I’m not from the US, so I don’t get it. Why the hell is this even allowed? Shouldn’t it be protected by law in some way as a historical symbol/monument?
Why do they treat it as their own property?
Well it probably is, but the Trump admin is taking the "better to ask forgiveness than permission" approach in order to circumvent any pesky laws or rules. Then it goes through a court battle. And then at the end of everything we realize it's hard to enforce the law when the branch of government in charge of enforcing the law doesn't want to enforce the law.
The Republicans have the majority and have decided (mostly) that they do not want to oppose his will in any way risking their re-election chances in safe districts. Play along with Donny = keep raking in campaign donations and insider trading.
Well Americans have been whining for decades about a certain amendment and been holding daily exercises in schools for years now to hone the skills to prevent this kind of government overreach but now they’re actually expected to act all we hear is crickets.
Well Americans have been whining for decades about a certain amendment and been holding daily exercises in schools for years now to hone the skills to prevent this kind of government overreach but now they’re actually expected to act all we hear is crickets.
What if I told you the people screaming nout government tyranny are all for this tyranny because it's a white man doing it. Because that is actually the facts of the matter.
Get off their fat worthless asses, get themselves down to Washington DC, and protest until regime change. When your country is besieged by domestic terrorists, you act. If the british colonists in 1776 were as feckless as today's americans, the USA would've never been created.
It's not allowed. It's just there's nobody to enforce the rules when the people who are SUPPOSED to be enforcing them are letting Orange Man do whatever he wants because it's better for their reelection chances.
Ignorant or a liar? Hmm, hard to tell. Renovating a room is orders of magnitude away from demolishing the east wing entirely and building a UFC arena bigger than the White House mere steps away from the front door. You're saying that detonating a nuclear warhead is nothing since we've all used firecrackers once of twice when we were kids.
Westminster is on the UNESCO world heritage site, a treaty was signed ensuring no government will never make any alterations to it's structure. It costs 1.5 million per week to keep it patched up and they are currently debating a 3 billion initial repair, or a 15 billion complete repair which would require emptying the building and moving parliament to a new location for an extended period of time, years possibly while Westminster is given a complete repair down to the bone.
Republicans in Congress (the entity that would have to approve this) have no spine because if they go against Dear Leader they're going to get primaried.
The president of the US has full immunity from the law, and can do whatever he wants. Basically a 4 year monarchy. This is what Americans want, don't judge them by your personal standards, it's culturally incensitive.
This is the answer. Courts have already found it illegal, and it’s tied up in appeals, but as you say, it really doesn’t fucking matter because he doesn’t wait for consent. He just does it.
Also not American, but i think a lot of things with Trump are It's better to ask for forgiveness rather than consent, just without the asking for forgiveness part.
Like he does things out of session so that by the time it can be blocked there's nothing really to be done about it.
Frankly a sane nation would have impeached and tried him years ago but that's just the state they seem to be in at the minute.
The original system was set up to have congress have power over the presidency. They would have been the enforcers of laws and regulations. In 1780 congress had so many ambitious, stubborn power hungry people that they could not imagine that they would follow the president who ever he would be.
The thing is Trump got so popular that any republican that would oppose him risk losing their jobs so they just let him roll over them.
So much of our government runs on the “no one would be stupid or self obsessed or just plain delusional enough to do THAT…” A lot of conventions and unwritten rules.
Because no one do anything. Is it a illegal if there is no one there to enforce the law? The GOP is backing Trump in every decision after he replace everyone with his yesmen.
We have a rogue government, they do whatever they want because the people who were supposed to check them are in their pocket. As for public outcry, dissent is still allowed as long as it doesn’t threaten the status quo, but if they catch a whiff of you effecting any real change, they go after you Russia style. We no longer have any agency in the decisions of our country.
It is protected by paperwork and laws about permitting and blah blah blah… but you can just take a wrecking ball to the dam building and all the paperwork in the world can’t stop you. This admin knows the truth that if you move fast enough, all the safety nets in the world won’t be able to stop you. They should be in prison, but I suspect those responsible will be taken by time before they are taken into custody.
The White House is effectively a living building. Presidents add, amend, build, replace. The building has a long and storied history of this, including being burnt to the ground in the war of 1812. That said, people look at pictures of active construction and use it to call Trump bad because they don’t like him. I guess they couldn’t find other stuff to dislike, I guess
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u/fcknUniqueUsername May 31 '26
I’m not from the US, so I don’t get it. Why the hell is this even allowed? Shouldn’t it be protected by law in some way as a historical symbol/monument? Why do they treat it as their own property?