Claims Trump plans to fortify White House 'ballroom' to stay in office
Posts claim former President Donald Trump plans to fortify the White House roof and a proposed "ballroom" into a troop‑secured bunker to avoid leaving office. The posts quote him saying, "The roof is for military. If a drone hits it, it bounces off," and assert crews are building "a military hospital" and other research facilities on the grounds. The same posts name commentator Pete Hegseth as a possible coordinator and assert an intent to use US troops to block a transition of power, which would raise constitutional and national security concerns.
Sure sounds like Trump is trying to make the White House into a fortress for when he refuses to leave office.
Chester Copperpot🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦41Storming of the Trump bunker will be our Normandy apparently
Blink33This is 100% what it sounds like. It’s his fortress - not the People’s House.
halfcourtshot.bsky.social26I said it before and will say it again. Either he croaks in office or he gets dragged out of it by an angry mob. Trump is never leaving the White House on his own accord ever again.
Inafume21My dude thinks that the work can only be done from that location. Sure, hole yourself up in that building, and we can wall it off.
Emily Bunny17Would be extremely funny to simply have Congress relocate the executive branch to Chicago and leave Trump to play King of Fort Dumbass
ravenscroft1966.bsky.social16I try to remember that the White House itself isn’t the arbiter of who’s president. He can hole up in there and the real president can shut off power, encircle the White House and make it a “prison.”
Regina Schrambling 12And it's not his house.
Repent Harlequin10“Built for our snipers, not the enemies’ snipers.” Jesus. That is a weird sentence. He’s not leaving.
Seamus10That's a fortress, not the White House. He's not leaving.
Brian Griffith9"I can have snipers that can hit anything in our nation's capital" is definitely what I think of as a valuable ballroom feature.
jcs77.bsky.social7@atrupar.com Funny how past presidents weren't so obsessed w/their safety like this one. I do think your right though that he's not planning on leaving the office or WH when his time is up. We could just lock him in the bunker & continue w/voting in a new president. Out of site, out of mine.
born2quack.bsky.social7Just going to repost this here
SPFHockeyfan, Esq.6I’m ok with locking the basement door and throwing away the key.
Joe D Rye6I’m curious as to where the cryogenic preservation chamber is going to be located.
Abbey Chord 🎵6Cut the power and the WiFi and go down there in a year and drag out the corpse.
TallyAnnaE ☮️🌊 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈💙🦋🐸5Imagine that. Snipers for American protesters.
Charles Thomas5Let's hope he goes the Hitler route and kills himself in that bunker. #FDT #FGOP #FICE
DTwyman4I don't know why people seem to be finding it so difficult to believe that he's not planning on leaving? It has been pretty obvious since the get-go.
SeabeeGator464So what? The Presidency isn’t a game of capture the flag. He doesn’t get to stay President if he stays on White House property. On January 20, 2029 at Noon HIS AUTHORITY ENDS. PERIOD. FULL STOP. THAT’S ALL, THERE AIN’T NO MORE. GD. FFS.
absurd17.bsky.social4I feel that is exactly right. It’s not the ballroom that’s a priority-it’s the bunker to hide in.
AKA Pippysqueakspeaks 🐶4That’s exactly what he’s doing. That’s Plan A. Plan B is to escape to a non-extradition country. It’s all about HIS survival. And he will do ANYTHING to get what HE wants. He is loyal only to himself. Everyone else is not even a second thought until he thinks he can use you to HIS benefit.
wts1135.bsky.social4Drone empire!?! To protect DC? Don't laugh this off. My conspiracy theory - That drone empire might be used to fend off law enforcement when he tries to stay in power after his impeachment, or after the 28 elections. Also the reason he's so adamant that the ballroom gets built asap. Hope I'm wrong
Justin Eger3My immediate thought was "Hitler's Bunker."
Gia Monroe3So many fun ways to deal with this. Cement shut all exits & flood with contaminated water, hit hard with Havana syndrome, teargas the vents, infiltrate with Hantavirus rats, release the kraken aka mosquitoes, make them turnover all their passwords AND charge them $100Billion each to leave.
Ivan Soto3He should be removed from office by the second week of 2027, at the latest.
baconspecial.bsky.social3He has to golf 3 days out the week... he has to leave sometime.
NurseGenius3A fortress for The Confederacy.
Michael Dupuis3He has no plans to leave office.
julesp1.bsky.social3Good let’s make it his gilded cage that he never get out make it his prison.
