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Trump’s $200 Million Ballroom


ork begins this month on one of Donald Trump’s most vis- ible and potentially


enduring legacies as president — a 90,000-square-foot ballroom that he is planning to build, replacing the East Wing edifice traditionally used for the first lady’s offices. The president told NBC News that the new ballroom for state banquets


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Socialist Revels in His Colonial Privilege J


uly’s mass shooting in Midtown Manhattan is a problem for New


York City’s Democrat mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, not just thanks to his long record of cop-bashing, but because the Democratic Socialist was off vacationing at the family estate in Uganda when it happened. Yes, the gated Mamdani spread


in the ritzy Buziga Hill neighborhood of Kampala belongs to Zohran’s Hollywood-director mom and Columbia radical-professor dad, but he plainly feels fully privileged to enjoy it. And the belated wedding celebration with his wife, Rama Duwaji, ran for three


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and other events will forgo the need to shuttle guests to tents pitched on the South Lawn for events that are too large for the White House to accom- modate. “When it rains or snows, it’s a disas-


ter,” the president said. Trump estimated that taking down


the East Wing and putting the ball- room in place would cost about $200 million. Trump said the project would


be “his gift to the country,” funded by himself and private donations. Since returning to office, Trump has


put in a pair of towering flag poles and paved over a grassy patch of the Rose Garden. Wet grass poses problems for women in high heels walking through the garden, he said. “I was always a great real estate developer, and I know how to do that,” Trump said.


days, a party guarded by a privacy- ensuring phone-jamming system and a mini army of private security: no fewer than 20 special forces soldiers by the property gate to guard the invite-only event.


Quite the look for a politician who’s


repeatedly called for New Yorkers to go without police protection. He’s also slammed the NYPD as supposedly “anti- queer,” despite partying in a country where penalties for being gay range from life imprisonment to death, not to mention the rest of Uganda’s abysmal human rights record. — New York Post Editorial Board, Aug. 1, 2025


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