Republicans Make Jaw-Dropping $1B Demand for Trump's Ballroom

Tuesday, May 05, 2026

Senate Republicans are seeking $1 billion of taxpayer money to help fund "security adjustments and upgrades" linked to Donald Trump's White House ballroom project.

Posted by qcp at 07:32 PM | 12 COMMENTS | permalink

Why do Republicans now want TAXPAYERS to pay $1 billion for Trump's ballroom?

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-- Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) May 5, 2026 at 10:36 AM

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Happy 250th, US of A ...
8647
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86 that effing disgusting monument to one man's well-enabled slide into terminal dementia

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-05-05 10:44 AM

How much $$$ for a fabric-upholstered sofa with a customized magazine pocket that can hold a gold plated, engraved 7.65 mm Walther PPK? Make sure to include those too- you never know when they might be needed.

#2 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-05-05 10:55 AM

What the eff is wrong with these people?

8647.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2026-05-05 10:56 AM

Sooooo...it's not only not going to be privately funded as promised, but it will now cost 2.5x the original price if (big IF) there are no cost overruns?

And I'm betting much of this will go to contracts awarded without bids to shell companies that are mere days old that are associated with companies one Trump spawn or another has a stake in?

$1 billion will buy a ton of tacky decorations and gold spray paint from Home Depot.

#4 | Posted by jpw at 2026-05-05 11:04 AM

Sooooo...it's not only not going to be privately funded as promised, but it will now cost 2.5x the original price if (big IF) there are no cost overruns?
And I'm betting much of this will go to contracts awarded without bids to shell companies that are mere days old that are associated with companies one Trump spawn or another has a stake in?
$1 billion will buy a ton of tacky decorations and gold spray paint from Home Depot.

#4 | Posted by jpw

It was originally $200 million.

So it's 5X the original price tag now.

#5 | Posted by Sycophant at 2026-05-05 11:10 AM

Ja wohl, MAGAJeebus, at yer command: one yuge Hitlerian Welthauptstadt Germania-ish architectural monstrosity coming right up, mein ... como se dice? ... ah, yessss, sirrrr!

P.S. General Steiner has, alas, been delayed.

#6 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-05-05 11:30 AM

The extra money is for the another, far more secure INNER ballroom that will be located inside the proposed OUTER ballroom.

Trump got the idea of nesting ballrooms when his buddy Putin presented him with a gift of Russian Matryoshka dolls. Trump looked at the dolls and immediately got a ----- for the smaller, inner dolls. But quickly he realized, as he was attempting to rape the smallest one, that he could have a golden ballroom inside of a golden ballroom which would sit inside of another golden ballroom, thus improving security for him and his inner circle of sycophants and pedophiles.

#7 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-05-05 11:45 AM

It was originally $200 million.
So it's 5X the original price tag now.

#5 | Posted by Sycophant at 2026-05-05 11:10 AM | Reply |

The price for construction is still $200,000,000 and $800,000,000 for Coke Jr to oversee the contract.

#8 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-05-05 03:05 PM

That $1B could go a long way to providing security to existing structures should a National Special Security Event be declared. There was no need to destroy the East Wing of the White House, except to assuage Pres Trump's oversized ego.

National Special Security Event
en.wikipedia.org

Why wasn't the WHCD declared to be a National Special Security Event?

#9 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-05-05 06:35 PM

Why wasn't the WHCD declared to be a National Special Security Event?

#9 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER AT

To make it easier for some rando to create an exploitable political moment, which Trump began doing within fifteen minutes after the event.

It looks like Congress will give him $1 Billion of public money for his ballroom so he can keep the several hundreds of millions privately donated for himself.

#10 | Posted by Zed at 2026-05-05 07:48 PM

Another day, another billion dollar grift.

#11 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-05-05 08:12 PM

Another day, another billion dollar grift.
#11 | POSTED BY SNOOFY A

Trump is a piker!
~ Gavin Newsom

#12 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-05-05 08:39 PM

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