Trump’s White House Ballroom & America’s Ugly Architecture Problem

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Trump’s White House ballroom. Yeah. my God. Lots of controversy. The lefties are up in arms on MSNBC and other places with showing pictures of Trump’s excavators knocking down walls there at the White House to put up his Buj. It’s gonna be wonderful, great, fantastic ballroom. Anyway.

Um, listen, okay. Um, I’m, I’m not a fan of what he’s doing. I don’t think that this is necessary. I think that stupid patio he put in the back is ridiculous, but hey, okay. It’s Trump. He’s going to do what he’s going to do. I take a look at all that gold crap that he put up everywhere. To me, it’s crap to each his own. Everyone’s got their own.

Style doesn’t make him a bad person because he likes gold everywhere Not my thing by any stretch. It’s Trump’s thing. He likes it. I mean it is what it is. It looks as gaudy as hell to me, but Okay, again, it doesn’t make him a bad person and again, this is part of the problem we have today is the fact that

We divide ourselves based upon what the other political party is doing. I’m a member of this party, this guy over here, he’s a member of that party, he’s doing this, it’s automatically horrible and bad. If this was flipped, okay, if Joe Biden was putting up a ballroom, I’m telling you right now, Republicans would be throwing a hissy fit.

And it’s predictable. They would. They’d be throwing a hissy fit about what was being if Joe Biden was, you know, decorating, know, decorating the the Oval Office in areas around there with the I don’t know the colors of Scranton University. I couldn’t I don’t know. We went to Delaware or something like that. I don’t know. It would tick off Republicans. It would.

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Next guy’s gonna come in. They’re gonna redecorate what whatever it may be to to each his own to each his own Can I? Correct me if I’m wrong. I don’t think the taxpayers are paying for any of this I certainly hope not that’s from what I’ve heard so far. I said, correct me if I’m wrong I’ve done my homework on this. I think this is all privately funded quite frankly

People say, you know, it made me cry and it’s ruining the White House. Other presidents have expanded and renovated the White House. He’s not the first person to do that. OK, so again, stop with getting your underwear in a bunch about the entire thing. Quick little rant on real estate and beauty.

You know, we here in this country, for what again, for whatever reason, it may be again, we really at this point in time, we have to we have to seriously invest in wrecking balls. I’ve been saying this for some time. There was a story said actually, it’s got this today. It’s a massive blow up. It’s out of Hartford, Connecticut, massive Plaza, Constitution Plaza, six building, six building.

Office complex, 670,000 square feet plus.

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It’s foreclosed on it was purchased for 71 million in 2015. There’s still a 48.7 million dollar loan that just foreclosed on this. The vacancy rate in Hartford is almost 39 percent. I talked about it in terms of New York City and Manhattan and certain corridors and areas that are just never going to come back. It’s kind of American, quite frankly. It’s in the way that we handle real estate. We get on a kick.

And we say we need to build as many skyscrapers as humanly possible and keep building them and building and building them without any real thought of me. Where is this going to be 10, 20, 30 years down the road? Take a look at a city like Manhattan. OK, to me. To me, the coolest areas of Manhattan are the oldest areas of Manhattan. You walk around the West Village of Manhattan or you go down to the financial.

District and some of those stone street and some of those streets that have been there Okay, it looks like it looks like you’re like a Harry Potter world for crying out loud, except it’s real

It’s one of the things that I guess we kind of screw up here and we’re going to have to start understanding. I mean, what are they going to do in Hartford, Connecticut with this six building office complex? Vacancy rate is close to 35%. You knock it down.

You need to knock it down. it’s again how real estate is handled as far as tax policy is concerned here in the United States, where you take losses in the stock market, you can write off 3000 bucks a year. You’re taking losses on your real estate, you find a myriad of different ways of taking writing this down against other properties and doing a myriad of other things that has to stop.

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We wreck stuff. We wreck stuff. And again, it’s basically who can afford to pay. And you think about it, go back. My wife wasn’t familiar. I showed her the old train station post office complex where Madison Square Garden is right now in New York City. And you say, so if they tour, I mean, what an absolutely beautiful.

gorgeous building. Now tear it down and put up Mass Road, it’s the world’s most famous arena. It’s ugly as hell.

Okay? It is. And again, you take a good hard look at many of these skyscrapers in New York City. They’re ugly as hell.

They are. And now they really don’t serve any purpose because nobody wants to be in them anymore.

Just make a suggestion. Maybe we should start sending our architecture students here in this country. Maybe. Just send them. Send them to Italy. I know that’s what they did at Syracuse. Syracuse architecture students had to go study in Florence. You know, the Parthenon there in Rome is 2000 years old. Dome. That cement is better than ours back then. We still haven’t figured out how the Romans did it. That building is still there. Why you walk those streets?

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They don’t knock those buildings down. Those buildings are built to last. They renovate them. It’s nice. The area is beautiful. Maybe we should start thinking a little bit more about the aesthetics of things, quite frankly, than just, like I said, designing stuff based upon an Excel spreadsheet. Watchdog on wallstreet.com.