Of all the things the Trump administration could have asked in response to a gunman trying to enter the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, what the Trump administration and its supporters have chosen as a solution to possible mass shootings and assassination attempts is a ballroom.
It’s weird, isn’t it?
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However, the Trump administration’s rallying cry is to “build the ballroom.”
Acting AG Todd Blanche posted to X in response to the lawsuit delaying construction of Trump’s ballroom:
This lawsuit is filed on behalf of a single person who walks around the White House once a month and expects to dislike the new design of the East Wing. The passing aesthetic complaint of a single person can in no way justify delaying the construction of a secure facility allowing the president to do his job.
The president’s job is not to hang out in ballrooms. The president’s job is not to build ballrooms. In fact, ballrooms have nothing to do with the presidency.
There is a whole list of problems with Blanche’s statement. The first being that the president already has a safe place to do his job. It’s called the Oval Office.
The reason there is a lawsuit is because Trump did not get permission from Congress and his ballroom construction appears illegal.
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