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riversedge

(79,177 posts)
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 03:15 PM Jul 2025

Trump plans massive renovation of White House

Source: Politico



The $200 million effort will add a state ballroom to the White House grounds.


By Jake Traylor07/31/2025 03:07 PM EDT

The White House will undergo a $200 million extensive renovation of its East Wing, President Donald Trump’s latest construction project of the executive mansion.

Construction will begin in September on an approximately 90,000 square foot White House state ballroom with a 650-person seating capacity, press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Thursday. Trump and other “patriot donors” will pay for the $200 million-dollar renovation, according to the White House website.

Prior presidents — and Trump — have hosted large events at the White House in large tents set up on the South Lawn.
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This is the latest, and most expensive, construction in a line of recent White House renovations under Trump...................



Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/31/trump-renovation-ballroom-white-house-00487004



I do not care who pays for this---it is wrong!! we know Trump will put his NAME on the ballroom. This is so so wrong!!




An architectural rendering of the new State Dining Room that President Trump has commissioned.

An architectural rendering of the new State Dining Room that President Trump has commissioned. | The White House
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Trump plans massive renovation of White House (Original Post) riversedge Jul 2025 OP
Needs a pic mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 #1
Pedo Palace! chowder66 Jul 2025 #5
That is just too f***ing huge. Intended to be as impersonal and non-intimate as possible. eppur_se_muova Aug 2025 #51
Pretty ugly. travelingthrulife Aug 2025 #71
I doubt this ass could even manage a simple waltz... wcmagumba Jul 2025 #2
I watched a bio of LBJ yesterday Oeditpus Rex Jul 2025 #9
You've seen him dance jmowreader Jul 2025 #14
You mean his signature "Double Handjob"...? regnaD kciN Jul 2025 #17
Also known as... REPUguy Jul 2025 #34
This message was self-deleted by its author REPUguy Jul 2025 #35
Ballroom my ass. LudwigPastorius Jul 2025 #3
I hear the presidential office quarters where the staff works... brush Jul 2025 #28
They are not going to pay for it. The contractors won't get paid either. chowder66 Jul 2025 #4
Is the plannimg on staying there choie Jul 2025 #6
If we're lucky electricmonk Jul 2025 #26
He's overstayed his welcome by 79 years choie Jul 2025 #42
Yes, that's exactly it. KatyaR Aug 2025 #54
At this point I wouldn't be surprised Diraven Jul 2025 #7
tsf will also rename it - Nigrum Cattus Jul 2025 #8
Come on Grim Reaper ... now is the time to do your stuff FakeNoose Jul 2025 #10
Not needed. No one wants to be invited there except Putin and MAGAts. sinkingfeeling Jul 2025 #11
Totally inappropriate for our democracy. delisen Jul 2025 #12
Absolutely shameful! slightlv Jul 2025 #18
It was only a matter of time. Saw this coming like shit from a gaggle of geese; honk, honk. twodogsbarking Jul 2025 #13
$200M siphoned off from Medicaid and SNAP Bayard Jul 2025 #15
And NPR,PBS etc...etc...etc Bengus81 Jul 2025 #19
and so are the 15 repugs who just approved of the Qatar jet vapor2 Jul 2025 #24
The Trumpkin Ballroom. tanyev Jul 2025 #16
This needs to stop! tonekat Jul 2025 #20
Of course everything will be covered in gold. nt doc03 Jul 2025 #21
Veneer. murielm99 Jul 2025 #22
and yet he bitched about Powell's renovation? vapor2 Jul 2025 #23
He did. LudwigPastorius Jul 2025 #38
I fear he plans to stay til his last breath vapor2 Jul 2025 #25
True, I'm hoping for the croaking...sooner the better for this country and the world... wcmagumba Jul 2025 #29
And... Faux pas Jul 2025 #27
They are planning drive-thru windows so you can drop your extortion payment off without ever leaving your car. twodogsbarking Jul 2025 #30
You can be sure it will be a tacky, gold encrusted architectural monstrosity. flashman13 Jul 2025 #31
The very definition of wasteful spending. Because pissing all over the Oval Office and tearing down the Rose Garden Karasu Jul 2025 #32
He preparing it for permanent occupancy. n/t SpankMe Jul 2025 #33
Fuck this pedo piece of shit NEOBuckeye Jul 2025 #36
So when will the first junior miss pageant be held there? Will there be weekly ones? twodogsbarking Jul 2025 #37
I hope McDonald's Golden Arches will be prominent. chouchou Jul 2025 #39
Its crazy. Historic NY Jul 2025 #40
It's disgusting he made this huge decision without a national debate, because it totally alters LymphocyteLover Jul 2025 #41
Another Smilo Jul 2025 #43
Next president - name it the "George Soros Room" Grins Jul 2025 #44
A football field is 57,600 sq feet snacker Jul 2025 #45
Another maintenance & utilities black hole NBachers Jul 2025 #46
King Pedofelon I is asking for Justice matters. Jul 2025 #47
Trumps Versailles Palace sheshe2 Jul 2025 #48
Exactly lonely bird Aug 2025 #58
Yes indeed. 😞 sheshe2 Aug 2025 #67
I thought he called the WH a "dump"?? AZ8theist Jul 2025 #49
He's pretending to be king. C Moon Aug 2025 #50
Yuck I_UndergroundPanther Aug 2025 #52
Loathsome, grasping cockroach. Everything Trump Touches Dies. Hekate Aug 2025 #53
The article states kkmarie Aug 2025 #55
I hope that they put in a lot of restrooms, markodochartaigh Aug 2025 #56
-- EPSTEIN -- EPSTEIN -- EPSTEIN -- Auggie Aug 2025 #57
I think the monstrosity will block the southern sunlight from entering the East Room, which is hallowed space. John1956PA Aug 2025 #59
Here's what's there now. mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 #63
Next White House project -- a two hole par three pitch-and-put. LastLiberal in PalmSprings Aug 2025 #60
trump wouldn't be proposing this idiocy if he didn't stand to make big money off of it. (nt) Paladin Aug 2025 #61
Rewrite headline: "TRUMP PLANS A COLOSSAL WASTE OF MONEY - AGAIN!" mdbl Aug 2025 #62
It's in a federal building Jughead Aug 2025 #64
No doubt it will be tasteless, but the US does lack JCMach1 Aug 2025 #65
He thinks he's Jackie O. Scrivener7 Aug 2025 #66
The White House is the People's House LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2025 #68
That's a monstrosity! pcdb Aug 2025 #70
Does anyone really believe that trump will pay for this eyesore? LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2025 #69

