The ballroom on this guy!
The ballroom on this guy!
- On Saturday evening, an armed man rushed a security station at a hotel here in Washington, D.C., while the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner — attended by Donald Trump and high-ranking members of his regime — was underway on another floor of the building.
There is a lot of reporting about the man’s motives and plans along with what, if any, security lapses may have occurred. But he was subdued and taken into custody before reaching the area of the hotel where the event was taking place. And no shots struck any members of the media or the administration who were guests. (There was, reportedly, at least one shot fired that struck a Secret Service agent, who is expected to recover fully.)
Trump and the MAGA propaganda machine immediately started spinning this attack — which was undeniably scary but also ultimately thwarted — as some kind of justification for going ahead with the gaudy, gargantuan ballroom the administration is attempting to erect where the East Wing of the White House stood until Trump illegally demolished it last fall.
Republicans in Congress are exploiting the genuine fear this incident caused to try to sneak through legislation — which would otherwise have no chance of passing — that would retroactively authorize the construction of Trump’s gilded ballroom and provide funding for it to be built.- Never mind that Trump keeps crowing about how the ballroom is supposedly being paid for entirely by billionaires and Big Business. (As if that’s somehow a good thing.)
- They say it’s for safety, but we all know they’re just in thrall to Trump and willing, as ever, to abase themselves in service of his ego.
- This is a cynical and corrupt ploy even for a regime that seems to be animated by nothing but cynicism and corruption.
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