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People are digging up a 2010 CNN clip showing Obama’s $376M White House makeover — all paid for by taxpayers. Meanwhile President Trump’s $250M ballroom is coming out of his own pocket.
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Posted on 10/26/2025 5:19:03 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

🚨BREAKING: People are digging up a 2010 CNN clip showing Obama’s $376M White House makeover — all paid for by taxpayers. Meanwhile President Trump’s $250M ballroom is coming out of his own pocket.


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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ballroom; basketballcourt; eastwing; obama; renovation; spammingfr; whitehouse
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1 posted on 10/26/2025 5:19:03 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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How much is a basketball court?

Where’s the rest of the dough?


2 posted on 10/26/2025 5:21:40 PM PDT by stanne
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

GOTTA LOVE IT WHEN VIDEO PROVES DEMS WRONG.....

NO ONE WANTS TO EVEN DISCUSS THAT TRUMP HAS NEVER TAKEN HIS SALARY FOR HIMSELF -—HE HAS DONATED ALL THE $400,000 ANNUAL AMOUNT TO VARIOUS CHARITIES.


3 posted on 10/26/2025 5:23:14 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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4 posted on 10/26/2025 5:25:23 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Je suis Charlie Kirk.)
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“They may have left the White House, but Barack and Michelle Obama are still living large. The couple has amassed an impressive real estate portfolio (though maybe not as impressive as Taylor Swift’s) in the eight years since they moved from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, including properties in Washington, D.C., Hawaii, and Martha’s Vineyard.” Yahoo


5 posted on 10/26/2025 5:25:48 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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Most of that money was used to replace old plumbing, security, and HVAC systems in the East and West wings. Some systems were a century old. Congress appropriated the money.


6 posted on 10/26/2025 5:26:18 PM PDT by Kipp
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7 posted on 10/26/2025 5:27:04 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Je suis Charlie Kirk.)
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....and private donors............


8 posted on 10/26/2025 5:27:27 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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9 posted on 10/26/2025 5:28:31 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Je suis Charlie Kirk.)
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If you use google to find out how much Obama spent on his basketball court, you find a lot of vague information, dancing around the whole topic, emphasizing that there was a tennis court there, and Obama just modified it, and that a normal person, building a normal basketball court, would spent perhaps $30,000 or so. Google makes it all seem perfectly harmless.

But I kind of assume that Obama and his friends pocketed $375,970,000 and spent $30,000 on a damn basketball court. Probably not strictly accurate. But maybe close?


10 posted on 10/26/2025 5:29:14 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Democrats seek power through cheating and assassination. They are sociopaths. They just want power.)
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11 posted on 10/26/2025 5:30:28 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Je suis Charlie Kirk.)
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12 posted on 10/26/2025 5:31:50 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Je suis Charlie Kirk.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
How about this nightmare?


13 posted on 10/26/2025 5:32:43 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: Kipp

Nothing was older than the 1950’s- Truman gutted it and started from scratch.

CC


14 posted on 10/26/2025 5:33:21 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam!)
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To: stanne

Some people got rich off that

They say it’s because they had to move some piped

That’s a $5 million dollar project, tops


15 posted on 10/26/2025 5:34:12 PM PDT by digger48
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Tents would be a security nightmare for Trump


16 posted on 10/26/2025 5:35:59 PM PDT by digger48
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To: ClearCase_guy

See Post #5.


17 posted on 10/26/2025 5:37:57 PM PDT by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: ClearCase_guy

“But I kind of assume that Obama and his friends pocketed…”

It is safe to assume, from what we know about him, that he would.


18 posted on 10/26/2025 5:39:15 PM PDT by stanne
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Of course the same media were delighted with it when it was the Kenyan usurper on the taxpayer’s dollars.


19 posted on 10/26/2025 5:40:33 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's ok---- I wasn't married to it.)
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To: digger48

Anyone who has property, repairs, enhancements knows what we are looking at heee

When Nancy Reagan bought a set of dishes the public outcry was equivalent to “send her to Gitmo for a quick trial by the military tribunal”

Obama is above the law. Above reproach. He got us used to post constitutional government. We’d better hope we can fix this


20 posted on 10/26/2025 5:42:51 PM PDT by stanne
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