Trump Brags About Ballroom in First Speech Since GOP Election Wreckage
Republicans were just obliterated this election. Donald Trump doesn’t care.
President Trump’s first public speech after a disastrous, resounding midterm election defeat was about the White House ballroom, as he offered the American people deranged ramblings about the only thing he actually seems to care about.
“I doubt there’s a ballroom in the country [with] a 50-foot ceiling,” Trump said outside the construction site of his ballroom on Wednesday, just barely more than 12 hours after Democrats took control of both the House and the Senate in a resounding rejection of his administration’s policies and ideology.
You’d think a president would offer words of encouragement to his party or righteous anger in such a desperate moment. Instead, Trump went full lame duck mode. “There has never been anything built like this, and it’s for the country, and it’s free, we got it free of charge, thank you very much.... When it’s completed it’ll be the best anywhere in the world.”
The president appeared with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum.
“Why does Trump spend time on the White House? Well first of all, it’s very little time. ...