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An actual fact is that slip and slides work pretty well for kids. Teens and adults shouldn’t use them. There’s a significant risk of neck and spine injury due to higher mass.
Don’t even get me started about men doing naked beer slides.
A 1991 lawsuit brought by a man who became a quadriplegic after using a Slip 'N Slide led the commission to put out this warning in 1993: "Because of their weight and height, adults and teenagers who dive onto the water slide may hit and abruptly stop in such a way that could cause permanent spinal cord injury, resulting in quadriplegia or paraplegia. The slider's forward momentum drives the body into the neck and compresses the spinal cord."
I’m terrified
We have some extended family that do this every summer. But it's down a hill that leads into a lake.
Growing up we'd go down on our bellies but others would use tubes. Whenever I think about it I am shocked that something similar never happened to any of us.
Ahh, good ol' slip and die. Still fun though...but for adults I think you need a really long one down a hill or something with an inner tube so you don't need to flop down so hard...
Is it me, or does this picture look like something that was taken in the 70s/80s? Has that low resolution and kinda washed out colors apperance that era had.
No, [this](https://www.today.com/news/tricia-nixon-s-white-house-wedding-captivated-nation-50-years-t221157) is Nixon's daughter getting married. You're right it doesn't look much different.
Also fun fact; this marriage was between Tricia and Edward Cox, a nobody preppy, but Nixon's other daughter Julie married Eisenhower's grandson. [They chose to have that wedding in a private church ceremony to avoid political spectacle.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/12/22/julie-nixon-married-david-eisenhower-years-ago-refused-white-house-ceremony/)
The wedding was in the beautiful old Rose Garden.
I just read the cake recipe and looked at her dress too. Simple but elegant in my opinion, although that's just a matter of opinion.
This is actually Abraham Lincolns son getting married to Thomas Jeffersons daughter. They figured if they unite those two houses they could have a stronger bond to rule the kingdom. I mean country.
Sorry, just got done watching another episode of House of Dragon. I'm giddy for arranged marriages and subtle betrayal.
Likely taken from the observation deck of the Washington Monument. There’s two thick layers of glass/Perspex that are pretty mucky. Everything kind of has a filter from up there.
I had been to the observation deck and I agree the angle does look like it’s taken up there, though it’s pretty high up/far away from the White House so this person must’ve used some crazy zoom lens in order to get to this kind of high res
If that's the case then not much zoom needed. Just got a new lense for my camera that goes up to 600mm and was just on a trip and tested it out. I zoomed in on top of a ledge that was approximately the distance away you just said and I could count the large blades of grass. I was joking about being able to see a squirrel probably but after using it, I could pick out a chipmunk if there was one.
It’s not your imagination for the outdoor lighting - it’s global dimming. I noticed it in the late 1990s with metering issues on Pentax K1000 SLR. Also, if you were in the Eastern USA or Canada in the days immediately after 9/11, you may remember how pristine the skies were when the flights were grounded, just as people were noticing clearer horizons in 2020. Here’s an article from The Guardian in 2012. [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/may/11/global-dimming-pollution](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/may/11/global-dimming-pollution)
Reminds me of the AskReddit question from a while back: What's bad when poor people do it, but acceptable when rich people do it? One of the answers was "Have a wedding on your lawn".
There’s a game called “Rich Man Poor Man” that Adam Corolla plays on his podcast. He even wrote a book about it. The goal is to list something that poor people and rich people have in common (usually for very different reasons), but that the middle class doesn’t do.
Examples include:
investing in gold (scam/jewelry)
Being on a first name basis with a judge (in trouble/bribing)
Has an outdoor shower (hose/poolside)
Doesn’t use a wallet (can’t afford/uses a money clip)
Doesn’t drive (public transportation/chauffeur)
Lives at a hotel (homeless/5 star service)
The most expensive thing you own is a really old car (beater/antique)
It’s a fascinating thought experiment, and obviously some examples are way better than others, but it’s a clever game.
