Who the fuck uses a ballroom for anything?Trump is spending $200 million of our tax dollars on a “golden ballroom” in the White House, but we “can’t afford” pediatric cancer research. pic.twitter.com/ExNOu7S9Ob
— Jo (@JoJoFromJerz) July 31, 2025
This isn’t the 19th century.
It will be approximately 90,000 square feet. The entire White House, all floors included, is 55,000 square feet. The tail is going to wag the dog. It’ll be a ballroom attached to a residence/executive office building.
Trump wants it because it will hold 650 people, and the White House can only accommodate 200 for a state dinner.
Which raises the question: when has Trump ever presided over a state dinner? And who is going to attend one for 650 people?
And will Trump charge admission? Or just accept bribes? He says he’s going to use donor money to do it. That’ll be the same thing.
Isn’t there some way even this Congress can say: “FUCK NO!”?
Asking for a friend….
He's building his own Versailles. How apt.
ReplyDeleteHe can’t get on Rushmore. He can’t annex Canada or Greenland. He claims he’s stopped six wars in six months, but he can’t name one. Odds are the next Congress won’t let him take the donated jet with him (he’s not Reagan). So this will be his monument.
ReplyDeleteHe probably won’t even be in office long enough to use it. If Congress lets him build it.
IOW: what NTodd said.