The site of the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner, the International Ballroom at the Washington Hilton, is 29,700 square feet. www.hilton.com/en/hotels/dc...
The site of the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner, the International Ballroom at the Washington Hilton, is 29,700 square feet. www.hilton.com/en/hotels/dc...
You guys, I came up with an idea, and I think it can help with a lot of what we've got going on lately.
The Mad King will empty every single coffer. #MadKing👑
When the next Dem restores the historic White House, we better not hear from the tan suit screechers...
He has lots of pedophile friends to fill it up. So breathtakingly appalling. 🤢 A gilded pile of shit.
I realoize the main reason for this is so he can skim money from the project and further gaudify the WH. But is this partially so he can sell memberships like he does to Mar-a-Lago? The Northern MAL. Nothing would surprise me. Open up the WH as a resort for his personal profit.
Nero, the infamous Roman emperor, is rumored to have burned Rome to make room for his 'Golden House.' Malignant narcissists like trump have been with us for millenias.😡
Follow the money…
So much for cutting waste. 🙄 is he going to stop the constant golf travel to pay for it??
So basically this moron wants to add a ballroom that is one and a half times the size of a football field to the White House?
White House is 55,000 feet. How will they fit a 90,000 feet ballroom inside it?
He'll pretend just like all the other tiny things he lies about.
Surely this expansion is illegal ‼️‼️‼️
I think he’s trying to match this Florida mansion (under construction): “Versailles is a 90,000-square-foot (8,400 m2) house belonging to Westgate Resorts founder David Siegel and his wife Jackie.”
Not with our tax dollars, I voted NO.
We all realize he's claimed the White House and has essentially moved in forever, right?
A bigger ballroom at the White House doesn’t lower grocery prices, fix healthcare, raise wages, make beef affordable, or undo the damage from tariffs. It does nothing for education, childcare, or working families, just another shiny distraction while real problems go ignored.
Room for all the museum exhibits when we finally wake up Fascism Day One Goons of MAGA "Reciprocal" Tariffs Court Capture ICE Raids Family Separation Coup Plot Election Denial Divide & Conquer Politics Media as Enemy Voter Suppression Militia Sympathy Ministry of Truth
Waste, fraud, and abuse. Another perfect example.
Is he going to rent it out?
How does this get stopped? It's not like it just gets torn down after the guy goes...
You don't suppose he may be compensating for something, do you? He uses "gold" for decoration the way many MAGATS use truck nuts.
Of course we do know he fudges on the some of things ... his Trump Tower penthouse, his crowds, his pe... 🤫
What's the likeliness that Trump is going to say that since he builds it, it is going to be his, and Trump Org will start billing the White House for its use...
He has got a new jet to cost millions to refit, paved over lawn for millions, and now a ballroom for more millions. All while cutting basic standards of living and insurance for the neediest. All while enriching himself by billions. Anyone else think this is criminal?
When i become President I’m gonna turn that ballroom into basketball courts for Boys and Girls Club of DC to use, just to piss off Donald.
To him, 3 inches is really 8.
WHAT THE HELL IS TRUMP DOING TO THE PEOPLES HOUSE
Beyond tacky.
It's so big you need loudspeakers and video screens -- and binoculars. Similar venue, the Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex North Exhibition Hall, 90,000 square feet.
What a disgrace dump is think of that money 💰 that could be spent on snap and helping people like health care and the homeless truly insulting to the American people shame on you 💯👹🤬👎🏼
Doesn't each President get a set budget that they are allowed to spend for making changes to the White House? Doesn't this far exceed it? Wasn't destroying the Rose Garden and putting all that tacky gold ornamentation all over the Oval Office enough?
does he have a permit?
Good question. Doesn't DC have construction rules. I suspect they could be over-ridden by Congress (since they technically govern DC), but not the President. The Executive Branch has nothing to do with the District.
He's building the palace of his new monarchy.
American excess
Is that like his Trump Tower Penthouse is 33,000ft2? When it's actually more like 10,000?
Hopefully Trump will be long gone before it’s completed.
iirc that’s a photo of the Bolshoi Rosneft MegaTheatre in Vladivostok?
Will the GOP wear powdered wigs and pantaloons in this ballroom?
Is the White House considered a historic place? How was he allowed to do that? How was he allowed to change the actual building? Turning the rose garden into a parking lot was a travesty, but this is a building that he's altering. How is this even allowed? I'm not being rhetorical.
The deranged hump doesn't plan on leaving.
If an only going to be for half of the country. Republicans only.
I always thought the White House belonged to the people. That's okay, Donald, as soon as you're gone the people will disappear it.
90,000 sq. ft. can house classified documents, a large pill mill, surgi suite, "massage" parlor, memory care wing with a replica of the Oval Office, and a McDonald's.