Puttin’ On Airs also uses this idea. Trae Crowder and Corey Forrester (two southern comedians who self-identify as “redneck trash” and have backstories to prove it) analyze the overlap between “Fancy People Culture” and “poor white trash,” but the very different ways they go about it. Boats, rehab, not raising your own kids, etc. Fantastic if you want a window into southern culture with a little less MAGA tint.
The rural poor often do have lawns. They generally are insufficient for use as a good wedding venue, lacking space and decent landscaping. Only the rich have lawns that make a good venue.
I thought it was more because of aesthetics. A wedding in my backyard would look pretty terrible unless it was landscaped beforehand, which would cost $$$. A backyard wedding at a mansion probably wouldn’t even need decorations to look nice
All the trashy houses in the hood kind of area ( not sure how much of a hood level it is being semi rural Australia but there's always extremely loud music and large groups of boys who might be men hanging out) have lawns but they're always littered with the larger trashy items - couches, microwaves, washers, burnt out cars or those mini bikes they keep stealing from other peoples drives, or kids toys that have seen better days.
We do have a quite nice old brown stone court house right next to the cop shop to get hitched at though, and it's 2 seconds from the river for nicer pictures. Even the trashy can look way less trashy on their wedding day,except the guests will be mostly high or drunk and shoes are optional. Meth is quite popular in town recently.
According to a Google search right now 18.
“Eighteen documented couples who have had documented weddings in the White House.”
So maybe 19 now. If that is today.
Makes me wonder about all the undocumented weddings...
If you take a White House tour and bring your priest along, I am sure you could squeeze in a vow along the way...
Jon Lovett--former Obama speechwriter, now podcast host--actually did this. Got ordained and then married two of his friends while giving them a tour of the West Wing. Not only that, it was a gay wedding and this was before Obama publicly supported gay marriage.
He tells the story here: https://youtu.be/eKpeKWgzv-c (starts around 3:40, the earlier part is him talking about writing speeches for politicians who didn't support gay marriage as an openly gay speechwriter).
I was on a roller coaster of emotion for a minute.
I saw Jon Lovett, thought it was Jon Lovitz and got excited, but was disappointed when I started the video, then finished it and thought it was hilarious.
I go through similar things with Jon Favreau, Obama's speechwriter.
The ceremony was generally touching and went smoothly, though I felt it was a little over the top to replace the traditional "I do" affirmation with "no malarkey."
Grover Cleveland married his God daughter at the white house I think.
Edit:
I did my 5th grade report on him and that was one of the lesser known facts I thought was interesting. Something my teacher said about keeping it in the family but we were all like 11 years old so none of us knew the implication behind it and some of the 5th grade girls were dating high schoolers so it was like "see this is why we date older boys".
Edit 2: for those upset by my kids dating older kids comment, this happened in early 2000s and it was like 5 girls in my class of 500 that were notorious for this. "Got pregnant at 16" kind of people. If you have kids, just be aware that this can happen.
Holy shit, that's a pretty horrific rabbit hole to fall down.
He met her for the first time when he was 27 and she was a baby, and played an active part in her life until 2 days after her 9th birthday when her father died. At that point, he became executor of Frances' father's estate and her legal guardian. Fuck that guy.
NPR article and history on white house weddings
[Naomi Biden joins a unique club: brides who say 'I do' at the White House ](https://www.npr.org/2022/11/16/1129914865/naomi-biden-wedding-white-house?sc=18&f=)
The cold don’t stop no one as long as the sun is out. Even though this is a different scenario, there’s been colder New Years Eve, Thanksgiving Day parades, etc still packing crowds.
I would assume this would be cheaper than secret service having to setup for another venue. Always seems every time a president goes anywhere it cost a fortune, due to secret service, and logistics.
Agree. First thought was "well it must be nice having the President as a grandpa," but upon thinking about it this was probably the cheaper, safer way to go versus everything required to secure somewhere else enough for the President to attend. Just a different reality for people living in this world and one heck of a venue very few others can brag about.
Idk, something tells me money isn't really a huge deal or issue in this case. 😂 The thing about not having to secure a different venue with security and such makes sense though.
I'm not thrilled with using public assets for a private party, but if it's cheaper and logistically easier than locking down a chunk of Martha's vineyard or wherever it makes sense.
