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(43,096 posts)Skittles
(172,602 posts)that is indeed Trump logic
AverageOldGuy
(4,114 posts). . . it's taught at Trump University.
Remember -- Trump's uncle was a math professor at MIT. Trump knows math.
rampartd
(4,899 posts)i had forgotten which of these "cabinet secretaries" said that last week. it was of course this guy .....
"I did very poorly in school until I started doing narcotics. Then I went to the top of my class because my mind was so restless and turbulent... I could sit still, I could read, and I could concentrate." rfk
underpants
(197,037 posts)samplegirl
(14,100 posts)And this party passes is always a cover up or ploy to make the taxpayers pay!
Beezo could Musk have enough to donate
I'm sure they will be spending time there.
CaptainTruth
(8,244 posts)Javaman
(65,974 posts)Redleg
(7,010 posts)when it again sinks in how terrible Trump is and how much he is damaging our nation.
surfered
(14,094 posts)FakeNoose
(42,212 posts)
AverageOldGuy
(4,114 posts). . . to start work on the $250 million arch.
Midnight Writer
(25,674 posts)He starts out building his wall without authorization, without oversight or planning.
He and his minions start collecting funds from private sources, though that money "disappears" and no one can account for it.
Then he starts juggling money around, taking money designated by Congress for other programs and diverting those funds to his wall.
Finally, he gets a compliant Congress to authorize billions of spending to build a symbolic "wall" (actually, more of a fence) that is nothing like the wall he promised.
Billions in missing money, taxpayers on the hook for billions more, a half-assed wall that is easily breached, and the Donald gets his way once again.
Mission Accomplished!
ChazInAz
(3,030 posts)Has anyone taken an inventory of Fort Knox, lately?
radical noodle
(10,677 posts)who feels like this is a "let them eat cake" last straw moment?
I am outraged by so much since January 2025, but for some reason, this expensive, ornate, unnecessary narcissistic vulgarity is such a prime example of trump's total disengagement from real people in this country that I'm rethinking pitchforks and guillotines. (not meant as a call for violence)
It's not that this is the worst thing they've done and are doing. The racism, the hate, and the lack of basic human empathy has been gut-wrenching. I've been sick at heart for so long. But somehow this ballroom and all it represents is making me a little crazy (crazier).
underpants
(197,037 posts)It was a shocking visual. THIS, the taxpayer funding and giant leap in money is a slap in the face.
AleksS
(1,724 posts)"Let them eat cake" Louis and Marie-Antoinette thing (yet.)
Blue Owl
(59,536 posts)vapor2
(4,830 posts)Kid Berwyn
(24,948 posts)And it makes more and more and more sense with each and every re-read.
allegorical oracle
(6,530 posts)casinos, hotels, books, steaks, wine, water, board game, and Trump University. Now we're all being forced against our will to be his unwilling chumps.
RANDYWILDMAN
(3,176 posts)and put people in jail for the fraud they are clearly committing
LetMyPeopleVote
(181,602 posts)trump wants US taxpayers to pay the entire cost of the ballroom
Link to tweet
But the Trump admins official position is that almost EVERYTHING in the ballroom from the walls to the columns to the ceiling is security-related.

I disagree with trump's position
Link to tweet

calimary
(90,602 posts)The "East Wing Modernization Project" is the ballroom.
Call it anything else, donald, but every day more of us realize what youre really up to.
If I were the next President, the first thing Id do is order the Trump vanity shit (like the damn ballroom) TORN DOWN!!!
BurnDoubt
(1,854 posts)if there IS any, sold-off to feed the babies hes starving under his Greatification.
He so wants to be a Putin-Tate. He Needs a Palace.
The Amerikkkan Sadam Insane.
maxrandb
(17,491 posts)buzzycrumbhunger
(2,127 posts)All so he can hide in his bunker like Putin and rule over the dying remains of WWIII.

