Trump-haters’ White House ballroom tantrums get – Latest News
President Donald Trump has achieved it again — despatched the left and the media (however I repeat myself) down a rabbit gap of absurdity.
“It’s like the media is a cat and Trump has the world’s biggest laser pointer,” Margo Cleveland posted on X, “with it currently aimed at the new ballroom.”
That’s proper: While Trump tours Asia, dancing, making commerce offers and apparently having a blast, he’s received his opponents back within the Swamp obsessing over . . . a home renovation project.
Using donated funds, not taxpayer money, Trump is rebuilding the White House’s shabby East Wing — initially added to cowl up construction of a bomb shelter during World War II — to create a giant and trendy space that meets the wants of as we speak’s presidency.
Naturally, this has the same old gang of idiots fuming.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) on Saturday lectured his fellow Democrats to not even think about operating for the presidential nomination until they “pledge to take a wrecking ball” to Trump’s renovation.
(Cleveland commented: “The funniest thing about this is not that Swalwell posted it, but that he thought it was so brilliant that he reposted it.”)
Talk show host Joe Walsh, who as soon as cosplayed as a Republican, took up Swalwell’s demand: “I’ll say it every day for the next 3yrs,” he wrote, “any Democrat running for president in 2028 MUST pledge to tear down Trump’s ballroom. It matters.”
Does it? Does it actually?
It’s hilarious to see such reactions from Democrats like these, together with Joe Scarbrough, Stephanie Ruhle and different Very Serious People, to a project that enriches our national infrastructure and gained’t price taxpayers a dime.
Those who a couple of years in the past had been toppling monuments to America’s founders and denouncing America itself as a slave state at the moment are posing as defenders of our deep historical past and heritage.
Because nothing says “deep history and heritage” like a construction inbuilt 1942 to cover a bomb shelter.
Trump’s new White House annex will comprise a lot more space, together with a enormous ballroom with a drone-proof metallic roof and different security enhancements.
Up to now, huge state dinners have been held in tents on the White House garden, with transportable space heaters, awkward momentary restrooms — and nil overhead safety towards security threats like drones, which have gotten a larger and larger hazard.
The new building will make formal receptions and different huge occasions safer and more snug.
Even some on the left are leaping ship on this ridiculous outcry towards an addition that many, together with Biden and Obama staffers, have publicly advocated.
The Washington Post, no buddy of Trump’s, editorialized in favor of the renovation — whereas complaining about the best way he’s going about it.
“In classic Trump fashion, the president is pursuing a reasonable idea in the most jarring manner possible,” the paper tut-tutted.
But, it went on, “it is absurd that tents need to be erected on the South Lawn for state dinners, and VIPs are forced to use porta-potties.”
And Trump’s fast construction program contrasts sharply with many different DC-area tasks, mired within the common slough of allowing, environmental opinions and “not in my back yard” complaints from the perpetually aggrieved.
“Trump’s undertaking is a shot across the bow at NIMBYs everywhere,” the WaPo concluded with grudging approval.
Heck, even Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King is on board.
“They are always wasting millions on tents and heaters and chairs and lights and everything else,” he reasoned on X. “Stop acting like you have some emotional attachment to the East Wing. You don’t.”
But most of the leftists must fake.
If Trump is for it, a giant section of this nation simply must be towards it, and in probably the most overwrought, over-moralizing method.
They can’t help themselves.
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Thus when Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promoted a Harvard examine suggesting a hyperlink between consuming Tylenol in being pregnant and autism in kids, pregnant Democratic girls began posting TikTok videos of themselves gobbling the tablets: That’ll show Trump!
Some reportedly wound up within the emergency room, however resisting Trump was more important.
It’s been a longstanding joke on the appropriate that if Trump gave a speech praising “oxygen, beautiful oxygen,” people on the left would cowl their heads with plastic baggage.
It’s not removed from the reality.
All this programmed hysteria does keep a sure section of the loopy leftist base riled up in a state of pleasure that Democratic management depends on for donations and votes.
But it appears they’re often riled up about what Trump needs them to be — that’s, issues that make them look silly, and get them chasing that laser dot round in circles.
Glenn Harlan Reynolds is a professor of law on the University of Tennessee and founder of the InstaPundit.com weblog.
