Trump Ballroom Unlikely To Be Built

[Nuthin' Fancy]

Democrats are the authoritarians

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

Trump Admits No One Wants to Build Him a Monument​

Yahoo
https://www.yahoo.com › news › articles › trump-admit...
Dec 21, 2025 — Donald Trump admitted that his ballroom vanity project is a “monument” to himself, seeing as he can't imagine getting one any other way.

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

Jesse Watters Claims Trump Is Building White House ...​

People.com
https://people.com › jesse-watters-claims-trump-said-hes...
Dec 21, 2025 — Fox News host Jesse Watters claimed that President Donald Trump told him he is building the new White House ballroom as a “monument” to himself ...

 

[JoeB131]

The new building actually looks like it is a perfect fit for DC. Joe, since you feel lousy about it, do not go to DC to check it out.

I feel lousy that it's another fascist symbol.

FOrtunately, it won't be finished before Trump sleazes out of the White House, and the next guy can repurpose it for offices or something useful.

 

[hadit]

The original budget was $200 Million.

What are the current expected cost? Last I seen you have heard was $400 Million.

Do it’s already over budget.

WW

If I'm not paying for it, do I care?

 

[hadit]

I feel lousy that it's another fascist symbol.

FOrtunately, it won't be finished before Trump sleazes out of the White House, and the next guy can repurpose it for offices or something useful.

Gotta keep those tents and porta-potties for foreign dignitaries. That's a real touch of class right there.

 

[hadit]

A building we really had no need for, other than to appease his ego.

Hey, kids, we're cutting your school lunches, but look at this new ballroom we are making.

Marie Antoinette wasn't this clueless.

Because foreign dignitaries just love holding state functions in tents and using porta-potties.

 

[JoeB131]

Gotta keep those tents and porta-potties for foreign dignitaries. That's a real touch of class right there.

There are dozens of ballrooms around the DC area to hold events.

No reason to build a fascist ballroom when people are getting their health care cut.

 

[JoeB131]

Because foreign dignitaries just love holding state functions in tents and using porta-potties.

Wow, you guys suddenly care about "Foreign dignitaries"?

Really?

 

[hadit]

There are dozens of ballrooms around the DC area to hold events.

Without White House security.

No reason to build a fascist ballroom when people are getting their health care cut.

It's not taxpayer money that's building it. You'd be better served complaining about Newsome's railroad if you want to complain about taxpayer money being wasted for somebody's ego.

 

[hadit]

Wow, you guys suddenly care about "Foreign dignitaries"?

Really?

Always have. We treat them with the greatest of respect and holding state functions in tents is not showing that. Didn't you notice?

 

[Mashmont]

Frankly, I can't think of a better metaphor for the whole Trump Regime. They are very good at tearing things down, but they suck at actually building anything.

The White House ballroom will never be built

Trump can't focus long enough, even on his $400 million passion project

www.salon.com

In October, Donald Trump traumatized all true patriots by tearing down the East Wing of the White House. The move, he claims, will clear the way for a ballroom for holding large events that are typically held in tents on the South Lawn. A debate immediately arose online over whether or not the next Democratic president should tear down the ballroom or keep it, albeit with the necessary extensive renovations to remove all the tackiness Trump brings to any project.

Two months later, it increasingly seems that such discussion was a wasted effort, as the chance this ballroom will actually be built is rapidly disappearing. Perhaps it could have if Trump had delegated the management of the project to someone competent, but that’s not what he did. Instead, the famously lazy and disorganized president decided to blow off his actual governance duties in favor of micromanaging a construction project he is incapable of handling. Finishing the ballroom in the next three years would be difficult for anyone, but it’s quickly becoming clear it will be nearly impossible for the famed real estate tycoon to pull it off.