Waste, fraud, abuse: not on my dime.
This is exactly what I was thinking. What in the world do they need a space this gigantic?! And who are they going to host? And who is going to pay to host these 100’s of guests?!
WTF
How much $$$$$?
Maybe the roof has a dance floor and the walls are magnetized?
Will he attend the dinner?
oh please god no
Our tax dollars at work! Aren’t we all excited?
Waste. Fraud. Abuse. Also, Distraction. Epstein. Epstein. Epstein.
any word on how big the kitchen will be, or is it just a loading dock for the cold Big Macs?
The Emperor President is turning the White House into his palace
How nice, ok, well, that would NEED Congressional approval first. So.. who on the Dem/“middle ground” side is gonna delay this “monstrosity”???
Why?
The White House is 55,000 sq.ft The ballroom is 90,000 sq. Ft It's almost double the size of the White House! What the fuck are we even doing here people? Jeezus
Less grass. More glitz. Less class. More sh...
just a little 2 acre addition, no biggie
Hope zoning says fuck no
This is totally czar and King stuff. How is congress letting his do all this stuff?
And who is paying for that? More waste expenditures c/o Donald Trump, the narcissist, who must have a place to look and act like a King...
Tacky, unnecessary waste.
Trump imagines himself a pharaoh ruler, exploiting taxpayer dollars and slave labor to erect guilded monuments to satisfy his narcissism... or as Adolf, fascinated by table-top models of columns, pillars, and arches, symbolizing a regime that was supposed to last for a 1,000 years, but didn't.
You just know DonOLD wants his new ballroom so he can throw a demented debutante ball where he formally introduces himself to dictator society.
He’s probably busy right now working on plans for his throne room. And for his coronation. Fellow dictators and billionaires will be front and centre.
Trump’s Versailles Addition and Cake Shop?
90,000 square feet is 2 acres.
Ah, but he can't name that after himself, can he?
Having fun America? #shitholecountry
If he builds it, he won't leave.
Don’t tell anyone or he might take it using eminent domain.
Bringing PedoTacoTurd Island to the White House!!!
I DO NOT want to pay for this!!
How many people would it take to fill a space that large? Or at least, fill it enough not to look ridiculous? And what percentage of those would need to be Secret Service personnel? What kind of event would need more floorspace than an entire football field?
The President needs a radical priority adjustment. Shut it down before they break ground. ☎️ 202 224 3121 Congressional Switchboard resist.bot/petitions/PD...
Uh, how? Doesn’t Congress have to appropriate the money? It’s property of the Federal Government, not his private residence.
No silly. Congress just does strongly worded statements (Dems) and Kool Aid parties (GOP) now.
White House: “We can’t host people from other countries without having to install an unsightly temporary structure approximately 100 yards from the main entrance.” Half the school districts in America: “You don’t say.”
Forget feeding and housing the poor. Let's make a nice big ass room for all the pedophiles to congregate!!!
Ugly as he is
This is such a blatant waste of our taxpayer's money. FFS...
Guess he’s planning to hold big conventions there, on our dime.
DOGE?
I hope the next president — if we get one — knocks that shit down.
He will hand the title to one of his spawn. There will never be a real election there again.
I hope they paint it like a rainbow and turn it into the Barak Obama DEI Excellence Center.
And the second your term is over, America will bulldoze it. Sort of a Hiltlers bunker.
The ballroom will be named 'The Maxwell Room', it's a deal signed recently. ✌️😀💙🌈
😂
Obviously he needs additional room for upcoming griffs.
Less grass. More glitz. Less class. More sh...
🤔 doesn’t tRump have enough trouble filling a 30,000 spft space let alone trying to fill 90,000 sqft?!? It will be like his mitary parade… 🦗🦗🦗
That's some John Daly math
An abomination! trump is squandering billions as the people who voted for him starve and die.
How big is Versailles? Is that what we’re trying to beat?
Will it have sliding walls for when he gets mostly “can’t make it” on his RSVPs. The room will seem empty if only a few thousand show up.
Did he say thank you to the American people?
It looks like it will be tasteful enough for a miss teen contest.
Americans, this should be your Storming the Bastille! Wake up.
Soviet architectural gigantism, also known as gigantomaniac architecture, was a trend in the Soviet Union, particularly during the Stalinist era, characterized by the construction of large, monumental buildings and structures intended to showcase the power and superiority of the socialist state.
Wonder which: 1. exaggerated square footage (also see: his 37 felony convictions) 2. grandiose idea unable to work in reality (do you really think he’s consulting anyone who has expertise with historical building renovations?)
I want every damn dollar back. Literally, every single effing penny. I know they discontinued the penny, but that just means I want what he owes us rounded up, not down. I want it all clawed back out of his and his friends' hides. All of it.
