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The Ballroom funding perfectly explained ✅ (Original Post) underpants May 7 OP
Perfect explanation for the easily conned. Emile May 7 #1
correct Skittles May 7 #2
That's Trump Math . . . AverageOldGuy May 7 #3
"the president has his own way to do percentages" rfk rampartd May 7 #4
RFK Jr and Nutlick. Bessent might have said it too. underpants May 7 #8
Everything that trump samplegirl May 7 #5
Con, scam, grift, seems like it's all they do. CaptainTruth May 7 #10
going for the big con. the final fleece. nt Javaman May 7 #6
That's good for a laugh, and later a bit of a cry.... Redleg May 7 #7
All for a creep who can't dance. His best move is standing flat footed while making obscene gestures surfered May 7 #9
I'm still waiting for ... "Mexico will pay for all of it!" FakeNoose May 7 #11
I can hardly wait . . . AverageOldGuy May 7 #12
This is just like his wall, that Mexico was going to pay for. Midnight Writer May 7 #13
Hhhmmm.... ChazInAz May 7 #14
Am I the only one radical noodle May 7 #15
No, you aren't. I think the rating down of 1/3 of the WH sticks with people underpants May 7 #17
This Ballroom nonsense does seem to be the most AleksS May 7 #25
But wait, there's more! Blue Owl May 7 #16
Wut? vapor2 May 7 #18
It makes perfect sense on first read. Kid Berwyn May 7 #19
Before he got into politics, he was content to grift vulnerable customers with his allegorical oracle May 7 #20
Audit that ballroom RANDYWILDMAN May 7 #21
Trump admin's official position is that almost EVERYTHING in the ballroom is security-related. LetMyPeopleVote May 7 #22
WOW! Aaron Blake! calimary May 7 #24
And the Gold... BurnDoubt May 8 #28
Yes, it works like this... maxrandb May 7 #23
*sigh* What a pointless grift buzzycrumbhunger May 7 #26
Lol!!! BlueWaveNeverEnd May 8 #27

AverageOldGuy

(4,206 posts)
3. That's Trump Math . . .
Thu May 7, 2026, 07:31 AM
May 7

. . . it's taught at Trump University.

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

rampartd

(5,120 posts)
4. "the president has his own way to do percentages" rfk
Thu May 7, 2026, 07:43 AM
May 7

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

samplegirl

(14,132 posts)
5. Everything that trump
Thu May 7, 2026, 07:52 AM
May 7

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.

Redleg

(7,036 posts)
7. That's good for a laugh, and later a bit of a cry....
Thu May 7, 2026, 08:16 AM
May 7

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

surfered

(14,409 posts)
9. All for a creep who can't dance. His best move is standing flat footed while making obscene gestures
Thu May 7, 2026, 08:53 AM
May 7

Midnight Writer

(25,798 posts)
13. This is just like his wall, that Mexico was going to pay for.
Thu May 7, 2026, 09:47 AM
May 7

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!

radical noodle

(10,695 posts)
15. Am I the only one
Thu May 7, 2026, 11:27 AM
May 7

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

(197,281 posts)
17. No, you aren't. I think the rating down of 1/3 of the WH sticks with people
Thu May 7, 2026, 12:02 PM
May 7

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

AleksS

(1,724 posts)
25. This Ballroom nonsense does seem to be the most
Thu May 7, 2026, 05:19 PM
May 7

"Let them eat cake" Louis and Marie-Antoinette thing (yet.)

Kid Berwyn

(25,133 posts)
19. It makes perfect sense on first read.
Thu May 7, 2026, 01:23 PM
May 7

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

allegorical oracle

(6,602 posts)
20. Before he got into politics, he was content to grift vulnerable customers with his
Thu May 7, 2026, 01:52 PM
May 7

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.

LetMyPeopleVote

(182,379 posts)
22. Trump admin's official position is that almost EVERYTHING in the ballroom is security-related.
Thu May 7, 2026, 01:57 PM
May 7

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



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


calimary

(90,920 posts)
24. WOW! Aaron Blake!
Thu May 7, 2026, 04:48 PM
May 7

The "East Wing Modernization Project" is the ballroom.

Call it anything else, donald, but every day more of us realize what you’re really up to.

If I were the next President, the first thing I’d do is order the Trump vanity shit (like the damn ballroom) TORN DOWN!!!

BurnDoubt

(1,913 posts)
28. And the Gold...
Fri May 8, 2026, 05:05 AM
May 8

if there IS any, sold-off to feed the babies he’s starving under his Greatification.
He so wants to be a Putin-Tate. He Needs a Palace.
The Amerikkkan Sadam Insane.

buzzycrumbhunger

(2,196 posts)
26. *sigh* What a pointless grift
Thu May 7, 2026, 08:05 PM
May 7

All so he can hide in his bunker like Putin and rule over the dying remains of WWIII.

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