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Trump and his allies use White House Correspondents’ Dinner attack to push for ballroom construction

28 April 2026 at 08:39

U.S. presidents typically leave their mark on the White House. And then there’s Donald Trump. A builder at heart, he has filled the Oval Office with gilded moldings, just like the Mar-a-Lago-style lettering he’s placed throughout his Palm Beach, Florida, mansion. He has paved the Rose Garden, installed a dark granite walkway that contrasts sharply with the pristine white building, and created a presidential gallery filled with insults and lies about his predecessors. However, his greatest interest and political capital have gone into the ballroom he wants to build on the site of the former East Wing, which he himself decided to demolish a year ago without permission.

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Trump with a plan of the White House ballroom he intends to build.
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16 April 2026 at 10:27

With the embers of the scandal surrounding the publication and subsequent deletion of an image of himself depicted as Jesus Christ still glowing, U.S. President Donald Trump once again engaged in blasphemous provocation on Wednesday. On his social media platform, Truth, he shared a post from a user named X featuring a drawing of Jesus embracing the president, who appears to be in a state of profound contemplation. The post originated from an account called Irish for Trump, apparently owned by a Republican candidate from Massachusetts who failed to advance past the 2024 primaries. Trump accompanied it with the following message: “The Radical Left Lunatics might not like this, but I think it is quite nice!!!”

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