The White House will begin constructing a ballroom, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced. "President Trump and other donors have generously committed to donating the funds necessary to build this approximately $200 million structure," she said.
Why? Hasn’t he already used tax payers’ $ for his own agrandizement?
Doesn't the White House essentially have a ballroom already? Or are they taking what they have and making it tacky with gold?
WTF for?
More evidence he has no plans on leaving.
It's just so cringe watching that bobblehead barbie talk, the fidgeting around and anunciations like she's given a robotic prezo in her college capstone course.
Trump took federal jobs from hard-working Americans, gave us tariffs, protecting pedophiles, cut benefits to veterans, kids, elderly, gave billionaires and the rich our tax money and tax breaks, is gutting national parks, and health services so he can build a BALLROOM!!
This probably qualifies as at least a misdemeanor if any Democrat congresscritters want to follow up on that.🤨 Ref: 1961 Congressional Act, the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, and Executive Order 11145.
Can you imagine if President Biden wanted to build a Ball room? Majorie Taylor Green would literally s&@t herself on the House floor.
Right. We really need a ballroom that we haven't ever needed.
The only thing that Trump knows how to do is spend taxpayer money on himself
Oooh fun! When democrats win again Lady Gaga can finally throw her big monster balls in the Whitehouse ballroom! 🏀
Neat. Ruining the sanctity of the White House one day at a time…and giving the most horribly dancing (and corrupt) POTUS his very own dance floor to do his awful dances.
He ain’t leaving. He’s building a gold palace for his fat orange ass.
No one asked them.
youtu.be/sjZUGVi1Brw?... Sound the alarm.
Yeah, but what's it gonna cost taxpayers to remove the gaudiness after he leaves? I hear that gold paint is hard to sand off.
He'll hire corrupt contractors from his "donor" list and it will be built so poorly, it will be easy to tear down in 2028.
The contractors will never be paid.
Are you from NJ?
And government lawyers will have to defend them, on our dime, and any settlement will be our tax dollars all while the money is nowhere to be found.
The White House is the People’s house, and we should have a say.
Does Columbia at least get naming rights?
What the fuck! What a waste of money. Which developer buddy gets that gravy train?
He's like a teenager with his parent's credit card. Just loves to spend other people's money especially taxpayers.
Jesus.
She’s an idiot. When is she going to finally just give up?
Imagine paying 5 times as much for a TV or an iPhone just because you used a different credit card than someone else. That's exactly what happens every day at WI hospitals. If you have Medicare you are charged one price - if you have private insurance - well, it depends.
When the only balls that apparently matter could fit inside a tic tac box.
200 FUCKING Million?! What's it made out, government documents trump Couldn't sell?!
OH, SORRY, DOGE will not allow it, . . . WASTE!
But we can’t fund cancer research for kids or feed the hungry ones
another win for us we the american ppl: the white house is we the ppl's house. improving it w/ donation-funds is for our best interest n pride. ty pres trump for working hard for us n for taking care of/improving our house. apnews.com/article/whit...
NO THANK YOU
Her body language when she speaks is uncanny
Chihuahua has spoken
Nice to know his priorities are in order. 🙄
Where's the #EpsteinFiles? And like #Epstein, was FELON/Sexual Predator Trump using Mar-a-Lago for sex trafficking of teenage girls?
What use is such a room ? Who would use it? You can’t rent it out! So for what once a year ? The presidency is a job not a kingly party of holding court for the nobles!
Exactly. He’ll hold court and publicize his followers showing fealty in real time and gala events for his donors so they don’t have to rent Italy. The oval office is too small for what he has in mind.
There must be some serious money laundering going on for the construction of a ballroom to run $200M.
Who are the “other donors”? If he’s gonna desecrate “the People’s House” with some tacky monstrosity, Americans have a right to know exactly who’s funding the monstrosity. The White House isn’t Trump Tower.
They are transforming the American people's White House into Mar-a-Lardass on the Potomac. Let's see a complete, unabridged list of the names and "donation" amounts of these $200 million "donors." Ffs. 🫤
More distractions.
So he’s changing the structural makeup of the WH. Without any oversight. Something is wrong here.
I didn’t know that was a presidential power. Is it? Although I understand why he wants a ballroom though, graceful dancer that he is. 🤮
Trump even said it’s a great legacy, sorry dude a gold plated ballroom ain’t gonna compare with the legacy you’ve built already,masked unidentifiable army tasked to people removal without due process ( even citizens) and of course Epstein 👧👧👧👧
It's comical watching this clip with the volume off. 🤐
I guess Trump is putting Melania to work.
FFS. We will end up paying for something we will never get to use. I’m getting sick of him messing with the White House. First ruining the Rose Garden now this
Think of how many people that money could feed, Worldwide
Imagine, in WH ballroom: 1. The security headache. 2. Melania, kicked out of East wing. 3. Paying big bucks to go and sitting at the back. 4. Veterans, having just had the VA gutted to save money. 5. Donor sponsors getting their quid pro quo. 6. Foreign dignitaries suffering Trump's boasting.
This disgusts me! It's so wasteful and unnecessary! We need so many things like food, school funding, healthcare, housing, FEMA funding, and safer airlines.
