# POLL: Yea, Nay, or Something else- Trump will bulldoze the entire White House to the ground **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [July 11, 2026, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-yea-nay-or-something-else-trump-will-bulldoze-the-entire-white-house-to-the-ground/1031590 "2026-07-11T15:04:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2026, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-yea-nay-or-something-else-trump-will-bulldoze-the-entire-white-house-to-the-ground/1031590/1 "2026-07-11T15:04:20Z")
The premise is that he will do this before he leaves office, however that happens. Multiple selections allowed. Agree, disagree, dispute, quibble, object, or discuss however you want. _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-yea-nay-or-something-else-trump-will-bulldoze-the-entire-white-house-to-the-ground/1031590/1))_ ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2026, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-yea-nay-or-something-else-trump-will-bulldoze-the-entire-white-house-to-the-ground/1031590/2 "2026-07-11T15:33:37Z")
Trump has already ~~desecrated~~ put his stamp on the Walk of Fame, so that will probably stay. Likewise the balcony, which is a perfect place for the ruptured duck emblem referenced elsewhere. Anything else is fair game. ---
**Author:** ![WalterBishop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/aeb1de/32.png) [@WalterBishop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WalterBishop)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2026, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-yea-nay-or-something-else-trump-will-bulldoze-the-entire-white-house-to-the-ground/1031590/3 "2026-07-11T15:42:23Z")
Literally? No. Figuratively? Definitely. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2026, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-yea-nay-or-something-else-trump-will-bulldoze-the-entire-white-house-to-the-ground/1031590/4 "2026-07-11T15:44:10Z")
I too might have thought that “literally” tearing down the whole White House would never happen, but the East Wing is literally gone, so who knows? ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2026, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-yea-nay-or-something-else-trump-will-bulldoze-the-entire-white-house-to-the-ground/1031590/5 "2026-07-11T15:44:56Z")
I hope he does bulldoze it, people need to understand that there is no America left. If you’re still socializing with Trumpists, you share their guilt. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2026, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-yea-nay-or-something-else-trump-will-bulldoze-the-entire-white-house-to-the-ground/1031590/6 "2026-07-12T00:19:16Z")
I can’t explain what I can’t imagine, but her name is Thomasina. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2026, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-yea-nay-or-something-else-trump-will-bulldoze-the-entire-white-house-to-the-ground/1031590/7 "2026-07-12T01:55:12Z")
He will tear it down after the 2028 election, and before the 2029 inauguration. If he can’t have it, nobody can. Then he pardons himself. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2026, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-yea-nay-or-something-else-trump-will-bulldoze-the-entire-white-house-to-the-ground/1031590/8 "2026-07-12T02:07:21Z")
My “something I can’t even imagine” is this: He bulldozes the grounds, and then finds a way to rebuild it with slave labor, just like the original White House was so many decades ago. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2026, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-yea-nay-or-something-else-trump-will-bulldoze-the-entire-white-house-to-the-ground/1031590/9 "2026-07-12T02:17:20Z")
I voted for NOT EXACTLY, but I could see him hiding behind the new reinforced front door when he loses the election, and many parts of the WH getting destroyed in the fight to extricate him. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2026, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-yea-nay-or-something-else-trump-will-bulldoze-the-entire-white-house-to-the-ground/1031590/10 "2026-07-12T03:31:36Z")
There’s no poll option for “No, of course not,” which is the correct answer. This will not happen. A man obsessed with building an eternal legacy isn’t going to destroy the single most important part of it. Trump, like Ozymandias, is convinced that all his tacky alterations to the grounds - the ballroom, the helipad, the paved-over Rose Garden, the “walk of fame” with a picture of an autopen, the gold leaf, the big labels to remind him which room he’s in - are going to stand for centuries to come and future presidents will look on them with admiration and awe, as is his due as the greatest president who will ever live. ---
