Überraschung! Sie zahlen 1 Milliarde Dollar für Trumps Ballsaal
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/surprise-youre-paying-usd1-billion-for-trumps-ballroom.html
Überraschung! Sie zahlen 1 Milliarde Dollar für Trumps Ballsaal
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/surprise-youre-paying-usd1-billion-for-trumps-ballroom.html
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Almost sounds like a number nobody actually calculated any actual cost for
Eh, what’s a billion dollars when you’re $40 trillion in debt?
1 billion so far!
$400mil was the rough estimate. $1 billion is the written estimate. I can’t imagine what the actual cost will be.
No shit.
Not a surprise
Of course we are, all that „you’re not paying for it“ nonsense was a fucking lie.
Spending our money on a ballroom? We can’t afford gas, food, rent, or healthcare. Vote out all Republicans.
Bound to be doubled soon enough.
And just wait, next is his Arch.
I thought he was going to transfer the money Mexico paid for the half built wall. Oh wait, I guess in a way he did. The same folks that paid for the wall are paying for the ball room.
You could build a low-bid, small market NFL stadium for that kind of money. The Caesar’s Superdome in New Orleans cost $163M to build in 1975 — $802M in adjusted 2025 USD. How did the price tag balloon from $400M in donations to $1B???
No surprise here, billionaires who paid off Trump to eliminate their taxes weren’t going give him donations for that money pit.
Republicans love to pump up that deficit on useless things.
It’s blocked by a judge and already funded. We’re giving Trump $1B to line his pockets with
It will be $400m to build the ballroom and a $600m “fee” for Trump to impart his expertise in designing the “greatest ballroom ever”.
Not yet. Bill has to pass and I’m not certain all republicans will be behind it.
Polling shows American confidence in the economy is at an all time low. Gas prices have yet to hit their maximum thanks to his Iranian ‚excursion.‘ Between that and the coming global fertilizer shortage, food prices are going to go up even more.
With all that happening, every republican senator is going to have to vote for this reconciliation bill giving a billion dollars to Trump’s ballroom.
IF Cornyn wins the primary, is he going to want to defend the billion dollar ballroom? Susan Collins is running for her life in Maine. Ohio is already in play and in a real reach, that independent in Nebraska might have a real chance.
All those incumbents are going to have to vote for a billion dollar ballroom for this to pass. They would be handing dems a perfect attack ad. There is so much video of Trump talking about how his $200, then $300 then $400 million dollar ballroom wouldn’t need a single taxpayer dollar. Now it gets a billion?
Politically, I almost hope they do vote for it. It will give dems a much better chance to take the senate and better check Trump’s power. Not all of them are that stupid, though, especially in the senate.
Six year terms insulates them. Trump can and will rage against anyone up for reelection in 26 who won’t give him a billion dollar ballroom. He’ll try the same in 28, assuming he’s not sleeping six feet under the soon to be most pissed upon plot of land in the world.
He’s a lame duck, though, and might be at post 2006 W Bush numbers by this election, let alone 28. his ability to punish republicans for going against him is waning.
It’s way past that point.
The history alone is worth more than that. That rubble was priceless. By the end of this thing. EVEN if we remove all that shit Trump has done, is going to be costly.
Even a redesign towards something useful is gonna end up horrid.
That’s money we could’ve used to renew our current national monuments.
What about the Epstein files?
Donald Trump bears sole responsibility for the destruction of the building without any prior authorization. Consequently, he should be held fully accountable for the financial burden of its replacement.
TLDR: He broke it, he should pay for it.
/Shocked pickachu face
Jk. Literally everybody knew this would happen.
It’s a bargain – it’s a ballroom, bunker and massive money laundering scheme all-in-one. The Felon lied about who would pay like the wall, the wars – everyone pays but the wealthy.
I am sure the fundraising emails are being sent telling maga to dig deep so they can be first to get their ticket to the Ball – American flag attire required.
Back when Ghraham proposed this a few weeks ago, I had a few MAGA folk saying “ no no no, it’s all donations, you have TDS”
And that was “only” 400 million…
Gas is over $5 a gallon, grocery prices continue to rise, we’ve no answer to the costs of healthcare, education, and housing, the economy and job market are stagnant, we’re engaged in an expensive and pointless war, alienating every former ally in economic and military policy, and the Trump regime is focused on ballrooms and trans women at private liberal arts colleges. And his approval rating isn’t zero. America has really lost its way.
But ithought it was paid for by donors and ahead of schedule. How about no. Pay for that shit yourself.
Effing grifting, corrupt administration.
Looking forward to the inevitable lawsuits filed by the contractors dumb enough to take this on and get stiffed after the project and the settlement we will also all pay.
And he said we wouldn’t use any taxpayer money, so sick of these lies and the mess he put us in. We need to take away his congress in November and finally fix things for us. #DumpTrump
No. You’re paying about 900m to a bunch of grifters, and 100m for a ballroom.
Oh wow! So glad my hard earned money is going to fund a despot ‘s fucking ballroom instead of things that actually impact my life and the lives of the people around me like healthcare, education, infrastructure.
So much “winning.” Thanks, MAGA. You really destroyed the country and showed those libs.
There’s no ballroom in the world that costs a billion dollars to build
The fact maga idiots are still sticking up for this stupidity is min boggling
Wait until you find out his hotels charge the Secret Service $500 a night for a closet with a cot.
Much like his victims, nobody is going to help us.
People would have revolted en masse if this happened in the 18th century!
Its supposed to be 90k square feet.
Thats $11,111 a square foot if anyone was wondering.
Let them dance is our version of let them eat cake
I feel like my tax dollars could be spent better.
Queue the MAGA folks and MAGA social media bubbles NEVER mentioning the ballroom again and will ghost you if asked about it
It’s always ‚if trump does something we don’t like, pretend it never happened!‘
First Democrat elected president needs to bulldoze the entire fucking thing.
Americans f**ked up real bad. Feel sorry for non trump voters.
I can’t understand why this admin is not being chased around the lawn by angry villagers.
Are you people not angry about this?
A billionaire president with billionaire friends is asking us for a billion dollars to build a ballroom.
Meanwhile he started a war costing billions and rising gas prices, for us to pay.
Well, I’m Canadian, no I’m not really. Sucks for Americans though.
When Trump is thrown out of office, the next president needs to immediately seize all of Trump’s assets. The money can be used to start to repair some of the damage Trump has done, like reconstructing the East Wing of the White House.
And the Trump administration just cut the Forestry Service by $390 million citing cost concerns. Fucking worms.
How does a ballroom cost 1 billion.
The cost started at $200 million. It will be $5 billion by the time it’s actually built. For a billion. Do you know how much good I can do with $5 billion? I could shelter every homeless person in the US.