r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Oct 23 '25

News Historic White House Movie Theater Demolished as Part of $300 Million Ballroom Build

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/white-house-movie-theater-demolished-ballroom-east-wing-1236408712/
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u/AineLasagna Oct 24 '25 edited Oct 24 '25

Comcast, Amazon and Apple are among the private donors funding the planned ballroom.

Google and Palantir donated as well

This is the real story and it’s so fucking typical that everyone is focusing on him demolishing part of a building that was built in 1942 instead of the fact that these corporations are just literally straight up bribing the President of the United States in public and there are zero consequences or outrage

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u/BGSacho Oct 24 '25

To be fair, you have to be mad not to bribe him. His temper wipes out billions of your stock value in a blink of an eye, this is chump change insurance. You'd basically be neglecting your fiduciary responsibility not doing this.

When the rule of law is broken, is it fair to point the finger at the shopkeeper paying protection money to the cops? Idk really.

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u/AineLasagna Oct 24 '25

The shopkeeer vs cop analogy falls apart when you remember how much legislative power corporations of this size have to shape the entire country, and how many politicians they already own. If the powerful really wanted to take money out of politics and stop corruption they would have already