**Author:** ![Nyvaak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Nyvaak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nyvaak)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2026, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-yea-nay-or-something-else-trump-will-bulldoze-the-entire-white-house-to-the-ground/1031590/11 "2026-07-12T07:47:02Z")
With an emphasis on “tacky, unsightly mess.” ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2026, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-yea-nay-or-something-else-trump-will-bulldoze-the-entire-white-house-to-the-ground/1031590/12 "2026-07-12T08:02:43Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > the paved-over Rose Garden I’m told that restoring the Rose Garden\* would take years, possibly decades after Trump’s Folly is removed, due to the land being compacted by building machinery (and the removal of the frivolous addition’s machinery), and contaminated by alkaline lime leaching from the concrete. It is not quite a FEMA site (yet), though Trump’s ambitions do tend towards the “grand gesture”… and the supposed early reasoning for the stupid idea was that it would include a super-sekrit nukular bomb-proof underground lair in which for Goldmember to lurk. \* regrowing the original roses would be impossible, but if… and that “if” could be all-caps, in giant-point Grotesque typeface (one Trump would not like, due to the lack of serifs)… if some White House gardener had taken some clippings, it could be restored. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2026, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-yea-nay-or-something-else-trump-will-bulldoze-the-entire-white-house-to-the-ground/1031590/13 "2026-07-12T08:07:08Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > I’m told that restoring the Rose Garden would take years, possibly decades after Trump’s Folly is removed, due to the land being compacted by building machinery (and the removal of the frivolous addition’s machinery), and contaminated by alkaline lime leaching from the concrete. Can’t they just get a buttload of dirt and pour it on top of the concrete? So the garden will be raised a few feet - just build a retaining wall and some stairs. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2026, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-yea-nay-or-something-else-trump-will-bulldoze-the-entire-white-house-to-the-ground/1031590/14 "2026-07-12T08:09:48Z")
How lovely, Jackie Kennedy would be delighted. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2026, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-yea-nay-or-something-else-trump-will-bulldoze-the-entire-white-house-to-the-ground/1031590/15 "2026-07-12T08:14:40Z")
Do you want a Rose Garden, or do you not want a Rose Garden? ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2026, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-yea-nay-or-something-else-trump-will-bulldoze-the-entire-white-house-to-the-ground/1031590/16 "2026-07-12T08:36:14Z")
> [@Nyvaak](#): > > With an emphasis on “tacky, unsightly mess.” Kinda like what he’s figuratively done with the Office of the President itself, which can never again have the prestige it once had. I’m old enough remember the days of JFK – the days of Camelot, where the office was both the pinnacle of political power and also a form of _de facto_ royalty in which the nation took pride. Today it’s a symbol of disgrace, corruption, and the stupidity of the American voter. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2026, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-yea-nay-or-something-else-trump-will-bulldoze-the-entire-white-house-to-the-ground/1031590/17 "2026-07-12T10:27:39Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > There’s no poll option for “No, of course not,” which is the correct answer. I guess that would fall under “something I can’t even imagine.” ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2026, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-yea-nay-or-something-else-trump-will-bulldoze-the-entire-white-house-to-the-ground/1031590/18 "2026-07-12T11:36:52Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Can’t they just get a buttload of dirt and pour it on top of the concrete? If they’re going to do that, there’s no reason not to remove the concrete first. Also, roses have long taproot systems and need about as much soil depth underground as they have foiliage height above ground. A six- to eight-foot raised bed in the White House grounds would look kind of weird. I say if they’re going to fix it at all, might as well fix it right, even if it will take time for the soil to recover. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2026, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-yea-nay-or-something-else-trump-will-bulldoze-the-entire-white-house-to-the-ground/1031590/19 "2026-07-12T11:50:56Z")
I suppose - although you could change the name to the “Rose Terrance”. Has a pretty good ring to it. Also, instead of waiting for the soil to recover, can’t you just dig a big hole, clear out all the bad dirt, and fill it with fresh soil? ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2026, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-yea-nay-or-something-else-trump-will-bulldoze-the-entire-white-house-to-the-ground/1031590/20 "2026-07-12T12:06:41Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > He will tear it down after the 2028 election, and before the 2029 inauguration. If he can’t have it, nobody can. If he’s still alive, he won’t leave office. January 6 was a dress rehearsal. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-yea-nay-or-something-else-trump-will-bulldoze-the-entire-white-house-to-the-ground/1031590.md?page=2)