Donald Trump’s Ballroom Is Now a ‘Military Complex’ as Court Deadline Looms
President Donald Trump rebrands stalled White House ballroom project as a vital national security asset as construction deadline nears.See more
President Donald Trump has rebranded his stalled White House ballroom project as a vital national security asset as a court-imposed construction deadline approaches. The shift in messaging comes as the Supreme Court weighs whether to block an appeals court order that halts ballroom work on August 21.
Donald Trump is tying his White House ballroom to an underground military complex as the Supreme Court weighs a construction fight
Donald Trump posted on Truth Social on Friday that a "desperately needed National Security structure" must be completed. He avoided the word "ballroom" entirely and attacked the preservation group that sued to stop construction, calling them "'TREASONISTS' who revealed Top Military Secrets!"
On Sunday, Donald Trump escalated his campaign with an AI video showing him walking alongside George Washington through the planned ballroom. "Thank you, George, for some of your brilliant ideas on this great Military Complex/Ballroom!" he wrote.
Additionally, leaders of the FBI, CIA, Secret Service, and other agencies filed statements on Friday supporting the administration's position. They told the Supreme Court that the ballroom would provide secure meeting space for the president, citing threats from Iran and potential drone attacks.
Army Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll wrote that the ballroom would act as a "sacrificial outer cover" during a drone strike on the White House. He warned that reducing the ballroom's height would "fundamentally compromise mathematically validated blast-attenuation parameters."
So, Donald Trump now argues that the ballroom and underground military complex operate as one unit. "The lower section does not work without the upper section and, likewise, the upper section does not work without the lower," he wrote. This reverses his administration's earlier position that the two parts could stand separately. However, a district court judge and a divided appeals panel both ruled that Trump must stop the construction of the ballroom. They allowed work on the underground military complex to continue.
Judge Richard Leon rejected the urgency argument, writing that the security problem was "of the President's own making." The National Trust for Historic Preservation noted that courts have consistently sided with the ballroom while protecting the bunker (via The Washington Post).
Originally reported by Devanshi Basu for Mandatory.
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