A Travis-T3This is undoubtedly true but it would be beyond shocking if he was still alive in 2.6 years.
Steve G3This is exactly what it is. He’s delusional but this is what he intends.
fuzzymom.bsky.social3The 'clear view of all of DC' sounds rather ominous. We all know what he thinks of protesters
Jolene From Canada 🇨🇦 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦2I don’t think this Pedo Pig has to worry about snipers. Mother Nature and the Grim Reaper are coming for trump, and not even a billion dollar fortress can protect him.
Count Zero2It's almost like they're preppers getting ready for a second Civil War.
Autumn2Yep, and the Slush fund is for his private army.
alvin-tostig.bsky.social2Remind me, which sub-basement will house the Eva Braun suite?
Ray McKenzie2exactly right, he is building his castle and protection from the people.
FuckTrump🚫👑🐸2The $1.776B is to pay for his violent brownshirts, lawyers, and payoff/own ppl who will commit violence and take illegal actions w promise of pardon and money
Mary Cross 🫘2It also sounds like he's very paranoid.
Ishtar2The mental death spiral is advancing faster every single day.
hippiechick54.bsky.social2If everyone loved Trump like he claims they do, why would he need a drone-proof bunker/ballroom with snipers on the roof?
Cally2Thank you! That is clearly what is happening. Why can’t more people see what is plainly going on?
Lynn G2Then we burn it down with him inside
The only reason for Trump to want the parliamentarian fired is if he really was planning to use the money to build the ballroom — and not on the stuff the White House claims to want to use it on in their one-pager. Her ballroom decision didn’t kill the funding. It just requires narrowing the scope.
Bobby Kogan141This is a huge tell imo
Outspoken™️26So Trump called Thune and so far Thune claims they’ll go through the reconciliation process. I’m so tired.
LouFromBoston18This is about his own underground bunker. Because he knows something will happen and he wants to hide in his bunker. BTW, most of his billionaire sycophants also have bunkers. Like, they want to bring on total destruction of the masses while they are safe underground, until the dust settles.
Jack Brand13Don't count on Thune not to fold. It's a cult.
Grimalkin Wyrd12You used "reason" and "Trump" in the same sentence. A woman has slighted him; that is all the "reason" he needs to want her fired.
constantquestion.bsky.social9Did anyone think he wasn't going to use taxpayer money to build his ballroom so that he could move hundreds of millions in donations to himself and family?
Teleport Me Off This Rock🍀☮🤘💖🐈⬛🐈86479Donnie doesn't like the word 'no.'
Can't Complain6He just fleeced the tax payers for 1.8B what's another 1B?
Bike by the sea4Lmao so Schumer could've fired the Parliamentarian back in 2021 when they were stumbling over themselves to pass Biden's many bills. Another instance where Democrats refuse to wield power.
robincuil.bsky.social3Sounds like Trump is having a(nother) temper tantrum
Big Steve (BP)2Trump was going to skim the $300 million donated and I use taxpayer funds to build the ballroom. Now he's stuck.
Trump on the White House ballroom: "We are making a gift. This is a gift. This is not going to be paid for by the taxpayer."
Knock Knock8Lies, more lies, lies on top of lies. Too bad lies aren't building materials
John DeCock6Once again, having his lies exposed does not stop him from being a liar. He keeps telling the same lies. The same stupid people believe them. The press reports them as if they were not absurd.
Alfred Poor4Mexico is going to pay for it?
Anti-SS 🍺 🍻3OMG!!! This "Presser" is more insane than usual with all the Construction noise in the background! Make it stop!!!
TheMeanstroke3Then why did this happen two days ago and you told Thune to fire her? The Senate parliamentarian struck the GOP provision that would have spent $1 billion in taxpayer money on Trump’s proposed White House ballroom, according to Senate Budget Committee Democrats.
gcm5.bsky.social2Trump’s tone deaf and has said proud and loud that he doesn’t care about Americans’ finances. Never once has he mentioned the tragedy that happened yesterday at the mosque in San Diego. He’s fixated on his vanity projects. He’s holding a press conference with his sycophants.
Pseudonymous Poster2Did Mexico pay for the wall yet? P.S. We the people don't want a ballroom anyway.
🦋FloridaLib🦋2We. do. not. want. your. damn. gift. We want our East Wing restored to its historical glory.
