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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(136,791 posts)
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 12:34 PM Thursday

Opinion: Trump Wants to Build a New Ballroom When We Already Have a Better One

The national capital already has a bigger, more beautiful ballroom than the $400 million one that President Donald Trump is seeking to build at the White House.

The existing Great Hall at the 144-year-old National Building Museum is 36,636 square feet and its ceiling rises from 75 feet by the entrance to 159 feet under the atrium. Trump’s Grand Ballroom is at most 25,000 square feet, with a 40-foot ceiling.

The magnificence of the Great Hall was on display in the Amazon documentary Melania, which features an extended scene of the candlelight dinner the first lady held there last year on the night before her husband’s second inauguration.

“We wanted to create something special,” she narrates from a sea of splendor. “It’s so powerful to see this room come to life tonight. Candlelight, black ties, and my complete creative vision filled with the elegance and sophistication of our donors.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/opinion-trump-wants-build-ballroom-030207566.html

Doesn't matter. Trump is like a Pharoh or Roman Emperor of old. He wants to have a monument to himself.

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Opinion: Trump Wants to Build a New Ballroom When We Already Have a Better One (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Thursday OP
That's a beautiful building. sop Thursday #1
And that secret underground lair slightlv Thursday #3
please johnnyfins Thursday #2

sop

(19,080 posts)
1. That's a beautiful building.
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 12:48 PM
Thursday

But it won't have a secret underground lair for a deranged megalomaniacal supervillain.

slightlv

(7,882 posts)
3. And that secret underground lair
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 04:09 PM
Thursday

will allow him to trade bitcoin on a second's notice, kill DC's air and starve her of water. And who knows, it probably has a "special room" for all his "special" little girls and best friends. Would you put it past him? And we're suppose to pay for this monstrosity?!

johnnyfins

(3,920 posts)
2. please
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 01:07 PM
Thursday

"and my complete creative vision filled with the elegance and sophistication of our donors.”

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