Trump Shifted Secret Service Funds to Build His Ballroom

Thursday, June 18, 2026

Congress turned down President Donald Trump's request for funding for his modernization efforts at the White House -- mainly out of concern that he would tap taxpayer dollars for his proposed ballroom.

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Sounds like the rebranding of Trump's White House ballroom as a security measure was in part so he could tap millions of taxpayer dollars from the Secret Service and WH Military Office www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio ...

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the president is turning to a pot of money Congress approved last year for the U.S. Secret Service.

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Because of Butler.

I take this as evidence Trump no more anxiety about having been "almost killed".

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2026-06-17 05:50 PM | Reply

"Will no one rid me of this turbulent ~~priest~~ POTUS?"

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-06-17 06:03 PM | Reply

He's building his triplex, gold-plated apartment at 1600B Pennsylvania Avenue.

Until it's bulldozed by some clearer thinkers.

Private contractors going to be building this, or Corps of Engineers?

#3 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-06-17 06:25 PM | Reply

Is the disgusting orange pedo going to decorate his ballroom with 175 backpacks to honor the Iranian schoolgirls he vaporized?

#4 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-06-17 07:45 PM | Reply

Can we just bury him on a 16th tee somewhere and be done with it?

#5 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-06-17 09:04 PM | Reply

Hey, somebody's gotta pay for all the gold leaf.

#6 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2026-06-18 01:57 PM | Reply

Didn't Pres Trump say, multiple times, that his ballroom would not cost taxpayers any money?

Trump Ballroom Costs Balloon To $600 Million, Taxpayers To Foot Half Bill

... "There's not one dime of government money going into the ballroom," Trump said to reporters while on board Air Force One in March, before referencing the military building a "big complex under the ballroom." ...

On Tuesday, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) hit out at Trump after the president "swore this ballroom wouldn't cost taxpayers a cent."

"Donald Trump is a con artist," he wrote on X.

#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-06-18 02:46 PM | Reply

@#7

Forgot the link:

www.msn.com

#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-06-18 02:48 PM | Reply

The ballroom he was explicitly told by a judge he doesn't have a right to continue building?

The good die young.

Expect Trump to hang around for another 20 to 30 years.

#9 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-06-18 03:09 PM | Reply