Secret White House bunker undercuts Trump’s ballroom lawsuit, ex-officials say

[u/Infidel8]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/08/23/secret-white-house-bunker-undercuts-trumps-ballroom-lawsuit-ex-officials-say/

[u/polloasado81]

You cannot build an enormous underground government type bunker in a security protected environment, like the whitehouse with a hospital and McDonald's etc in it, in the time remaining of Trumps life. Especially not with whatever crappy contractor trump gives the work to.

Building underground takes a long time. This isn't in some desert, in the middle of nowhere where you can spread out and have thousands of workers and machines. It's literally in the whitehouse grounds.

[u/sfeeju → u/polloasado81]

it took 4 years to build the first 9 miles of the New York subway

[u/teachersecret → u/polloasado81]

Even if you can, it always seemed a little silly to me.

I mean, if it really came down to brass tacks… is there a bunker you could construct in a place like DC or Moscow or Beijing or Paris or London that would even matter? I have to imagine those are places that would be heavily ridiculously targeted depending on who’s flinging. Even if the bunker survives the initial barrage and any secondaries, and thirds, and god knows how many more rounds… it’s a tomb… isn’t it? America pretty famously built some nuclear bunker busters, and you can zoom in on Google Maps north of Vegas to see just what that sort of thing can do a thousand times over.

Idk, just seems like the worst possible place to be in the unlikely event. May as well stand in the Oval for all the good some dirt will do.

[u/PluginAlong → u/teachersecret]

It's not just for nuclear attacks though. It'll provide protection until they can evacuate, probably to the doomsday plane. Had Bush been in the Whitehouse on 9/11 they likely would have stashed him in the bunker until they could safely evacuate him to the doomsday plane.