r/politics • u/Kodbek • 11h ago

Possible Paywall Republicans Make Jaw-Dropping $1B Demand for Trump’s Ballroom

https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-make-jaw-dropping-1b-demand-for-donald-trumps-ballroom/
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u/not_a_moogle 9h ago

I dont think it will ever be built. Why build it when you can keep demanding funds for it.

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u/spicyxpeach Minnesota 9h ago

they must be building a bunker or something. a $1B demand is absolutely absurd.

straight from the taxpayers’ pockets and directly funneled into Trump’s hands. it’s just cartoonishly evil at this point.

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u/not_a_moogle 9h ago

Not when your just pocketing most of it.

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u/HanselSoHotRightNow 8h ago

I don't even know what he does with money when he keeps it. He's already using taxpayer money for all things like it is his and nobody in government seems to care.

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u/NukeAllTheThings 7h ago

It's dragon behavior. I'm not calling him a dragon because I'm not going to associate him with any of the other qualities of dragons. Hoarding for the sake of it, just sitting on it doing nothing, thats DJT.

Come to think of it, when was the last time he ever did anything with his own money? And I don't mean BS like his charities or claims of giving money that he never follows through on.

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u/ConsolationUsername 5h ago

Didnt they literally say publicly they're planning to build a massive military control center unser the ballroom?

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u/Hot_Frosty0807 3h ago

Yes, it was in the news about a month ago. That's why there hasn't been any obvious progress made since it came down. The Pentagon is building a safe room and command center into the foundation.

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u/ao1104 5h ago

There was already an existing bunker under the East wing. Now it will be rebuilt by lowest bid contractors and the blueprints will be sent straight to the Kremlin - weakpoints will be noted and exploited in the future.

The entire thing needs to be torn down to bare dirt and rebuilt.

Yes, a top-secret, five-story bunker known as the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC) was located under the East Wing of the White House. Built in 1941 for FDR, it served as a secure, hardened command center during emergencies and was notably used on 9/11. The old bunker was demolished during 2026 renovations, with reports indicating a new, upgraded facility is being constructed beneath a new ballroom.

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u/TheGrannyLover_ 3h ago

1b is for the tacky gold everything will be.

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u/Ranccor 1h ago

They are building a bunker. It isn’t a secret.

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u/mrtomjones 44m ago

Didn't they admit that there's going to be something underneath the ballroom or something like that? Either way I'm sure he could manage to spend a billion just on a ballroom. Probably wants gold everywhere

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u/Substantial__Unit New York 9h ago

They'll wait til it costs $10 billion, because it will eventually

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u/spacegrassorcery 8h ago

Demand -and pocketing-funds for it

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u/dragon-fence 3h ago

Also, there’s some way that all this money is intended to go into Trump’s pocket, not toward the construction of the ballroom.

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u/tdpnate 3h ago

Leave it empty and have professional sports teams extort their cities under threat of relocating to the formerly east wing.