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LiberalArkie

(19,901 posts)
27. Hmm
Thu May 7, 2026, 12:01 PM
8 hrs ago

In 2018, The Drive reported on a bunker found after a sinkhole developed on the North Lawn of the White House. Separate from the presidential bunker, “this is an entirely different and far more secure facility, and in recent years it was likely augmented by a much more extravagant and modern complex buried deep beneath the western side of the North Lawn adjacent to the West Wing,” according to the report.

What they saw was the White House’s Deep Underground Command Center (DUCC), a second bunker that is made of thick, unbreakable concrete strong enough to withstand nuclear radiation. While this panic room is shrouded in secrecy, The Richest purported that it doubles as a command center and temporary living quarters, outfitted with communication equipment, its own air supply, oxygen tanks, and lasting food supply—in addition to a bed, kitchen, and bathroom.

And the second bunker may be only the start. While there’s also a 761-foot long path that connects the East Wing to the secret basement of the adjacent treasury building, which was formerly a Roosevelt air raid shelter, it’s possible that there’s a whole city’s worth of subterranean hideouts beyond the White House. In a 2008 book review, NPR reported that the presidential bunker was “one of several Cold War–era nuclear-hardened subterranean bunkers built during the Truman and Eisenhower Administrations, the nearest of which were located hundreds of feet below bedrock in places such as Mount Weather, in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, and along the Maryland-Pennsylvania border not far from Camp David.” In other words, if the president up and disappears for weeks on end, we’d wager he or she is partying deep below with plenty of spaces to inhabit.


https://www.elledecor.com/life-culture/a62764352/white-houses-secret-presidential-bunker/

Maybe not enough gold in the present ones. And more important is that it will not have been created by Roosevelt or Truman. He is intent on destroying and removing everything created during a Democratic administration.

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Yeah truddy777 13 hrs ago #1
...stocked with Lugers. Loaded, within easy reach. Girard442 13 hrs ago #3
I'm grateful that Lard Ass doesn't have a dog to kill first. 11 Bravo 2 hrs ago #36
Hitler's bunker Whip-poor-will 13 hrs ago #2
Dunno. Peggy Noonan reported in 2001 no_hypocrisy 13 hrs ago #4
Yes, there was always a bunker. Baitball Blogger 13 hrs ago #5
not enough gold paint. rampartd 12 hrs ago #6
He wants a "luxury" bunker vankuria 12 hrs ago #8
For a billion bucks, the bunker walls ought to be solid gold. nt allegorical oracle 6 hrs ago #30
The XL potty chair. NameAlreadyTaken 6 hrs ago #33
You know...that whole thing is crazy to me about 911... Trueblue Texan 12 hrs ago #12
There are a LOT of things from that day that johnnyfins 11 hrs ago #15
I just chalk it up to simple incompetence. Aristus 6 hrs ago #31
It was rather small.... SergeStorms 12 hrs ago #13
Speaking of shithole - There is no gold toilet in the present bunker. Yonnie3 11 hrs ago #17
It increases the cost of construction. More opportunity for grift, perhaps. Auggie 12 hrs ago #7
K&R orangecrush 12 hrs ago #9
Hmm... OldBaldy1701E 12 hrs ago #10
If you want to be terrified, read this. liberalgunwilltravel 12 hrs ago #11
He's anti-democratic, and he never understood or wanted a democratic election FakeNoose 11 hrs ago #19
Whoa. Thats chilling Ruby the Liberal 10 hrs ago #20
Oh, pish-tosh dpibel 8 hrs ago #28
I thought that there was one already under the White House LiberalArkie 11 hrs ago #14
Probably cannot withstand a bunker-busting missile. Baitball Blogger 9 hrs ago #23
Hmm LiberalArkie 8 hrs ago #27
Agree. He is looking at a possible permanent residence to operate from. wnylib 8 hrs ago #29
Bannon has repeatedly said, "There are ways to do it" -- DJT's not leaving in '28. And that allegorical oracle 6 hrs ago #32
He might also be afraid of assassination. wnylib 4 hrs ago #34
Putin is hiding because he knows, sooner or later... Fiendish Thingy 11 hrs ago #16
Zelenskyy is a superhero. Baitball Blogger 9 hrs ago #22
And maybe Trump is afraid of retaliation against him personally wnylib 4 hrs ago #35
He shouldn't have ripped out the old bunker. Emile 11 hrs ago #18
Can't play out his "Hitler in the Bunker" scenario without a bunker... Wounded Bear 10 hrs ago #21
The ballroom is just the cover of a bomb proof shelter the_liberal_grandpa 9 hrs ago #24
They all have a plan until they bring on Doomsday. Baitball Blogger 8 hrs ago #25
Since when has he governed? That is news to me. Ferrets are Cool 8 hrs ago #26
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