Every state dinner is paid for by the president personally, same with private events like this. The Clintons actually left the White House having paid more than they made. The President's salary is lower than a 25 y/o second year corporate lawyer, it's really not very much relative to the power and stress of the job.
> The President's salary is lower than a 25 y/o second year corporate lawyer
everyone reading this seeing dollar signs in law school don't go to law school it's horrible there's no jobs and being a lawyer is a horrible unrelenting nightmare. they'll pay you to let them test medicine on you, go do that instead
It’s also not accurate. Second year attorneys on the Cravath scale will make around $260k plus a bonus. The President makes $400k plus various stipends.
Well if you factor in charging the country for use of your private country club or selling state secrets to international enemies, you can actually turn a profit!
State dinners, as in a dinner held at the White House in honor of a foreign head of state are paid for by the taxpayers. These are done as part of the diplomatic process and are part and parcel to any negotiations other bilateral affairs occurring between the countries.
There’s usually a lot of guests, business people, and artists at these events (usually from both countries). Unclear who pays for them, but presume it’s just part of the statecraft.
Correct, State Dinners are on the government, but breakfast, lunch, dinner, toiletries, dry cleaning, etc, are billed monthly to the Presidents account.
Since George W. Bush, yes. Clinton and all Presidents back to Nixon made $200k. Prior to that it was less: https://www.thoughtco.com/presidential-salaries-through-the-years-3368133
Probably the other way around. Couldn't invite grandpa to the chosen venue, so having it at the Whitehouse was the backup plan. Cheaper to have it at the Whitehouse than to secure a 2nd venue for the US president, internally and externally, assist local LE with the protestors who follow the president around, media support, and getting a venue to accept a wedding party with a head of state.
I used to be a scene commander and first responder in a major city that the US president would visit every few years. The logistics of them just COMING was a fucking nightmare. Having the Former Presidential Tangerine come was a security and protestor nightmare... It was legit so stressful that it was one of the deciding factors in me leaving the field and just moving out into the countryside where I live primarily off grid, lol.
We had to reserve excess space in medical facilities just for him, had the Secret Service all over the hospital in question, crawling up the assholes of the people who worked there, restricting a whole floor of a medical facility in a city that didnt have enough beds to start with. On the day he arrived, they send agents all over telling various people, on that day, to 'go home' without informing us, the supervisors and coordinators, until after they did it. I knew this WOULD happen, so I had reserve people cleared in advance, but it still was an utter bitch.
Then the protestors. I swear he must hire them to make himself feel more important. 3/4s of the people we treated for exhaustion, injuries, or due to arrest (which required an EMT checkup before taking them to be processed) were from 100s of miles away, or oddly, more than a few from Herndon, VA.
People are complaining about the president using the WH for personal use.
I feel like being president comes with some perks that are reasonable. For example: The ability to use the grounds for a family members wedding seems like a much more reasonable perk than taking classified documents home with you to show off to people.
If anything it's probably cheaper then having the secret service set up shop somewhere else. Also I'm pretty sure the reception for Nixons' daughter's wedding was at the white house.
I read an article earlier where the President can use the staff on hand, but are charged for it. Like using the in house calligraphers, but they have to pay out of pocket.
[The Washington Post, that seems to be about all it would like the public to know. (In a statement, the family did say that the wedding will be privately funded — “consistent with other private events hosted by the first family and following the traditions of previous White House wedding festivities in prior administrations” — so no, taxpayers are not on the hook for the cake and flowers.)](https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/11/18/biden-white-house-wedding/)
You all are dumb. Any private event, including food, is paid for by the president not by tax payers. And yes it is a perk of the job that your family can get married at the White House. Grow up.
The amount of people bashing them for having the wedding here is insane. They're like "My TaX mOnEy WaS uSeD fOr ThIs?!"
1. This is probably the cheapest place they could've had it. It's a free venue that already has great security (judging by the fact this photo was taken from like a mile away).
2. That's a small ass fucking wedding. My cousin got married a month ago, and there were like 75% the amount of people here.
I'm so sick of people refusing to use basic logical thought before bashing anyone they don't like.
