Trump plans massive renovation of White House

[riversedge]

Source: Politico



The $200 million effort will add a state ballroom to the White House grounds.


By Jake Traylor07/31/2025 03:07 PM EDT

The White House will undergo a $200 million extensive renovation of its East Wing, President Donald Trump’s latest construction project of the executive mansion.

Construction will begin in September on an approximately 90,000 square foot White House state ballroom with a 650-person seating capacity, press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Thursday. Trump and other “patriot donors” will pay for the $200 million-dollar renovation, according to the White House website.

Prior presidents — and Trump — have hosted large events at the White House in large tents set up on the South Lawn.
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This is the latest, and most expensive, construction in a line of recent White House renovations under Trump...................



Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/31/trump-renovation-ballroom-white-house-00487004

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I do not care who pays for this---it is wrong!! we know Trump will put his NAME on the ballroom. This is so so wrong!!




An architectural rendering of the new State Dining Room that President Trump has commissioned.

An architectural rendering of the new State Dining Room that President Trump has commissioned. | The White House

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. Needs a pic

Trump plans massive renovation of White House

The $200 million effort will add a state ballroom to the White House grounds.


An architectural rendering of the new State Dining Room that President Trump has commissioned. | The White House

By JAKE TRAYLOR
07/31/2025 03:07 PM EDT

{snip}

[chowder66]

5. Pedo Palace!

[eppur_se_muova]

51. That is just too f***ing huge. Intended to be as impersonal and non-intimate as possible.

All the diners will be expected to shut up and smile politely while Anus Orange gives a rambling, disjointed, bloviating stream-of-conscienceless "speech". They're just there to be props, and I hope they realize that.

[travelingthrulife]

71. Pretty ugly.

[wcmagumba]

2. I doubt this ass could even manage a simple waltz...

He has no "skills"

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. I watched a bio of LBJ yesterday

It showed him dancing with Lady Bird at one of the balls after his inauguration in '65. He was no Gene Kelly, but he didn't embarrass himself.

It made me wonder what The Felon would look like on the dance floor. Reminiscent of a dump truck, I'd imagine. If you see him simply walk on a flat surface, you know this schmuck has the physical grace of the Three Stooges after an all-nighter.

[jmowreader]

14. You've seen him dance

Reports are that forcing people to watch Trump dance violates both the Eighth Amendment and the Geneva Convention.

[regnaD kciN]

17. You mean his signature "Double Handjob"...?

[REPUguy]

34. Also known as...

The Boebert with two dates.

[LudwigPastorius]

3. Ballroom my ass.

That's going to be his Coronation Room.

...and nobody is dumb enough to believe that Trump will pay a dime toward the cost of this.

Also, it looks like this gaudy tumor will obliterate the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden next to the East Wing.

[brush]

28. I hear the presidential office quarters where the staff works...

is pretty tight/crowded and he's adding a ball fucking room? And we know cheap gold chintz will be everywhere.

[chowder66]

4. They are not going to pay for it. The contractors won't get paid either.

A gold jacuzzi in every room!!

[choie]

6. Is the plannimg on staying there

for the rest of his life?

[electricmonk]

26. If we're lucky

it will be a verrrrrrrrry short stay. He's already overstayed his welcome by about 10 years.

[choie]

42. He's overstayed his welcome by 79 years

[KatyaR]

54. Yes, that's exactly it.

There won't be anything left of the original White House if he has anything to say about it. A "spa" for paying customers will be next (nudge nudge wink wink).

[Diraven]

7. At this point I wouldn't be surprised

If he orders them to to put a huge golden "TRUMP" on the very front the the White House. In fact they'll probably just go ahead and rename it "The Trump House" which they'll justify by saying he's changing most of the white to faux gold anyway.

[Nigrum Cattus]

8. tsf will also rename it -

to the very White House

[FakeNoose]

10. Come on Grim Reaper ... now is the time to do your stuff

Take him out before he destroys what's left of our country.

[sinkingfeeling]

11. Not needed. No one wants to be invited there except Putin and MAGAts.

[delisen]

12. Totally inappropriate for our democracy.

Not emanating from old money does not doom one to poor taste.

[slightlv]

18. Absolutely shameful!

When you have elderly and kids living on the streets, people to poor to buy their own food... dependent on charity kitchens and when people are working 2 and 3 jobs just to try to keep a roof over their head, this is one of most shameful, ethically challenged moves he could have made. Beyond the grandiose coronation room, killing the last of Jackie's beautiful influence is a slap in the face of patriotic Americans who were proud of her simple taste in her surroundings.

One thing comes to mind the moment I read this... France and the era of Robespierre and guillotine. This way of life stands in stark contrast to the way most of us live, and that contrast will be the news worldwide until we rise up and put the fools to the guillotine, literally or hypothetically.

God bless the child that's got its own...

[twodogsbarking]

13. It was only a matter of time. Saw this coming like shit from a gaggle of geese; honk, honk.

[Bayard]

15. $200M siphoned off from Medicaid and SNAP

He's spending money like it grows on trees. Our money.

[Bengus81]

19. And NPR,PBS etc...etc...etc

[vapor2]

24. and so are the 15 repugs who just approved of the Qatar jet

Our tax dollars for his endless grifting. Just want to vomit

[tanyev]

16. The Trumpkin Ballroom.

[tonekat]

20. This needs to stop!

The bastard has only been in office half a year and he's wrecking the country at top speed!

