Trump is using a $500M no-bid contract to build his White House ballroom

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/06/30/trump-ballroom-built-under-secret-500m-no-bid-contract/

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JeSuisUnHombre@lemmy.zip · 36 pts · 56d (5 replies)

Isn't this how he hired for the reflecting pool?

garbage_world@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 56d (2 replies)
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FlordaMan@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 56d (1 reply)

And that went great without any issues at all

a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 56d

It's currently one of the nicest ponds in DC.

Soulphite@reddthat.com · 10 pts · 56d (1 reply)

So let it be.

Picture this. The whole pedophile group enjoying a tour of their newly built ballroom bunker, and suddenly it caves in. they building their own grave, shh, let it happen!

green_goglin@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 56d
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OwOarchist@pawb.social · 32 pts · 56d

Let me guess: the contractor just happened to donate a few hundred thousand to the Trump campaign...

Blackfeathr@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 56d (2 replies)

Inb4 ballroom covered in algae

galoisghost@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 56d

Cover in mould with the gold paint chipping off

taco@anarchist.nexus · 1 pts · 56d

Hopefully the algae will be thick enough to protect surfaces from the invisible slasher vandals this time.

Arancello@aussie.zone · 18 pts · 56d

Using your taxes.

Asafum@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 56d (1 reply)

Listen guys it's just a coincidence that the construction company's name is Eric&Trump Jr Construction. It's not that Eric and Jr, Trump promised.

ripcord@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 56d

I don't think he would bother promising at this point.

BlueEther@no.lastname.nz · 11 pts · 56d (3 replies)

If he cant even paint a pool for $16M, how the fuck can he build a ballroom [and secure hide-e-hole] for only 3x the amount?

AbidanYre@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 56d (2 replies)

16 * 3 != 500

fartographer@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 56d

I just checked your math and it's 100% accurate

ripcord@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 56d

At least 10 people upvoted that comment

kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 56d

Lmao imagine if a shoddily-built ballroom collapses on this administration, killing everyone. What a poetic resolution.

DmMacniel@feddit.org · 7 pts · 56d

Mhm more corruption.

artyom@piefed.social · 6 pts · 56d

Paywall

5oap10116@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 56d

Bets on if he'll claim this was sabotaged/vandalized when it doesn't go to plan?

Treczoks@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 56d

We all know what his illegal non-bid jobs produce by now...

ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 56d

But he promised it would be $200m and only use private funding?

xenomor@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 56d

The question is, will the next president require competitive bids for the contract to dismantle it?

I’m only half joking. Any Democrat that doesn’t run with dismantling this as part of their platform doesn’t deserve any support.

ooterness@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 56d
bcgm3@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 56d

"Looking at the ballroom with your dirty peasant eyeballs is tantamount to vandalizing it, which surely will be the sole cause of its imminent decay, and not anything else. So you fuckers better not so much as sniff the air in a 50 mile proximity, or so help me God, I will deport your ass to Venezuela. A pedo President needs a new secret pedo space for new secret pedo meetings. Also, keep paying your taxes! The system is working! Vote Trump for a third term! Suck my dick!"

- The President, essentially

anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 56d (1 reply)

Good! It will crumble on day one.

SippyCup@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 56d

What better metaphor for the crumbling American empire than tearing down the white house and replacing it with cheap crap.