mahatmakanejeeves

(68,012 posts)
1. Needs a pic
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 03:20 PM
Jul 2025
Trump plans massive renovation of White House

The $200 million effort will add a state ballroom to the White House grounds.


An architectural rendering of the new State Dining Room that President Trump has commissioned. | The White House

By JAKE TRAYLOR
07/31/2025 03:07 PM EDT

{snip}

eppur_se_muova

(40,864 posts)
51. That is just too f***ing huge. Intended to be as impersonal and non-intimate as possible.
Fri Aug 1, 2025, 01:17 AM
Aug 2025

All the diners will be expected to shut up and smile politely while Anus Orange gives a rambling, disjointed, bloviating stream-of-conscienceless "speech". They're just there to be props, and I hope they realize that.

 

Oeditpus Rex

(43,094 posts)
9. I watched a bio of LBJ yesterday
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 03:50 PM
Jul 2025

It showed him dancing with Lady Bird at one of the balls after his inauguration in '65. He was no Gene Kelly, but he didn't embarrass himself.

It made me wonder what The Felon would look like on the dance floor. Reminiscent of a dump truck, I'd imagine. If you see him simply walk on a flat surface, you know this schmuck has the physical grace of the Three Stooges after an all-nighter.

jmowreader

(52,867 posts)
14. You've seen him dance
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 04:50 PM
Jul 2025

Reports are that forcing people to watch Trump dance violates both the Eighth Amendment and the Geneva Convention.