For anyone who has dealt with any renovation project more complex than patching drywall, the ballroom’s construction is waving every red flag possible, signaling endless delays that will stretch for months — and, in all likelihood, for years. Despite announcing plans for the ballroom in July, it’s clear there’s no idea what it’s going to look like, how big it will be or how it will be laid out. Trump keeps changing things, driven by a short-sighted impulsiveness that keeps pushing him to expand the scope of the project. Initially, it was supposed to seat 650 people in 90,000 square feet, but he kept throwing tantrums about how he wanted it bigger. Earlier this month, he even ran off the initial architect, and odds are that will happen again.

Then there’s the red tape. Even though a judge ruled against the National Trust for Historic Preservation in their lawsuit to temporarily halt construction, he required the White House to avoid building anything foundational and demanded plans for the structure be submitted by the end of the year. But as the White House hasn’t even scheduled meetings with the National Capital Planning Commission to start the process, meeting that deadline appears unlikely.

I think leftwing rag Salon is thinking of 0bama whose presidential library boondoggle slated to open in 2021 is now five years late and still not finished. The hideously ugly building is now estimated to cost $1.6 billion. A monument to Marxist incompetence.
Trump, on the other hand, is a professional builder whose hallmark has always been ahead of schedule and under budget. I guarantee he’ll get the ballroom built.

 

[Mashmont]

Okay, once again, you added nothing to the conversation.

This project is stalled, going nowhere, and will end up costing the taxpayers hundreds of millions with nothing to show for it.

So are you not blaming Democrats for stalling it?

 

[hadit]

JoeB131 there was never any reason to build it. How many times would it be used in a year that it needed to be built. In order to figure it out all one has to do is find out how many times a president has held a gathering anywhere in Washington D.C. in any given year. It's doesn't surprise me that no news agency has ever calculated it.

Maybe one of the reasons we don't have a lot of large functions is we have to put up tents and porta-potties for foreign dignitaries to use, and it doesn't suit the way the most powerful nation on earth should be hosting such events.

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

I think leftwing rag Salon is thinking of 0bama whose presidential library boondoggle slated to open in 2021 is now five years late and still not finished. The hideously ugly building is now estimated to cost $1.6 billion. A monument to Marxist incompetence.
Trump, on the other hand, is a professional builder whose hallmark has always been ahead of schedule and under budget. I guarantee he’ll get the ballroom built.

A professional "builder", who can't read a bluprint?

 

[hadit]

If the ballroom ever does get built I would contribute $100 to tear it down and rebuild the East Wing. Any physical manifestation of the Orange Menace's existence should, if possible, be destroyed to wipe the stain off the country. Starting with taking his name off the Kennedy Center.

We'll put your name on one of the porta-potties.

 

[TheInfiniteSadness]

Maybe one of the reasons we don't have a lot of large functions is we have to put up tents and porta-potties for foreign dignitaries to use, and it doesn't suit the way the most powerful nation on earth should be hosting such events.

he didn't need to tear down the east wing to build it and it didn't need to make it so extravagant. Honestly how much do gold colored peices of palist from the Dollar store cost. Has he started building his Arc de Triomphe, oops Arc de trump yet?

 

[Mashmont]

A professional "builder", who can't read a bluprint?

Trump has built many famous landmarks in New York City. Deny that.

 

[Care4all]

Maybe one of the reasons we don't have a lot of large functions is we have to put up tents and porta-potties for foreign dignitaries to use, and it doesn't suit the way the most powerful nation on earth should be hosting such events.

He hates all allied foreign dignitaries.... This ain't for them....

 

[JoeB131]

I think leftwing rag Salon is thinking of 0bama whose presidential library boondoggle slated to open in 2021 is now five years late and still not finished. The hideously ugly building is now estimated to cost $1.6 billion. A monument to Marxist incompetence.
Trump, on the other hand, is a professional builder whose hallmark has always been ahead of schedule and under budget. I guarantee he’ll get the ballroom built.

Unlikely.

Most of Trump's projects go bankrupt or have to be bailed out by the state.