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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums35,000 formal public comments on Trump's stupid ballroom..97% negative per WSJ
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-ballroom-2675558793/White House deluged by 97 percent negative formal comments about MAGA ballroom: 'Disgrace'
The president triggered widespread outrage last year when he announced plans for a huge, gaudy ballroom more than twice the size of the central White House building, and then summarily knocked down the East Wing to make room for it, bypassing any regular procedure. The price tag for the project continues to balloon; Trump has vowed it will all be constructed with private donations and not taxpayer money, but this opens up the risk of conflicts of interest and influence-buying.
According to The Washington Post, the public comments filed over the project are 97 percent negative.
"Members of the public sent more than 35,000 comments about the project to the National Capital Planning Commission ahead of its Thursday hearing to review the ballroom, according to a Washington Post analysis of comments posted on the commissions website. The 'vast majority' of comments came from those who oppose the plan, commission staff said," according to the report. "More than 100 people are also slated to testify at the virtual hearing."
Among the comments, which are posted online, are those that range from, I oppose the spending of $300 million on this project, which was initiated without the proper authorization, permits, or design review, to "The destruction of President's Park and The White House is a disgrace!"
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35,000 formal public comments on Trump's stupid ballroom..97% negative per WSJ (Original Post)
BlueWaveNeverEnd
3 hrs ago
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Baitball Blogger
(52,128 posts)1. What a job Trump and his Administration has.
Grifting in novel ways, spending taxpayer money on a legacy building that will be immediately torn down once he leaves office and starting wars around the world.
Man must be exhausted.
intheflow
(30,138 posts)4. If he's exhausted, it's due to rage tweeting
at 2am. He absolutely has no interest in anything other than his will to power.
dutch777
(5,033 posts)2. Whether it is this or many other one off hair brained ideas, where is the money coming from?
bigtree
(93,983 posts)3. pay to play
...with corporations doing business with the federal government or in line to, forking over their bribes in the form of donations to Trump's pet project.