Critics and commentators call the ballroom a 'death trap'
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Legal analysts, academics, and journalists reacted to the report by linking it to Trump's past disputes over ADA accessibility and fire codes at his private properties, with several suggesting the shoddy construction could later justify demolition.
“Donald Trump is stealing taxpayer dollars to destroy the White House and replace it with a firetrap.”
Marcy Wheeler
Donald Trump President; ballroom project driverJames McCrery II First architect on the White House ballroom project
Marcy Wheeler Legal analystDaniel Gilmore Media studies professor
Amanda Carpenter Conservative commentator
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The White House ballroom's first architect reportedly quit the project after he warned Trump that he was bypassing emergency exit routes and fire safety codes. Trump's response to the architect: "I am the code."
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WAPO: The architect quit “after warning repeatedly that Trump was insisting on a preliminary design that did not provide adequate emergency exit routes or fire-containment measures .. .. ‘I am the code,” Trump said.” @washingtonpost.com
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Paragraph from an article at Raw Story about fire and safety violations in trump's self-indulgent ballroom - "The Post could not determine whether a code review was ever completed, but two sources told the newspaper that Trump argued with McCrery before his departure, saying, "I am the code." " Some day soon our AI agents will speak like this…
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I've said it before but I'm hoping this becomes some kind of Curb Your Enthusiasm comedy of errors, where everything culminates in things burning down or exploding. I think both they Reflecting Pool and the shoes he buys everyone that are too big would play a part in some way.
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The top architect for Trump's ballroom resigned after Trump repeatedly insisted that building codes such as emergency exit routes do not apply to the White House.
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"This ballroom is a building code violation and must be torn down immediately." - New Democratic President 12:01 pm, January 20, 2029
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But it’s all about “national security” right? /s ‘I am the code’∶ # Trump clashed with # ballroom architect over # safety issues James McCrery II resigned in October after warning that Trump was insisting on designs that violated fire & safety codes. # law https://www. washingtonpost.com/investigati…
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It’s amazing that he has so much money going into the project and he still wants to cut corners to make it cheaper by violating safety codes.
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“I shall be sequestering funds to pay for this by seizing all assets of the Trump Organization”
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Das wird mein Standardspruch, wenn mir was auf der Arbeit, daheim oder im Straßenverkehr nicht passt! "I am the code" www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... ‘I am the code’: Trump clashed...
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Trump Ordered Illegal Removal of Braille "Get rid of the [expletive] braille. No blind people are going to live in Trump Tower," Trump shouted, according to Res. "Just do it."
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Trump stole taxpayer $$ to destroy the White House and replace it with a firetrap and too few ladies stalls.
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As a developer, Trump hated the regulations that called for making buildings handicapped accessible. Because he’s such a wonderful human being.
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So Donald Trump is going to recreate the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire on the White House grounds.
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Well, if it’s just his donors and lackeys inside…
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Trump thinks he’s Louis XIV, the Sun King “monarque absolu”.
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Wild that people still support this man.
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Approval floor’s ~20%. For anything. Like, including peanuts as a pizza topping and HPV.
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The dimwit has no clue that there is real American Architecture and it's not that fake neoclassical slop they push. Do they know of Sullivan, Wright etc? Not to mention the midcentury American architects.
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As I recall he had some of his hotels built without required ADA equipage because "I don't want those people staying here".
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The fire exits would just give his lackeys ways to escape after he's entombed
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There was no demolition review-permit, there was zero planning review, zero historic review, zero design review. Why would you “suddenly” need to do fire life safety (building code) review? (sarcasm & metaphor for oligarchs doing as they please- following laws is for rest of us, and suckers)
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Can SCOTUS admit an oops was made in interpreting unlimited power and stop the bleeding they allowed to ooze?
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there is precedent via @doremus-schafer.bsky.social
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