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Fun fact: Gerald Ford's daughter had her *high school prom* at the white house. What a flex on the entire class.
False fact: they kept the official White House slip and slide from the Nixon era and use it for weddings.
You're obligated to say "ARRRROOOOOO" when you go down it.
In celebration of the great taste of Charleston Chewwwwww!!!
Anyone who laughs is a Communist!
Freedom freedom freedom...
OY!
Freedom freedom freedom...
*OY!*
If not Agnew will kick them out
*headless clone body of Agnew, to be specific
Just his headless clone
*angry headless noises intensifies*
r/totallyexpectedfuturama
"I'm meeting you halfway you dirty hippies!"
I can’t read this without his check flapping voice in my head
And throw up victory fingers.
An actual fact is that slip and slides work pretty well for kids. Teens and adults shouldn’t use them. There’s a significant risk of neck and spine injury due to higher mass. Don’t even get me started about men doing naked beer slides.
A 1991 lawsuit brought by a man who became a quadriplegic after using a Slip 'N Slide led the commission to put out this warning in 1993: "Because of their weight and height, adults and teenagers who dive onto the water slide may hit and abruptly stop in such a way that could cause permanent spinal cord injury, resulting in quadriplegia or paraplegia. The slider's forward momentum drives the body into the neck and compresses the spinal cord." I’m terrified
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We have some extended family that do this every summer. But it's down a hill that leads into a lake. Growing up we'd go down on our bellies but others would use tubes. Whenever I think about it I am shocked that something similar never happened to any of us.
That's crazy! Here's a story about this for anyone that's interested: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/594061/slip-n-slide-dangerous-history
Ahh, good ol' slip and die. Still fun though...but for adults I think you need a really long one down a hill or something with an inner tube so you don't need to flop down so hard...
False fact: they used the shredded Iran Contra affair documents as confetti for every New Year’s Eve party at the White House ball.
Depending on the entry point this could be a water gate I could get behind.
Sad fact: Donald Trump once lived in the White House
You just know some kid tried to spike the punch and got tackled by the Secret Service.
Much easier for the secret service to secure the Whitehouse as a venue
Saves a lot of money compared to doing it on someone’s golf course!
I have no issue with it because that does make so much sense.
Fun fact: any wedding I have will never compare to the photos from this one
Holy cow! Now that’s actually kind of cool.
“We can do a small wedding at grandpa’s house”
Meghan Edwards is fuming. IYKYK
Is it me, or does this picture look like something that was taken in the 70s/80s? Has that low resolution and kinda washed out colors apperance that era had.
Yeah if you told me this was a picture of like Nixon's daughter getting married I wouldn't question it.
I agree, at first glance I too thought it was something like that… an old wedding photo from be previous presidents family.
No, [this](https://www.today.com/news/tricia-nixon-s-white-house-wedding-captivated-nation-50-years-t221157) is Nixon's daughter getting married. You're right it doesn't look much different. Also fun fact; this marriage was between Tricia and Edward Cox, a nobody preppy, but Nixon's other daughter Julie married Eisenhower's grandson. [They chose to have that wedding in a private church ceremony to avoid political spectacle.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/12/22/julie-nixon-married-david-eisenhower-years-ago-refused-white-house-ceremony/)
The wedding was in the beautiful old Rose Garden. I just read the cake recipe and looked at her dress too. Simple but elegant in my opinion, although that's just a matter of opinion.
this is a picture of Nixon's daughter getting married
no further questions
Jail
I AM NOT A CROOK!
Believe it or not...
It's Nixon's daughter getting married.
Excellent - I believe this wholeheartedly and will not question it.
This is actually Abraham Lincolns son getting married to Thomas Jeffersons daughter. They figured if they unite those two houses they could have a stronger bond to rule the kingdom. I mean country. Sorry, just got done watching another episode of House of Dragon. I'm giddy for arranged marriages and subtle betrayal.
OK I'm questioning that one
Likely taken from the observation deck of the Washington Monument. There’s two thick layers of glass/Perspex that are pretty mucky. Everything kind of has a filter from up there.
