Republicans now plan for taxpayers to fund Trump’s $400 million ballroom which he promised to cover with private donations
Source: Rock-n-roll-Kevin
Republicans now plan for taxpayers to fund Trump’s $400 million ballroom which he promised to cover with private donations
Source: Rock-n-roll-Kevin
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I remember when this bunker/ballroom was announced last year as needing $200 million to build, now its $400 million!
Trumpflation is out of control!
Taxpayers were *always* the ones who would pay for the ballroom. The GOP just stopped pretending otherwise.
Sorry, social programs are too expensive and aren’t viable long term. But a ballroom? Great investment for Americans /s
Yup that’s the Republican agenda work hard. Pay your taxes. And the funding goes to Trump to build him a ballroom.
Donnyantoinette thinks we just want to eat cake.
I remember the last time cake was a topic by the french….
Edit: Rephrase
This was all a con. He planned for the taxpayers to pay this all along, but thought it would fly better with the public if he said it was from donations. Either that, or people reneged on their pledge to donate.
So any “donations” up to now, Yam Tits just pockets?
Maybe Mexico will build it…you know, like the wall.
How is it we’ve gone this long with the blatant corruption, grifting, screwing over the tax payers.
Seriously Republicans what in the ever living hell
Where did all that donated money go?
Republican corruption and sheer unawarness of what is actually important is stunning.
Anybody else think he pocketed the donations?
trump is openly robbing the Treasury, and the GOP is assisting him in hopes of getting a cut of the lucre.
The ballroom has gone from $200 million donor dollars, to now $400 million taxpayer dollars. Separately, trump is trying to pilfer an additional $10 billion from the Treasury.
The “ballroom,” yet another grift. In the corporate world this would be considered embezzlement.
More grifting
“Mr president what happened to all your donors”
It’s been one business day and they are pledging half a billion dollars for a ballroom? Why do they never move this quickly when it comes to protection of children? It’s already been used to justify a ballroom, extending FISA, the DHS budget bill, and even eliminating the filibuster. This is very weird, I pray that everything is brought to light about what happened this weekend and that all of the journalists that were supposed to be honored eventually get their opportunity to be recognized. If one of the journalists that was supposed to win an award wrote about the Epstein victims maybe 60 minutes can do a feature and interview with them.
“Now plan.” – I’ve called it from day one.
I am shocked that the private donations never materialized and taxpayers are stuck with the bill! Utterly shocked! Gobsmacked. In total disbelief.
Those bad donors must have misled our government! How could they? When the ballroom is so vital to our national defense?
Those utterly selfish private donors!
Trump using the incident at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner to ex post facto justify soliciting funds and support for his ballroom a mere hour after the circumstances took place is so utterly dystopian and grotesque.
Mind you, by demanding that ballroom construction continue, Trump is also flouting a judge’s order that blocked him from moving forward with the project.
The judge himself stated:
> “The President of the United States is the steward of the White House for future generations of First Families. He is not, however, the owner!”
Also, it wouldn’t even be appropriate for the WHCD to be hosted at Trump’s hypothetical ballroom because it’s not traditionally a function that’s organized just for him. He’s an invitee—a guest—not the celebrant of the whole event.
I know he thinks he’s the center of the fucking world, but the WHCD has never been the president’s personal celebration.
Nevermind the fact that even if the ballroom’s construction continued, it likely wouldn’t be finished in time for another event like this anyways. Which would have to accommodate fewer guests because his hideously gilded monument to himself he calls a “ballroom” wouldn’t be able to hold even half as many people.
And now we have Republicans pushing for budget requests for Trump’s personal vanity projects when we were previously told it wouldn’t cost taxpayers anything?
It’s not just this either. Don’t forget his increasingly expensive “Arc de Trump,” and his bafflingly corrupt idea to sue his own government for a massive taxpayer funded payout because of damages to his fragile ego.
This level of vainglory and narcissism is something you’d previously expect of a North Korean dictator. But with Trump, it’s just another fucking day of the week.
And on the part of Republicans, It’s also the same kind of sniveling sycophancy you’d expect from a dictator’s inner circle of slavish little toads.
I think it should just remain demolished until the last Trump is jailed for corruption and criminal liability, at which time we pass into law a fix for every abuse of power we have seen under the Republican party. Then, after we have seized all of their wealth, we commission actual historians, architects, and academics to repair everything they have broken with their ill gotten gains.
Why the hell do I keep paying taxes for? Part of me wants to just stop filing
Midterms gonna be lit!
And any donations for the ballroom will go into Trump’s bank account. Guaranteed.
Yah. Well. In the republicans defense, they lie all the time! It’s really our fault for thinking otherwise.