Trump said he's Good at Building 'on budget' -Then Ups Ballroom Cost $300M

Friday, October 24, 2025

As the price of Trump's ginormous ballroom continues to rise, questions remain about how it will be funded.

Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 08:32 PM | 33 COMMENTS | permalink

Preventing health care costs from exploding? Reopening the government? Lowering the cost of groceries? Â Nope. Building himself a new $300 million ballroom.

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-- Senator Patty Murray (@murray.senate.gov) Oct 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM

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Trump "dismissed concerns that his administration had not been transparent about the project."

"Well, he would, wouldn't he?" as call girl Mandy Rice-Davies replied during the Profumo Affair when informed Lord Astor denied ever knowing, let alone bedding, her.

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-10-23 06:24 AM

Remember how Trump bad mouthed the price increases for the aircraft propulsion system on aircraft carriers? What about the price increases for the construction at the Fed? Sounds to me like he is as bad a planner as the people he railed about?

#2 | Posted by FedUpWithPols at 2025-10-23 10:08 AM

Why do you care? It is not your money.

#3 | Posted by sawdust at 2025-10-23 11:42 PM

That's an interesting take. Let's see where we end up.

Not my money... not my house... Sounds like Trump is not my President.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-23 11:48 PM

Sounds like Trump is not my President.
#4 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

This Lumper's delusion is real.

#5 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-10-24 12:36 AM

Unlike many White House renovations by previous presidents that use taxpayers' dollars, Trump's ballroom is paid for by him and donors, so the cost is immaterial to the taxpayers [supposing some of you libs here actually make enough to pay taxes ; )

#6 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-10-24 11:35 AM

i.imgur.com

#7 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-10-24 11:39 AM

#7 | Posted by MSgt

Trump has the right to tear down the entire White House.

That's what he says.

#8 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-24 11:56 AM

Trump's ballroom is paid for by ... donors,
#6 | POSTED BY MSG

Where is that money coming from?

We have the most compromised president in the history of the United States.

MAGA are Morons.

#9 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-10-24 12:21 PM

Trump's ballroom is paid for by ... donors,
#6 | POSTED BY MSG

THAT IS NOT A GOOD THINK YOU ------- MORON!!!!!!!

#10 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-10-24 12:24 PM

THING

#11 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-10-24 12:24 PM

Why do you care? It is not your money.

#3 | Posted by sawdust

Because it appears to be a giant pay to play scheme?

There aren't even official plans yet, but the costs went up 50%. Why? Because they think they can extort more money from corporate idiots hoping they won't be viewed as dispensable.

#12 | Posted by jpw at 2025-10-24 12:36 PM

Why do you care? It is not your money.

#3 | Posted by sawdus

If you hold this position, you are objectively a morally bankrupt individual.

Whoever raised you failed, miserably.

#13 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-10-24 12:41 PM

i.imgur.com

#7 | Posted by MSgt

Christ this simplistic stupidity is breathtaking

Trump does not OWN the white house we do.

Since you're a simpleton, think of it this way, if you are a tenant, i.e. not a property owner, renting a house, can you just demolish the house without your landlord's approval?

There is LITERALLY NOTHING stopping trump from just demolishing the ENTIRE White House and building a 50 story Trump Tower there.

the disrespect, the ignorance, the downright meanness, the complete and utter disregard for our nation's history.

I heard someone say today and it is so true, Trump cares not one whit for our past or our future, only in the moment and how that moment impacts his immediate needs.

#14 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-10-24 12:46 PM

After Nuremberg trials 2.0, they need to confiscate all of Orange Adolf's properties including Mar-o-lardo and all Trump towers and turn them into housing for the
Homeless.

#15 | Posted by a_monson at 2025-10-24 01:15 PM

Trump's ballroom is paid for by ... donors,
#6 | POSTED BY MSG

Where is that money coming from?

...

#9 | POSTED BY CLOWNSHACK

I have no idea. And neither does he.

And what will these "donors " want in return?

TINSTAAFL

#16 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-10-24 01:19 PM

I did not know ... So I looked up who the donors are.