And I want every single bit of ugly, cheap schlock he plastered all over OUR property scraped off, and dumped on his swamp lawn in FL, with a bill for the hauling.
Including those 2 stupid-ass flagpoles. And I want him billed for the repairs, including the restoration of the rose garden, and for the extra security scrubbing the whole damn complex will need.
I want that asshole picking up garbage along the highways for the rest of his miserable, useless, toxic life to pay us back, just for what he did to the White House. Omg, can he please piss off to hell already?
Will the contractors get paid?
Excuse me? this fool can't have a budget without cuts to Medicaid, Medicare and threatening Social Security, but he can build a new ballroom at the White House, apparently the current one isn't good enough for him. Why doesn't he move the whole executive branch to Mira Lago where he can be happy?
Good thing we have no health care for this
Distraction! From EPSTEIN
This will probably be hundreds of million or more of a useless expense. All while they deprive citizens of Medicare and Social Security funds.
Kings need a palace
But you know what Trump’s like with numbers… he makes Nigel from Spinal Tap look genius… this one goes to 90,000… You know he mis-numbers the floors in his tower just to make it seem bigger….. Man’s got a complex…
He's not leaving. 90k sq feet is a convention center.
For context 90,000 sq ft is 1/4 the size of the Lincoln reflecting pool. Rough sketch on Google Maps to show comparison. Did someone slip with a decimal place?
He’s not planning on leaving unless he is dragged out in handcuffs or feet first.
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Another insane waste of money. Does he think he's also going to keep the White House after his term is up? As in WhiteHouse-a-Lago?
What do you mean…term is up???
Hmmm. Punish the poor; cosset the wealthy. The Storming of the Ballroom does have a certain, je ne sais quoi pas, ring to it . . . 😶
They can only fit 650 ppl in 90,000 SQUARE FEET?! 🤨 What’s the rest of the space being used for??
What did he remove to put this grand ballroom? Now he'll want to name it after him .
So mar-a-lago was the Florida Whitehouse but now we’ll have the Washington mar-a-lago. We’ll have the Trump House, no longer the Whitehouse. He thinks he’ll live forever in his house made specially for his (vulgar, no class) personal taste? Or wants to destroy everything of value?
But he doesn't even entertain as other presidents did.
Middle East dictator opulence for me, DOGE for thee.
WTF...we can't afford to feed the poor, provide health care for the elderly, the disabled, our military and children..but we can do trillion dollar tax breaks for the rich and corporations and a ballroom for a disgusting, lying, deranged felon??? Make this disaster make sense to me 🤬
He’s saving us so much money!
The White House is an historic building that undoubtedly falls under certain criteria, whereby any alteration, such as an addition would have to be approved by several agencies that serve to preserve and protect historic buildings
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When does the fake Lago next to the White House get built
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Good thing - for Kings. Europe has dozens of them (i.e. Royal ballrooms - and Kings, too). But the American one will be the biggest, I'm sure.
If you've been to DC you probably spent time at the Lincoln memorial. Pretty big, right? The foundation covers 27,300 ft². This is absurd.
The White House including the East and West Wings covers 55,000 sq. ft. They will be relegated to serving as the locker rooms for this abomination.
Whatever for?
Seems like a nightmare for security
It’s not Trump, it’s the American people allowing everything that is happening through vote or corruption.
DISTRACTION!!! NOPE NOT GONNA WORK, RELEASE ALL THE EPSTEIN FILE!! And stop stealing from us. The plane stays at the WH. Stop golfing on our dime now!!!
Yes, but where is all the tacky gold overlay?
STOP SPENDING OUR MONEY TO MASSAGE YOUR EGO!!!!
He read the guy like a book.
Absolutely disgusting.
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90000 square ft! Where will they park?
And that 29,000 sq ft Hilton space has a capacity of 4,000+ guests. What is Trump planning to do with the extra 11,350 people's worth of empty space?
he says his 90,000 sq ft will seat 650. six hundred and fifty. on 90,000 sq ft.
It would be really funny if no one showed up to the next correspondents dinner😉
It's like he doesn't think he's leaving
He’s trying to turn The WH into a Palace !
He’s not leaving in 2028…
All he does is spend others’ money on himself. He is the worst human ever born.
He always does that. Never pays his bill, always finds way for others to pay.
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Waste fraud and abuse. Why is this even a Thing???
He’s trying to tell us he’s going to get private funding. How does he accept that since the White House belongs to the people of America? It’s not a ball park. Next he’ll say he’s hanging a gold plaque on it calling it the trump ballroom. So over this shit from him.
