Yesterday, I published three posts on people with Ballroom Derangement Syndrome. Yes, BDS has flared up again after President Donald Trump suggested that the new White House ballroom would be a more secure event for hosting things like the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, at which he was almost shot on Saturday night at the D.C. Hilton. Like it or not, there's going to be a ballroom in which the president can host formal state events instead of pitching tents on the lawn.
Underneath the drone-proof ballroom will be a state-of-the-art military bunker, and that has liberals' panties in a wad. Joyce Carol Oates noted that Hitler also had a bunker (and so did FDR … there's been a bunker underneath the East Wing since World War 11. Whoopi Goldberg is really pissed about the ballroom, and she and fellow MENSA member Joy Behar take the construction of the ballroom as a sign that Trump is never leaving. Just like during his first term, when the liberal consensus was that the military would have to go into the Oval Office and forcibly remove Trump if he lost the 2020 election.
These women are such idiots.
Inciting another attempt to kill Trump?
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) April 29, 2026
The View again claims the ballroom proves Trump never plans to leave office:
GOLDBERG: It's not your building! It's not yours! That's the first thing this is - this belongs to the people of the United States of America it is not your… pic.twitter.com/jFAAKpA5Jg
Why is @ABCNetwork so stupid? You can't blame these retards for being ignorant. But does ABC do this as some kind of joke on them? Or are they sure that their viewers are as ignorant as these morons?
— Lisa | Political Commentary (@LisaDirectX) April 29, 2026
It's just embarrassing to hear them say such stupid things.
And they fall under the umbrella of ABC News.
Philip Kennicott has a column in The Washington Post on Wednesday, arguing that Trump's "favorite project wouldn’t just transform the White House; it would set in stone his regal conception of the presidency."
From the Washington Post comes an analysis of the new ballroom at the White House, and why it may be so important to Trump the Import Tax King:
— Bob (@Truthsnoopy) April 29, 2026
"What is obviously a fundraising space will become America’s version of the infamous Salon de l’Oeil-de-Boeuf, the antechamber to…
The post continues:
… to royal access at Versailles, where courtiers, sycophants and supplicants came to wait upon the kings of France. Trump has suggested it also will be the site of future inaugurations. And thus inaugurations will evolve from an oath-taking at the People’s House on Capitol Hill — a ceremony enacted in front of the American public and witnessed by the world — to a spectacle tightly controlled and entirely choreographed by the executive branch, something more like a coronation."
Oh, please. Kennicott adds:
This suggests that he plans to leave behind not just a radically transformed White House complex but a different conception of the presidency. The regal trappings Trump favors in design and architecture will now be mirrored by an essentially regal protocol for seeing the president. If the president can safely mingle with others only within a fortresslike ballroom on the White House grounds, then he will no longer be out among the people, no longer in touch with ordinary life. The presidential bubble will be bulletproof — and bombproof and droneproof — but it will also impede the free flow of information from the grass roots to the executive.
As I reported yesterday, Adam Kinzinger noted that his man-crush Volodymyr Zelensky never whined about needing a ballroom for security. First, plenty of people were happy to point out that Zelensky already has a ballroom in Mariyinsky Palace. Second, Zelensky has flown around the world meeting with world leaders, whining about his need for billions more dollars for his forever war with Russia.
I think this is an even dumber argument than the idiots on The View were making. "If the president can safely mingle with others only within a fortresslike ballroom on the White House grounds …." Kennicott, too, believes that Trump is going to live in the ballroom and only accept visitors there of whom he approves. Yeah, he's never going to host foreign leaders in the Oval Office again. Not to mention, the thing won't even be complete before he leaves office.
The New York Times did a piece where they invited architects to critique the design of the ballroom, where they gave brilliant professional insights like, "It's too tall."
Sex pest Eric Swalwell said it was a given that the next Democratic nominee for president promises to tear down the ballroom on day one. It's a mental illness.
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