Trump Told Jesse Watters He's Building White House Ballroom as a 'Monument' to Himself 'Because No One Else Will,' Host Claims
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Jesse Watters claimed that Donald Trump told him he's building the massive White House ballroom as a 'monument' to himself 'because no one else will.' Construction on the controversial ballroom began in October 2025.

Jesse Watters claims Donald Trump told him he is constructing the new White House ballroom as a “monument” to himself — and that he’s doing it “because no one else will.”

The Fox News host recounted the alleged conversation while speaking at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest, a multiday conservative conference and festival in Phoenix, on Saturday, Dec. 20. A video of the moment has since been posted on X.

  • billbasher@lemmy.world
    29·
    21 hours ago

    I hope everything gets reversed when he’s gone. The illegal renaming of the Kennedy center, the ballroom, the gold refinishing of everything, the departments, “supreme court”, etc, etc. I just wish they had enough balls to stop them from doing illegal sh before they did it.

    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
      91·
      11 hours ago

      Reagan’s bullshit wasn’t reversed under Clinton. Bush’s bullshit wasn’t reversed under Obama. Trump’s first-term bullshit wasn’t reversed under Biden. America just keeps going further and further down the toilet. The only option for the rest of humanity is to keep America’s collapse contained.

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
        3·
        11 hours ago

        Nice generalizations. But if you can’t list anything specific that’s as petty as the Trump-Epstein center or the Trump-Epstein ballroom or the gulf of Epstein, or come up with as huge a list as we can for the current administration, your attempt at “both sides same” falls flat.

        Like it or not the current administration is historical. The flood of bs is unprecedented. The self-aggrandizement and profiting off the government has never been done by any party at any level approaching what we see today.

        • Soup@lemmy.world
          4·
          10 hours ago

          That isn’t what they were saying at all. The first person said they hoped that the bad shit would be undone by the next adminstration and the person you responded to mentioned past examples where new administrations did not do a lot, if anything, to undo awful policy. They didn’t say that the Democrats were just as bad but they rightly pointed out that said party doesn’t really put a lot of effort into fixing what was broken.

    • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
      175·
      16 hours ago

      They don’t even have the balls to fix it after he’s gone!! You had four fucking years to address the massive failures of rule of law baked right into your country and “y’all” did fucking NOTHING.