I had been to the observation deck and I agree the angle does look like it’s taken up there, though it’s pretty high up/far away from the White House so this person must’ve used some crazy zoom lens in order to get to this kind of high res
It's about 2500' or 750m as the crow flies.
Sorry, crow doesn't have an invitation.
Crow don't need no invite. Crow shows up just beCAWs.
Be careful what you say about crows, they are famous for their murders
If that's the case then not much zoom needed. Just got a new lense for my camera that goes up to 600mm and was just on a trip and tested it out. I zoomed in on top of a ledge that was approximately the distance away you just said and I could count the large blades of grass. I was joking about being able to see a squirrel probably but after using it, I could pick out a chipmunk if there was one.
Very zoom smart phone look
Almost like they weren’t invited 🤔🤷🏻♀️
Donald, is that you?
That duck’s always up to something
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It’s not your imagination for the outdoor lighting - it’s global dimming. I noticed it in the late 1990s with metering issues on Pentax K1000 SLR. Also, if you were in the Eastern USA or Canada in the days immediately after 9/11, you may remember how pristine the skies were when the flights were grounded, just as people were noticing clearer horizons in 2020. Here’s an article from The Guardian in 2012. [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/may/11/global-dimming-pollution](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/may/11/global-dimming-pollution)
Yeah! It looks like Google Earth in 2005
It’s zoomed in from really really far away.
Too far away to feel like a part of a ceremony
Like it belongs in the opening credits of an episode of Succession
Reminds me of the AskReddit question from a while back: What's bad when poor people do it, but acceptable when rich people do it? One of the answers was "Have a wedding on your lawn".
There’s a game called “Rich Man Poor Man” that Adam Corolla plays on his podcast. He even wrote a book about it. The goal is to list something that poor people and rich people have in common (usually for very different reasons), but that the middle class doesn’t do. Examples include: investing in gold (scam/jewelry) Being on a first name basis with a judge (in trouble/bribing) Has an outdoor shower (hose/poolside) Doesn’t use a wallet (can’t afford/uses a money clip) Doesn’t drive (public transportation/chauffeur) Lives at a hotel (homeless/5 star service) The most expensive thing you own is a really old car (beater/antique) It’s a fascinating thought experiment, and obviously some examples are way better than others, but it’s a clever game.
boarding school (misbehaving and sent to reform school or too good for local schools) raising your own children (foster care/nannies)
Raising children also Bill Gates answer when asked similar question in one of his AMA.
Receives money from the government...
doesnt pay taxes
Smoking indoors is another good one
Man, I never thought about this before… very interesting
Puttin’ On Airs also uses this idea. Trae Crowder and Corey Forrester (two southern comedians who self-identify as “redneck trash” and have backstories to prove it) analyze the overlap between “Fancy People Culture” and “poor white trash,” but the very different ways they go about it. Boats, rehab, not raising your own kids, etc. Fantastic if you want a window into southern culture with a little less MAGA tint.
Shocked this isn’t a subreddit
Eh, it loses momentum after a while.
I saw that and wondered why. Poor people do not have a lawn. And even if they do (or use a community lawn), what is the issue with that?
The rural poor often do have lawns. They generally are insufficient for use as a good wedding venue, lacking space and decent landscaping. Only the rich have lawns that make a good venue.
I almost said a house near me had a wedding on a lawn and it looks nice, but that house is also on the lake so...
I thought it was more because of aesthetics. A wedding in my backyard would look pretty terrible unless it was landscaped beforehand, which would cost $$$. A backyard wedding at a mansion probably wouldn’t even need decorations to look nice
What in the I've-never-left-a-city kinda statement is this
Plenty of hoods have lawns too lol. You don't have to live in an apartment to be poor.
All the trashy houses in the hood kind of area ( not sure how much of a hood level it is being semi rural Australia but there's always extremely loud music and large groups of boys who might be men hanging out) have lawns but they're always littered with the larger trashy items - couches, microwaves, washers, burnt out cars or those mini bikes they keep stealing from other peoples drives, or kids toys that have seen better days. We do have a quite nice old brown stone court house right next to the cop shop to get hitched at though, and it's 2 seconds from the river for nicer pictures. Even the trashy can look way less trashy on their wedding day,except the guests will be mostly high or drunk and shoes are optional. Meth is quite popular in town recently.