Response to regnaD kciN (Reply #17)

LudwigPastorius

(14,047 posts)
3. Ballroom my ass.
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 03:25 PM
Jul 2025

That's going to be his Coronation Room.

...and nobody is dumb enough to believe that Trump will pay a dime toward the cost of this.

Also, it looks like this gaudy tumor will obliterate the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden next to the East Wing.

 

brush

(61,033 posts)
28. I hear the presidential office quarters where the staff works...
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 07:28 PM
Jul 2025

is pretty tight/crowded and he's adding a ball fucking room? And we know cheap gold chintz will be everywhere.

chowder66

(11,760 posts)
4. They are not going to pay for it. The contractors won't get paid either.
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 03:37 PM
Jul 2025

A gold jacuzzi in every room!!

electricmonk

(2,015 posts)
26. If we're lucky
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 06:50 PM
Jul 2025

it will be a verrrrrrrrry short stay. He's already overstayed his welcome by about 10 years.

KatyaR

(3,629 posts)
54. Yes, that's exactly it.
Fri Aug 1, 2025, 04:14 AM
Aug 2025

There won't be anything left of the original White House if he has anything to say about it. A "spa" for paying customers will be next (nudge nudge wink wink).

Diraven

(1,795 posts)
7. At this point I wouldn't be surprised
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 03:44 PM
Jul 2025

If he orders them to to put a huge golden "TRUMP" on the very front the the White House. In fact they'll probably just go ahead and rename it "The Trump House" which they'll justify by saying he's changing most of the white to faux gold anyway.

FakeNoose

(39,998 posts)
10. Come on Grim Reaper ... now is the time to do your stuff
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 04:04 PM
Jul 2025

Take him out before he destroys what's left of our country.



delisen

(7,194 posts)
12. Totally inappropriate for our democracy.
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 04:07 PM
Jul 2025

Not emanating from old money does not doom one to poor taste.

slightlv

(7,396 posts)
18. Absolutely shameful!
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 05:09 PM
Jul 2025

When you have elderly and kids living on the streets, people to poor to buy their own food... dependent on charity kitchens and when people are working 2 and 3 jobs just to try to keep a roof over their head, this is one of most shameful, ethically challenged moves he could have made. Beyond the grandiose coronation room, killing the last of Jackie's beautiful influence is a slap in the face of patriotic Americans who were proud of her simple taste in her surroundings.

One thing comes to mind the moment I read this... France and the era of Robespierre and guillotine. This way of life stands in stark contrast to the way most of us live, and that contrast will be the news worldwide until we rise up and put the fools to the guillotine, literally or hypothetically.

God bless the child that's got its own...

Bayard

(28,358 posts)
15. $200M siphoned off from Medicaid and SNAP
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 05:03 PM
Jul 2025

He's spending money like it grows on trees. Our money.

vapor2

(3,637 posts)
24. and so are the 15 repugs who just approved of the Qatar jet
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 06:46 PM
Jul 2025

Our tax dollars for his endless grifting. Just want to vomit

tonekat

(2,430 posts)
20. This needs to stop!
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 05:35 PM
Jul 2025

The bastard has only been in office half a year and he's wrecking the country at top speed!

LudwigPastorius

(14,047 posts)
38. He did.
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 08:56 PM
Jul 2025

…which is even more hypocritical because no tax dollars will pay for it.

On the other hand, despite Trump’s claims, I’d bet my eyeteeth that his royal jewel box will end up being funded by US.



https://fortune.com/2025/07/26/federal-reserve-self-funding-headquarters-renovation-costs-taxpayer-dollars/

wcmagumba

(5,532 posts)
29. True, I'm hoping for the croaking...sooner the better for this country and the world...
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 08:02 PM
Jul 2025

twodogsbarking

(17,476 posts)
30. They are planning drive-thru windows so you can drop your extortion payment off without ever leaving your car.
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 08:07 PM
Jul 2025

Making America Great.

flashman13

(1,961 posts)
31. You can be sure it will be a tacky, gold encrusted architectural monstrosity.
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 08:07 PM
Jul 2025

I will point out that the White House belongs to We the People and not that orange ass.