Press, ask, "Will the ballroom be called Trumpstein Pedogate Hall? Mar-a-Pedo Hall?"
Donors? Federal taxpayers are the donors.
Can we tear it down after about 3 and a half years?
Good to see the president is solving such important problems for Americans. 🙄
god forbid
wtf does the peoples white house, NOT trumps, need a damn ballroom built as gaudy as his home…..cheap and tacky looking
A Mexico is going to pay for his wall.
Where’s the bribery list then, because Congress sure has not appropriated the funds?
Say something, “You’re not going to talk. Don’t say something, “You’re not going to talk”. But at least two air craft would have landed safely.
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But we gotta cut Medicare and we gotta cut services. This Nazi communistic regime has got to be taken down president pedo, and all his pedophile friends have got to be taken down vote people protest.
Watch Trump take that with him when he leaves like the jet.
I think it’s more indicative of his plan to NOT leave
Because nothing says ‘gilded age’ like a new unnecessary ballroom
Will be fun to watch demolition of this monstrosity by the next President
Ya right...not tax payer dollars 💰.
How much of that $200 million is going to end up in one of the trump’s pockets? What a crook.
He’s building a $200 million golden ballroom for himself… Has any money gotten to Texas yet for the floods? Has any money gotten to California yet for the fires?
There really ought to be laws preventing a president, elected to a four-year term, from making unnecessary architectural or structural changes to the White House. What if he suddenly converted to Russian Orthodoxy, should he be allowed to build a Russian-style cathedral on the grounds?
Exactly! I mean we never had a reason to even think of this before because no normal President would dare but this aaahat pushes every norm out the window.! It’s a historical building for cripes sake!!!
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Bribing the buffoon with gold
Of course “donors” can find money for a ballroom not healthcare, FEMA, jobs, education, the environment. Showcasing their unapologetic demanding self-entitlement while rubbing salt in others wounds is their specialty. Let billionaires eat cake while others starve is a special kind of monster.
But - Trump doesn't HAVE any balls. What is he gonna put in the big ass room - a Miss Teen Pageant or a massage parlor for 'WH' guests'? What? Don't look at me like that, I have a point - it'll be like Mar-a-Lago, right? What did y'all expect him to build - a LIBRARY?
and just as tacky as one would expect
His other ballroom at the Winter White House is full of stolen documents.
Waste waste waste
I am sure this is the best use of money ever in the history of the world. We don’t need food or housing for struggling families. No sense in donating that money to help anyone but the dotard in chief. What do you think they will name it?
"President Trump and other donors have generously committed" Trump isn't going to pay shit. Who are these "other donors"?
All about him and only him! He'll kill us all to get what he wants!
hail #emperor 🦤 I. of 🍌 republic of 🇺🇸 !
What the fluff …yucko pucko…for all the passengers from the BRIBE plane…grimey filthy grifters❌👑🤮🤬💙
I truly believe he’s doing all these renovations because he doesn’t plan on leaving!
Which they will take as a tax deduction. Meaning We the People will end up paying for it. But we can’t do (name ANY thing for the people trump and the cabal have already eliminated).
What a ridiculous project, just to appease Trump.
Constructing a ballroom, of course, Nazis like their pomp and galas. Look at history books and how dictators like Mussolini and Hitler threw those big bashes with live bands. It's where 'deals' are made, compliments of you and me the taxpayer
Hope Americans can dance in this useless room if only to celebrate Trump’s passing to hell. Big step to bankruptcy
Also, Karolie isn't looking so fresh anymore.. guess the non-stop mouthpiece work gets to you after a while. I'm sure her tell-all book will be a banger.
$200 MILLION for a ballroom. Absolutely batshit. He will pocket most of it, and then all contract will go to people associated with his inner grift circle. Hope they 25th Amendment him before the contracts go out. You know Vance & Heritage is ready to go. That was the plan all along.
KrazyKarolineLiarLeavitt 🙄
Latest and most absurd distraction from Epstein yet. Oh, and the 6 wars he stopped.
More fucking waste!
Oh boy, I hope there is lots of fake guilding and shiny chandeliers
Tackling very important matters
The other donors are the taxpayers.
Trump's turning the White House into a gaudy Mar-a-Lago wannabe. Gold-plated Oval Office? Paving over Jackie Kennedy's Rose Garden? Everything he touches turns to tacky trash. And Republicans? Crickets. Absolutely shameless. 🤮
I like how she slipped in there he’s doing it on behalf of future administrations- likely for future Trump administrations
There aren't enough national anthems, American flags, or bald eagles to excuse the corruption this administration displays.
So sad.
FUGOP You gut everything our democracy had to help the ordinary person working hard to make ends meet, help folks recover from natural disasters. Then approve a tacky ass golden ballroom? What the ever loving Christ is this shit. pedo pres can’t even dance. FUGOP
With all that is going on in this country, Donny decides to build a ballroom. EPSTEIN FILES DONNY!
Obviously waste fraud and abuse was never the issue. This administration is wasting more and more every day.
"Donors"
Because ballroom dancing and activities are crucial to the wellbeing of this country.
I’ll never believe it’s funded by trump’s money. He’s a grifter. Grifters do not use their own money for anything.
Will Trump's buddies get the contract to build?