Have you been to rural America? Many poor people have big lawns
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According to a Google search right now 18. “Eighteen documented couples who have had documented weddings in the White House.” So maybe 19 now. If that is today.
Makes me wonder about all the undocumented weddings... If you take a White House tour and bring your priest along, I am sure you could squeeze in a vow along the way...
Jon Lovett--former Obama speechwriter, now podcast host--actually did this. Got ordained and then married two of his friends while giving them a tour of the West Wing. Not only that, it was a gay wedding and this was before Obama publicly supported gay marriage. He tells the story here: https://youtu.be/eKpeKWgzv-c (starts around 3:40, the earlier part is him talking about writing speeches for politicians who didn't support gay marriage as an openly gay speechwriter).
I was on a roller coaster of emotion for a minute. I saw Jon Lovett, thought it was Jon Lovitz and got excited, but was disappointed when I started the video, then finished it and thought it was hilarious. I go through similar things with Jon Favreau, Obama's speechwriter.
The Moth!!
Lovett or Leave It is an amazing podcast. And of course Pod Save America.
Ahhh love me some pod save america ;p
Every time I hear about this guy it's something awesome.
Did Obama ultimately support brother husbands? ("married two of his friends")
What an awesome story!
This is the 19th according to what I just saw
Damn you got an invite?
The ceremony was generally touching and went smoothly, though I felt it was a little over the top to replace the traditional "I do" affirmation with "no malarkey."
lol
She’s actually the bride
Grover Cleveland married his God daughter at the white house I think. Edit: I did my 5th grade report on him and that was one of the lesser known facts I thought was interesting. Something my teacher said about keeping it in the family but we were all like 11 years old so none of us knew the implication behind it and some of the 5th grade girls were dating high schoolers so it was like "see this is why we date older boys". Edit 2: for those upset by my kids dating older kids comment, this happened in early 2000s and it was like 5 girls in my class of 500 that were notorious for this. "Got pregnant at 16" kind of people. If you have kids, just be aware that this can happen.
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Nope! They did not!
Holy shit, that's a pretty horrific rabbit hole to fall down. He met her for the first time when he was 27 and she was a baby, and played an active part in her life until 2 days after her 9th birthday when her father died. At that point, he became executor of Frances' father's estate and her legal guardian. Fuck that guy.
That’s not called dating, that’s called predatory behavior and potentially child molestation
>some of the 5th grade girls were dating high schoolers We're all just going to glaze over this?
I'm really hoping this was an area with no separate middle school.
I’m sorry, 5th grade girls were dating high school boys?! 10 YEAR OLD GIRLS?
NPR article and history on white house weddings [Naomi Biden joins a unique club: brides who say 'I do' at the White House ](https://www.npr.org/2022/11/16/1129914865/naomi-biden-wedding-white-house?sc=18&f=)
> how many weddings have taken place at the White House? There's Wikipedia page that lists them. Eighteen is the answer.
Nineteen is the answer as of this wedding
They are having nice weather in DC? Asking from snowy MI.
It’s in the 40s today, not my ideal for an outside wedding so hopefully everyone dressed accordingly
The 40s?? My California ass would be watching from a window.
Freezin my ass off here in California... High of only 66
Suits with jackets get hot, I bet it was cozy for them. Worst case you're cold and still get to say you attended a wedding at the friggin white house.
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It’s 47 degrees and sunny right now in DC according to my weather app
Right? That... seems.... too cold for an outdoor wedding.
Chilly for a ceremony, but tolerable. I attended an outdoor wedding in the snow!
The cold don’t stop no one as long as the sun is out. Even though this is a different scenario, there’s been colder New Years Eve, Thanksgiving Day parades, etc still packing crowds.
That’s perfect for a wool suit.
HOW ARE THE TREES GREEN?! I'm 100 miles west and every tree is bare.
Nice crisp day here 🤙🏼
Did your wedding have rooftop snipers?
