Aesthetics
I’ll just say this – it’s going to look ridiculous. It’s way out of scale, so it looks like a damn warehouse.
That huge box on the right side: that’s the stupid ballroom. The entire population of Queens could fit in there.
Tip Jar
I’ll just say this – it’s going to look ridiculous. It’s way out of scale, so it looks like a damn warehouse.
That huge box on the right side: that’s the stupid ballroom. The entire population of Queens could fit in there.
I’m surprised they didn’t make the model at such a scale to include Trump’s Arch (not to be confused with Trump’s Bone Spurs).
Include him in the picture and you get a successor to this image of another dictator who had visions of a
Thousand Year RechGolden Age:https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-hitler-speer-bormann-inspect-a-model-of-the-triumphal-arch-for-berlin-36994055.html
It’s SO Hitler.
Oh my fucking god, it looks like a fucking Costco! It’s literally a big box!
Couldn’t get more symbolically Red State than that, I suppose. Couldn’t be more suburbs fuck-you-ing to cities. Couldn’t be more the idea of America reduced to an empty consumerist box to put class-striving ideas inside. Breathtaking in its symbolism, frankly. This is America’s underbelly, roaring out.
Yeah, the architectural model of Herr Drumpf’s ballroom reminded me of the scene in Downfall where Albert Speer shows Hitler his model of the proposed Führermuseum, which was supposed to be built to display looted European art treasures. Later in the film I think we see that same model, covered in dust, amid the ruins of Berlin after it was taken by the Red Army.
Maybe they’ll paint the exterior “Go Away Green” like it’s a Disney attraction that isn’t even supposed to be seen from the outside.
That seems to be the idea: inside it’s magic and make-believe (in this case: some kind of grotesque gilded fantasy of Dumb Donald’s), and the actual shape of it in the real world — a fucking box — is irrelevant, because such material things as the shapes of structures take a back-seat to the fantasies they convey.
Postmodernism rears its ugly head again. Foucault really is getting the last laugh.
I reserve judgement; until the whole schemozzle of an edifice is gold-plated and dedicated to the eternal glory of Trump.
Holy shit Arty, that’s some trans ideology right there!
@YNNB
Oh my god! Good point! That was completely inadvertent! But here we are: I’ve (accidentally) made yet another parallel between trans ideology and the right. It turns out, that’s pretty easy to do. (Hence, my accidentally doing so!)
This movement sits so much more comfortably on the other side of the aisle. Crazy that the left doesn’t see that. If they only jettisoned this one stupid issue, they’d win elections again and the world wouldn’t go to shit!
It reminds me of a fiddler crab.
Keep in mind this is how the man dances. He wants a ballroom that’s much bigger than the White House just to do a few arrhythmic fist pumps.
That was NOT the design pitched when I first heard about the “ballroom.”
How the hell did he get planning permission to demolish the East Wing of the White House? What happened to all the interior furnishings before the demo machines moved in? He’s reshaping it in his own tawdry image. He doesn’t plan on ever moving out.
Planning permission??? Surely you jest.
From Reuters:
“The White House still intends to submit those plans to the National Capital Planning Commission, which oversees federal construction in Washington and neighboring states, a White House official told Reuters.
. . .
The commission is now led by Will Scharf, a White House aide.”
The guy works for Trump, so of course it gets approved.
Why does this remind me of a quote from the James Cameron film “Titanic”?
Nobody is calling it the Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Ballroom, so please don’t start.
Arty:
I think of that color as “gang green”.
@Papito,
ABC News is reporting that he wants to name it after himself. I think a compromise is in order: we can call it the Trump-Epstein Ballroom.
Somewhere in Berlin there is a huge concrete block slowly (though not that slowly) sinking into the sandy soil. It was built to test if Speer’s grandiose visions were feasible. Turns out they weren’t. I can only hope the same fate befalls this monstrosity.
WaM @ #17: The White House is perhaps heading to becoming Castle Drumpfenstein; analogous to another: “a medieval fortification on a spur above the village of Frankenstein, Rhineland-Palatinate in the Palatinate Forest in Germany. Its name derives from the local House of Frankenstein.” But the Trump-Epstein story appears to have already in some ways to have surpassed that classic by Bram Stoker.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein_Castle,_Palatinate
That’s better.
And though I still have not a clue what was wrong with my original, that has to be all for now.
Goodnight, sweet ladies; gentlemen. Heart surgery tomorrow.
(Exeunt.)
Best wishes for speedy recovery!