Sen. Lindsey Graham pushes $400M taxpayer funding for Trump's ballroom

0utlawstar.bsky.social21

The white house was a secure facility before some traitor tore it down while Congress was closed using shady contractors and not preserving any of the history. They all need to be charged for its destruction, as it is in itself treason. The president is just a guest.

Michelle17

Lindsey Graham is a turd and we are sick of his flip flop attitude. He's know grump is no good, but he's in it for what he can get.

Suzanne Chesshire14

There's already a secure facility at the White House. The White House has a bunker.

SusanC10

Taxpayers should get to vote on what OUR money is spent on.

R L B9

The image should show Lady Justice tied to the same pole.

A Pissed Off Dood7

So if taxpayers are paying for ballroom where did the private money donated for it go?

Caregiver To Vet7

I remember being told that private donations were already secured for this ballroom so Apple, Google, Amazon & other elites who gave money to request an audit of their money provided

Sharon7

Hell To The No! Lindsey must be the biggest butt sucker in the Trump administration. Why would anyone agree to fund a ballroom when the Administration has cut much needed funding, i.e., Medicaid. No way! Why is there ballroom dancing when tax payers are struggling in this economy!

Claude the Irregular Dragon (TM)6

It won't happen. The ballroom died with that last fake attempt.

DAMA5

EVERY TAXPAYER WHO CONTRIBUTES TO THAT BALLROOM SHOULD BE ABLE TO RESERVE A DATE AND TIME FOR PRIVATE PARTIES. A CHILDS BIRTHDAY PARTY WEDDINGS EVEN FUNERALS. If we pay for it technically it's our property.

wmnew61.bsky.social5

Never another dime to the corrupt republicans in Congress.

PeriwinkleRose 💙🇺🇦4

Yep! The whole “the ballroom will be 100% donor paid for” was BS! If the donors did donate money for it, THEY better be asking where their money went! The whole thing was a SCAM perpetrated by the POTUS!

C. Smith aka Linesurge4

I thought all of the expert estimates were like 190 to 200 million way back when they were just getting the idea off the ground? Now Lindsey Graham is saying 400 million? What the fuck!? 🤨😵😯🤨

beezy1always.bsky.social3

Screw that 💩 hell no.

ateease-kid3

I bet trump's promised everyone that they'll get to live in the WH bunker after he annihilates civilization. He's promised his family, his cabinet, Repubs, Dems, Christians, Nosferatu, Saudi Arabia, Putin, crypto bros, tech bros, sex trafficking bros, racists, drug lords, D-list celebs, podcasters..

Elizabeth Pearce3

How else is Trump going to both keep the “donations” for himself and get the Tacky Ballroom built?

carr7877800.bsky.social3

and all this time we are waiting for Mexico to build a wall on our property so fucking cute when GOP finds out he has lied all along

DianaMac3

MAGA are all slimy sewer rats who will lie, cheat, and steal to get what they want, then stiff the government. There's so much criming going on.

Alí Woolwich3

It's NOT a tumor (ballroom): it's StargateAIDataCtr. It's kickback$, turning USGovt+CivicLife over to privatecorp AI w/ no oversight +giving those corps all our private data for endlesswar profiteering +opinioncontrol: Stupidest version of 1984meetsSkynet greenlit. bsky.app/profile/aliw...

Phasmatic2

But those donations aren’t gonna be turned over to the treasury.

Paul Snead2

Isn’t the White House already is secure facility?

Sokyle2 🇺🇸 🇰🇷 🇫🇷 🇺🇦 🇹🇭 🇹🇼 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️2

There it is ... Lady Lindsey admit TAXPAYERS WILL PAY FOR TRUMP'S GOLDEN BALLROOM 🤬

Steven2

There's no way a ballroom costs 400m. Especially if that's in addition to the 200m+ in bribes he got already. Oh, I meant 'donations'. So either there's a lot of skimming off the top, or there's a *lot* more being built for him.

