Washington Post: White House routed $500M no‑bid contract to fund Trump's ballroom
Another day, another round of headlines about Trump's unprecedented corruption. And this is just the stuff there's reporting about.
AlpenglowDreams13It’s almost like we should have listened to you back in the 2016 election cycle
tachi9And you know that contract will have massive cost overruns. "No-Bid" for this admins basically means here take as much taxpayer money as you want
Lindsey8It took almost 250 years to breed a population stupid enough to fall for this crap.
KnJmom7Always grateful for you and all you have done and are doing, Hillary.
👋I’m working on follow backs😊5It’s all a GRIFT. We know that most of the “no-bid” money (scams) is going straight into his personal accounts.
Lilith3and you can be darn sure he and his cronies are getting a huge kickback into their own pockets. and we know from the reflecting pool fiasco the work will be shoddy to boot. wake up, men - vote for WOMEN - we'll get the job done right and save our democracy
Trump gets ghosted by Iran in Doha while the Supreme Court hands him a defeat on birthright citizenship, his $500M ballroom turns out to be funded by a no-bid contract, and much more. Your midday update is here:
𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝77Trump’s calendar: 10:00: lose at Supreme Court 11:00: explain Iran thing 12:00: pretend the ballroom paid for itself 12:05: post in all caps
BlueShifting16Shocked, I’m shocked to hear about the no bid contract!
bunnyjenkins.bsky.social9Don't let the Republicans hang these failures on Trump. They as a collective - have wanted everything on this list for a very long time. All of this garbage needs to hang around the neck of every Republican that had a hand in putting and keeping Trump in office.
I’m Monica 🦋 RELEASE ALL THE EPSTEIN FILES6Don’t forget about the public DC golf course he wants to renovate now too, on the taxpayer’s dime. 😡 share.google/Rz7sD0mj4siI...
lapin2.bsky.social5Albania has been protesting daily since the end of May. Serbia has been protesting 18 months straight. Excluding Minnesota, the US had a few mass protests and none are planned in the future. The US is going to lose it's democracy and they are going to deserve to at this rate.
Middlerage4OF COURSE THEY DIDN'T SHOW! 🤡 bsky.app/profile/midd...
Trump’s vanity ballroom is three times more expensive than initial estimates, with taxpayers on the hook for half of it. Now, it’s been revealed that it’s being built through a $500 million no-bid contract the White House secretly awarded last year. What else is Trump hiding?
Pandalorian14Did I miss something? I thought a judge blocked the construction of this ballroom unless it was approved and paid for by congress.
Michelle Ringler13If that's accurate, people deserve transparency about how taxpayer money is being spent. I'd want to see the details and the supporting evidence.
jamileed.bsky.social11I don't know. But if someone wants to crowdsource funding for the destruction of the ballroom after Trump's gone, I'd gladly contribute.
Jim of Pennsyltucky8The answer. The kickbacks he gets from his no bid jobs. Everything he's done his entire life is based on quid pro quo. The idiot that did the Reflecting Pool got the job because he gave Trump a campaign donation.
WILLIAM STLUCIA😎7HE'S HIDING EVERYTHING.. He leaves office. This country's gonna be a quar. Trillion dollars in debt its going to take the next twenty generations to pay it off😳
Olaf Pijl7Not true, there was a bidding process for the ballroom construction contract. The bidding was about who would give Trump the most money.
Dr Duncan Robertson5Oh boy. Wonder if it will exceed the quality of the reflecting pool resurfacing.
Katrina Bailey MS.Ed2Everything... he is hiding everything
Jen2What happened to Congress controlling the purse strings?
Mary Brandt, MD, MDiv2Does it have a pool or a fountain? Just wondering
NEW: Trump awarded a secret, no-bid $500M contract to Clark Construction for the ballroom. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Cin26The question is, who is the direct connection to Trump, his family or friends in Clark Construction. Because that’s the only reason they got it.
ANTIFA BEVERLY20The corruption is full steam ahead!
Hank Ering 🇨🇦💙🌊18How is it possible that HALF A BILLION taxpayer dollars can be allocated to a vanity project at the whim of Trump on a no-bid contract. He shouldn't be able to spend a nickel outside of a budget approved by Congress.
Rob15No bid contracts are for emergencies, a word apparently reserved for banning new wind power construction, destroying a reflecting pool, & building a literal party house
Lpeterp15No question this is ILLEGAL.
JJCornflower14Of course we all knew his $200 Million price tag was a lie
ArchPundit 13We are going to have to tear this down for security reasons alone.
RogueResistanceKnitter 🥄🐸4Why do I get the feeling this is going to go about as well as the painting of the Reflecting Pool? How much is it going to cost us to fix all the mistakes? The felon no longer has the capacity to make decisions like this. The results of the Reflecting Pool confirm that.
Wow, MORE trump corruption: He handed out a $500 million dollar NO-BID contract to build his ballroom! How many MILLIONS in kickbacks is he shoving into his own pockets? Most. Corrupt. President. Ever.
LibraHoping2026isbetter6To think, Carter had to give up his peanut farm so as not to look corruptive.
|Between The Lines|6The bigger question here is how does Trump get away with this grift? Is he that smart or is everyone else that stupid? This is a fair question.
👻 Spooky Shawn 🇺🇸4Most corrupt and it's not even close. Republicans enable this behavior and are complicit. Release the unredacted Epstein files.
A Shot of Steve™ ⚡️4Crime boss masquerading as “president”
Mkorolden4This was the deal all along. The Christian Nationalists get him elected, he gets to grift billions, they get to enact their ChristoFascist dreams. When he said “We’re going to be so rich” he wasn’t talking about American families.
