A Billion Dollar Dance Hall for the Devil?

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart

I knew when Trump announced a plan to build an unnecessary ballroom, and swore it would cost 200 million dollars, all paid for by his oligarchs, he was telling another huge lie.

No one wanted his monstrosity. Although he promised that only a small part of the East Wing of the White House would be demolished, he told another lie. The People’s Home no longer has an East Wing.

Trump is a guest of the people and has no right to make any changes to the White House, I believe a lawsuit should be filed against the orange buffoon, forcing him to return the White House to its original condition, and he must pay for it.

THE BIGGEST LIE IS ABOUT THE COST

Over the last few months,Trump changed the estimated cost of his garish edifice to himself from 200 to 300 and finally to 400 million dollars. Now, Lindsey Graham is leading a movement by right-wing extremists to force the American people to pay for Trump’s folly.

By the way, the plans shown to the press cannot be completed at the cost claimed by your pathological liar, pretending to be an American President. It will require more than one billion dollars, and possibly closer to two billion.

MAYBE TRUMP IS REVEALING THE FACT THAT HE IS LIVING IN THE PAST

Construction costs have tripled over the last 20-30 years. My wife and I moved into our home in 1999. The total amount financed for the next 30 years was $122,000.00. Today, our home’s value, based on current construction and property costs, is just under $400,000.00.

FACT: THE WHITE HOUSE BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE. MOST OF OUR NATION’S 340 MILLION CITIZENS WILL NEVER SEE THE INSIDE OF THE DEVIL’S DANCE HALL

Trump not only hates the past, he has never learned from his mistakes, and there have been many. When I was in high school, I learned the reasons and the importance History is, or was, if you live in a red state, a required subject.

Not only are buildings, artifacts, documents, letters, musical instruments and novels whose origins are 100, 200, 300 years old or longer treasured memories of the past, they a direct links to our ancestors, our predecessors. For Trump to destroy a large section of our White House, carefully restored after its destruction during the War of 1812, is a crime against America’s history and the people who are the true owners of the residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Trump’s actions and words offer irrefutable proof that he is afflicted with a lifelong mental disease known as “malignant narcissism.” This is the reason he is an egomaniac who wants his name and his historical stamp on everything.

It is also a fact that his life of crime and debauchery are reasons why the only way of remembering and defining Donald John Trump must be the number stamped on his prison uniform.

Op-ed by James Turnage

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Sources: forbes.com: Trump Claims Ballroom Project Is ‘Under Budget’ Despite $1 Billion Request

reuters.com: Trump defends higher ballroom costs, targets less than $400 million