Posted on 03/05/2026 12:29:12 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
President Donald Trump has spent months touting his planned White House ballroom, but this week the public gets its first chance to formally offer him their thoughts.
The verdict: They don’t like it.
Members of the public sent more than 35,000 comments about the project to the National Capital Planning Commission ahead of its Thursday hearing to review the ballroom, according to a Washington Post analysis of comments posted on the commission’s website.
The “vast majority” of comments came from those who oppose the plan, commission staff said. The Post found that more than 97 percent of comments were critical of the president’s plans. (The Post used artificial intelligence to classify the submissions and measured its accuracy against a hand-checked sample.)
More than 100 people were also slated to testify at the virtual hearing.
The comments, which are available online, represent a striking departure from how the president and his aides have depicted the ballroom, arguing that the project is popular and necessary. Trump’s handpicked members of the Commission of Fine Arts, which weighs in on major design projects in Washington, unanimously approved the project last month, agreeing with the president’s contention that the planned 1,000-seat ballroom is needed to help entertain VIP guests.
Trump’s appointees to the National Capital Planning Commission, which focuses on urban planning in the region, are also expected to help ensure the project is swiftly approved. Commission officials said Thursday they would delay voting on the ballroom proposal until their April 2 meeting, citing the significant public feedback. The White House has said it plans to begin above-ground construction of the ballroom as soon as next month, following the panels’ reviews.
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😂😂😂😂. Tents on the west lawn are way better.
So the public would rather have dignitaries dancing on outdoor grass under tents, in the most powerful nation on Earth. Only President Trump sees reality and gets a proper ballroom built for the White House!
Orchestrated democRAT outrage.
Concern Troll Inc.
NO ONE, except the TDS left, cares.
The Washington Post is really scraping the bottom of the barrel for stories. Picking through internet comments as some type of indication of how people feel on an issue? I guess it makes their readers feel good to have a bunch of hate comments aggregated into a newspaper article so they don’t have to actually go to the site and pick through comments where they may - God forbid - actually have to read the positive comments. Here they just get to be self-satisfied by reading the bile like “I didn’t vote for this!” We know what you voted for - drag queens in thongs twerking to encourage six-year-olds to put dollar bills in their g-strings.
I suggest they do not use it. I understand it will be privately funded.
I suggest they do not use it. I understand it will be privately funded.
Laughable, because the construction is being funded by donors, not taxpayers.
Side note: it took three WaPos to write this? No wonder the new management is downsizing.
Nonsense news. Nobody in DC cares what 35,000 people say. Especially solicited people.
Trump will be gone when the Ballroom is dedicated, and it will be a symbol of the Golden Age of America and a great place to host events and foreign dignitaries without necessarily disrupting WH operations. I just wonder if they will let the pardoned Turkeys run around inside on Thanksgiving.
Don’t think of it as a ballroom. Think of it as a big beautiful learing center that disappears billions of taxpayer dollars to lear non-existent children.
A fictional work from to news organization, both of which had to reorganize due to revenue collapse.
I would sooner believe the National Enquirer when it announces aliens are flying pink elephants.
Tens of thousands of AWFULs whose opinion means nothing and are not now or ever been MAGA.
Honestly, most people have no idea that they are not paying for this.
Somehow I can’t quite remember voting for Obama’s basketbll court.
>> A bunch of people pipe up with some version of “‘I did not vote for this.”
... because they voted for kaMAHla! 🤣
I voted for this.
Correction.
...The “vast majority” of comments came from spam accounts.
I suspect Bezos will continue his fumigation of the compost.
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