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Saturday, November 01, 2025

Trump's aides have promised transparency about the funding of a new ballroom, but the White House withheld the identities of several donors to the project, including some with business before the administration, The New York Times found.

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The White House is allowing anonymous donors to fund Trump's tacky ballroom. Transparency is the backbone of democracy. Why does Trump want to let funders of a public project hide from the public?

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-- Public Citizen (@publiccitizen.bsky.social) Oct 29, 2025 at 10:17 AM

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This, in a law disrespecting, self-dealing misadministration presided over by a twice impeached, cancer charity ripper-offing, thirty-four times convicted felon swaddled in a form of presidential immunity invented just year by a predictably compliant radical Republican SCOTUS majority?

Shockah.

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-11-01 07:47 AM | Reply

Meet the grifty fundraiser behind Trump's gaudy ballroom
www.dailykos.com

This monument to Trump's fragile ego and mental deterioration as well as his boundless tackiness and venality functions, as I've said from the get-go, as an undisguised combination graft magnet and money laundry.

#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-11-01 07:59 AM | Reply

It would be interesting to see how much the total donations exceed the actual construction cost. $2 Billion? $5 Billion?

Of course we will never know.

#3 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-01 04:17 PM | Reply

"Inconceivable!" - 1Nutjob

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-01 04:54 PM | Reply

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