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LaMouffette

(2,593 posts)
Fri Jan 23, 2026, 12:07 PM 6 hrs ago

I just figured out why Rump tore down the East Wing and is replacing it with a ballroom: He intends to steal even more

top secret documents and needs a more convenient place to hide them than the ballroom at Mar-a-Lago. Easier access, plus, he intends to stay in the White House permanently, so . . . !

The extra-valuable top-secret documents that Rump steals will be squirreled away in his new presidential bunker under the new White House ballroom, safe and secure until he has the opportunity to sell them to Putin, Kim Jung Un, Xi, whoever pays the most. This will be MUCH handier than burying America's most sensitive, top secret national security documents on his golf course with his old dead wife or where his new dead wife will be buried if she doesn't keep her trap shut. Better be careful around staircases in those high heels, Melania! Just sayin'.

But seriously, is ANYONE in the government trying to keep track of the whereabouts of the top-secret documents that Rump hasn't already stolen?

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rampartd

(3,981 posts)
2. must be assumed he already has delivered everything russia wants
Fri Jan 23, 2026, 12:10 PM
6 hrs ago

and will call his handlers immediately of something new turns up.

LaMouffette

(2,593 posts)
3. Yup! I am especially concerned about his presidential bunker. Will we have to drag him out of there like they dragged
Fri Jan 23, 2026, 12:12 PM
6 hrs ago

Sadaam Hussein out of his hidey-hole?

LaMouffette

(2,593 posts)
8. Rump often uses that ploy, like what we just saw with Greenland. He spouts crazy plans and then it's a guessing game:
Fri Jan 23, 2026, 12:31 PM
6 hrs ago

Will he? Won't he? Often it's just bluster, and he "TACOs" out, but other times, like with Venezuela, he DOES do the crazy shit he said he was going to do.

It's kind of like how they say you should always assume a gun is loaded. We should always assume that Rump is stupid enough, greedy enough, immoral enough, and power-hungry enough to carry out his plans, no matter how preposterous.

usonian

(23,795 posts)
4. It's a diversion. His bunker is probably the country of Argentina, or Qatar.
Fri Jan 23, 2026, 12:17 PM
6 hrs ago

The most obvious place to nuke is not where you want the bunker.

Do you "hide" your front door keys under the doormat?

Inquiring minds (and burglars) want to know.

CrispyQ

(40,740 posts)
5. That horse is out of the barn & long gone.
Fri Jan 23, 2026, 12:20 PM
6 hrs ago

The US will never fully recover from this presidency. I wouldn't say that if it weren't for climate change.

LaMouffette

(2,593 posts)
6. Agreed. Rump will be gone someday, but Rumpism will continue on until the Repub voters realize they have been duped.
Fri Jan 23, 2026, 12:25 PM
6 hrs ago

Rebl2

(17,468 posts)
7. Yep
Fri Jan 23, 2026, 12:30 PM
6 hrs ago

Look how long republicans hung on to everything Reagan. Now they have a new king to bow down to.

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