Trump White House construction IMPLODES after tearing it down

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The hugely embarrassing demolition and construction project that the white house is now at an even more humiliating standstill. You've got to hear what is going on. Um, Trump demolished part of the white house and we're now learning that there was not any realistic plan for what was going to be rebuilt. Now you might say, of course we know what was going to be built.

It was going to be a 300 and something million dollar ballroom. Yes, generically, we know that. But it turns out that the way Trump wanted it done is apparently architecturally implausible. And the entire thing is now at a standstill. And Trump's looking for a new architect. It is a it is a humiliation of global proportions. So they start the demolition. We see it. The cranes are there.

I was in D.C. recently and saw it with my own eyes. They're moving material out day and night. It was 10 p.m. I was at dinner next to the White House and saw cranes functioning. I mean, it's completely and totally nuts. So the destruction starts and then the organizational incompetence that Donald Trump

is known for comes to light. The critics of the project said, you know, 90,000 square foot ballroom. Will the seven even fit? Is it appropriate? Does it make any sense from a construction perspective, from a design perspective, does it make any sense to have such a ballroom at all? And now all of a sudden the dust has kind of started to settle on the demolition. And the architect that Trump picked, James McCrary, the second, said to Trump, this is not really going to work. And the central conflict is that McCrary warned, you know, um, it's too big. This is going to, uh, violate a core architectural principle, which is the extension

really shouldn't overshadow the main building. Like you, if the white house is 55,000 square feet and you're going to build a 90,000 square foot ballroom, it just doesn't really make sense. The ballroom needs to be smaller. Trump wants a structure so huge. Again, I don't know if there's sort of like a psychological phallic aspect to this where because of Trump's diminished, diminished size in a number of areas, he feels the need to build big things or we're getting more into like the, the, the psychological elements of compensation here. Put that aside.

But the point is, the architect said this doesn't really make sense. So what happened? It's totally inevitable. McCrary is out and he now leaves a partially demolished site. The White House is scrambling to replace him. They are looking at a D.C. architecture architecture firm Shalom Baran Baroness to

take over. And the message here is very clear. You start demolishing you. What's that thing that they say? Measure twice, cut once you start demolishing before you even have a feasible plan for what's going to be built. You put the project at a standstill. You're firing people and replacing people. And as always, the cost goes up 100 million, 200 million, 250, 300, over 300 million dollars. And we can't even get off the drawing board so far.

Now, you might say, David, symbolically, this is disastrous, but I don't really care that much about it. I'm going to argue that this is actually encapsulating an emblematic of the chaotic nature of everything that Donald Trump does. Right. So take a look here.

Tears down a historic landmark on impulse, ignores expert advice and then says, oh, you won't do the stupid thing I want you to do. You're fired. And I'm going to find somebody else right now. This is the theme. Trump has always used his time working in real estate and business as the reason why

he should be president. Right. He says, I'm I manage big projects. I negotiated deals. I ran large companies. I'm a builder.

I'm an investor. I'm a businessman. Because I'm good at those things. I would be a good president. The skills will transfer. The first question which we asked when Mitt Romney was running is, do we have evidence that business people make good presidents?

And the answer is no, we don't. But then the second layer is, is Donald Trump actually a good builder? Is Donald Trump actually a good business person or is it just that he was given a whole bunch of money by his dad? And by the way, if he had just thrown all that money into the S&P 500 index fund, would he end up with more money today than if he had done anything? And the answer is yes.

Trump has done worse financially because he did anything. And so then you dig into his building history and you see that he has a long history of projects that go over budget. There are fights, There are problems. It's exactly what's happening in the White House ballroom project. And it's exactly what's happening in this country. So if anything, Trump's past business dealings and the lawsuits and the bankruptcies and

the chaos, it's actually evidence that Trump is particularly ill suited to be the president of the United States. The pattern is he'll profit from his name where he can. But when you actually need to do construction and execution, it all falls apart. Anybody surprised? Anybody surprised?

I am certainly not.