The Ballroom funding perfectly explained ✅

[underpants]

[Emile]

1. Perfect explanation for the easily conned.

[Skittles]

2. correct

that is indeed Trump logic

[AverageOldGuy]

3. That's Trump Math . . .

. . . it's taught at Trump University.

Remember -- Trump's uncle was a math professor at MIT. Trump knows math.

[rampartd]

4. "the president has his own way to do percentages" rfk

i had forgotten which of these "cabinet secretaries" said that last week. it was of course this guy .....

"I did very poorly in school until I started doing narcotics. Then I went to the top of my class because my mind was so restless and turbulent... I could sit still, I could read, and I could concentrate." rfk

[underpants]

8. RFK Jr and Nutlick. Bessent might have said it too.

[samplegirl]

5. Everything that trump

And this party passes is always a cover up or ploy to make the taxpayers pay!
Beezo could Musk have enough to donate
I'm sure they will be spending time there.

[CaptainTruth]

10. Con, scam, grift, seems like it's all they do.

[Javaman]

6. going for the big con. the final fleece. nt

[Redleg]

7. That's good for a laugh, and later a bit of a cry....

when it again sinks in how terrible Trump is and how much he is damaging our nation.

[surfered]

9. All for a creep who can't dance. His best move is standing flat footed while making obscene gestures

[FakeNoose]

11. I'm still waiting for ... "Mexico will pay for all of it!"

[AverageOldGuy]

12. I can hardly wait . . .

. . . to start work on the $250 million arch.

[Midnight Writer]

13. This is just like his wall, that Mexico was going to pay for.

He starts out building his wall without authorization, without oversight or planning.

He and his minions start collecting funds from private sources, though that money "disappears" and no one can account for it.

Then he starts juggling money around, taking money designated by Congress for other programs and diverting those funds to his wall.

Finally, he gets a compliant Congress to authorize billions of spending to build a symbolic "wall" (actually, more of a fence) that is nothing like the wall he promised.

Billions in missing money, taxpayers on the hook for billions more, a half-assed wall that is easily breached, and the Donald gets his way once again.

Mission Accomplished!

[ChazInAz]

14. Hhhmmm....

Has anyone taken an inventory of Fort Knox, lately?

[radical noodle]

15. Am I the only one

who feels like this is a "let them eat cake" last straw moment?

I am outraged by so much since January 2025, but for some reason, this expensive, ornate, unnecessary narcissistic vulgarity is such a prime example of trump's total disengagement from real people in this country that I'm rethinking pitchforks and guillotines. (not meant as a call for violence)

It's not that this is the worst thing they've done and are doing. The racism, the hate, and the lack of basic human empathy has been gut-wrenching. I've been sick at heart for so long. But somehow this ballroom and all it represents is making me a little crazy (crazier).

[underpants]

17. No, you aren't. I think the rating down of 1/3 of the WH sticks with people

It was a shocking visual. THIS, the taxpayer funding and giant leap in money is a slap in the face.

[Blue Owl]

16. But wait, there's more!

[vapor2]

18. Wut?

[Kid Berwyn]

19. It makes perfect sense on first read.

And it makes more and more and more sense with each and every re-read.

[allegorical oracle]

20. Before he got into politics, he was content to grift vulnerable customers with his

casinos, hotels, books, steaks, wine, water, board game, and Trump University. Now we're all being forced against our will to be his unwilling chumps.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

21. Audit that ballroom

and put people in jail for the fraud they are clearly committing

[LetMyPeopleVote]

22. Trump admin's official position is that almost EVERYTHING in the ballroom is security-related.

trump wants US taxpayers to pay the entire cost of the ballroom

Link to tweet

The reconciliation bill says that Trump can’t spend the $1 billion they gave him for the ballroom on “non-security” features.

But the Trump admin’s official position is that almost EVERYTHING in the ballroom — from the walls to the columns to the ceiling — is security-related.

I disagree with trump's position

Link to tweet