For the love of Mike, what will it cost to heat and cool that ginormous ballroom??

[Peacetrain]

I cannot even begin to wrap my head around that.. how often will that building be used?? This could be a money pit that never stops eating the cash. And they are going so fast, that you know corners are going to get cut and then the repairs start..

[Ritabert]

1. Good question.

[MineralMan]

2. I think it should be converted into housing for homeless people.

DC is full of people who need housing desperately. Divide it up into sleeping rooms, add a second floor, and incorporate a kitchen and training facilities to help people find employment and get health care.

Now, that use I could get behind.

[Ocelot II]

3. You can bet it will be built as cheaply as possible in the first place

so Trump can pocket whatever is left of the corporate bribes after all the plywood, particle board and gold spray paint has been purchased and the contractors have been underpaid. It will leak like a sieve. The flat roof will leak in the rain. It will be drafty in the winter and hot in the summer. How can a huge space with huge windows be efficiently air-conditioned? D.C. starts getting hot and humid in the spring and stays hot into the fall. When Trump packs his 1,000 favorite oligarchs into that space on a 90 degree day it will get really stinky. We, the taxpayers, will get to pick up the tab for ongoing maintenance once the construction is completed.

[GoCubsGo]

6. Yup, all the more reason to demolish that monstrosity

at the first possible moment--if it doesn't collapse in on itself first.

[Ocelot II]

7. At least it will be pretty easy to raze. Too bad the scraps will be too shitty to recycle.

[murielm99]

4. What Mike?

Agent Mike?

[Emile]

5. Not including all the people needed to entertain these rich

Republican billionaires at fund raising events.

[greatauntoftriplets]

8. A lot.

He probably intends to use it for fundraising events. The Hatch Act be damned.

[lame54]

9. His imaginary ballroom...

But the money is real

[republianmushroom]

10. You really don't want to know.

[struggle4progress]

11. Mexico will pay for it!

[dsc]

12. It is about 64 times as big as my house

which costs around 125 a month for all electric appliances. Not sure what heat or cooling alone is, but say it is 1/2, then about 4000 a month.