this is one of the stories I see posted about the most on lemmy. it’s funny because if a democrat were president and fox news was the one constantly updating everyone about it we would all be making fun of fox news. in my opinion this isn’t really newsworthy and definitely doesn’t deserve the amount of attention everyone is giving it.
The reason it should be getting attention is that this was obviously another real estate kickback scheme, which is Trump’s bread & butter.
You hand-pick a “friendly” and “experienced” contractor (one you can trust to go along with the scheme), give him a huge contract, he does the work with half the budget, and gives the other half to the guy that gave him the contract. And of course, you can always count on cost overruns to pad it. It’s a Classic!
Why do you think Trump is doing all these renovations and construction? The Ballroom, the Arc De Trump, The Claw, the Kennedy Center (they stopped that one), etc.? It’s all about generating construction vehicles for kickbacks.
They don’t even care if the final product is any good, because the objective is to steal as much money as possible, not have a decent construction outcome. Take the Reflecting Pool: The algae is getting all the attention, but that’s just hiding the real story, which is that only a few weeks after being finished, the paint is already peeling off in huge sheets. The entire project, $14 million worth, is already squandered. It didn’t even last a month. The construction took longer.
this is one of the stories I see posted about the most on lemmy. it’s funny because if a democrat were president and fox news was the one constantly updating everyone about it we would all be making fun of fox news. in my opinion this isn’t really newsworthy and definitely doesn’t deserve the amount of attention everyone is giving it.
The reason it should be getting attention is that this was obviously another real estate kickback scheme, which is Trump’s bread & butter.
You hand-pick a “friendly” and “experienced” contractor (one you can trust to go along with the scheme), give him a huge contract, he does the work with half the budget, and gives the other half to the guy that gave him the contract. And of course, you can always count on cost overruns to pad it. It’s a Classic!
Why do you think Trump is doing all these renovations and construction? The Ballroom, the Arc De Trump, The Claw, the Kennedy Center (they stopped that one), etc.? It’s all about generating construction vehicles for kickbacks.
They don’t even care if the final product is any good, because the objective is to steal as much money as possible, not have a decent construction outcome. Take the Reflecting Pool: The algae is getting all the attention, but that’s just hiding the real story, which is that only a few weeks after being finished, the paint is already peeling off in huge sheets. The entire project, $14 million worth, is already squandered. It didn’t even last a month. The construction took longer.
But a quality outcome was never the objective.