Jamelle Bouie is a columnist for The New York Times. The headline on his column published on Sunday, August 31, 2025, was titled as follows: "All The Things Trump Thinks He Owns." That is the hard copy headline. Online, the headline to Bouie's column is different. The point, however, is exactly the same. Our current president is both implicitly, and often explicitly, claiming that he, as the president, essentially "owns" the assets of our national government, and that he, as the president, gets to decide what to do about them.
One of the assets of our government is shown above. It doesn't belong to Donald J. Trump. The White House belongs to me - and to you! It belongs to the citizens of the United States of America. In case you have forgotten how we exercise our ownership rights over our government, and over all of its assets, the Congress of the United States, including both the House of Representatives and the Senate, act as our elected "representatives." If someone wants to suggest that we should tear down the White House (or add on to it), Congress should make that decision.
In fact, our current president has asserted his personal and individual right fundamentally to alter the White House, adding on a "ballroom" that will be bigger than the entire White House itself. Good idea? I don't think so myself, but if such a fundamental change is proposed, Congress needs to make the call.
Any citizen should be able to file a lawsuit, to prevent the fundamental alteration of one of our most prized assets without an appropriate authorization by our elected representatives.
I hope somebody will!!!
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