Karasu

(2,003 posts)
32. The very definition of wasteful spending. Because pissing all over the Oval Office and tearing down the Rose Garden
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 08:25 PM
Jul 2025

weren't enough.

NEOBuckeye

(2,913 posts)
36. Fuck this pedo piece of shit
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 08:46 PM
Jul 2025

Everything he touches he shits all over and turns into a cheap gaudy piece of crap.

The next Dem president must make proper restoration of the WH a priority.

twodogsbarking

(17,476 posts)
37. So when will the first junior miss pageant be held there? Will there be weekly ones?
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 08:52 PM
Jul 2025

That was crude but called for.

Historic NY

(39,577 posts)
40. Its crazy.
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 09:24 PM
Jul 2025

90000 sg ft what else is getting destroyed for that. This is bigger than Buckingham Palace State dining room

LymphocyteLover

(9,298 posts)
41. It's disgusting he made this huge decision without a national debate, because it totally alters
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 09:28 PM
Jul 2025

the look of the WH, one of our most famous national icons.

Such a selfish asshole.

Grins

(9,214 posts)
44. Next president - name it the "George Soros Room"
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 10:58 PM
Jul 2025

Or “Stormy Daniels Big Ballroom!”

Opportunities are forever on this one.

kkmarie

(336 posts)
55. The article states
Fri Aug 1, 2025, 04:16 AM
Aug 2025
Leavitt said construction is due to be completed by the end of Trump’s term.


Krasnov doesn't expect to leave. I think that's a given.

And I have serious doubts the "patriots" (billionaires) are going to contribute. How much more are they going to hand over?They already got the tax cuts they paid for.
Of course Krasnov pays for nothing EVER!

Money aside, the White House is OUR house! How dare this fascist pig make any renovations!

markodochartaigh

(4,901 posts)
56. I hope that they put in a lot of restrooms,
Fri Aug 1, 2025, 04:18 AM
Aug 2025

Trump's acolytes seem to have a habit of defecating on the floor in public areas.

John1956PA

(4,734 posts)
59. I think the monstrosity will block the southern sunlight from entering the East Room, which is hallowed space.
Fri Aug 1, 2025, 05:35 AM
Aug 2025

The body of President John F. Kennedy lay in reposes in the East Room overnight from December 22 to December 23, 1963.

Historic events have been hosted in that room. I am thinking that the south wall of the East Room will be altered to provide access to the 90,000-square foot all-purpose venue. The stately appearance of the White House, as viewed from the northeast, will be lost forever, as will be the view of the south portico which will no longer be bathed by the morning sun.

The character and the citizens' collective mental image of The Peoples' House will be desecrated by this mad dream.

Meanwhile, Russia has Ukraine retreating, and the Egoist-in-Chief could not care less. He is probably rooting for Russia.

60. Next White House project -- a two hole par three pitch-and-put.
Fri Aug 1, 2025, 06:49 AM
Aug 2025

Of course, Felon47 will play the inaugural round alone and declaring himself club champion..

He's done that several times, even going so far as to as to declare himself winner of a tournament where nobody saw him play.

Fore!!!

Paladin

(32,208 posts)
61. trump wouldn't be proposing this idiocy if he didn't stand to make big money off of it. (nt)
Fri Aug 1, 2025, 06:57 AM
Aug 2025

JCMach1

(29,073 posts)
65. No doubt it will be tasteless, but the US does lack
Fri Aug 1, 2025, 09:31 AM
Aug 2025

A full blown WH venue for large State Dinners.

"Supposed" to be just taking up office space.

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