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LiberalArkie

(19,915 posts)
27. Hmm
Thu May 7, 2026, 12:01 PM
May 7

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