It is going to be the tackiest building in America!! Gold twiddles and twirls everywhere
And of course, fees to rent this venue will go into the Trump Family Funds.
The naked emperor’s convention center. Like Hitler’s buildings only rococo.
What are the odds he's inflating that 90K figure. High.
Ignoring for a second the cost and stupidity; this is going to be a legendary tragedy of architecture. If it's seriously that big, I don't care if it's in the same style as the Whitehouse. He's adding a fucking massive appendage to the side.
L'État, c'est moi vibes. Really USA has been turned into one🤮ass regime in 6 months. 😕
Promise the world that you will restore The White House to its original after pedophile Nazi Trump is gone. You can not leave his filthy stain on the building, no matter the cost!
The ass doesn’t plan on leaving…
For fund raising galas?
He’s planning to build the ballroom in inside his ego so it will actually seem minuscule, like his mushroom penis 🍄
Gold tacky POS is the money he received from higher institutions??? Bribe money stays in his pockets I’m sure.
Versailles!
Whatever gilded horrors you are imagining, it will be 10x worse.
Omg! His tacky ideas of "classy interior design" are embarrassing!! This guy is so out of sync with reality...wish we could send him back in time to that gaudy Gilded Age that he is yearning for!
Hopefully it’ll take longer than 3 years to get approved, contracted, and built, so that the next President can undo this BS. This is OUR HOUSE, not his!
You can have a membership for a price
He doesn't have that many friends,
How go we stop him from using our tax money for his own personal amusement?! We must stop paying our federal taxes!!!!!
More income for the 🟠💩!👀 Wedding receptions... etc!🤮 Next it'll be an island, like Epstein's.🤷
"...on behalf of the American people." - The people would like a word.
Saw Jimi Hendrix there in 1968, fwiw
😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
Man wants to create Versailles. But also our country has no money for anything but rich people tax breaks. 🤷♂️
15,000 sf ballroom. Double height, so Trump would call 45,000 sf. Catering services spaces and support spaces would also equal 15,000+ sf. Plus other utility spaces of same size. So that's another 45,000 sf. And voila! - 90k sf total. Trump magic math!
No doubt whatever budget is currently projected for said ballroom will double or triple by the time it's finished. Chump will find a way to profit from it. Has probably already set up numerous companies for that purpose.
Turf it and make is a youth sports complex
This is all part of the Imperial Presidency.
This thing is gonna be hideous.
Where's the money for that coming from?!
Just dictator things
Doesn't money for this need to be appropriated by congress?
Are the peasants invited to share a bite with the “rug wearing thump bucket “ ? I’d be pleased to pass the “orange fart lozenge” a big bowl of gravy covered lard in ketsup…
I would think there would be certain restrictions on how they can "renovate" the WH, considering it's historically significant status. This seems like more crap to distract us from the fact that Trump is a pedophile.
It will be a sanitized space complete with s*** gold gilding, no correspondents that DJT tells to “shut up” because he can’t handle the truth, and it will cost a fortune to attend a sh** dinner of cold chicken, lukewarm potatoes and a glass of water.
Where is DOGE now?
Sounds like a security nightmare. This bldg in Dubai is 90,000 sq ft. - but then it appears to be ~ 7 stories tall. LOL (I think.) Surely Trump is lying/hallucinating again? I mean, seriously... this is insane.
Oh goody! Versailles. Does this mean we’re getting closer to the barricades?
At our expense, fellow babies.
Thank goodness you didn’t elect the old guy who didn’t know what he was talking about… 😑
There used to be an architect of the White House who needs to tell Frump to F off
Is this waste or efficiency? I can't remember what keeps it from being fraud.
Trump has no problem using taxpayer money to make himself look great to his rich supporters. But when it comes to poor people he doesn't give a shit.
This guy is lining his pockets and spending like there is no tomorrow
None of my business, but this seems like an utterly ridiculous waste of tax dollars to me.
WTF are they going to fit it? In the real world, it would be bid out for design, selected, bid out, and HOPEFULLY take more than 4 years. But, in Trump world, he will just anoint his sons to build it with no open bidding or environmental reviews.
Spend, spend, spend! Run up a debt, go bankrupt. Leave others to cover, such a sham. flim flam man, enabled by his remoras
Maybe it's time Canada starts cashing in some of the billions in US debt it owns.
Hopefully the Big Macs kick in before then
I know of a couple
I envision... Michael Madsen, a cop, a razor and "Stuck in the Middle with You".
Only the brave military can pursue this issue.
He plans to be USA’s 1st dickTator-in-chief! SCOTUS in his back pocket, enriching himself by suing, a jet from the Saudis, flies to Scotland on the Ppl’s dime, nobody to tell him he can’t. No checks, balances or powers that be to stop him. He’s got the US by the testes, why leave?