Associated Press100%
Trump shows reporters the White House ballroom construction site 97%
5/20/2026, 12:32:04 AM
BS Summary: This video contains 19 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Self-Serving Bias, and Negativity Bias, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 49.4% saturation with 122 hits. Analysis detected 585 faulty-reasoning hits from 247 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 95.7% and a BS Rank of 97% (526 of 16,813 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 96.90% of the video peer group.
There will never be another building like this built.
That I can tell you.
I built a lot of great things.
Shouting over banging and clinging sounds from heavy construction equipment, President Donald Trump on Tuesday gave a group of reporters a closer look at the construction for the White House ballroom.
It's being built on the former site of the East Wing, but the project has hit a speed bump in Congress.
The administration has asked for $1 billion from taxpayers for security additions on the White House campus, including for the ballroom, but the Senate parliamentarian ruled the proposal could not be included in a bill to fund immigrant enforcement agencies for 3 years.
And several Republican lawmakers have balked at the price tag.
So, Trump surprised White House reporters by bringing them to a platform overlooking the construction site.
He repeated that the $400 million ballroom cost will be covered by donors, including him.
So, all of this was paid for by myself.
We are making a gift of this one.
This is a gift.
This is not going to be paid for by the taxpayer.
This is a gift to the United States of America.
Trump insisted he will have very little time to use the ballroom.
He recently announced that it will be ready in September 2028, less than 6 months before his term ends.
This face is this is a different facade.
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