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Photographer

(1,142 posts)
Wed Aug 10, 2016, 10:26 PM Aug 2016

Trump Refuses To Live In The White House If Elected?

http://www.upvibes.com/wont-believe-donald-trump-lives/



Source: Chron

As reported by the NY Times and Adobe Chronicles, Trump says he will not live in the White House if elected. He requires a complete renovation of the White House or his own palace. He requires a $100 million dollar ballroom just to entertain foreign guests. Why would Trump make such an opulent request? We will attempt to bring you into the World of Donald J. Trump so you may hopefully begin to understand.
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Trump Refuses To Live In The White House If Elected? (Original Post) Photographer Aug 2016 OP
yes tacky gilt. MFM008 Aug 2016 #1
I can only imagine how he would redecorate the Oval Office. Adsos Letter Aug 2016 #2
He'll make it a museum folks. He thinks the US democracy is a quaint old fashioned little thing. MichiganVote Aug 2016 #3
Legally Required erpowers Aug 2016 #4
looks like a bad museum spanone Aug 2016 #5
looks like one of those edhopper Aug 2016 #7
He would make a great dictator for a 3rd world country. milestogo Aug 2016 #6
Yep. Dictator needs a palace. Simple mansion won't do Panich52 Aug 2016 #9
Palace in Central Africa milestogo Aug 2016 #17
He did say he wanted to add a ballroom to the back of the whitehouse yeoman6987 Aug 2016 #8
Trump's White House... pinboy3niner Aug 2016 #10
I don't care if all that crap in the photo is solid gold... ailsagirl Aug 2016 #11
I agree completely. smirkymonkey Aug 2016 #20
You said it ailsagirl Aug 2016 #24
He has dreams of empire and golden thrones... procon Aug 2016 #12
That place shrieks "NEW MONEY!" Warpy Aug 2016 #13
This won't be an issue, since he won't be elected. n/t CaliforniaPeggy Aug 2016 #14
I dont think taxpayers have a thing to worry about INdemo Aug 2016 #15
Love this comment!!! "It looks like it was designed by Liberace on acid." LOL!!! n/t RKP5637 Aug 2016 #16
Ok...time to go to bed. This literally gags me. nt Laura PourMeADrink Aug 2016 #18
And he thinks he can live outside the white house and install the security elsewhere? lindysalsagal Aug 2016 #19
I refuse to live there as well, and we both have about the Gabi Hayes Aug 2016 #21
This is not true. I saw it once and then looked around and heard him say he would live in the White Maraya1969 Aug 2016 #22
Living there or not won't be an issue for him because Raine Aug 2016 #23

MFM008

(19,808 posts)
1. yes tacky gilt.
Wed Aug 10, 2016, 10:28 PM
Aug 2016

I believe he will never have the chance to get his fat ugly orange face IN the white house.

erpowers

(9,350 posts)
4. Legally Required
Wed Aug 10, 2016, 10:33 PM
Aug 2016

I thought the President was legally required to live in the White House? I know Joe Biden's situation is different from the President's, but I thought he was legally forced to move from Delaware to Washington, D.C. because he had to reside in Washington, D.C. So, is the President allowed to live in a residence other than the White House? I can see why the Secret Service would want the President to live in the White House since their security apparatus is most likely in that house. However, former Presidents are able to live in houses other than the White House.

 

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)
8. He did say he wanted to add a ballroom to the back of the whitehouse
Wed Aug 10, 2016, 10:46 PM
Aug 2016

He wants to get rid of tents. He said he asked president Obama if he could do it for free and the president said no. Lol.

ailsagirl

(22,896 posts)
11. I don't care if all that crap in the photo is solid gold...
Wed Aug 10, 2016, 11:03 PM
Aug 2016

IT'S HIDEOUS!!!!!

TACKY
GARISH
VULGAR
GAUDY
RAFFISH
TAWDRY

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
20. I agree completely.
Wed Aug 10, 2016, 11:53 PM
Aug 2016

He is so classless and tacky. But just the way he is with every one of his other flaws, he thinks the opposite. He thinks that his lifestyle reflects the height of sophistication and elegance.

Warpy

(111,256 posts)
13. That place shrieks "NEW MONEY!"
Wed Aug 10, 2016, 11:14 PM
Aug 2016

I didn't think too much could be worse than Limbag's place but this one is, every surface encrusted with gilt, marble, and a really odd collection of statuary. It's a stage set, just like the "cottages" of Newport, RI, undoubtedly where he got a lot of his ideas on decor. Or day-core.

None of it looks like a place I could spend 5 minutes in, let alone a Sunday morning reading the Times. The glare off all that marble would get to me very quickly. I think even Mad King Ludwig was a little more restrained.

He's not going to like the White House, at all. For one thing, it's an old brick house. The only reason it's white is a coat of paint applied and kept up after the British burned it in the War of 1812. Interior walls aren't marble slabs, they're paint or paper. Furniture is genuine antique stuff, none of that gilt encrusted "inspired by Louis XIV" crap, which means some of the upholstery is original and a bit threadbare. Oh, no, the White House is OLD MONEY and he's going to hate every bit of it, it reminds him of a club he'd never get to join, not even if he had as much money as he says he has.

INdemo

(6,994 posts)
15. I dont think taxpayers have a thing to worry about
Wed Aug 10, 2016, 11:16 PM
Aug 2016

Next he will be telling us he will rent it out by the week or month to tourists

lindysalsagal

(20,683 posts)
19. And he thinks he can live outside the white house and install the security elsewhere?
Wed Aug 10, 2016, 11:47 PM
Aug 2016

Holy crap. Everyone knows that facility is completely loaded with security devices. NO way can you install that anywhere else. Plus, they can't be looking around for POTUS: He has to be in his cage where everyone has access to him, where communications are totally secure, where heads of state are secure....

Maybe we finally have his reason to quit. Maybe this is it, folks.

He's done. Stick a fork in him.

 

Gabi Hayes

(28,795 posts)
21. I refuse to live there as well, and we both have about the
Thu Aug 11, 2016, 12:04 AM
Aug 2016

same chance of winning the election at this point......

crosses fingers about the pending October surprise/major terrorist attack (one and the same?)

Maraya1969

(22,480 posts)
22. This is not true. I saw it once and then looked around and heard him say he would live in the White
Thu Aug 11, 2016, 12:23 AM
Aug 2016

House during some press conference.


Here is the NY Times talking about how he would redecorate the White House....or something like that

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/opinion/sunday/how-will-trump-redecorate-the-white-house.html

Raine

(30,540 posts)
23. Living there or not won't be an issue for him because
Thu Aug 11, 2016, 02:33 AM
Aug 2016

he won't have the option since he's not getting elected.

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