Michele Dotson 🇺🇸🫶🏾⚖️🗳📬🇺🇦✌🏾🦾2Riddle me this: If Trump’s ballroom is ‘a gift,’ like Trump says, then why is Trump trying to fire the Senate Parliamentarian for ruling against Senate Republicans' allocation of $1 billion in taxpayer dollars for Trump’s ballroom??? 🤔🧐🤨
Hugh JoLady2I don't want this "gift." I want livable wages, universal health care, affordable housing, food, child care, insurance rates, tuition, utilities, Social Security, clean water & air, equal rights, protections, liberty & JUSTICE for ALL. NO corruption, citizens united, electoral college or f* wars!
In remarks at the White House building site, Trump makes it clear that his "ballroom", is a sprawling military fortress, six storeys deep. It will include a military hospital, what he calls a "research facility", anti-drone and anti-sniper technology, and 360 degree surveillance of the city....
Simon Marks33Claiming the project is "a gift to the United States" by Trump and his donors, in fact he then calls for vast sums of taxpayer money to be spent on it. "We are on budget and on plan....The only budget request would be that we doubled the size at the request of the US military".
QfanatiQ7That's not the talk of someone moving out in 2028...
Our Earth Affairs4It won’t even by finished by the time his term ends, so it makes me wonder if it’s the start of a process where Republicans never cede power ever again, no matter what.
Jasper Barry4It's a bunker. Hitler had one. No fascist dictator should be without one.
Sharon Turner4The corruption and bullshit is relentless. I am so tired.
Locutus of Bored2It still seems like a ridiculously over-ambitious and over-optimistic project for an 80 year old man with both dementia and venous insufficiency.
Kevin Doherty2"360 degree surveillance of the city..." So, a rooftop then.
Trump says the White House ballroom roof will serve as a drone port with "unlimited drones." “Drones are what's happening right now."
Harry McNally24Does nobody in the American military think Its time for a coup ? This Orange cunt has lost the plot .
Goldilocks on the Levels 6He's certainly doing a lot of droning on...🙄
AbstractThreats3Trump translation: “Drones are what my family is heavily invested in. Totally against the law but we’re making a ton of money so who cares?”
Joel D. Parker2Did anyone ask about his "slush fund"? It needs to be mentioned at every press meeting.
Arkenor2This ballroom is like something out of Thunderbirds. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEqH...
jaimi.bsky.social2EMPIRE OF DRONES (and sharks with lasers in the reflecting lake)
Speaker at Trump endorsed Rededicate 250 ceremony claims that god made Trump president so Trump could build the White House ballroom. Stranger than fiction. If you believe this guy, he's also got a bridge to sell you. #momsky #sheshd #voterizer
Tim McFarland8I agree. It’s hard to believe. Unless…
Hey Tommy✌🏻💙✊🏻😎5VOTE every one of these GOP MotherF*cking Christian Nationalists out‼️
Rhuta Bhayga4Extraordinary to what degree these tools will humiliate themselves
Hypatia is still mad about the library.4What in the hell …..
nangel1013.bsky.social2It would’ve been cheaper to buy the bridge!
RogersIvy2These people need 2b 4 real. None of the crap spewed 2day should have been done with the focus of division. Seriously WTF is this guy talking about. How much is he expecting 2b paid cause he literally sounds like a charlatan. They should have been scared that a lightening bolt didnt hit that stage.
Raquel2Crazy coo coo puffs! Who in their right minds would fall for this absurdity?
empressmary.bsky.social2To misquote a certain Starfleet officer “Why does God need a ballroom?”
p2Maybe. Just Maybe. God wanted tRump to build that ballroom so when he's dead (finally and not a second too soon), we can bury him and his entire regime inside of that drone, bullet, bomb, gun, attack proof vault and seal them and their toxic malevolence inside it for eternity.
Bunker. Mausoleum. All the same to me. My working theory for a few months now is he's planning a sort of Lenin's Tomb thing. It'll never be used as a ballroom, it's going to be Trump's gold-caked body on display for eternity, with the Trump Tomb looming over whoever's in the White House forever.
Full time insect, part time cynic65I will vote for any candidate that says they will bulldoze that ballroom first thing.
Matunos5that which can be extralegally constructed can be extralegally deconstructed. if the next president won't do it, then the people shall
browwiw4I’ve been saying the same thing! Trump is turning historic D.C. into his mortuary palace complex, like a pharaoh. I’m probably a bit nuttier than you, because I think there’s an actual old school ruler-cult around him. Evangelical thaumaturgy.
calirn.bsky.social2Fine. Bury him like a cat turd. No markers or memorial. Plant a beautiful lawn and rose garden on top.
