White House Ballroom Update: Trump Raises Price By $100 Million

https://www.newsweek.com/white-house-ballroom-update-trump-raises-price-10925618

36 comments

  1. This will end up costing $2bil and half of that will end up in Trump’s pocket.

  2. You can build a skyscraper for $300 million.

    There’s no conceivable way 1 ballroom should cost that much unless it’s literally covered in gold.

  3. Anyone know of a gold plating company I can invest in?

  4. It’s a fucking ballroom. What a ridiculous joke of a project by a hack developer and failed casino owner.

  5. A lot of money for some ugly useless garbage, would be cool if we had other functional branches of government who could stop them from defiling public property.

  6. I want to see the price get bigger.

    At this point, trump needs to just screw more of the country over so the obvious corruption gets too big and uncomfortable to ignore. Once most conservatives start feeling the financial weight ipof his actions, struggle to buy food and lose healthcare, then we will see everyone turn on this administration.

    This so far is the best “let them eat cake” move I’ve seen any American politician make. Keep making it Impossible for the republicans to sweep under the rug.

  7. Those tariffs are really driving up costs. Damn. We should have elected better leaders.

  8. I’m going to cut government spending so I can spend it on a ballroom and bailing a buddy business in Argentina.

  9. Also breaking:

    Trump increases DOJ lawsuit demands by $100 million.

  10. What the **** kind of ballroom is this? You can build a whole new mansion for much less than that. Is he contracting out to his buddies that are giving him a kick-back?

  11. But at least Americans won’t be able to feed their children cause their SNAP benefits are being cut from the shutdown. 

  12. The last people to do this much damage to the White House were the British in 1814.

  13. Taking food off your kids plates so he can build a gold-decked self-masturbatory event space to make himself feel like royalty.

  15. Of course he raised the price, he’s going to pocket that extra 100million

  16. They keep saying its being “paid for with private donations” like its a good thing. I don’t want random secret rich people paying for construction on one of our countries most treasured landmarks. It makes me concerned about their motives and what they are gaining from this transaction.

  17. This is going to go well for all of us. A multi-million dollar white house renovation on a whim while people’s SNAP benefits are cut just before the holidays. Even if he’s paying for it (supposedly), the optics are just bad.

  18. And millions of Americans won’t be able to afford a Thanksgiving dinner. Who thought it was good strategy to rub in our faces how rich Trump and his brown-nosers are?

  19. He’s robbing us blind and destroying our country. Jesus fucking Christ are we really just going to roll over while he bleeds us dry in broad daylight?? This is insane. People will starve this month on Thanksgiving so he can enact martial law, hide the Epstein files and die in his gilded, stolen fucking ballroom and we’re just going to let him??

  20. ***But he’s paying for it himself.***

    Meanwhile, also DJT… ” the DOJ owes me $230m – and I have final say if it gets paid to me “

  21. How much of that is kickbacks, do you think? How rich is the Trump family getting…

  22. I thought DOGE would protect us from this? Where is Elon’s outrage?

  23. $350 million for the ballroom

    $250 million for the lawsuit of the DOJ

    $40 billion for Argentina

    Edit: $170 million for Kristi Noem’s jet(s) — thank you user below, I had to remove it because of rules on Politics.

    Is this correct in what I’ve been reading over the past week?

  24. They are gonna pilfer over $1billion for this thing with crooked construction accounting just watch.

  25. This is a coup. They will never end the shutdown. He is building his castle. Democracy is dead. Wake up.

  26. “Look, we have always said it’s going to be 500 million, and with the current radical democrat obstruction it’s making costs go up. It shouldn’t be more than the 800 million we always said it would be. No one builds better than me, very classy. Shouldn’t be more than 900 million when all is said and done. I’m paying for this myself, by the way, very generous. They said ‘sir, let us pay for it, you do too much for us’ so I said ok. I’ll let the taxpayers pay the 1.2 billion for the expansion. It’s coming along so well, so much better and frankly faster and cheaper, than anyone would believe. Just under 1.4 billion. Tremendous work.”

  27. I wonder how the next sane president is supposed to fix this abomination. It’ll be weird if taxpayer dollars are directly used for that purpose.

    Are we just going to be stuck with the structure and then maybe move the chairs around and change the moulding?

    It really should be partitioned and created into a two floor office space. Maybe leave a small section for banquets?

  28. He’s bankrupting the U.S. Just like he did all of the previous companies he ran into the ground

  30. The mockups for this travesty are hilarious. It’s looks like the Parthenon next to a cape cod cottage built in 1812. It completely dwarfs the White House and looks stupid as fuck! 
     

    Plus the demo isn’t even done and it’s already ballooned in price? Uhh okay! We don’t have money to protect our most vulnerable Americans but we definitely have enough for cake and gold construction!

  31. It’s the Epstein Memorial Ballroom. Call it that until Trump blows a valve.

  32. 1. Savvy business people don’t design projects that have a 50% increase upon ground breaking.

    2. 90,000 square feet. What are the operating costs for the finished structure and who will pay (HVAC, electrical, cleaning, maintenance)? We the taxpayers will pay for this.

    3. How many “balls” does one throw per year and what is the food and service cost for each event? We the taxpayers pay for this.

    4. Who will be invited to these fetes? Grovelling industrialists looking for favors, mega wealthy donors, puppets on display to illustrate the president’s exaggerated accomplishments? No average Americans will ever sit at those tables unless they serve a purpose to the administration.

    5. Let’s not forget Trump said the ballroom won’t even touch the east wing. Now it will be demolished.

    **SueMe the fourteenth** is funding this gilded monstrosity by continually suing anyone who ever dared challenge him. Now, he’s suing we the taxpayers for $230 million (the DOJ, so Pam Bondi will settle it on him despite the fact that boxes of documents were, in fact, taken to Mar a Lago and Archives asked for more than a year for the return before turning it over to DOJ. 2020-2023 still lying – there are videos)

  33. Remember when he was calling for Powell to step down for mismanagement because the Fed renovations went over budget? He should call for the head of the White House to step down.

  34. It’s “funny” people have said the government has been robbing us for decades. This guy and his crew are CLEANING US OUT.

  35. Trump administration: “We’re spending 300 Million Dollars in a Ball Room and giving 20 Billion Dollars to Milei”.
    Also the Trump Administration: “We’re shutting the government down because we don’t wanna spend money on health care subsidies, and the democrats won’t let us screw over the American people”.

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