All of Trump’s Cheesy and Trollish White Home Renovations
Trump, in one in all his least relatable moments, boasted throughout a White Home reception in February, “I’m superb at constructing ballrooms.” He went on to complain that he supplied to construct the White Home “a gorgeous, lovely ballroom like I’ve at Mar-a-Lago,” free of charge, in the course of the Biden administration.
Surprisingly, this may really be true. Trump has been complaining about how White Home state dinners are held in tents for years. In his ebook Believer: My Forty Years in Politics, David Axelrod confirmed that whereas he was working within the Obama White Home, Trump known as to pitch him on constructing a collapsible ballroom value $100 million. (Trump’s claims he supplied to do that free of charge, however Axelrod didn’t tackle that element.)
“‘I construct ballrooms. Lovely ballrooms,’” Trump mentioned, in response to Axelrod. “Not being a lot of a dancer, I didn’t know the place he was headed. ‘I see you might have these state dinners on the garden there in these shitty little tents. Let me construct you a ballroom you may assemble and take aside. Belief me. It’ll look nice.’”
On June 6, 2025, Trump took a break from feuding with Elon Musk to introduced that he’s surveyed the location for a brand new White Home ballroom, which is able to lastly be constructed “compliments of a person often called Donald J. Trump.” He wrote on Reality Social:
