Jon Favreau
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I mean, he already knocked down the East Wing.
It's a little bit like putting the toothpaste back on the tube.
I guess maybe the remedy is that Congress would have to approve something.
They would have to come to some kind of agreement on what they could build in that space besides the fucking eyesore of a monstrosity that we saw in the New York Times last week.
But just leaving the hole there for a while will be fun.
And by the way, I'm I'm now on board with the next Democratic president bulldozing the whole thing.
After seeing that, after seeing what it looks like in the in the Times and like the stairs to nowhere and the windows that aren't windows and like the fact that it's like three times as big as the actual.
actual white house residence like this isn't like oh trump did it but it's a ballroom and it's a good space and whatever else and it looks fine like let's leave it who cares this is like what come on it's the white house you're gonna just build like a another white house three times as big stacked onto the side except it's like super tacky because it's from donald trump i don't i don't know not top of my agenda are you gonna make it a litmus test for yeah it's like apac
So Trump's other passion project as of late is making it harder for Americans to vote.
And now that the SAVE Act isn't passing Congress anytime soon, he did what we all expected and he just signed an executive order version of the law, which isn't how this works.
But nevertheless, the EO directs the Department of Homeland Security to create a list of eligible voters using Social Security data and send each state their list before every federal election.
It then directs the Postal Service to send mail-in or absentee ballots only to the names on that list.
States that don't comply would lose federal funding.
Constitution explicitly gives states the power to run their own elections.
But at the signing ceremony, Trump seemed pretty confident about this move.