cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40254758

The Trump administration said Monday in a court filing that the president’s White House ballroom construction project must continue for reasons of national security.

The filing came in response to a lawsuit filed last Friday by the National Trust for Historic Preservation asking a federal judge to halt the project until it goes through multiple independent reviews and wins approval from Congress.

In its filing, the administration included a declaration from the deputy director of the U.S. Secret Service saying more work on the site of the former White House East Wing is still needed to meet the agency’s “safety and security requirements.” The administration has offered to share classified details with the judge in an in-person setting without the plaintiffs present.

  • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    79
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    3 days ago

    So here’s the deal:

    trump considers himself the nation.

    Without a ballroom, trump is insecure.

    trump is insecure.

  • dan1101@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    45
    ·
    3 days ago

    It’s convenient how you can say anything is a matter of national security and that makes it ok.

    • pedz@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      11
      ·
      3 days ago

      Don’t forget to add some claims about weapons of mass destruction to help the case.

    • Monument@lemmy.sdf.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      2 days ago

      Just like eroding every possible freedom to ‘protect’ people from terrorists and children from pedophiles. Irony is dead.

  • D_C@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    23
    ·
    3 days ago

    With the amount of listening/recording devices that’ll be fitted during construction then I’ll have to agree that it will be a national security issue…

  • Anne@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    32
    ·
    3 days ago

    What was that conspiracy theory that they’re building an underground data center and the ballroom is just a cover?

    Starting to sound a little less wacky…

      • jaybone@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        10
        ·
        3 days ago

        Somewhere he can hide while the masses attempt to physically remove him, before he can call in the military to murder them all?

        • Omgpwnies@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          2 days ago

          That’s one of many things I find batshit insane about the US election process - the fact that there’s a months-long period after the votes are counted and a winner declared that the losing president is STILL PRESIDENT and can just do whatever they want FOR NEARLY THREE MONTHS!

        • XeroxCool@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          2 days ago

          Imagine he does run down there after losing the next election. He screams, “you can’t make me leave!”

          And then they just leave him there, power on, data cords cut, so he can still push the buttons that make the screens blink

    • Lodespawn@aussie.zone
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      3 days ago

      With the amount of digging going on in the photo it certainly looks like there’s more than a ballroom going in …

    • Mirshe@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      2 days ago

      People theorize that they’re installing extensions to the presidential bunker.

  • Triumph@fedia.io
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    26
    ·
    3 days ago

    It’s going to feature a dentist chair and a bunch of weird heads on the walls, isn’t it?

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      2 days ago

      “But it’s a national security issue that we have a demolished building connected to the white house. We need to fix that. It’s not my fault it’s demolished”

  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    2 days ago

    Fundraising/holding bribery lineups cannot be national security, no matter how he decides in his head. That is only purpose of a ballroom: Holding such events.