Trump launches 450-word rant about his ballroom and says a lawsuit to stop it being built would be 'devastating' for US

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Sunday 25 January 2026 15:32 EST


As the US reeled from the latest shooting of an anti-ICE protester by federal agents, Donald Trump launched a 450-word rant in which he claimed that stopping the construction of his luxurious $400 million presidential ballroom would be “devastating to the White House, our Country, and all concerned.”

In a series of social media posts on Sunday, the president briefly addressed the situation in Minneapolis following the fatal shooting of ICU nurse Alex Pretti, writing: “Minnesota is a Criminal COVER UP of the massive Financial Fraud that has gone on!” He also praised allies for their appearances on Fox News to talk about the situation.

But by far his longest message, which he pinned to the top of his Truth Social feed, concerned the threat posed to the building of his White House ballroom by a lawsuit which seeks to stop it in its tracks. “I’m building, on top of everything else that I am doing, one of the greatest and most beautiful Ballrooms anywhere in the World, with more than 300 Million Dollars of Great American Patriots’ money, and working closely with, right from the beginning, the United States Military and Secret Service,” the president wrote.

“Making such a large gift to the U.S.A. was thought to be, by almost everyone, ‘A WONDERFUL THING TO DO’ — But no, as usual, I got sued, this time by the Radical Left National (No!)Trust for Historic Preservation, a group that couldn’t care less about our Country!”

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-presidential-ballroom-lawsuit-b2907325.html

[wcmagumba]

1. What an idiot...

[Klondike Kat]

13. His IQ is in the vicinity

of the temperature in Minnesota these days. A dead cat would do a better job as president.

[SeattleVet]

46. He wears his IQ range on his red hat... "45-47"

[Paper Roses]

41. Don't forget his "Arc de Trump". Yes, this is equally as idiotic. n/t

[Escurumbele]

45. It would be devastating for USA, definitely, how can we live not being able to watch the buffoon

dance with Cruela Deville? Devastating I tell you...The USA would just disintegrate. What a buffoon! a dangerous buffoon.

[BigmanPigman]

2. He won't live long enough to see it built.

His ticker is ticking away...for about a few more months. I suggest that in lieu of a headstone we make a teeny, tiny ballroom on his grave. Of course millions will want to piss on it so it must be made durable and strong, unlike the fucking moron.

[rampartd]

5. 50 shades of dead just make it soon

just thinking of an appropriate honor. here are a few song ideas

put bitcoins on his eye balls and feed him to bobby's worm
wrap him in epstein's sheets and bury him in a pyramid scheme.

push him down the stairs like the mother of his children.

under the georgia guidestones
or the rubble of the arc d' trump.
there are piles of ashes everywhere he has done business.

real nice if the arc's falls on him during his endless booring dedication to himself.

bury him in a mass grave with the iranians he promised to support

or the afghan women
or the ukrainians
or kurds
or the gazans to whom he brought peace.



launch him on a space x. destination mars.

his life has been a ponzi scheme it should end in a pyramid
bury him in grant's tomb if that's what you want

take him on a midnight cruise like epstein sank the children
buried at sea with the fishermen killed for their oil.


push him on an ice flow towards greenland
with a hungry polar bear.
My apologies to the bear, there is nothing nourishing ina carcass full of bull shit.

helicopter, helicopter, helicopter )to the tune of frank zappa "rutabaga&quot

&list=RD1BAu059IMYw&start_radio=1

[BigmanPigman]

11. I like the "pyramid" idea.

I saw how people were tortured during the Spanish Inquisition using one. Men and women were slowly lowered onto a small pyramid that rips their inside apart.

[rampartd]

12. maybe noem will hire you!

[BigmanPigman]

19. Nope. She will be the first victim

when we test it out to see if it really does work.

[rampartd]

22. wasn't there a game of thrones guy who was eaten by the dogs?

noem should be hunted with hounds.

[BigmanPigman]

25. I've never seen Game of Thrones

but many people have made comments on YouTube that are similar to your idea. I'm picturing the hungry and angry German Shepards like the Nazis used on Jews.

