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.

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 12:31 PM | 20 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry |

Alternate links: Google News | Twitter

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 ...

[image or embed]
-- Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) 1:56 PM Â· Jun 16, 2026

Comments

Admin's note: Participants in this discussion must follow the site's moderation policy. Profanity will be filtered. Abusive conduct is not allowed.

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

POSTED BY REINHEITSGEBOT

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

Aren't they ignoring a court order to start building this?

Illegally building a "ballroom" with unconstitutionally allocated funds...

#10 | Posted by jpw at 2026-06-18 05:44 PM | Reply

@#10 ... Illegally building a "ballroom" with unconstitutionally allocated funds...

Looks like a hallmark of the Trump admin to me.

#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-06-18 08:49 PM | Reply

Looks like a hallmark of the Trump admin to me.
#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-06-18 08:49 PM | Reply | Flag: PPPFFFTTTTTT

How many times have you heard some cl0wn say... "This country needs to be run like a business by businessmen"...

I hope they are happy now.

snicker... I remember when Ross Perot ran for office as an independent... a businessman...

He was a short-lived conservative spoiler that may have gotten Bill Clinton elected... taking away votes from Bushturd 1.

Anywayzzzzz... that badazz "buisnessman dropped out because someone threatened to accuse his daughter of being a lesbian... and spoil her upcoming wedding.

lol... the 90's

wtg capitalism

#12 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2026-06-20 07:14 AM | Reply

Oh... I forgot to mention... Bushturd2... is the first president with a "business degree"... (whatever that is)... elected to office ...

#13 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2026-06-20 07:19 AM | Reply

Trumpanzee is the second... business degree... prez...

#14 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2026-06-20 07:23 AM | Reply

Imagine that, The President cooks the books
Is anyone REALLY surprised?

#15 | Posted by gypsydiane8177 at 2026-06-20 08:31 AM | Reply

Oh yes, He WANTS to hang around for another 20-30 years, But the reality is, It doesn't matter how much money you have Donnie boy, You are dying soon just like all of us, I don't give you 5 more years,
Thats not wishing ill, Thats just facts
We all die and all the money in the world won't stop that, You will die like us all

#16 | Posted by gypsydiane8177 at 2026-06-20 08:34 AM | Reply

You will die like us all
#16 | POSTED BY GYPSYDIANE8177

Memento Mori.

The Ash Wednesday tradition of placing ashes on a person's forehead is an explicit memento mori practice, referencing the phrase "Remember, man, that you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

#17 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-06-20 10:06 AM | Reply

Ashes to ashes.
Dust to dust.

That's it. End of story. There isn't a "soul goes to heaven" part of this story.

Jesus invented the soul thing because he had to dog-walk the illiterate uneducated masses to the understanding that it's sometimes better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

#18 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-20 11:05 AM | Reply

"We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion-year-old carbon...."

#19 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-06-20 12:33 PM | Reply

- "soul goes to heaven"

Which is Plato, not Christianity. Unfortunately there was some Middle Ages confusion on the subject.

www.google.com

(be sure to expand that to read what it is)

#20 | Posted by Corky at 2026-06-20 12:46 PM | Reply