It won’t interfere with the current building. It won’t be. It’ll be near it, but not touching it — and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of. It’s my favorite. It’s my favorite place. I love it.
— Donald Trump
By Steve Schmidt 10/21/25Donald Trump has demolished a portion of the White House with the help of his billionaire supplicants, and some of America’s leading corporations.
The obliteration of hallowed and historic grounds is a despicable act that stands apart as one of the most profoundly corrupt acts in American history.
While the government is shuttered, American troops are pointing weapons at American civilians, and a masked secret police force is abducting American citizens, Donald Trump has decided to build a ballroom that will cost hundreds of millions of dollars. It will stand as a monument to greed, graft, corruption, incompetence and nihilism.
The design is grotesque, but perfectly in keeping with the aesthetic Trump prefers — Liberace-meets-Albert Speer-meets-DJ Jazzy Jeff.
Tacky, appalling, ugly and hideous don’t begin to describe the ruination of the people’s house. The Democratic Party should make clear that Donald’s defacements, vandalisms and constitutional arson will not stand.
The ‘Billionaire Ballroom’ has to go.
The full restoration of the majesty of the White House must be the first commitment made by a Democratic nominee for president to the American people.
MAGA has many delusions, but perhaps the most depraved of all is the notion that the American people will tolerate the obliteration of 1600 Pennsylvania by its loathsome tenant.
During these troubled times it is easy to become dispirited by the constant insanity, imbecility and epic abuses being committed against America by a gangster regime where Nazis, imbeciles, weirdos and corrupt hacks seem to find a new way to insult patriotism, simple decency and the concept of duty.
Don’t be.
Be grateful.
The Rose Garden will be restored, and ‘Predator Patio’ will be broken up and pulverized to dust.
There is no chance that Donald Trump’s monument to corruption can be handed down to our children and grandchildren.
This issue is no small thing.
Every single Democrat who wants to be president should understand the deep meaning and greater opportunity at hand.
Defiance is a good thing for a party mostly beset with appeasers and weakness that is not meeting the moment, or matching the mood of the American people. They are fed up with Trump, the collaborators who serve him, and the appeasers who refuse to stand up against him.
Destroying Trump’s gilded ballroom will mark the beginning of national recovery and redemption.
The monuments in Washington, DC, that endure are built to celebrate freedom, not indulgence or fascism. The fight over the ballroom will signal the fate of the United States.
If it exists at all 10 years’ from now, it will mean that the country was lost.
Should it be gone, then MAGA will be too.
Let us pray that it is.
Source: The ‘Billionaire Ballroom’ has to go
I love me some Steve Schmidt. Would that some Democrat could recognize this opportunity to capture in an image the sheer tackiness of Mango Mussolini. Building ballrooms while the US burns.