[doc03]

21. Of course everything will be covered in gold. nt

[murielm99]

22. Veneer.

Even the gold is not real.

[vapor2]

23. and yet he bitched about Powell's renovation?

[LudwigPastorius]

38. He did.

…which is even more hypocritical because no tax dollars will pay for it.

On the other hand, despite Trump’s claims, I’d bet my eyeteeth that his royal jewel box will end up being funded by US.



https://fortune.com/2025/07/26/federal-reserve-self-funding-headquarters-renovation-costs-taxpayer-dollars/

[vapor2]

25. I fear he plans to stay til his last breath

[wcmagumba]

29. True, I'm hoping for the croaking...sooner the better for this country and the world...

[Faux pas]

27. And...

He'll be the one making money off of it.

[twodogsbarking]

30. They are planning drive-thru windows so you can drop your extortion payment off without ever leaving your car.

Making America Great.

[flashman13]

31. You can be sure it will be a tacky, gold encrusted architectural monstrosity.

I will point out that the White House belongs to We the People and not that orange ass.

[Karasu]

32. The very definition of wasteful spending. Because pissing all over the Oval Office and tearing down the Rose Garden

weren't enough.

[SpankMe]

33. He preparing it for permanent occupancy. n/t

[NEOBuckeye]

36. Fuck this pedo piece of shit

Everything he touches he shits all over and turns into a cheap gaudy piece of crap.

The next Dem president must make proper restoration of the WH a priority.

[twodogsbarking]

37. So when will the first junior miss pageant be held there? Will there be weekly ones?

That was crude but called for.

[chouchou]

39. I hope McDonald's Golden Arches will be prominent.

[Historic NY]

40. Its crazy.

90000 sg ft what else is getting destroyed for that. This is bigger than Buckingham Palace State dining room

[LymphocyteLover]

41. It's disgusting he made this huge decision without a national debate, because it totally alters

the look of the WH, one of our most famous national icons.

Such a selfish asshole.

[Smilo]

43. Another

way for trump to be bribed / grift.

[Grins]

44. Next president - name it the "George Soros Room"

Or “Stormy Daniels Big Ballroom!”

Opportunities are forever on this one.

[snacker]

45. A football field is 57,600 sq feet

and this ballroom will be 90,000 square feet?

[NBachers]

46. Another maintenance & utilities black hole

[Justice matters.]

47. King Pedofelon I is asking for

guillotines to show up on the mall...

[sheshe2]

48. Trumps Versailles Palace

[lonely bird]

58. Exactly

There is nothing patriotic about this. This is the Sun King 2.0.

[sheshe2]

67. Yes indeed. 😞

[AZ8theist]

49. I thought he called the WH a "dump"??

[C Moon]

50. He's pretending to be king.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

52. Yuck

All in that tacky dictator style with too much white and gold. It’s disgusting.

[Hekate]

53. Loathsome, grasping cockroach. Everything Trump Touches Dies.

Gods, I hate him.

[kkmarie]

55. The article states

Leavitt said construction is due to be completed by the end of Trump’s term.

Krasnov doesn't expect to leave. I think that's a given.

And I have serious doubts the "patriots" (billionaires) are going to contribute. How much more are they going to hand over?They already got the tax cuts they paid for.
Of course Krasnov pays for nothing EVER!

Money aside, the White House is OUR house! How dare this fascist pig make any renovations!

[markodochartaigh]

56. I hope that they put in a lot of restrooms,

Trump's acolytes seem to have a habit of defecating on the floor in public areas.

[Auggie]

57. -- EPSTEIN -- EPSTEIN -- EPSTEIN --

The pedophile is creating a distraction

[John1956PA]

59. I think the monstrosity will block the southern sunlight from entering the East Room, which is hallowed space.

The body of President John F. Kennedy lay in reposes in the East Room overnight from December 22 to December 23, 1963.

Historic events have been hosted in that room. I am thinking that the south wall of the East Room will be altered to provide access to the 90,000-square foot all-purpose venue. The stately appearance of the White House, as viewed from the northeast, will be lost forever, as will be the view of the south portico which will no longer be bathed by the morning sun.

The character and the citizens' collective mental image of The Peoples' House will be desecrated by this mad dream.

Meanwhile, Russia has Ukraine retreating, and the Egoist-in-Chief could not care less. He is probably rooting for Russia.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

63. Here's what's there now.

Last edited Fri Aug 1, 2025, 09:38 AM - Edit history (1)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Wing



The East Wing of the White House in 1992

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

60. Next White House project -- a two hole par three pitch-and-put.

Of course, Felon47 will play the inaugural round alone and declaring himself club champion..

He's done that several times, even going so far as to as to declare himself winner of a tournament where nobody saw him play.

Fore!!!

[Paladin]

61. trump wouldn't be proposing this idiocy if he didn't stand to make big money off of it. (nt)

[mdbl]

62. Rewrite headline: "TRUMP PLANS A COLOSSAL WASTE OF MONEY - AGAIN!"

[Jughead]

64. It's in a federal building

Taxpayers pay for that building. Just stop this guy.

[JCMach1]

65. No doubt it will be tasteless, but the US does lack

A full blown WH venue for large State Dinners.

"Supposed" to be just taking up office space.

[Scrivener7]

66. He thinks he's Jackie O.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

68. The White House is the People's House

[pcdb]

70. That's a monstrosity!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

69. Does anyone really believe that trump will pay for this eyesore?