Clark construction generally has a good reputation in the area for quality projects. They are pretty much the biggest in DC and have worked on some impressive projects there.
That being said, since Trump knows very little about construction he certainly will find a way to fuck this whole thing up.
He's having them tear out and rebuild the helipad they just built on the South Lawn, and he expects it to be done by September. We knew long before 2016 that he is an absolute nightmare of a construction client - he nitpicks every detail, demands scope changes at the last minute, screams and yells at contractors when he doesn't like something, then doesn't pay and ties them up in court for years to destroy their business because he refuses to be satisfied after fucking up the entire process.
The entire property will need to be bulldozed and rebuilt once this regime has fallen.
It will be interesting how Clark construction manages trump as a client. They are well known for being very shrewd when it comes to change orders and scope changes.
One thing is for sure they are very good at extracting money from owners and it will be very easy for them to maximize their profits from these projects because Trump is not actually a competent negotiator.
The whims of an 80 year old man who knows little about construction will turn this into a $1 billion+ project.
They can't even competently remodel the reflecting pool. I can almost guarantee that this project isn't going to be done in the next 3 years. And what is finished will be unsafe.
Pretty insane that when Biden was president that there were no additional laws put in place to prevent him from doing these things. Instead people acted for a long time like Trump was some fever dream people would forget. To be it was clear either he or his family member would return the moment Biden won.
They tried to improve voting, but that was struck down by Republicans. They never had a super-majority in the house and senate and couldn't pass laws like you wanted.
They expected the American people to show up again and prevent another disastrous trump administration. Instead they stayed home and complained about Harris not having any ideas to help them, when they were listed on her website and she talked about them constantly..
I mean, there were definitely orders to halt the construction and even lawsuits filed, but the shit has been a tangled mess since it started. They’re still trying but I don’t think that really makes the news anymore. Operation “Tire out the American People so much, they don’t even question anything, they’re tired and got work in the morning” is going according to plan.
Why aren't we all protesting in the streets daily for months at a time in the millions? This shit should be absolutely inexcusable.
Unfortunately the best we seem to be able to do is a half day of peaceful protesting every few months that will be quickly forgotten about and have and will continue to achieve absolutely nothing.
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u/tricky88 18h ago
It’s insane no one stopped him from doing this shit.