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Government Spending $500K to ‘Deep Clean’ the WH to Erase the Trump Stink Before the Bidens Move In

We bet that the Bidens didn’t even have to say a thing.

There is likely no better staff on earth than the people who care for the White House. Anyone lucky enough to have taken a tour is nearly knocked over, not by the “richness” of it all, but by the “perfection.” It is plenty “rich,” to be sure, beautiful artwork everywhere, rugs that cost more than a school, and floral arrangements that likely took forty-eight hours to assemble.

But that’s not what takes one’s breath away. It is the utter perfection. There is not a spot anywhere. No wear on the floor, no wall with fractionally faded paint, no weed in the grass, no glass that isn’t gleaming … you get the idea. None of it happens by accident, nor does it organize itself. It takes true professional with access to a big budget to do a hard job and do it perfectly.

We would be willing to bet that if one walked into the White House right now, even the residence, it would look – to our eyes – perfect, still. But “our eyes” are nowhere near as good as the eyes belonging to the ushers, florists, curators, and the men and women that do the cleaning who work there. They probably all recognize that the dump needs some work.

Not just a little work, $500,000 worth of work. When we talk about government money, there’s a tendency to minimize figures like $500,000. But, it’s worth challenging yourself to come up with how you could possibly spend a half-million dollars cleaning and not build an entirely new wing … just a clean one.

Then again, you never had to rid yourself of the “Trump Stain.” From Yahoo News:

A deep clean between administrations is expected – but contracting extra companies to help at this scale is unprecedented in modern times, presidential historian Kate Brower Andersen told ABC.

Oh no, no, no. They shouldn’t try to pass this off as four years of inflation. The only unprecedented thing is that Trump lived there for four years and they need to put a bomb in the bathroom and rebuild it within six hours. They need a HAZMAT team to come in looking like astronauts with top-secret, eyes-only, military-grade cleaner, the type used after a nuclear war.

“There’s always been a deep clean between administrations, but we’ve never seen anything like this,” she told ABC News’ “Powerhouse Politics” podcast.

There you go. Much closer to the truth. NO, we have NOT seen anything like this before, either.

The contracts for janitorial and housekeeping work include $127,249 on “2021 Inaugural Cleaning,” $44,038 on carpet cleaning, and $29,523 on curtain cleaning, CNN reported.

Yeah, and that’s not counting the HAZMAT people with UV light going over everything looking for blood spots and other evidence.

A deep clean between presidents is usually carried out by White House staff in the six-hour slot when both the incoming and outgoing presidents are at the inauguration ceremony. Alongside cleaning the property, the workforce of up to 100 White House staff carry out small maintenance jobs.

Bullshit. Someone will pull a fire alarm 48 hours beforehand and tell Trump Antifa is outside scaling the walls (he can’t tweet about it) and hide him in the bunker as the entire process goes on.

A half-million? That is unprecedented, especially when they likely left off a zero so as to keep the military portion top-secret.

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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