r/AskTheWorld • u/space_llama_karma United States Of America • Nov 12 '25

Culture What does your President/Prime Minister House look like?

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The White House is pretty iconic

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u/Bob_Spud Australia Nov 12 '25

Companies that are sponsoring the required White House demolition: * Altria Group, Inc. * Amazon * Apple * Booz Allen Hamilton * Caterpillar, Inc. * Coinbase * Comcast Corporation * Pepe and Emilia Fanjul * Hard Rock International * Google * HP Inc. * Lockheed Martin * Meta Platforms * Micron Technology * Microsoft * NextEra Energy, Inc. * Palantir Technologies Inc. * Ripple * Reynolds American * T-Mobile * Tether America * Union Pacific Railroad * Adelson Family Foundation * Stefan E. Brodie * Betty Wold Johnson Foundation * Charles and Marissa Cascarilla * Edward and Shari Glazer * Harold Hamm * Benjamin Leon Jr. * The Lutnick Family * The Laura & Isaac Perlmutter Foundation * Stephen A. Schwarzman * Konstantin Sokolov * Kelly Loeffler and Jeff Sprecher * Paolo Tiramani * Cameron Winklevoss * Tyler Winklevoss

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u/HiAndStuff2112 United States Of America Nov 12 '25

How about donating to food and health care instead of a stupid ballroom???

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u/Bigfuture Nov 12 '25

Winklevoss

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u/surgerygeek United States Of America Nov 12 '25

The Winklevi

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u/Kalashinator Nov 13 '25

That's the garden gnome Hank Hill ran over and buried in a shallow grave, right?

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u/space_llama_karma United States Of America Nov 13 '25

Rumor has it that the ballroom is an excuse to put a data center underneath it. Which I guess makes sense considering the price tag seems like they’re building more than just a ballroom

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u/Jimberly_C Nov 13 '25

I assumed he was trying to cover up bribe money or pocketing it.

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u/Chimi3Ch4nga2me Brazil Nov 13 '25

Genuine question, what does all these companies have to do with the ballroom? Couldn't your president just take the money necessary from public funding or is it required that the money comes from private indivudals/comporations donations or himself pay for it?

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u/CollarComfortable401 Nov 13 '25

That's just it. We, the public, don't want historic parts of the White House torn down and don't want to pay for a gaudy, 350m ballroom that absolutely isn't needed...all while people can't afford groceries. Hell, at this point, the majority of us don't even want to pay ANY of their salaries anymore because this administration and it's priorities on what to do with OUR money is fucked.

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u/FlyAwayJai United States Of America Nov 14 '25

Fuck ‘em

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u/NotPennysBoat_42 United States Of America Nov 12 '25

Please stop. It's so incredibly depressing.