Trump's ballroom design a 'hurried process' that includes stairs to nowhere: report

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Raw Story

October 25, 2025 8:54AM ET


President Donald Trump’s plans to construct a 90,000 square-foot ballroom where the White House’s East Wing once stood appear to be ever-changing and done in “a hurried process,” with one design document showing the project to have a staircase leading to nowhere, according to a report Saturday from the New York Times.

“Architects and historians say that it is not unusual for designs to change during a project like this, but that Mr. Trump has not followed the typical process for White House renovations, which normally involve reviews by organizations like the National Capital Planning Commission,” the report reads. “And the various plans Mr. Trump has shared have suggested a hurried process.”

Trump revealed more details on the plans for the proposed ballroom this week, including new design renderings of the facility’s exterior. The Times, however, noted in its report that there were “some mistakes” in at least one of the design renderings, including a staircase “leading up to no clear landing,” and “colliding windows.”

The price of the ballroom ballooned this week from $200 million to $300 million, and construction on the project – originally slated to begin last month – has been delayed to an undetermined date.

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[twodogsbarking]

1. It's the stairway to hev unnnn,

his only chance.

[electric_blue68]

16. Heh!

[COL Mustard]

19. Then it DEFINITELY is...

A stairway to nowhere.

[ananda]

24. Or hell. After all...

it didn't say which way.

[cbabe]

2. Staircase to nowhere is a metaphor? Colliding windows good for falling out of?

[republianmushroom]

3. Stairway for his grand entrance.

A little potty room at the head of those stairs, so he can wait is comfort for his entrance.

[popsdenver]

7. My exact thoughts

a small elevator to the top, a waiting room, and then his grand entrance to every occasion in the new ballroom.
I suspect they will need to change the staircase to an escalator, as he won't even be able to walk down stairs in the near future.
He can make a grand entrance, coming down the escalator, just like he did in 2016?????

[tanyev]

4. Bet he makes an absolute nuisance of himself on the construction site.

Oh well.

[Ocelot II]

5. Another exercise in futility and stupidity.

[FakeNoose]

6. Chump only cares whether the carpets match the drapes

He won't take responsibility for any of this mess ... just wait and see if I'm right.
Oh, and the costs are going to triple before this is done.

[keroro gunsou]

12. true

grass on the field is purely optional as well, but not preferred.

[C_U_L8R]

8. Stairs to nowhere is a feature

Or at least a metaphor. Maybe a warning to future generations.

[AZJonnie]

9. It's The Trumpchester Mystery House

Some Californian's will get this joke

[sakabatou]

14. Stairs that go nowhere, doors which open out onto drops

Doors which open to walls, and other oddities. Been there, never did one of the late night "ghost" tours.

[Progressive dog]

10. Trump removed the stairs

I'm certain he will replace them with an elevator.

[groundloop]

11. He's managing this the same way he ran his businesses (i.e. 6 bankruptcies)

It takes a special kind of stupid to bankrupt a casino where customers are literally walking in the door and handing you money.

[Dixiegrrrl]

20. The bankruptcies were a smart move.

If you can borrow millions from a bank and avoid paying it back via bankruptcies , you get free money.
Doing that 6 times from the same bank raises a whole lot of questions.
He has perfected the art of living on other people's money thru avoiding paying debts.

[ChicagoTeamster]

13. Didn't he always say building things was his family business?

He should actually know what he's doing after all those years of the construction business.

[Mysterian]

15. The stairs will lead to a throne

if the American people allow it to happen.

[slightlv]

17. With all the backlash against this,

and now even a first lawsuit about it, I'm hoping this is the "one toke over the line" too many for the American people. This has hit them viscerally. The rose garden was one thing, but it seemed to affect the more genteel of us more than others. THIS destruction has hit everyone in the gut. I hopeful the damage that has been done so far will just sit there throughout 2026, a visual metaphor for what he's doing to our entire country. Command him to put the wing back the way it was before he touched it. If we can't afford to feed kids and old folks in this country, we certainly can't afford a $300 billion vanity project.

[littlemissmartypants]

18. That's what happens when you use AI to save $$$ on architects.

[Norrrm]

21. Construction delayed... Yet destruction of the East Wing was hurried up, not delayed.

[BumRushDaShow]

22. It's Muskrat's DOGEshit method

"Move fast and break things".

[SergeStorms]

23. At least it wasn't an escalator.

He's very big on escalators you know. 😉

[mahina]

25. The bunker (s?) need to be included.

[Captain Zero]

26. The bunker is already there underground

I'm wondering if they stumbled upon a problem with the weight and dimensions of the ballroom and miscalculated it's effect on the integrity of the bunker below. They were only finishing the bunker upgrades earlier this year.

[struggle4progress]

27. rump's as crazy as William Wirt Winchester's widow Sarah

[Blue Owl]

28. Spray-painted gold ornaments from Home Despot

[CMell]

29. Suetonius on Nero

SUETONIUS ~ THE LIFE OF NERO ~
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There was nothing however in which he was more ruinously prodigal than in building. He made a palace extending all the way from the Palatine to the Esquiline, which at first he called the House of Passage, but when it was burned shortly after its completion and rebuilt, the Golden House. Its size and splendour will be sufficiently indicated by the following details. Its vestibule was large enough to contain a colossal statue of the emperor a hundred and twenty feet high; and it was so extensive that it had a triple colonnade a mile long. There was a pond too, like a sea, surrounded with buildings to represent cities, besides tracts of country, varied by tilled fields, vineyards, pastures and woods, with great numbers of wild and domestic animals. In the rest of the house all parts were overlaid with gold and adorned with gems and mother-of-pearl. There were dining-rooms with fretted ceils of ivory, whose panels could turn and shower down flowers and were fitted with pipes for sprinkling the guests with perfumes. The main banquet hall was circular and constantly revolved day and night, like the heavens. He had baths supplied with sea water and sulphur water. When the edifice was finished in this style and he dedicated it, he deigned to say nothing more in the way of approval than that he was at least a beginning to be housed like a human being. ...

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