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 | 17 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

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