Craig K2

Mexico was going to pay for the wall, donors were going to pay for his ballroom, yada yada, yada

drgonzo1.bsky.social2

How secure are golf courses?

jpg411.bsky.social2

And if any Dems vote for it they will get voted out

cb-2025.bsky.social2

Why would the free press hold their event at a White House party room? Seems if Trump thinks the press is biased, he would not want to invite those folks into his rental property.

Dr. Crablunt 🇵🇷2

They should all go to the coward’s military unit reserved for these idiots.

Ducking Wilder2

Isn’t the White House already a “secure facility?”

🫘🇺🇦2

He had a secure facility. There's been a bunker under the East-wing since WW2. Trump tore it down. The courts told him he can continue to rebuild the bunker but not the ballroom. What happened to the 400M that was donated to the ballroom? Where is it? Why does he need 400M from taxpayers?

continentaldivide.bsky.social2

Cheaper to create a president who doesn’t offend regular people so grievously that they consider assassination.

Old Blue Blood2

So, what happened to all the money Trump said was donated for his damned ballroom??

Vickie2

Yup. Just like Mexico's paying for the wall.

Boom2

I’m kinda surprised he hasn’t claimed Mexico will pay for the ballroom 🙄🙄🙄

Nikki DuCoté61

Apparently the White House isn't a secure facility in itself?

Damned Goblin47

A ballroom is not a secure facility. A big room full of strangers is the opposite of security. If you want him to be secure, lock him in the bathroom. Without his phone. And don't let him out.

Deirdre [REDACTED]28

So we’re not gonna talk about how the shooter got nowhere near Trump or the ballroom and didn’t fire a single shot & was stopped by security before fully entering the facility. According to the affidavit. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Brian M. Wise: Snarkasaurus Rex. Ω, MFers.23

I don't, in fact, because there was one and Trump destroyed it. Fuck him and fuck ladybug

Baja Arizona. We fight on.19

Wait, I thought this was 'already paid for' by rich donors currying favors? When did that change?

Blobert v3.017

Wait… this was supposedly privately funded.

bfconnors.bsky.social15

Actually the number one job of national security is protecting the nation not the president

Amy Duddleston11

There’s a fucking war costing billions of dollars happening and Lickspittle Graham is doing the bidding for the Ballroom.

Jeff10

Thought it was going to be zero cost to the tax payer?!?

Karen McPherson 9

The number one job of the secret service is to protect the individual they're assigned to. The number one job of national security is to protect the country, not one individual, even if he is the president.

Liberal Donald J. Trump9

Lindsey Graham, the weather vane with a passport, says $400 million for a ballroom bunker is “investment.” Families need relief, schools need funding, roads need repair—but sure, subsidize gold-plated panic rooms for a vanity king. National security? This is interior decorating with our tax dollars.

Fix the mess7

NO! The number one priority for our leader is to protect his/her people. He works for us, not the other way around. When every kid has a ballroom to be safe in then the old guy can have his.

Michele ✌️💙7

What happened to the billionaires paying for this dumb shit?

rondax1.bsky.social7

Is he saying the security isn’t good now? How did every other president in our history get by without a ball room for protection?

Kerri7

None of this was needed… #WeWantMedicare4All not a gaudy, tacky ballroom to benefit the Grifters & the Epstein Class. He’s destroyed parts of OUR WH, added a bunker w/military installation, defaced the Kennedy Center, hung banners with his face in DC, started a Billion/Day War w ISR in Iran…#ENOUGH

David Bailey6

Did anyone ask Graham how the East Wing that Trump demolished failed to be "very national security-centric"? And if the East Wing had security flaws, doesn't that mean the rest of the existing WH structure does as well?

Spotts1701, Fighting The Good Fight6

The court already said the bunker under this gaudy ballroom could proceed as it *is* a national security issue. It's the tacky thing on top that's a problem. Lindsey, of course, knows this. He just prefers lying.

