NEW YORK TIMES ATTACKS BALLROOM DESIGN, MILITARY THANKS THEM
President Donald J. Trump spoke to reporters on Air Force One Sunday night on his return trip to Washington, D.C. from a working weekend in Florida. One subject Trump spoke about was the White House ballroom, apparently in response to a hit piece by the New York Times attacking the ballroom’s design. Trump held up several large photo representations of the updated ballroom design while also telling reporters that the military is building a “massive complex” under the ballroom.
In a masterstroke of multitasking, President Trump somehow found time between redesigning a ballroom that, according to his own words, costs more than the GDP of some small countries and moonlighting as a military contractor overseeing “massive” secret complex construction. When not busy deconstructing history by demolishing the East Wing and opening up underground bunkers like surprise bonus levels in a video game, he charmingly blamed a pesky lawsuit for spilling the beans on this classified project—because nothing screams transparency like tossing around “great American Patriots’ money” while flapping glossy photos like he’s hawking timeshares on Air Force One. Meanwhile, the New York Times couldn’t just appreciate the decor without labeling it a hit piece, proving once again that in the Trump era, even ballrooms are battlefields and every update doubles as a press event. Bravo, Mr. President, for turning bureaucracy into a headline-grabbing episode of “Design Wars.”
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