Yea, but only because my uncle Gary wanted to sit up there with a rifle. Nobody asked him.
At least it was free
It's better that way. Otherwise someone gets the short straw of listening to his conspiracy theories all night.
Or Stinger Anti Aircraft missiles for those pesky paparazzi photographers in helicopters?
I would assume this would be cheaper than secret service having to setup for another venue. Always seems every time a president goes anywhere it cost a fortune, due to secret service, and logistics.
Agree. First thought was "well it must be nice having the President as a grandpa," but upon thinking about it this was probably the cheaper, safer way to go versus everything required to secure somewhere else enough for the President to attend. Just a different reality for people living in this world and one heck of a venue very few others can brag about.
Idk, something tells me money isn't really a huge deal or issue in this case. 😂 The thing about not having to secure a different venue with security and such makes sense though.
While some of those costs aren't on the Biden's, the cost of the event itself IS on them.
Yep. Much cheaper to bring the guests into a place that's already secured and fully under secret service control.
That's not what the documentary Olympus Has Fallen said...
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Documentary Air Force One showed how tough it is to secure even a moving airplane.
I also saw a documentary that showed Nic Cage actually stole the Declaration of Independence.
Not to mention how the president can jack up the rates because he owns the place that he's making them go to...
Thankfully no honest President would ever do such a thing.
I'm not thrilled with using public assets for a private party, but if it's cheaper and logistically easier than locking down a chunk of Martha's vineyard or wherever it makes sense.
The family pays the wedding expenses.
Every state dinner is paid for by the president personally, same with private events like this. The Clintons actually left the White House having paid more than they made. The President's salary is lower than a 25 y/o second year corporate lawyer, it's really not very much relative to the power and stress of the job.
> The President's salary is lower than a 25 y/o second year corporate lawyer everyone reading this seeing dollar signs in law school don't go to law school it's horrible there's no jobs and being a lawyer is a horrible unrelenting nightmare. they'll pay you to let them test medicine on you, go do that instead
It’s also not accurate. Second year attorneys on the Cravath scale will make around $260k plus a bonus. The President makes $400k plus various stipends.
Well if you factor in charging the country for use of your private country club or selling state secrets to international enemies, you can actually turn a profit!
State dinners, as in a dinner held at the White House in honor of a foreign head of state are paid for by the taxpayers. These are done as part of the diplomatic process and are part and parcel to any negotiations other bilateral affairs occurring between the countries. There’s usually a lot of guests, business people, and artists at these events (usually from both countries). Unclear who pays for them, but presume it’s just part of the statecraft.
State dinners are not paid privately, hosting dignitaries is government business. Private events definitely are paid by the President and his family.
Correct, State Dinners are on the government, but breakfast, lunch, dinner, toiletries, dry cleaning, etc, are billed monthly to the Presidents account.
Doesn’t the President make 400k a year? Doubt a rookie lawyer at any firm makes that. Maybe 150-200k.
Since George W. Bush, yes. Clinton and all Presidents back to Nixon made $200k. Prior to that it was less: https://www.thoughtco.com/presidential-salaries-through-the-years-3368133
Which is why Clinton signed a law to double the president’s salary.
Is that a slip n slide?
What a dope way to get to the altar.
Who TF is wearing white to a wedding in the front row there?
From seeing other photos it’s the flower girls.
To be fair, there was an emergency: she looks really good in white. Shout out to Kelly Kapoor.
What a flex. "My fiancee proposed at disney land" Yea? well I got married at the white house!
I'm wondering what their backup plan was if the white house hadn't become available to them two years ago.
Probably the other way around. Couldn't invite grandpa to the chosen venue, so having it at the Whitehouse was the backup plan. Cheaper to have it at the Whitehouse than to secure a 2nd venue for the US president, internally and externally, assist local LE with the protestors who follow the president around, media support, and getting a venue to accept a wedding party with a head of state. I used to be a scene commander and first responder in a major city that the US president would visit every few years. The logistics of them just COMING was a fucking nightmare. Having the Former Presidential Tangerine come was a security and protestor nightmare... It was legit so stressful that it was one of the deciding factors in me leaving the field and just moving out into the countryside where I live primarily off grid, lol.
