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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHMM. A "state of the art ballroom hospital" opens in Sept 2028, with Trump leaving on 01-20-29? Am I missing something?
The White House has unleashed a frantic new push to move ahead with construction on President Donald Trumps ballroom, which they now say is also needed to give the aging president a state-of-the-art hospital and medical facilities.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche delivered the latest startling revelation in a court filing late Thursday that sounded as if much of it had been pulled straight from one of the 79-year-old presidents Truth Social tirades. It hailed the planned $400 million ballroom as a gift to the People of the United States that is being hampered only by preservationists suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome.
The Project, which includes a state-of-the-art hospital and medical facilities, Top Secret military installations, bomb shelters, structures, and equipment, protective partitioning, and other featuresis fully designed to protect the President, he wrote.
Trump, after calling a female reporter who questioned him on the projects massive price tag a dumb person earlier this week, announced Friday that he expects the ballroom to be completed in September 2028.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-reveals-secret-new-hospital-for-donald-trump-79/
Walleye
(45,410 posts)cloudbase
(6,313 posts)It would be better if it were to be a memorial clinic.
Initech
(109,260 posts)Ever notice how Fox has gone into overdrive promoting this stupid ballroom? It's going to be their new permanent home in DC. We have to stop this thing.
Blues Heron
(9,026 posts)paleotn
(22,726 posts)It's half built carcass will be a testament to the stupidity of the last 12 years. Just before it's bulldozed.
Miles Archer
(24,295 posts)It just seemed like a "why bother" prospect to say it would be ready in September 2028 unless he didn't plan to leave in January 2029.
waterwatcher123
(544 posts)The Madcap
(2,031 posts)Instant tomb...like the Pharoah he aspires to be.
Dave Bowman
(7,451 posts)The Madcap
(2,031 posts)He's mad that Joe Biden parted the Red Sea on Covid and made it through the danger successfully. He's rushing in after President Biden only to see the waters crash down upon the country. (Credit to Cecil B DeMille for the images in "The Ten Commandments"
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King Pedohamon the 1st it is...
allegorical oracle
(6,584 posts)that he will declare that it must be redone -- or will delay results because it was "rigged." Gawd knows I hope I'm wrong. But I believe another signal is his ongoing wholesale pardons and clemency actions of his J6 "allies" -- who may also receive payoffs.
We may have reached the final road to a Constitutional crisis.
Fiendish Thingy
(24,052 posts)Just because you can imagine something and type it on the internet does not make that thing plausible, possible or probable.
Trump will leave office no later than January 20, 2029.
Dave says
(5,468 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(24,052 posts)Its true that Trump is an agent of chaos, but he has very little actual control outside of the executive branch, and that includes all the state governments that continue to ignore his demands and orders.
He cant, as the post I replied to said, delay the results or any such nonsense.
Dave says
(5,468 posts)One or two things going in a different direction, and Biden might not have been seated as our President. Say, someone finding 12k votes, or insurrectionists making it into congressional chambers where the VP accepts state results on J6, or the VP doing something other than his patriotic duty that day. Youre holding to a reality you believe to be certain and true may overlook genuine risks going into midterms or in 2028.
Just sayin I appreciate your attempts at putting out our hair on fire moments, but sometimes I think you underestimate the risks we face.
allegorical oracle
(6,584 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(24,052 posts)And the VPs lack of power over the EV certification has been clarified further with revisions to the law in 2022.
allegorical oracle
(6,584 posts)those alternative certifications rather than cross Trump. Power or no power. And with an amenable Supreme Court, who knows what would've occurred.
Fiendish Thingy
(24,052 posts)He couldnt accept fraudulent electors even if he wanted to.
Even if he proclaimed I accept these electors that wouldnt make it so. If he directed the clerk to enter it into the record, he would be ignored.
SCOTUS couldnt get involved, as they have no jurisdiction over internal congressional procedures.
Just because you can imagine something and type it on the internet doesnt make that thing plausible, possible or probable.
Fiendish Thingy
(24,052 posts)Trump has no power, or ability to delay states certifying their results and sending their members-elect to Washington in 2027.
Even though he attempted to substitute fraudulent electors in 2020, he failed.
And that is all that he is- a corrupt failure whose only power is sowing chaos.
Dave says
(5,468 posts)Practice makes perfect...
I'm just saying there is risk. And the risk is substantial, not seen at this level since the Civil War. For example, Mike Johnson might refuse to seat the new House in January 2027. Who is going to stop them? (We, the citizenry, will have to stop them should they try to impose their power over our votes.)
Fiendish Thingy
(24,052 posts)Johnsons term as speaker, and the terms of every member of congress, expires at the end of this year.
On January 3, 2027, all the members-elect, as certified by their states (the president has no involvement in the process) and select a new speaker, who then swears in the rest of the house en masse.
Since there will be more democratic members-elect, the speaker will be a democrat.
There is a mechanism for objecting to the seating of an individual member, and there is a reason it hasnt been used in over a hundred years - it would result in a tit for tat objection war resulting in zero representatives being sworn in.
Its a lack of understanding of how the government actually works that leads to imaginations running wild and propagating misinformation and Doomerism.
allegorical oracle
(6,584 posts)Constitution. He's a lone wolf pushing the boundaries of both law and Constitution every bloody day. Give him a friendly Congress and Supreme Court and he may reign for the rest of his life. There are only three branches of government. And he's ruling all three, right now.
Fiendish Thingy
(24,052 posts)For everyone else, never forget this one absolute truth:
Trump is not omnipotent, and the states and the people are not powerless
I explained why and how Johnson wont be speaker next year, so he cant refuse to seat newly elected Dem representatives.
And you?
As is typical of defeatist doomers, you neglect to explain just how Trump Will just do it, you simply proclaim it will be so.
Despite acting with lawless impunity on a daily basis, This evil clown car of incompetent goat rodeo rejects has been stalled, stymied or restrained numerous times over the past year, and that isnt going to change.
dpibel
(4,012 posts)Where in this is even a mention of the midterms?
Reply to waterwatcher123 (Reply #5)
Sat May 16, 2026, 07:08 AM
that he will declare that it must be redone -- or will delay results because it was "rigged." Gawd knows I hope I'm wrong. But I believe another signal is his ongoing wholesale pardons and clemency actions of his J6 "allies" -- who may also receive payoffs.
We may have reached the final road to a Constitutional crisis.
Root yourself in reality, please.
yardwork
(69,642 posts)Most people wouldn't admit that.
whopis01
(3,931 posts)It more likely correct.
Starbeach
(374 posts)Idiot Care Unit
eShirl
(20,421 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(24,052 posts)While he still breathes, he can control the attention of millions.
The ballroom and the arch are his idea of controlling others attention after hes gone.
Hes afraid all traces of his administration will be erased from history, as his administration has attempted to erase so many others.
Donnie refuses to be ignored.
Hope22
(4,878 posts)That his mess will be cleaned up as soon as possible. This insane destruction of this country will not stand.
greatauntoftriplets
(179,339 posts)Feet first.
Dave Bowman
(7,451 posts)Ilsa
(64,565 posts)Ballroom hospital? Why not build a hospital ballroom at the hospital?
Why doesn't he just keep a saline lock or central line if he's worried about needing medical care immediately? For that matter, insert a Foley catheter to save time and avoid that nasty urine odor? And maybe a buttplug?
Hey Donald, we're going to do our best to forget you as we undo all of the selfish, illegal shit you did. Your memory will not be a blessing.
doc03
(39,175 posts)themaguffin
(5,415 posts)malaise
(297,921 posts)That is all.
The good news is that his decrepit rotting body will croak long before that date
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