I’d argue that Trump being hit by a missile attack would IMPROVE the USA national security.
Anyone with an IQ higher than their shoe size agrees
Fuck that. President starts a war that results in missiles falling on DC he can go down with the ship.
“I can’t be expected to live in this glass house. Not after all these rocks I’ve been throwing.”
Add the cost of ripping it up to the cost of restoring the white house for the next admin. Start with restoring the rose garden and getting the vegas decorations out.
Take it out of his fortune. Triple damages.
And that’s just for starters. He’s going to pay to rebuild Iran out of his own pocket.
And compensate the Epstein victims and/or their families (whichever applies).
Although he can share the bill with other Epstein collaborators and clients on that one. Nationalise their entire estate - or whatever similar procedure would make sense here.
It won’t even be started before Trump pops his clogs.
I am seriously not the least bit concerned.
Imagine being the poor bastards stuck in there with him. The smell alone … !
Where air goes in so can poisonous gases, so you may be able to hide but any enemy could still Moscow Theatre siege your ass
Vast wall of loaded diapers stacked to the ceiling.
We’ll have to demolish the rest of the White House just to get the stench out.
Will this $600m ballroom be finished before the end of president?
The 1.6 billion ballroom will probably not be finished, but the money is somehow gone.
I dunno, 2.2 billion for a ballroom seems like a great deal.
Yeah, almost a steal at 3.6 billion. I can’t believe they got such a good deal. They’re practically saving trillions.
I’m sure the Trump family are comfortably provided for, somewhere in that $4.1B
You’ve got to spend a trillion to save a trillion, so they say.
No,the 800 million dollar facility won’t be finished in time for that
you guys are trying to protect them?
He’s trying to protect himself, family and staff optional.
Leave it a fucking hole in the ground.
He should move into the hole.
I’d rather he get a burial at sea.
The Trump-Epstein Scrotum of Terra-Interred Security, or TESTIS.
Nah, Im not worried about missiles at all. Do it … I dare you.
You show the world how tough you are Donald. You’re too manly to hide behind armor.
The other option was for Him to stop being a douche but that is not possible
Genetically impossible to do.
Others are more sanguine. Paul Eckloff, a former Secret Service agent who served on Trump’s detail and previously on Barack Obama’s, argued that what has emerged in court so far does not amount to a ‘genuine security breach,’ saying operationally sensitive information remains classified.
He was more worried about the practical effect of having a giant dig site inside a secure perimeter. An open pit next to the Executive Residence, he said, inevitably alters the calculus for agents tasked with keeping intruders out and the president alive. ‘The longer this is an active construction site, the more concerning it is from a general security posture,’ Eckloff said.
I don’t think it matters much from a national security standpoint, specifically because of this:
Judge Leon has not hidden his scepticism. At an earlier hearing, he dismissed the idea that Trump’s safety required the ballroom to go ahead, describing the ‘large hole’ next to the White House as a ‘problem of the President’s own making.’
We don’t protect the President because the President is some sort of exceptional, irreplaceable figure. The President is just some guy. If Trump gets shot, then Vance gets dropped into the slot and things keep on trucking. Hell, personally I think that the US would very probably be better-off with just about any other major politician at the wheel.
We protect the President because we don’t want it to be viable to coerce the President via physical threat. We don’t want a country to say “do X on Policy Y or maybe we kill you” and have that be something that can affect the President’s policy-making.
In this case, Trump decided that he was going to go right ahead and create the security risk, so he’s probably not especially concerned about it. If he wanted it to stop, which presumably he would if he were worried about being killed, he could stop it. Ergo, cocercion isn’t a factor.
If Trump decides tomorrow that he wants to go wingsuit BASE jumping or something, I mean, okay, sure, whatever. The Secret Service can just sit around and munch popcorn and watch him face-plant into a hillside, as far as I’m concerned. The problem isn’t the President dying, but him being affected by threats of him being killed.
That’s also why we have lifetime Secret Service protection for the President after he leaves office. It’s not like he’s being President then, not like we’d lose whatever he’s bringing to the table. But you don’t want other parties to be able to threaten the guy in office with retribution after he leaves office.
Build it, let him tour it, then lock it…and toss away the key
Donald…I have a cask of very special wine I’d like you to try. It’s an Amontillado. Do come down into the bunker and have a taste.
Aww, come on. Amontillado is fine, I love the classic approach. But it’s just not appropriate for Trump. If you want to write Trump to have a poetic end, he needs to go out like Manius Aquillius. Maybe in a modern version, Trump in a bone-headed move decides to personally go to Tehran to pound his fist on the table and make his silly demands. The Iranians ultimately end up executing him by pouring molten gold down his throat to punish him for his greed.
No, no, no. You have to tell him that your cask of Amontillado is far inferior to his cask of Amontillado and you want him to taste it so that he can tell you how great his cask is.
