Everything About Trump’s White House Ballroom Seems Fishy

The MAGAs like to tell us that the president's search-and-destroy construction project at the White House is all clean because the president is not using any taxpayer dollars to build his Gilded Palace of Sin. (Thanks, Gram.) As CNN points out, there’s an unmistakable aroma of perfumed bribery about the project.

Apple, Amazon, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Google, Coinbase, Comcast and Meta are just some of the major companies who have made donations to build President Donald Trump’s proposed 90,000-square-foot ballroom, according to the White House.

Trump has repeatedly said that work on the ballroom is privately funded by himself and donors and will cost nothing to taxpayers. On Wednesday, Trump discussed his plans for the ballroom, saying it will cost “about $300 million.” The administration previously put the cost of the ballroom project at $200 million.

Additional donors include co-founders of cryptocurrency exchange Gemini, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss; Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and his family; and the Adelson family. Trump awarded Miriam Adelson, a Republican megadonor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2018.

Well, that seems to be on the up and up. Never mind.

Anybody who believes the president is not going to slap his name on this monstrosity before leaving office is kidding themselves.