Remember the good old days of last month, when Trump’s ballroom at the White House was it privately financed and without using taxpayer money, at least according to Trump?
Then a gunman showed up at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and Trump decided it would be the perfect time to ask taxpayers to pay $1 billion for his ballroom under the guise of national security, which Republicans redefined to mean protecting our unpopular president by no longer allowing him to go out in public. So taxpayers have to build him a cheesy, gold-trimmed playroom in what used to be the East Wing.
This idea is not popular. In fact, only 28% of Americans surveyed support Trump’s party. The poor numbers for ballrooms are not surprising, as many Americans cannot afford food, rent/mortgage, gas, utilities, and virtually all of the essentials needed for life.
Trump raised money from private donors to supposedly pay for the ballroom, but the names of those donors were not disclosed and no one said what their donations would be used for. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) suggested that private donations be used for “plates.”
$350 million was raised from millionaires and corporations, which is a lot of plates, and no one has said where that money will go if Trump gets his billion dollars back from taxpayers.
The problem is that Republicans in Congress don’t want to vote to give money to Trump.