[Escurumbele]

47. Those are too many honors for him, I say cremate him, then flash the ashes down a toilet.

[Bengus81]

30. Yep...I say he will DIE before his term ends or have a massive stroke which will end

his Presidency. Since appearance is everything to that asshat and his fucked up deranged family (who threw their mom in a weed infested paupers grave) he will never be seen again in public.

[KPN]

37. Red'd for good luck, kharma, and providence.

[trueblueinmo]

3. Ballroom

What does working closely with the ss and military have to do with building the ballroom?

[ColoringFool]

14. To Advise On And Arm The Massive UNDERGROUND BUNKER. All.....

Trump's billionaire buddies have their own, so he must have THE BIGGEST AND BEST!

I wonder if I can get the bunker's McDonald's franchise.....🤔 🍔 🍟

[Talitha]

18. Someone here in DU posted a video about this.

[AZJonnie]

4. Gramps is flailing and pathetically scraping the bottom of the distraction barrel today

Once his professional sycophants and propagandists get back to work tomorrow he'll be out with an executive order declaring that everyone in ICE detention needs to start working in the fields to earn their "keep", and thanks for our attention to this matter (or some other ridiculous shit that he's been wanting to see happen).

Like Pavlov's dogs, the magafolk will drool at the prospect, and the trained seals and stenographers of the M$M will be off the topic of Pretti, instantly switching to a day or two of headlines re: the deep question of "can Trump REALLY do that?!?", never to return until the next citizen is gunned down in the streets, by then Pretti and Good have become statistics.

[dweller]

6. Cry harder

Piggy


✌🏻

[Baitball Blogger]

7. Man cares more about his legacy pyramid than he does about his ICE agents murdering people.

Seriously, the lawsuit is necessary because it's just going to be tedious to remove all of Trump's self-promoting monuments after he leaves office.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. How can private citizens join the lawsuit to stop the ballroom?

[Ocelot II]

26. Unfortunately they can't. Taxpayers don't have legal standing.

[Javaman]

9. can't spell gestapo without GOP. nt

[GB_RN]

10. They Got It Wrong.

He wasn’t saying that it would be devastating for the United States (U.S.). They misinterpreted him. He was actually saying that it “would be devastating for (us),” as in Cantaloupe Caligula the Corpulent himself. See, he always refers to himself in the third person, so here he was using the royal “we.” 😂

This is intended purely as humor. That said, knowing how Caligula thinks of himself, it begs the question.

[travelingthrulife]

33. And his wealthy friends he blackmailed into supporting the monstrosity will be mad.

Just like Trump refusing to release the Epstein Files because his friends might get hurt.

[Karma13612]

15. No, you SOB,

The DEVASTATING part was demolishing the entire east wing and its symbolic destruction of American Democracy!

Freaking BA$TARD!!!!!

[txwhitedove]

29. Exactly.

[JohnnyRingo]

16. "Devastating" is exactly what I thought when he bulldozed the East Wing.

What full grown man dreams of having a ballroom anyway?
I mean, I that's a consideration when I buy a new pair of jeans, but never have I fantasized about a formal reception hall.

Devastating indeed.

[OldBaldy1701E]

17. "Making such a large gift to the U.S.A...."

This is how delusional he is.

A 'gift to the U.S.A.'??

[Talitha]

20. Stick a fork in him - he's done.

[Orrex]

21. Why doesn't he just fucking die already?

[KPN]

38. I dunno, but keep up the good work!

[Aussie105]

23. That ballroom is very important to Trump.

Not what is visible on the surface, but what lurks underneath.

Every dictator needs his underground bunker, after all.
For when the natives riot, or the world ends.

I bet when it is complete, a big kitchen will be there, for his hamburders and drinks, and a medical room for his nightly infusion of life sustaining drugs.

[Ocelot II]

27. Hitler had one, IIRC. And we know what happened there.

[travelingthrulife]

34. And lots of little cages for the sex trafficking victims to live in.

Easy access is important.

