. Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Palantir. Booz Allen Hamilton, which builds classified networks for intelligence agencies. Blackstone, installing over 200 megawatts of backup power infrastructure.
And you know what’s not on this list? Baccarat crystal, Versace, Hermès, Tiffany, or Steinway. The luxury brands that would murder their competitors to be associated with White House state dinners. None of them are here.
What we have instead: classified telecommunications networks, data center cooling systems, electromagnetically shielded rooms, and 100-megawatt generators. Classic ballroom essentials.
Don’t Worry, The Military Is On It
In October 2025, Trump said something that should have made every journalist in America ask harder questions: “We’re also working with the military on it because they want to make sure everything is perfect. And the military is very much involved in this.”
The military is very much involved in this ballroom. Which makes perfect sense if you think about it, because if there’s one thing the Pentagon is known for, it’s their expertise in party planning and floral arrangements. Or maybe the military doesn’t typically get involved in ballroom design. Maybe they get involved when you’re building classified facilities and survivable operations infrastructure.
Here’s what I think is actually happening.
Six months before this construction began, on Trump’s first full day back in office, Larry Ellison stood next to Trump and Sam Altman at the White House to announce Project Stargate – a $500 billion AI infrastructure initiative for government operations, defense, intelligence, and consolidating federal data across agencies. That infrastructure needs somewhere to physically exist.
Viktor Orban would be a great government leader to rub in the faces of the EU.
Russia/Ukraine Peace Accords & Russian re-entry to G8 signed at Triumphal Arch???
New, democratically elected Presidents of Venezuela & Cuba first guests of honor at ballroom???
President-Elect JD Vance & Vice President-Elect Rubio to hold first Inaugural Ball at the White House???
That proposal for an arch looks silly for the USA. Why copy one when we could have one with an American spirit to it, one that’s much simpler and stately without the overabundance of statuary, etc.? Let’s see some other proposals.
As for the first guest of honor-how about the hard working staff that work for our President? They take great care of him and the FLOTUS, keep him safe and allow him to do all that he does each day.