Toe Beans6

Can someone make a stich reel of all the times trump said the ballroom is paid for with DONATIONS 😤

Beth in Wisconsin5

So.... there's never been a bunker or secure area in the WH? And would Graham be supporting this so very strongly if a Democrat were president?

davemc5192.bsky.social5

Every single thing is a scam & a tissue of lies with these people It was 60,000 then 90,000sqft, it was $200m then $300m now $400m. It was just a ballroom, now it’s a military bunker & secure POTUS playground It wouldn’t cost us a dime, now we’re paying for it It’s a bad joke, that’s what it is…

PandaChronicle ❌👑4

No I don’t. This was not even a WH event. The shooter, staged or not, never even got close. Are you going to demand a bullet/bomb proof shield over his golf courses?

Kevin4

Slurp, slurp, slurp. Absolutely zero dignity.

Hedy Lamarr 4

South Carolina Gets Wiser About Lindsey Graham Lindsey Graham Gets Bad Polling News Ahead of Reelection Campaign As of last June, 40% of respondents disapproved of how Graham is handing his duties, compared to 34% who approved & 25% who weren't sure. truthpress.com/news/lindsey...

Jazzy girl 🐸💙🐾4

FFS! He golfs every weekend are you going to place a dome over him. I’m worried about children and teachers not about not about a loud mouth a$$hole.

Blobert v3.03

We can’t afford SNAP, childcare or healthcare but a secure bunker for Trump? Sure!

HoneyBBQbadger3

What the hell happened to private donations?

mark (and his) dope devices 🇨🇦2

eat shit, lindsey, and stay 200 ft away from all children please.

auldtwa2

the cheapest thing is for trump to stay home if asked to an big event at a hotel by a non-government group.

Julie Sirrs2

Funny how every single other president managed without a ballroom.

The Marvelous Ms. Medicaid2

Charlie Kirk said it best- "I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights." I can think of way better investments.

dear Abbie2

what? We were told NO tax $ were going to be used for the ballroom. It would come from donations.

trekkerbac.bsky.social2

Someone remind Graham that President Obama & President Biden didn't require a Bomb Bunker Ballroom. And Hitler survived 40 assassination attempts. I don't believe the number of failures was indicative of the great job he was doing.

Forever Young and in Denial2

What happened to the private funding?

(S) ██ 3.3 (b)(1) ██2

Reminder that the judge didn’t block a national security facility under the East Wing. He only blocked using the White House to funnel dark money into Trump’s bank accounts.

Elle2

Hmmm. I distinctly recall Trump saying that the ballroom was to be paid for by private donations. 🤔

baxate2

Is the White House not already a secure facility?

😠Mr_nice_guy_NOT😂2

No president ever had an issue with terrorists until Americans put a terrorist in the White House. Now the whole world wants this admin jailed and or dead. So now it’s the people’s bill to pay for it. Wasn’t it privately funded, lies. The public can come have a meal 😂 yeah right, more lies.

aruss updates2

What has happened at the White House that showed the president was unsafe when he was there? If anything, WHCA indicates the president should spend MORE time in the White House—as is.

OKNova2

We had a secure facility. The felon-rapist-pedophile did a demolition without ANY approval. Let his cheap, criminal ass pay for it AND we MUST charge him with appropriate criminal charges and civil penalty/seizure of assets to pay for replacement.

juditig.bsky.social2

How did we go from 20 million of private funds to this?

𝚁𝚊𝚢𝟶𝚏𝚂𝚞𝚗𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚎🇺🇦✊2

Wait. I thought this wasn’t going to be paid for by the taxpayers. Did I hit my fucking head?

Literary Girl2

Gee I wonder how every previous president managed without a ballroom

Mr Blue Sky2

The Whitehouse is already a target just by what it is, adding an additional target underneath seems foolish

Hedy Lamarr 2

TRAITOR LINDSEY GRAHAM VERY UNPOPULAR AT HOME Watch "Polling shows voters deeply dissatisfied with Lindsey Graham" on YouTube youtu.be/sXQT0JO55o4?...

Hedy Lamarr 2

Lindsey, desperately hoping to be wife #4

Sherri2

Have the underground structure just leave the dressing off the top of it.

bimpson.bsky.social2

If presidential security is so important to Lindsey he should tell him to stay well away from Mar a largo where he mingles with all those random, fee paying guests.