Apr 28, 2026
Republicans Suddenly ERUPT In Ballroom Shift To Force Taxpayer Disaster
Republicans, including Lindsey Graham, Mike Johnson and more, suddenly flip to pushing for taxpayers to foot the bill for Donald Trump's colossal and massively expensive White House ballroom, which Trump has relentlessly promoted as fully donor funded. John Iadarola and Jackson White break it down on The Damage Report.
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The ballroom will be a solution for this.
I think we gotta build that ballroom as soon
as possible. The ballroom makes total sense.
A ballroom is imperative for a lot of reasons.
president needs the ballroom. Well, that definitely
seems to be the case. The president's been
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very clear he needs ballroom. But look, who
says that the government can't quickly, swiftly
leap into action after gun violence? I mean,
I was kind of thinking that they do like regulations
or like funding or bans on certain types of
guns or some sort of mental health thing. I
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should have been more specific. I'm really wasting
this ancient monkey's paw I found in that tomb.
But what they can do is they can build ballroom
immediately after gun violence, even if it
has nothing to do with the gun violence. Even
if it wouldn't have stopped the gun violence,
even if it isn't gonna protect anyone because
the vast majority of Americans will never even
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step foot inside of it. But they can do that.
And now the government has decided, and as
you saw the media has decided, they don't just
want the ballroom. Now they want to fund ballroom.
Take a look. We're gonna introduce legislation
that would authorize $400 million to be spent
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to build the presidential ballroom. Underneath
there will be a lot of military stuff. There
will be a secret service annex. And we've paid
for it by offsetting it with custom fees.
But the estimate is $332 million. gonna do 400
million cuz I think it's probably gonna take
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more. Private donations can be used, but I think
they should be used for buying China and stuff
like that. Okay, so we already have $400 million
supposedly and we're gonna use that to buy
China. And instead, we're just gonna build the
whole thing, which is definitely gonna cost
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$323 million. We know down to the million even
though this thing won't be built for like four
years. We definitely know, but it has to happen.
has to everywhere you turn, social media, the
government, the literally senators are now pushing
for this. It has to happen. And I am just
appalled by the fact that never has a movement
with so few testicles needed so much ballroom.
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And that is the only thing they can all agree
on Jackson. So now they want to pay for it,
which was like the only thing that was supposed
to mitigate how stupid this entire venture
was, was that we weren't paying for it. What
do you think? I mean, it's like you said,
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the vast majority of Americans will never visit
the ballroom, let alone go to Washington DC
at all. So why is this something that the country
needs? People don't care about this and this
also just goes to show how old Donald Trump
is. Ballroom is kind of even like an older,
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this is like 1700s type of stuff. What year
do you think it is? Why is this going to impress
anyone? We have football stadiums that can
hold tens of thousands of people. And I'll
bring that up too because on Fox News, another
one that we didn't just play, there was a woman
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talking about how we have to have this ballroom
so that the world can see that we're capable
of hosting large events. Again, this is NFL
country, we host large events all the time,
we're more than capable of this. WrestleMania
was two weeks ago. it right? Like what does
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this even mean? But yeah, Trump to me, just
like he just taken a nap, the one hour a day
that he sleeps and he's just taking a nap and
he's just like, I mean, this dude, he's
like a brain damaged four year old. He really
is. He really is. This is just an excuse for
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all them to give Donald Trump what he wants.
That's literally it. But not everyone is
necessarily on board. Senators are getting on
board more than there should be. Can we jump
to Representative Rob Menendez? We'll jump ahead
a little bit. uh Democrat, he's asked about
his thoughts on funding it. There's an affordability
crisis out there. one gives a **** about the
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President's ballroom except the President, right?
That's the reality, but Republicans will do
whatever they can to appease the President.
They will not stop. uh And I definitely agree.
I mean, look, most Democrats are not going
to sign on to this. You're not surprised.
Even some Republicans though don't want to.
Rick Scott said it's all funded. So why are
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we doing this? Why are we keep spending this
money? So that's good. It doesn't offset the
terrible things he's done, the crimes he's committed,
but good from Rick Scott there. And uh Rand
Paul says he already has the money, which it
feels like they're very blithely passing over
as a devastating counterpoint. You said you
already have the money, why would we possibly
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fund it? uh But final thought, it is a bipartisan
effort because there is a Democrat. who has
signed on to paying for it. And can you guess
who I'm talking about here? Can you guess who's
Democrat? Yeah, it's that one. It's John Fetterman.
mean, Kristen Sinema would have if she were
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here, but it's John Fetterman. Final thoughts,
Jackson. John Fetterman's new name is Titties.
And I'm just gonna leave it at that. I did this
video of him. And he had on one of his classic
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hoodies and I mean, his titties was just big
as hell. You know what I'm saying? So I'm just
gonna talk about him like that from now on because
he had a stroke and completely lost his mind.
This will be his only term. If he runs as a
Republican, they're not gonna elect him. This
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is it for him. I really don't know if he was
just always completely full of it. Or if, I
mean, the stroke, I don't know what happened,
but all I know is that from now on, his name
is titties. Well, I'm sure Disney is now being
investigated for our joke.
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