Live look at the ballroom construction crew:
Trump White House officials secretly awarded a no-bid contract worth up to $500 million for the construction of Trump's ballroom in an unusual arrangement that sidestepped typical contracting procedures designed to control costs, according to a copy of the agreement obtained by WaPo.
Freestatefemale35There is NO REASON for a no-bid contract except corruption and graft.
Shola Hoon15Any other administration would be slaughtered by the media over this
flynn71.bsky.social13I’m sure it’ll go as well as the reflecting swamp
rideskis.bsky.social8Unusual huh, this is actually ‘usual’ for a criminal without checkpoints in fleecing my/our tax $. Criminals be criminals, and rapist in this case.
Hookcity - 🚫“War Plan” DMs Please 👊🏻🇺🇸🔥 🫣7This constant corruption stinks to high heaven 💩💩💩
heishalley.bsky.social6The reality is that this is no longer “an unusual” arrangement THIS cronyism is your new usual your new reality not the exception
Skittles Is "Chief Sunrise 420"🌬️🍃☕4So the same shit he's been doing with all these random projects.
Decker Reported3"Unusual" is doing a lot of work here. Hard work preventing Trump’s favorite billionaire's newspaper from using the word "corruption" on the front page.
Kev - I love Bacon🥓. United We Stand!2Well if this goes anywhere near how the reflecting pond went I don't think this fancy (gaudy) pile of shit will probably fall in on itself before it's finished. Just think what good we could have done with $500 million.
WATCH — @repwalkinshaw.bsky.social : “The fraud & abuse is happening under our own eyes.” Again: Trump handed a no-bid contract to a crooked Mar-A-Lago neighbor/donor, who then screwed up the pool and pocketed millions. (And @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty haven’t said a word)
New: Make no mistake, we are paying for Trump’s ballroom - wapo.st/4vWKurH
MB4I knew we always would. If he had anything donated it went into his private coffers.
Semper Veritas3Pathetic Trump has zero concern for the welfare of the American people His only concern is enriching himself, and his donors
Mic2I would bet nearly all of these "projects" somehow have their payments routed in a way that he and/or his family can get a cut. He has to get a cut of everything...
ThereIsMagicInTheWoodsJustNow 🧚♂️2And everything else. I believe that DJT was installed for one purpose; to weaken and destroy the U.S. He is being paid handsomely in the process.
Fuck this timeline2These no bod contracts are making me think that he is splitting the money between him and his buddy’s. And why is it that every time I hear about the ballroom it goes up another million?
mommalovescoffee.bsky.social2This should be illegal and he should be sued. And how shoddy of a job we don’t know since it’s no bid. Look what happened to his pool. Unacceptable
Roger ZenAF 🖕🐸🖕14It astounds me that this is just...*happening*. No questions, no pushback, no 'YOU CAN'T JUST FUCKING DO THAT!'. Nothing. It's fucking insane.
Suzanne McCain2And he's getting a kickback?
Jackie Fields2The amount of money they stole from us would have covered Health Care, Vets, Social Security, and more, yet the GOP & SCOTUS are letting him bankrupt this country to smooth his little ego. If they win the next election, then his base will truly feel the pain of their Big Beautiful Bill Vote Blue
Trump found another way to spend time remodeling the White House instead of governing. Flagpoles. Ballroom. Gold. Reflecting pool. Now a helipad. The list goes on! The People’s House isn’t your personal country club, Donald. #USDemocracy #Pinks apple.news/AIt99VzQKRhu...
KJG8Trump needs evicted and to personally pay to reverse all the damages he has done to the White House
justbegreene5We should all take a minute at 6pm to quietly make a wish! Here’s mine:
Deena and son3Is the White House, built in the 1800's structurally built to support the weight of a helipad and helicopter?
Container Gardener3Maybe he needs the helipad so he can be medevac’d to Walter Reed more quickly.
KelleyBean ✌️☮️3Is the helipad perhaps necessary for quick trips to Walter Reed, where the doctors deem him “the healthiest president who ever lived!”
Deb Polston3No one hired him to redecorate.
ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected7It's like he's nesting 🪹
Bill Wong 2Iconic photos of #WhiteHouse back to the early days of photos showed unobstructed view across the open South Lawn. With #Trump giant pole, every shot looks like it's blocking the view
Yarwanaw2There are no adults in the room. Not a single person who thinks this is a big problem.? rethuglicans are in charge. 🤷
Trump is using a $500M no-bid contract to build his White House ballroom www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Ben11We need to seize his entire estate after this is over. 100% of it straight to the treasury.
Jeff4Please let it be the same caliber as the reflecting marsh.
📚Laura Weatherspoon🌳4My prediction is that this is going to be a White Elephant in the coming decades that will be in need of constant repair. The construction will be shoddy and the result will be a crumbly, moldy, vast building that has little use but enormous upkeep until it is finally bulldozed into oblivion.
storygrrl2Trump's ballroom is a money laundering bonanza for Trump and his cronies.
Cajun AF Team Normal2It’s going to take a 3 dollar bic lighter and a 5 dollar gallon of gas to take it down.
Janice NJ 🌈 🕊️2Well, this sounds ripe for mega-corruption. Isn’t there a maximum threshold on the amount of a US government contract that kicks it into bid? There is on state government contracts.
Keubiko 🇨🇦🇺🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦💪27a DDoS attack of grift. No way to even try to keep up.
YIMBYonese Liberation Army15Many public employees in California will not even let you buy them a coffee because they are afraid of being accused of corruption
MB4He’s running the govt like a business which never works.
