The “Ballroom” dimensions don’t add up
By: Daily Kos
Should we accept shoddy work from a shady President? Trump is just making this up as he goes. As usual, there is no plan. Just empty promises.
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From a post on Facebook by Andrew Kerr, a licensed architect with 20+ years experience, who has worked on several Federal projects.
1. With a projected size of 90,000 sf and a budget of $300M, the cost per square foot would be $3,333. No building costs anywhere near that. $1,000/sf is astronomical.
2. Assuming a drawing in the classical style according to the Golden Ratio, the building footprint is 380 feet by 235 feet.
3. It’s supposed to be a ballroom for 999 people. 20sf/person is pretty comfortable. That’s only 20,000 sf. Add in 10,000 sf for support functions and another 10,000 sf for pre-function, extraordinarily generous, that’s still only 40,000 sf. Leaving 50,000 sf.
4. The renderings of the building exterior and interior don’t match. The interior shows a room of about 200x100. The exterior is 4.5 times that size.
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And no one in Washington D.C. stood up to defend American values, traditions, history, and heritage. Second verse same as the first.
A chapel would be a nice addition to the White House, wouldn't it? Will there be a chapel in Trump's new cathedral? Hell no! Trump certainly doesn't want to be upstaged by God. We all saw what happened when Jesus upstaged Trump at Charlie Kirk's memorial.
It seems like a scam. As in everything he does, he intends to make money for himself off of this thing.
Looting the treasury John.
Another ignorant comment, it's all Privately funded so there is no Treasury involved.
What do you have to say about the apparent fact that the dimensions of the building dont add up? The building will be twice the size necessary to seat 1000 people, which is a capacity we dont need anyway. What is this building going to be used for? It isnt going to be just state dinners because there are not that many state dinners.
Trump told reporters today he is not ruling out running for a third term.
Gee do the dimension that you say don't add up include replacing the old East wing, because you know that all those offices will be recreated for the first Lady's team along with trave etc. So does Ballroom plus new East Wing come closer to the total you are looking for?
Can you give me an over under on when the left will stop falling for his trolling?
We know Trump better than you do. Assuming he is in decent health, he will try to stay past 2028. How do we know this? He tried to overthrow our government the last time he was asked to leave.
There is no new East Wing in these plans. The ballroom will be built on the site of the old East Wing (plus many thousands of more sq ft.) .
You really don't think the donors are going to be paid back? Most, if not all, are government contractors. It doesn't take a crystal ball to predict some cost plus procurement in the very near future.
I wonder... Did he pull a permit? What about inspections? If a building inspector finds a violation does that mean his family is in danger? Will he be prosecuted for doing his job? So many questions.
HAHAHAHAHAHA...........................There are no permits or inspections.
You laugh Georgie but you're still not gonna be invited to the ball.