About that White House ballroom and the East Wing
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Not directly related to the ballroom but...Do we see a theme emerging??
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION!!!!!
President Trump on Monday signed an executive order designating t>
"The manufacture and distribution of fentanyl, primarily performed by organized criminal networks, threatens our national security and fuels lawlessness in our hemisphere and at our borders," the order declared.During an event in the Oval Office, Trump said the carnage fentanyl has caused in American families is worse than U.S. deaths in many wars.
"Two to three hundred thousand people die every year, that we know of, so we're formally classifying fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction," Trump said.
In fact, Trump's numbers are wildly inflated. According to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, fentanyl killed roughly 48 thousand people in the U-S last year - a 27 percent drop from the year before.
Experts also say fentanyl would be difficult to use as a weapon of mass destruction. There is only one documented incident worldwide, in 2002, where the Russian government weaponized fentanyl in gas form. There have been no cases reported in the U.S.
"It is not evident that there is any basis or need for, or net benefit to, officially designating fentanyl compounds as weapons of mass destruction," concluded a 2019 report by the Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction at the National Defense University.
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/15/nx-s1-5645149/wmd-fentanyl-trump-cartels
Maybe Trump is taking a page from the former South Korean president:
South Korea’s ousted conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol plotted for over a year to impose martial law to eliminate his political rivals and monopolize power, investigators concluded Monday.
Yoon’s martial law decree in December 2024 lasted only several hours and resulted in his rapid downfall.
Independent counsel Cho Eun-suk, who announced the six-month probe’s result, also accused the former president and his military allies of ordering operations against North Korea, in a deliberate bid to stoke tensions and justify his plans to declare martial law.
Despite the lack of a serious response from North Korea, Cho said that Yoon declared martial law by branding the liberal-controlled
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Fun in the court room.
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@wtg Serious question. Are there any ramifications for lawyers abusing the law? Do they ever face sanctions? Or is it OK to twist reality and truth until it's unrecognizable? If so, what's noble about that?
As far as the first question regarding ramifications for lawyers who pull stunts like these seem to be doing and whether they may face sanctions, I don't know the answer.
From the second part of your post (what's noble about that?), I'm wondering if my comment about fun in the courtroom was misunderstood. Like @shirokuro , I think the judge is doing a great job keeping the lawyers in line. Any "fun" is enjoying them being put in their place.
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It's a new bunker, command center, and data center. The ballroom is a ruse.
But, yeah, I'll read about the legal drama. I enjoy that kind of stuff. He ignored the laws he was supposed to follow.
All he did was demolish a large and historic part of the White House. I don't know why doing that would end up in the courts./ s
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The Trump administration has been ordered to stop construction on President Donald Trump's $400m (£297m) ballroom at the White House.
A federal appeals court dealt the latest setback to the controversial project on Friday, testing Trump's presidential authority. He has vowed to appeal to the Supreme Court.
"Whether or not a massive ballroom should be constructed is for Congress to decide and is not a matter for Executive self-help," the panel's majority said.
The order upholds a preliminary injunction won by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which sued after the administration tore down the East Wing last year to begin the project without congressional approval.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyq80jqqleo
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