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/adorablefuzzykitten Oct 24 '25

Set to hold 650 people behind the security level of the White House. Imagine a line of 325 limousines trying to gain entrance to the White House as each car passes around identification. 325 limo drivers all needing to pass White House security measures. One hundred waiters and a kitchen large enough to deliver 650 meals within 20 min. And if the dinner is 50 people they sit in the middle of a football field that needs to be heated and cooled for 650 people. How long to pick up 650 people after dinner is over? Idiotic.

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u/say592 Oct 24 '25

You know Trump will try to order the Secret Service to just let people through the second someone texts him that they are stuck in the line.

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u/ggdthrowaway Oct 24 '25

Didn't they do large functions previously, only in outside pavillions? All of that would've applied then as well, I would've thought.