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mahatmakanejeeves

(67,240 posts)
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 09:36 AM Sunday

The White House's new McDonald's Epstein Ballroom appears to have been designed on free software.

I believe this is the source for the rendering:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/25/us/politics/trump-east-wing-ballroom-plans.html

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Mrs. Betty Bowers
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The White House's new McDonald's™ Epstein™ Ballroom™ appears to have been designed on free software.

October 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM

The White House's new McDonald'sâ„¢ Epsteinâ„¢ Ballroomâ„¢ appears to have been designed on free software.

Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) 2025-10-25T19:31:11.668Z


Mrs. Betty Bowers
‪@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social‬

Has anyone seen blueprints for the Epstein Ballroom? Donald only shows AI-generated images. You can't build *anything* using AI-generated images. And you certainly can't get engineers to verify the stability of the structure. You can, however, use such images to get unknown people to give you money.

October 25, 2025 at 8:50 PM

Has anyone seen blueprints for the Epstein Ballroom? Donald only shows AI-generated images. You can't build *anything* using AI-generated images. And you certainly can't get engineers to verify the stability of the structure. You can, however, use such images to get unknown people to give you money.

Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) 2025-10-26T00:50:50.062Z
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The White House's new McDonald's Epstein Ballroom appears to have been designed on free software. (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Sunday OP
And then U.S. taxpayers were billed several million. tanyev Sunday #1
Perhaps designed by some of pootin's finest architects? SheltieLover Sunday #2
Nah- no accessable eighth floor windows. Conjuay Sunday #7
I'm not sure what free software has to do with it. defacto7 Sunday #3
I thought I heard the was a cease & decist order given last week until all demolition and construction drawings were Hotler Sunday #4
Patterned after the Winchester Mystery House. POIFECT!!!! usonian Sunday #5
I don't know what pictures they are talking about Wiz Imp Sunday #6
The model referred to in the OP must be a mahatmakanejeeves Sunday #8

defacto7

(14,152 posts)
3. I'm not sure what free software has to do with it.
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 10:10 AM
Sunday

Some of the best software on the planet is free. This is just rendering by stupid, lazy people using AI who have no ability or interest in oversight. From such will the future be made or destroyed.

Hotler

(13,548 posts)
4. I thought I heard the was a cease & decist order given last week until all demolition and construction drawings were
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 10:24 AM
Sunday

were submitted and reviewed.

usonian

(21,944 posts)
5. Patterned after the Winchester Mystery House. POIFECT!!!!
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 11:26 AM
Sunday
https://winchestermysteryhouse.com/

Photo Gallery
https://winchestermysteryhouse.com/photo-gallery/

The Wikipedia article downplays the spooky aspects of the place, claiming that "stairways to nowhere" and so on are due to damage in the 1906 earthquake, and not traps for ghosts. Un-Recommended reading.


Wiz Imp

(7,812 posts)
6. I don't know what pictures they are talking about
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 11:32 AM
Sunday

But the pictures Trump showed last week are posted on the White House website and they came from the real architectural firm that Trump has apparently "hired". You can see they all have "McCrery Architects PLLC 2025" in the lower left corner.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/07/the-white-house-announces-white-house-ballroom-construction-to-begin/

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mahatmakanejeeves

(67,240 posts)
8. The model referred to in the OP must be a
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 11:55 AM
Sunday

3-D printed model Trump has in the Oval Office to show people. It must have appeared in a video Wednesday.

And good morning, at least for another six minutes.

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