[LudwigPastorius]

48. Yes.

CNN had an article about it that flew completely under the radar of most people.

The 'big, beautiful' ballroom is cover for hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars going to renovate the Presidential Emergency Operations Center under the (former) East Wing.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260120021535/https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/19/politics/east-wing-secret-bunker-construction-details

[JustAnotherGen]

24. I'm so sick and tired of this

Piece of shit.

[Aviation Pro]

28. Lean in close, pedophile

We don't give a fuck about ballrooms.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

31. 'It is too late!' Trump unleashes panicked plea as lawsuit threatens huge ballroom project

trump is nuts about this ballroom.

'It is too late!' Trump unleashes panicked plea as lawsuit threatens huge ballroom project www.rawstory.com/trump-267502...

— Sal Vadacchino 🇨🇦 (@sal-vadacchino.bsky.social) 2026-01-25T17:28:33.474Z

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2675023212

In a 450-word rant, President Donald Trump raged Sunday on social media about the legal challenges against his White House ballroom project, which he claimed is now “too late” in its construction to be halted.

Trump’s $300 million ballroom project got underway last year with the demolition of the White House’s East Wing, images and video of which stunned critics nationwide. Starting behind schedule and reportedly designed in a “hurried process,” the project saw another speedbump after the National Trust for Historic Preservation sued Trump to stop the ballroom’s construction.

“Making such a large gift to the U.S.A. was thought to be, by almost everyone, ‘A WONDERFUL THING TO DO’ — But no, as usual, I got sued, this time by the Radical Left National (No!)Trust for Historic Preservation, a group that couldn’t care less about our Country!” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

“All of the Structural Steel, Windows, Doors, A.C./Heating Equipment and much more, has been ordered (or is ready to be), and there is no practical or reasonable way to go back. IT IS TOO LATE! Why didn’t these obstructionists and troublemakers bring their baseless lawsuit much earlier?”

Trump also insisted that as president, he held complete authority to modify the White House in any manner he saw fit.

“The so-called ‘preservationists,’ who get their money from the most unusual of places, should not be allowed to stop this desperately needed addition to our GREAT White House, a place that a President has never needed permission to change or enhance, because of the special grounds on which it sits, no matter how big (and important!), that enhancement may be,” Trump continued.

[Prairie Gates]

32. Oh is it $400 million now? It will be $500 next week, and $1.2 billion by September

Fucking scams all day.

[Clouds Passing]

35. But their 9 story AI data center, which sits below the 6 story bunker, just below the ballroom

[Martin68]

36. The only thing it would devastate if the project is halted is Trump's ego.

[gohuskies]

39. Modern day Nero

This son of a bitch is willfully burning down the nation for pure vanity projects and to extend his crime wave and stealing everything he can. Hate him.

[William Seger]

40. Americans largely oppose Trump tearing down White House East Wing to make way for his ballroom: Poll

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/americans-largely-oppose-trump-tearing-white-house-east/story?id=126993522

Most Americans oppose the demolition of the White House's East Wing to make way for President Donald Trump's ballroom, according to an ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll conducted using Ipsos’ KnowledgePanel.

A 56% majority of Americans oppose the Trump administration tearing down the East Wing of the White House as part of the construction of a 90,000-square-foot ballroom paid for by $300 million in private donations, including 45% who "strongly" oppose it, the poll finds.

Just 28% of Americans support it, with 15% strongly supporting the East Wing being torn down for a ballroom, the poll found. Another 16% say they are not sure.

"... thought to be, by almost everyone, ‘A WONDERFUL THING TO DO’ ..."

[Bayard]

42. We see what's most important to him

His golden ballroom takes precident over people being murdered by his goons. The band plays on while the ship is sinking.

[electric_blue68]

43. Devastating, huh? Pffffttttttt.....

STFU, you self-aggrandizing goon.

[RussBLib]

44. More hyperbolic bullshit

So tired of this leech on the butt of America. Who can rid us of this petty tyrant?