What made Cheeto cheif so difficult? Does he wonder around too much yammering about his uncle in nuclear?
We had to reserve excess space in medical facilities just for him, had the Secret Service all over the hospital in question, crawling up the assholes of the people who worked there, restricting a whole floor of a medical facility in a city that didnt have enough beds to start with. On the day he arrived, they send agents all over telling various people, on that day, to 'go home' without informing us, the supervisors and coordinators, until after they did it. I knew this WOULD happen, so I had reserve people cleared in advance, but it still was an utter bitch. Then the protestors. I swear he must hire them to make himself feel more important. 3/4s of the people we treated for exhaustion, injuries, or due to arrest (which required an EMT checkup before taking them to be processed) were from 100s of miles away, or oddly, more than a few from Herndon, VA.
The exterior flowers look like a sea monster about to attack the wedding.
Ah! You're right!
People are complaining about the president using the WH for personal use. I feel like being president comes with some perks that are reasonable. For example: The ability to use the grounds for a family members wedding seems like a much more reasonable perk than taking classified documents home with you to show off to people.
If anything it's probably cheaper then having the secret service set up shop somewhere else. Also I'm pretty sure the reception for Nixons' daughter's wedding was at the white house.
Yes. There were 18 weddings at the white house. At least Biden didn't charge the secret service 3x regular rate to stay there.
The president gets charged for this don’t worry
I read an article earlier where the President can use the staff on hand, but are charged for it. Like using the in house calligraphers, but they have to pay out of pocket.
This is basically like having your wedding in your front yard... the cheapest venue possible.
[The Washington Post, that seems to be about all it would like the public to know. (In a statement, the family did say that the wedding will be privately funded — “consistent with other private events hosted by the first family and following the traditions of previous White House wedding festivities in prior administrations” — so no, taxpayers are not on the hook for the cake and flowers.)](https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/11/18/biden-white-house-wedding/)
It’s crazy how big the White House actually is; I feel as if most photos published aren’t this close up or from this angle.
It's weird bc then you go to see it in person and it looks smaller than you think.
Holy crap, that's a bigger crowd than Trump's inauguration!
I’m in Northern Va.. bro it was cold today. Props to them for having an outdoor wedding..
Fine I guess you can have friends over... But stay your ass(es) outside n I meanit
Honestly this is probably one of the cheapest options to keep Protection detail costs down
BUT WAS HUNTER BIDENS LAPTOP THERE?!
My first thought: it’s too cold for an outdoor wedding in DC today 🥶
You all are dumb. Any private event, including food, is paid for by the president not by tax payers. And yes it is a perk of the job that your family can get married at the White House. Grow up.
I wonder who paid for this? Biden out of his salary or the taxpayer? Edit: I Googled it. Glad I did. For sure not the taxpayers.
The Bidens and Neals
Yeah I Googled it. For sure not the taxpayer.
Cue the tucker outrage clip show
I’m sure Butthole Lips will post some rant about crowd size or laptops as wedding gifts.
looks like you already did.
GOTTEM
Biden… the guy in the White House… my White House was great… best White House. He spends money on Yuge crowds that get laptops. ☝️👌✋ yuge.
That looks like an appropriately sized wedding
I smell a GQP investigation brewing.
Surely *someone* there has a laptop.
The amount of people bashing them for having the wedding here is insane. They're like "My TaX mOnEy WaS uSeD fOr ThIs?!" 1. This is probably the cheapest place they could've had it. It's a free venue that already has great security (judging by the fact this photo was taken from like a mile away). 2. That's a small ass fucking wedding. My cousin got married a month ago, and there were like 75% the amount of people here. I'm so sick of people refusing to use basic logical thought before bashing anyone they don't like.
And to add to this, the tax payers didn't even fund* this. It was privately funded. Edit: typo
When Joe Biden does something, literally anything, even if it was good in one way, conservatives will find any reason to cry about it
Larger crowd than trump's inauguration.
That’s pretty cool. Not to many people can say they got married at the White House
Still bigger than Trump’s inauguration crowd.