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"THEY'VE wanted a ballroom for 150 years" (Original Post) rhiannon55 Oct 2025 OP
That is exactly... 2naSalit Oct 2025 #1
How it is that not a single one of these displacedvermoter Oct 2025 #4
Journalist asks "Who is 'they'?" and Leavitt would just say, "Your mom." Beartracks Oct 2025 #16
It was a bully response by Leavitt but that is how she responds to journalists. riversedge Oct 2025 #28
Let's name the THEY Traildogbob Oct 2025 #27
He lies, fabricates, and makes up anything to justify his bizarre behavior. Diamond_Dog Oct 2025 #2
They all came up to him dweller Oct 2025 #3
LOL Redleg Oct 2025 #8
Yes, even the ones who died years ago! PatSeg Oct 2025 #9
Followed by, "Sir." Hugin Oct 2025 #13
That's "Give us a ballroom, Mr President, Sir!" JustABozoOnThisBus Oct 2025 #21
150 years ago was 1875. yardwork Oct 2025 #5
Even though there's been a ballroom - the East Room in the main WH - since the place was built. Ocelot II Oct 2025 #6
'They' being John Barron and the other voices in his head Attilatheblond Oct 2025 #7
Are "THEY" in the room with us now? GopherGal Oct 2025 #11
Ball room or Baal Room.. BattleRow Oct 2025 #18
Another sales/conman pitch. Make it sound like customers are demanding your product/service. Midnight Writer Oct 2025 #10
Typical gaslighting. Irish_Dem Oct 2025 #12
Maybe this is what THEY really wanted: tanyev Oct 2025 #14
Like Trump's health plan, the ballroom plans will be ready in two weeks! TheBlackAdder Oct 2025 #15
They had one, it was called the East Wing LiberalArkie Oct 2025 #17
He's probably thinking of the robber barons from the 1st Gilded Age. Uncle Joe Oct 2025 #19
Where are the "They's" damifino10 Oct 2025 #20
He's been pulling this shit for decades LilElf70 Oct 2025 #22
Its a throne room orangecrush Oct 2025 #23
"They"...the pedophiles throughout history LudwigPastorius Oct 2025 #24
Always with the fuckin' vagueness! Crowman2009 Oct 2025 #25
I call... ultralite001 Oct 2025 #26
No, no "they" haven't...besides the WH already has a ballroom... wcmagumba Oct 2025 #29
But it's not BIG enough for all the donors he wants to come by Attilatheblond Oct 2025 #36
The Next Anti-Fascist President Stonealone Oct 2025 #30
Don't overthink it. He's haunted. Might be all the drugs? usonian Oct 2025 #31
Redrum baby! wcmagumba Oct 2025 #32
So he turned America into a bawl room with his insanity. GreenWave Oct 2025 #33
No, he's wanted a ballroom because he has an inferiority complex. Initech Oct 2025 #34
It's not a 'complex', it's his one touch with reality Attilatheblond Oct 2025 #37
Then why wasn't it built - oh wait, it was... haele Oct 2025 #35

displacedvermoter

(4,185 posts)
4. How it is that not a single one of these
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 10:08 AM
Oct 2025

so called "journalists" yelled out that exact question, who the fuck is "they", who wanted this for 150 years?

Amazing!

Traildogbob

(12,746 posts)
27. Let's name the THEY
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 12:56 PM
Oct 2025

That will pay and never in a lifetime be at any event in that fucking monstrosity, golden memorial to be named Trump. The rapist.
Wrestling events and teen beauty pageant's he and his freaks will drool over.
There will be cameras in the teen dressing room. Moses & Gym requested that.

PatSeg

(52,592 posts)
9. Yes, even the ones who died years ago!
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 10:28 AM
Oct 2025

He thinks he's living in some Hollywood movie and the voices in his head are writing the script.

yardwork

(69,108 posts)
5. 150 years ago was 1875.
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 10:11 AM
Oct 2025

Ten years after the end of the Civil War, when white people were starting to seriously panic because formerly enslaved people were getting some rights and property.

Interesting.

Ocelot II

(129,762 posts)
6. Even though there's been a ballroom - the East Room in the main WH - since the place was built.
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 10:17 AM
Oct 2025

It was unfinished, then had to be reconstructed after the WH was burned during the War of 1812, and finally was finished, decorated and put to use in 1829. "Guests at receptions hosted by the Lincolns waltzed here during the Civil War." https://www.whitehousehistory.org/white-house-tour/the-east-room So, no, "they" haven't wanted a ballroom for 150 years because there has been one for at least that long.

Attilatheblond

(8,530 posts)
7. 'They' being John Barron and the other voices in his head
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 10:26 AM
Oct 2025

There may be an argument that he has gone far beyond malignant narcissism and psychopathy, and is in the land of schizophrenia. Might be natural, might be all the drugs they pump into him in vain attempt to keep him functional as the beard over their destruction of our nation.

GopherGal

(2,845 posts)
11. Are "THEY" in the room with us now?
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 10:53 AM
Oct 2025

And if they've wanted it for 150 years, they must be doing pretty well without it to have survived this long. Perhaps unfulfilled desire for a ballroom is the secret to immortality. (Not that we want DonVict to know anything about immortality.)

Midnight Writer

(25,212 posts)
10. Another sales/conman pitch. Make it sound like customers are demanding your product/service.
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 10:34 AM
Oct 2025

Trump and his people often talk in "sales speak".

His whole Administration is one psyops marketing con game.

LilElf70

(1,444 posts)
22. He's been pulling this shit for decades
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 12:36 PM
Oct 2025

Or "everyone says", or everyone is saying, and so on....


It's all f'ing bullshit.

It falls in the catagory of " Repeat the same bullshit/lie over and over, and soon, everyone will believe it."

I think he was taught this at an early age.

LudwigPastorius

(14,389 posts)
24. "They"...the pedophiles throughout history
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 12:45 PM
Oct 2025

They’ve been clamoring for the Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Ballroom before he was even born.

Crowman2009

(3,448 posts)
25. Always with the fuckin' vagueness!
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 12:50 PM
Oct 2025

They've said, sources say, studies show; I'm really sick of this shit. Especially when the media never questions this garbage.

wcmagumba

(5,845 posts)
29. No, no "they" haven't...besides the WH already has a ballroom...
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 01:16 PM
Oct 2025

Fuck Trump and his ignorant and stupid self aggrandizing ideas...

Stonealone

(32 posts)
30. The Next Anti-Fascist President
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 01:18 PM
Oct 2025

I hope that the next Anti-Fascist President tears down the Whore House Ballroom. ands makes the same 37 companies and donors pay for the destruction, clean-up. and the rebuild of the East Wing. and if they don't, send in the National Guard to protect the American people from these Fascist loving companies and donors.

haele

(15,207 posts)
35. Then why wasn't it built - oh wait, it was...
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 06:59 PM
Oct 2025

In the East Wing. Large enough for most official events , dinners, and balls.
The Reagans were the last celebrity type presidents, they could have easily asked for it to be enlarged if they thought they needed a 500 seat diplomatic and celebrity dinner room, but they didn't.

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