Let’s See How Far They Go

Now Republicans want taxpayers to pay $400,000,000 for Trump’s ballroom 🤔

“Underneath there will be a lot of military stuff” pic.twitter.com/OGo8dRDoWO

— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) April 27, 2026

Please put it to a vote.

97% of the 35,000 comments submitted to the National Capitol Planning Commission on Trump's ballroom project were negative.

This public outrage forced the Commission to postpone their final approval vote by a MONTH.

We're showing Trump that he can't mess with the People's… pic.twitter.com/fCYLjjGU3w

— Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) March 6, 2026

Maybe use reconciliation. Push it through as “budget neutral.” Maybe cut Medicare and Medicaid some more? See if you can get it past the Senate Parliamentarian. I mean, nobody’s gonna hold it against you, right? The people don’t blame the GOP for the lines at the airports? Or for ICE. Or rising costs, rising on the back of gas prices going up because Trump thought Iran would be a pushover; and now he’s too bored with Iran to even talk tough about them.

So, yeah, give him a ballroom. I’m sure it’ll pass easily. And nobody will notice that Congress can’t get anything done, except to service the whims of one of the least popular presidents in history.

Pass the bill, so the Democrats can order its destruction in 2027. Hell, they can even campaign on it. One more example of Trump’s corruption, and his waste, fraud, and abuse. Maybe get Paxton (or Cornyn, who knows?) to support it, so Talarico can beat either of them like a drum. If he wasn’t going to already.

Republicans: “The debt is stealing money from our kids!”

Also Republicans: “Let’s spend $400,000,000 on a ballroom and $1.5 Trillion on the military and let Trump win a $10 Billion lawsuit to pocket billions just for funsies”

— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) April 27, 2026

See? The campaign ads write themselves.

(I really can’t believe the Republicans are this stupid. Still, as we’ve seen, anything is possible.)

UPDATE: Lawrence O’Donnell reports the ballroom Trump wants to build, would hold 1/4 the number of people at the Washington Hilton for the WHCD that had to be canceled. So please, please, please, GOP, I’m begging you. Insist on this ballroom being built, even as the evidence of what a wasteful vanity project it is, continues to mount. Do it! 😈

(The Hilton ballroom, btw, held 2600 people for that dinner.)