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In reply to the discussion: So now we know why Trump is desperate for his underground bunker. [View all]LiberalArkie
(19,903 posts)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 Houses 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 supplyin addition to a bed, kitchen, and bathroom.
And the second bunker may be only the start. While theres 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, its possible that theres a whole citys worth of subterranean hideouts beyond the White House. In a 2008 book review, NPR reported that the presidential bunker was one of several Cold Warera 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, wed 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.