Undeterred by polls and courts, Trump honors ballroom donors at White House

[demmiblue]

Source: WaPo

The White House hosted a reception Wednesday night for the organization that manages donations to President Donald Trump’s ballroom, highlighting the president’s unceasing drive for a legally embattled project that polls show is broadly unpopular.

Amid a war with Iran, surging gas prices and backlash to his immigration policies, Trump dedicates extensive time to the ballroom. He made calls for a new ballroom a key focus of his remarks following the shooting at the White House correspondents’ dinner last month, arguing that it was needed for security.

A division president from Clark Construction, one of the largest construction firms in the region, now works most days out of a trailer on the White House grounds as a high-stakes site manager. Some evenings the president calls him into the Oval Office to go over details for more than an hour at a time, he recounted to an associate.

Out of hundreds of lawsuits and appeals involving the administration, the challenge to the ballroom is the only one where the president has personally dictated multiple legal filings.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/07/trump-ballroom-white-house-event/

[Cheezoholic]

1. Parading around people handing him cash for his pocket. The corruption amongst repukes is in our face insane now n/t

[Ray Bruns]

2. If these people are donating money for the ballroom, why is Grasley asking for a billion taxpayer dollars?

Don’t reply. We all know the answer.

[Bayard]

3. trump said he didn't need our money for his glorious golden ballroom,

Since he had all these billionaires paying for it. That was a lie. Now, he's throwing a lavish party for them--at our White House, and with our money.

[turbinetree]

4. Why not just have a big sign that says welcome to the making of RUSSIA TWO............

same modus operandi............JFC...........

[AverageOldGuy]

5. It's Trump Math

Trump said, after he demolished the White House East Wing, he would build a ballroom that would cost only $100 million.
He said all $200 million of that $100 million will come from private donations.

After construction started he told us we taxpayers would not pay one cent of the $300 million because all $400 million of that will come from private donations.

And now Republicans have put $1 BILLION into the federal budget to pay for the ballroom.

Trump's uncle taught math at MIT. Maybe that's the answer.

[popsdenver]

7. Try this math

If each ATOM of Trump's brain was a ton of steel......it would roll around like a BB in a dump truck....

I gotta tell you, if we weren't all watching this entire debacle, we couldn't have imagined all this shit in a million years.....

But the most horrific matter, is what awaits our children and grandchildren for the decades or millennium ahead.

Perhaps that is why all the Republican Politicians are grifting all they can?......to absolutely guarantee, that they, and their spawn and their spawn all end up in the top 1%......

I have to believe that either due to another pandemic, or nuclear holocaust, all human life on the planet will end.
And that Mother Nature will start over, making sure to NOT create humans ever again on HER beloved planet.....

[GreenWave]

6. Has the orange menace been told a ballroom will not "enhance" him?

[BaronChocula]

8. Of course he's undeterred

He lives in his own reality, a fact that hasn't dawned on most news types. He doesn't care about poll numbers. He doesn't care about saying dumb shit. He doesn't care about repeating the same mistakes. He says he's the greatest ever and even convinces his ass-lickers to say the same thing as he goes on fucking things up. He's mentally incompetent, but the truth is too controversial to report.

[OnlinePoker]

9. Shouldn't he be bringing in common taxpayers, then? n/t

[Initech]

10. Oh god. Fuck him and his bullshit ballroom.

And fuck all the people there who are placating his ego. They all need to be in prison.

[twodogsbarking]

11. Trump has likely already collect three billion dollars and didn't tell the RepubliKKKlans.

Suckers and losers. Too stupid to know.