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BumRushDaShow

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Tue Dec 30, 2025, 11:50 AM 14 hrs ago

Trump Assures Public the New White House Ballroom Will Have a 'Drone-Free Roof' [View all]

Source: MEDIAite

Dec 29th, 2025, 11:59 pm


President Donald Trump informed the public that the massive new ballroom he is constructing will be impervious to drone attacks.

Since his inauguration in January, Trump has personally overseen the remodeling of several government buildings. He paved over the Rose Garden, demolished the East Wing of the White House to make way for a gigantic ballroom, added his name to the Kennedy Center, and created a “Presidential Walk of Fame” in the White House, among other redesigns.

The president is in the process of building a ballroom where the East Wing stood. This month, he fired the previous ballroom architect, who warned that a 90,000-square-foot ballroom would dwarf the 55,000-square-foot White House.

On Monday, Trump made a joint press appearance with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who visited the president at Mar-a-Lago. Trump reiterated his threat to fire Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, whose term ends in May. While scolding Powell for alleged cost overruns in the remodeling of the Federal Reserve’s headquarters, Trump boasted of his grand plans for the ballroom, which he said will host inaugurations while also being “drone-free”:

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/trump-assures-public-the-new-white-house-ballroom-will-have-a-drone-free-roof/

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Can't have billionaire donors facing the same kinds of violence the rest of the world deals with. Attilatheblond 14 hrs ago #1
Damn spot on. Traildogbob 14 hrs ago #4
What's he gonna do to stop the threat of justifiably pissed off wait staff and kitchen staff taking action? Attilatheblond 14 hrs ago #2
So what are we up to now? Half a billion dollars? Ray Bruns 14 hrs ago #3
Oh, that's nice to know. But the WH is already in a prohibited area, Ocelot II 14 hrs ago #5
He just thinks it makes it him sound smart. Harker 14 hrs ago #9
Drone free roof. That's all well and good. taxi 14 hrs ago #6
There will be gofundme's to tear it down and rebuild the old White House bucolic_frolic 14 hrs ago #7
His brain is beginning to resemble a sea sponge with gaping voids where neurons once lived Blues Heron 14 hrs ago #8
"Full Spectrum Dominance" - S. Cheung maxsolomon 13 hrs ago #10
He Feels Vulnerable 2na fisherman 13 hrs ago #11
What's he afraid of? Is he building an underground bunker too? QueerDuck 12 hrs ago #12
I'm hoping it will have a tomb. twodogsbarking 11 hrs ago #13
The next Miss Teen USA Beauty Pageant can be held there... IcyPeas 10 hrs ago #14
I don't care if the roof is "drone proof." In fact, that would save the cost of tearing it down. Vinca 10 hrs ago #15
I'd pay good money tonekat 10 hrs ago #16
So what's that add to the current $400 million price tag? EarthFirst 9 hrs ago #17
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