{"id":23672,"date":"2025-12-16T12:33:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=23672"},"modified":"2025-12-16T12:33:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:33:18","slug":"trump-takes-next-step-in-quest-to-turn-dc-into-mar-a-lago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=23672","title":{"rendered":"Trump takes next step in quest to turn DC into Mar-a-Lago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>President Donald Trump positively needs to depart his mark on our nation\u2019s capital. Too unhealthy that mark is nothing however a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2025\/12\/12\/2358201\/-Trump-gets-sued-for-ruining-the-White-House\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\">gross, gilded stain<\/a><span>. Trump\u2019s aesthetics are as terrible as his politics\u2014a hole and ugly horror.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"image-captioned width-xl align-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Debris is seen at a largely demolished part of the East Wing of the White House, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025, in Washington, before construction of a new ballroom. (AP Photo\/Jacquelyn Martin)\" class=\"width-xl\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.prod.dailykos.com\/images\/1493217\/large\/AP25296621899587.jpg?1761600002\" title=\"Debris is seen at a largely demolished part of the East Wing of the White House, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025, in Washington, before construction of a new ballroom. (AP Photo\/Jacquelyn Martin)\"\/><figcaption>The East Wing is being demolished to make room for President Donald Trump\u2019s new gaudy ballroom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span>Whereas the White Home has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2025\/11\/6\/2352336\/-Trump-s-tacky-Oval-Office-decor-is-oozing-outside\" target=\"_blank\">borne the brunt<\/a><span> of his gold-plated assault, Trump has huge plans for the remainder of Washington. There\u2019s a complete metropolis on the market for him to wreck, and there are some golf programs he would love to get his mitts on. The person\u2019s acquired huge developer desires, they usually don\u2019t definitely simply cease on the White Home.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Whereas we not have an East Wing of the White Home so Trump can construct his ballroom, nobody formally is aware of precisely what that monstrosity will seem like as a result of he hasn\u2019t submitted any official plans and simply <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2025\/12\/5\/2356903\/-Out-of-step-Trump-breaks-up-with-his-ballroom-architect\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\">broke up with<\/a><span> his architect. Nonetheless, all indicators level to it being Mar-a-Lago-style rubbish.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>There\u2019s additionally the gilded Oval Workplace decor, which is oozing <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2025\/8\/8\/2337493\/-Trump-is-making-the-White-House-as-tacky-as-he-is\" target=\"_blank\">tacky gold-plated plaster<\/a><span> in all places. And, in fact, there\u2019s the Lincoln rest room, which he <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2025\/10\/31\/2351470\/-Families-may-soon-starve-but-Trump-gets-a-new-marble-bathroom\" target=\"_blank\">turned into<\/a><span> a marble and gold nightmare.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>However Trump\u2019s gilded desires can\u2019t be contained to only one constructing, so why not attempt to spoil Washington\u2019s public golf programs too?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Again in 2020, the Nationwide Hyperlinks Belief <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/aboutus\/foia\/upload\/FINAL-Lease-for-Golf-Courses-EXECUTED.pdf\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\">was awarded<\/a><span> a 50-year lease to handle Washington\u2019s three public programs. However on Oct. 29, the Trump administration <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2025\/12\/13\/trump-dc-golf-national-links-trust\/\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\">issued a notice<\/a><span> that NLT is in default. No, it doesn\u2019t say why it\u2019s in default or  repair it\u2014a traditional Trump transfer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"image-captioned width-xl align-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, Monday, April 7, 2025. (Pool via AP)\" class=\"width-xl\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.prod.dailykos.com\/images\/1421851\/large\/AP25097777079444.jpg?1744837088\" title=\"President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, Monday, April 7, 2025. (Pool via AP)\"\/><figcaption>President Donald Trump sits within the gold-plated Oval Workplace.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span>NLT will get 45 days to repair that default\u2014the one which hasn\u2019t been defined\u2014which is quickly coming to an finish. If NLT doesn\u2019t someway repair the imaginary default, it should lose operational management of the three programs this week, and voila, they\u2019re all Trump\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The timing of the discover helps clarify the bizarre Oct. 31 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2025\/10\/31\/golf-course-east-wing-dirt-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post report<\/a><span> {that a} bunch of dust from the East Wing demolition was dumped on the East Potomac Golf Course. Consider it as Trump marking his territory. Oh, and nobody is aware of if it\u2019s chock-full of asbestos or not.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Let\u2019s face it: the golf programs will probably be a part of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2025\/10\/31\/2351438\/-The-reviews-are-in-Trump-s-revamp-of-the-Kennedy-Center-is-a-flop\" target=\"_blank\">Kennedy Center<\/a><span> as one other piece of Washington that\u2019s been wrecked by Trump.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And we\u2019re additionally going to get a cheesy Arc de Triomphe knockoff, which Trump <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/14\/trump-arch-washington-dc-policy-chief\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\">says<\/a><span> is the principle precedence for his home coverage chief. Certain, Trump is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2025\/12\/10\/2357782\/--You-can-give-up-pencils-Trump-tells-you-how-to-survive-his-economy\" target=\"_blank\">telling people<\/a><span> that their children can\u2019t have dolls or pencils due to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2025\/12\/10\/2357834\/-Shocker-Fed-chair-confirms-Trump-s-tariffs-caused-inflation?pm_campaign=front_page&amp;pm_source=top_news_slot_6&amp;pm_medium=web\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\">skyrocketing inflation<\/a><span> because of Trump\u2019s tariffs, however that arch <\/span><em>should<\/em><span> get constructed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Actually can\u2019t wait to seek out out which non-public protection contractors, huge tech, and media companies <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2025\/11\/19\/2354592\/-Shady-crypto-company-doesn-t-have-a-problem-with-bribing-Trump\" target=\"_blank\">will rush to<\/a><span> \u201cdonate\u201d to Trump\u2019s newest hideous transform. You already know, for freedom.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2025\/12\/15\/2358548\/-Trump-takes-next-step-in-quest-to-turn-DC-into-Mar-a-Lago?pm_campaign=blog&#038;pm_medium=rss&#038;pm_source=main\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump positively needs to depart his mark on our nation\u2019s capital. Too unhealthy that mark is nothing however a gross, gilded stain. Trump\u2019s aesthetics are as terrible as his politics\u2014a hole and ugly horror.\u00a0 The East Wing is being demolished to make room for President Donald Trump\u2019s new gaudy ballroom. Whereas the White [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1868,5745,199,533,57,1644],"class_list":["post-23672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-maralago","tag-quest","tag-step","tag-takes","tag-trump","tag-turn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23673,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23672\/revisions\/23673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}