It’s hard to know whether “Melanie” aka Melania (Trump) is major pissed off or relieved by her dirtbag hubby’s latest stunt. Despite all the history of state dinners and other events held at the WH, where hundreds of people could attend Trumpty wants a ‘biglier’ ballroom. Decorated of course to his taste. To create it he’s taken over the East Wing where for decades the First Lady’s offices have been. Basically he’s kicked “Melanie” out of the White House space allocated for her.
For all his bravado it seems much as we know he wants to he can’t ‘rebrand’ the White House and plaster TRUMP in huge, fake gold letters on the place. So according to this article from The Daily Beast he’s been doing the next best (to him) thing. He’s going to and transform the interior into a DC version of Marmalade-A-Go. Ok, so the paving of the Rose Garden (after Melania sterilized the look of the plants) wasn’t inside but he’s been gilding the hell out of the Oval Office. Lord knows what his suite upstairs looks like. Now he wants an oh so grand as Mar a Lago style (I use the term loosely!) ballroom. You’ve seen how tacky that f**king place is.
When this new outrage is completed world leaders once feted at state dinners and other special events in actual stylishly appointed, classy surroundings will instead find themselves wondering why they’re in a bad version of a 1970s disco. According to WH Press Secretary Leavitt work will begin in Sept. and is scheduled to be completed before Trump’s term is up:
The new ballroom will be approximately 90,000 total square feet with a capacity to host 650 people.
It will cost approximately $200 million to build, and the bill will be footed by private donors, according to Leavitt.
Offices currently held in the East Wing including the office of the first lady will temporarily be relocated.
$200 million? First of all you just know it will become a slush fund that totals much more. Second, much as he hates the thought extra money will get spent to rush the job so it’s done sometime next year. There’s no way in hell Trumpty is going to have this done and not be able to have lots of use of it! My point is the job will be rushed and that means shoddy construction. THAT means another President (Trump won’t live forever after all. No one does no matter how rich or powerful they are) will have to raise money to either fix things up (including making it tasteful as befitting our most important ‘house’), or remodel the space. Either back towards what it was, or perhaps a better use of office space.
In the meantime we have to wonder how Melania is taking this since she hates her hubby as much as the rest of us do. She never wanted to be First Lady and even cried on election night in 2016. Not tears of joy but because she was looking forward to her hubby cutting her loose and finding Trophy Wife #4. But she got stuck in the job and dreams of finding boytoys in NYC once her divorce was final got put on hold.
The one thing she probably looked forward to was being gifted all manner of designer clothes to wear when she had to attend public functions. Trump, being the cheap bastard he is would never fund the kind of wardrobe she dreamed of. Imagine her shock to learn they were loaners and if she wanted to keep them she’d have to pay for them! Market value! Anyway the deal had always been she’d be arm candy for her husband. That’s the job of a trophy wife. Show up in public with him when expected, smile and (try at least) be charming. Oh, and pump out a kid so the hubby can nudge his buddies to prove he’s “tapping that.” She did her part and back in 2016 the roughly ten year period of employment was about to end. She’d take her settlement per the pre-nup and mostly fade out of Trump’s life.
All of a sudden she was thrust into a very public role she simply wasn’t suited for. There was no way in hell she could live up to the backstory about her. Seven languages and all that for example. Plus, First Lady is a full-time job and we know how she felt about THAT. Remember her complaining about the “fooking Chees-Mus decorations” and other stuff? So it’s safe to say that no longer having offices or now even much of a staff in the WH makes it easier to hide out up at Trump Tower. With Barron. I’m sure he’s got dudes at his college who are into “Cougars” to keep make her feel young and desirable again.
On the other hand this is a true public humiliation for her. It’s one thing to engineer distance from her P.O.S. husband and quite another to be publicly cast out of the castle. People will be making fun of her. Not that she doesn’t deserve every bit of scorn and ridicule that will come her way. But still, it’s one thing to have chatter about the transactional relationship with Donald and another for him to say “just get the hell out of here. I only want to see you when I summon you because I have no choice but for you to be at my side for a few minutes.”
I expect in the days, weeks and months ahead Melania will ping-pong back and forth on whether she’s relieve or pissed about this. More intriguing is something that occurred to me after I started writing. She was seeing Donald back when he was still in cahoots with…Jeffrey Epstein! There are pictures proving it. One wonders what tidbits Melania can offer? If she’s pissed about being kicked out of the WH, or at least partly so I’ll bet she’s called her lawyer to start working on an amendment to her pre-nup. She might be able to charge a boatload for her silence.
Or, even better decide she’s had enough. Do the divorce even if a quick one cost her some as he would screw around with the payout. THEN put out some truly damaging stuff about Donald and Jeffrey Epstein. I have people I grew up with who are MAGAs who insist she’d the best, smartest, most capable, classy and beautiful First Lady ever. More so than any wife of any head of state in human history. If she’d got dirt on Trump-Epstein she can tune him up for upwards of a hundred million to keep it hidden. Or, in a fit of pique she could decide he’s f**ked her over one time too many and f**k him back! One can hope…
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tear it down, in fact tear the entire wh down. between Clinton, Bush and Trump they’ve spoiled the entire building. Build a new modern people’s house. this is so f-ing ridiculous.
Trump, I’m sure, likes to think his favorite style is Imperial Italian.
But it appears to be much more Imperial Iranian, Dictator Iranian to be precise.
so they’re going to tear down the east wing for this crap? second, 90000 square feet only holds 650 people?
Bringing back the gargoyle industry. And the gilders. How about some of that lovely Russky asbestos Donald’s so fond of?
While he strips civil rights, healthcare, and food assistance from Americans, he showers himself in opulence. How long before he bestows a title upon himself to rival that of Idi Amin? You know he won’t leave the “Dada” or “Doctor” out!