Good faith privately-funded White House ballroom discussion

[JCTarheel82]

A friend sent this to me. It seems heavy on assumptions and suppositions and light on facts, but I wanted to hear the group's thoughts.

Trump Isn’t Building a Ballroom

When Trump announced a $300 million ballroom at the White House, something went off in my brain.

substack.com

 

[heelinhell]

I go days on end without mentioning Trump. It is, however, impossible to discuss a national political issue without mentioning Trump. He positions himself as the epicenter of government in every way. He rules over thr legislators from his party who have a majority. That means he de facto controls the legislative branch. He publicly bullies and browbeats the judicial branch. What version of national politics in 2026 can be discussed without mentioning Donald Trump?

As for bets, I offered you one earlier that you ignored. I will repeat it. I bet you $1000 that a post Trump audit of the ballroom process reveals vastly more public funds spent than private donated funds. Would you care to wager?

I have asked you questions before with specificity. One of them has been repeated by others in this thread. You can begin by answering that one if you choose.

Your bet looks pretty good right now. Congress is getting ready to spend $400 million of our taxpayer dollars to build the Trump Great Hall.

 

[heelinhell]

Your logic makes no sense. No, I don’t support spending that much tax payer money on a ballroom. Something has to go there now that east wing is gone. You completely and continuously misunderstand my level of support for trump. If half a billion of tax payer money gets spent i will criticize him for it.

get ready to criticize him...