The list of donors to the new ballroom, provided by the White House, is below. It's not clear how much each corporation or individual contributed:
Altria Group
Amazon
Apple
Booz Allen Hamilton
Caterpillar
Coinbase
Comcast
Hard Rock International
Google
HP
Lockheed Martin
Meta
Micron Technology
Microsoft
NextEra Energy
Palantir Technologies
Ripple
Reynolds American
T-Mobile
Tether
Union Pacific Railroad
J. Pepe and Emilia Fanjul
Adelson Family Foundation
Stefan E. Brodie
Betty Wold Johnson Foundation
Charles and Marissa Cascarilla
Edward and Shari Glazer
Harold Hamm
Benjamin Leon Jr.
The Lutnick Family
The Laura & Isaac Perlmutter Foundation
Stephen A. Schwarzman
Konstantin Sokolov
Kelly Loeffler and Jeff Sprecher
Paolo Tiramani
Cameron Winklevoss
Tyler Winklevoss

www.nbcnews.com

#17 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-10-24 01:26 PM

An itemized list of the identities of all donors to the Trump Money Laundry & Epstein Memorial Ballingroom and all amounts, a list, listed is not too much to require from a serial liar, thief, and thirty-four times convicted felon who asks, yet again, for our trust.

Only MAGAts would be stupid enough to accept Trump's word for anything.

#18 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-10-25 04:15 AM

@#17 ... The list of donors to the new ballroom, provided by the White House ...

... and what might those "donors" (imo, more properly called ~purchasers of the current occupant of the Oval Office~) get, or have gotten, in return for their "donation?"

#19 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-25 04:24 AM

Trump's ballroom is paid for by ... donors,
#6 | POSTED BY MSG

Correction: Trump's ballroom is paid for by... bribers.
Happy to help.

#20 | Posted by Sezu at 2025-10-25 07:41 AM

It'll be closer to a $1 billion boondoggle when finished. And who knows how badly bugged it'll be
Trump's lying strategy versus democracy:

First deny deny; then admit only a fraction of the planned acts vs democratic rules & deny everything else, while boasting how super-great the deed will really be; then continue to under-estimate what the final cost will be even as actual costs are rising.

#21 | Posted by Augustine at 2025-10-25 12:35 PM

It'll be closer to a $1 billion boondoggle when finished. And who knows how badly bugged it'll be by Russia, China & who knows who else?

#22 | Posted by Augustine at 2025-10-25 12:36 PM

"Unlike many White House renovations by previous presidents that use taxpayers' dollars, Trump's ballroom is paid for by him and donors"

Why even have a Congress that appropriates funds, if we can just have oligarch donors pay for everything?
Why didn't The Founders think of this?

#23 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-25 12:45 PM

AND it won't be finished until Jan of 2029.

Guess who expects to still be President long after that?

#24 | Posted by Corky at 2025-10-25 12:50 PM

Why didn't The Founders think of this?

They did. They thought it was a bad idea.

#25 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-10-25 12:57 PM

The only thing Trump has ever been successful at is bankruptcy.

He's well on his way to bankrupting America.

#26 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-10-25 01:05 PM

Thomas Jefferson quotes on bankers and corporations:

""If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."

whitlockco.com

#27 | Posted by Corky at 2025-10-25 01:06 PM

Is pedo 47 going to christen his ballroom by getting ass-gaped by Putin again?

#28 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-10-25 01:30 PM

AND it won't be finished until Jan of 2029.

Guess who expects to still be President long after that?

#24 | Posted by Corky

So he's envisioning his third inauguration in his Let Them Eat Cake Grand Ballroom?

#29 | Posted by jpw at 2025-10-25 04:55 PM

Yeah, Don Marie Antionette.

"Let them eat Tariffs!"

#30 | Posted by Corky at 2025-10-25 05:09 PM

I really hope EVERY Democrat running in 2028 promises to bulldoze this thing and rebuild the east wing.

#31 | Posted by DarkVader at 2025-10-25 07:45 PM

Trump is crowdfunding his ballroom?

I thought only poor people did that for Outrageous medical bills?

Trump is not the legal owner of the White House he is a temporary Tenant.

Trump says he's So Wealthy but acts like a poor Person.

He's a Deadbeat, Grifter with no Class and and no Vision except his own Comfort.

America chose its Proper Representative, a nation of Rich Exploiters finally got someone so Exploitative he created Actual INTEGRITY in public office.

The Integrity of Swine.

#32 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-10-26 11:22 AM

It's his future throne room.

#33 | Posted by dutch46 at 2025-10-26 06:44 PM

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