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Justice Dept also specifies the Trump Ballroom will have a rooftop that "will be hermetically sealed to prevent malign forces from contaminating the circulating air" pic.twitter.com/QamioaGcot

— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) May 25, 2026

Here's the full 6-page court filing from the Justice Dept, which is littered with Trump Truth Social language

And it cites the Secret Service gunfire incident Saturday as further reason to continue with Ballroom and East Wing construction

FILING: https://t.co/m611eUsb70

— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) May 25, 2026

Trump thinks “national security” is the magic wand that makes the courts go away. But the trial court has already distinguished security issues from authority to build a ballroom. Which is why Trump is trying (desperately) to make the ballroom a fortress to rival the White House. But that’s still for Congress to determine.

Which they might have done, if he hadn’t convinced Grassley to give him a billion dollars, and then claimed access to $1.8 billion to give to his most rabid and violent supporters. The ballroom “security” is dead (and probably won’t be revived before November. Would you want to run on voting to approve it?), and the Congress is likely to amend the Judgment Act, or just repeal it outright, to keep Trump out of it. (Blanche is arguing “Obama did it, too!,” but Obama didn’t give Treasury funds to people convicted of seditious conspiracy and charged with crimes on J6 in the Capitol. Nor did he announce funds would be so widely available even Roger Stone wants some:

Everybody lining up for their taxpayer payday from Todd Blanche. pic.twitter.com/OMIsbW7tNb

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 25, 2026

Pretty sure that door gets slammed shut before August; with clawback provisions if Trump has formed a council by then. Again, would you want to run on having approved that?)

Just sayin’….

so dark pic.twitter.com/gqXVenSevh

— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) May 25, 2026