{"id":1646,"date":"2026-05-26T10:05:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T10:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2026-05-26T10:05:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T10:05:59","slug":"trump-fumes-at-congress-and-courts-for-holding-up-his-ballroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=1646","title":{"rendered":"Trump fumes at Congress and courts for holding up his ballroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The president bulldozed the East Wing and remade federal panels that quickly approved his ballroom project. But he has faced barriers as he seeks to complete it.<\/strong><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=1640\">These Black lawmakers could lose their seats. They don\u2019t plan to go quietly.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1642\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0fe1c6e6c61b771c111fea354c00fd4a-1024x683.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0fe1c6e6c61b771c111fea354c00fd4a-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0fe1c6e6c61b771c111fea354c00fd4a-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0fe1c6e6c61b771c111fea354c00fd4a-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0fe1c6e6c61b771c111fea354c00fd4a-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0fe1c6e6c61b771c111fea354c00fd4a-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figcaption>President Donald Trump tours ballroom construction around the outside the White House. (Jacquelyn Martin\/AP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>President Donald Trump has made little secret that his planned White House ballroom is a top priority, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/04\/19\/trump-ballroom-public-mentions\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/04\/19\/trump-ballroom-public-mentions\/\">invoking the project<\/a> more frequently than most other issues. And in recent weeks he has raged at anyone \u2014 including a federal judge, a Senate official and a local historian \u2014 whose actions threaten to slow construction.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the president shared on social media a copy of a <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/f53d400c4b45f115d3665389bca5f324.pdf\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.287645\/gov.uscourts.dcd.287645.82.0.pdf\">legal filing<\/a> that closely resembled his own words and contended that the weekend\u2019s shooting outside the White House campus proved the need for a ballroom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout the construction of this great Project, the President cannot safely conduct the business of the United States,\u201d acting attorney general Todd Blanche and two other senior Justice Department officials lawyers wrote, urging a federal judge to dissolve his order that could soon halt construction. \u201cThis is a terrible, tremendously harmful case to the United States of America, and all it stands for!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The filing also mocked the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which has sued to halt the project, claiming that the group had been \u201cdefunded by Congress due to a total lack of respect for them.\u201d Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116635025568002812\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116635025568002812\">posted<\/a> all six pages of the filing on his Truth Social platform.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s ballroom project has embodied executive power and its limitations.<\/p>\n<p>The president was able to rapidly bulldoze the East Wing last year, clearing space for his planned 90,000-square-foot addition.<b> <\/b>Trump has remade independent federal<b> <\/b>commissions \u2014 firing holdovers and installing loyalists, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/02\/17\/trump-ballroom-fine-arts-panel\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/02\/17\/trump-ballroom-fine-arts-panel\">including his executive assistant<\/a> \u2014 that have swiftly approved his project.<b> <\/b>He\u2019s raised vast sums of money that he says can be put toward the ballroom\u2019s estimated $400 million cost.<\/p>\n<p>But so far,<b> <\/b>he has been constrained \u2014 barely \u2014 by the courts and Congress.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Richard Leon has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/04\/16\/judge-trump-ballroom-limits\/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/04\/16\/judge-trump-ballroom-limits\/\">twice<\/a> sided with the National Trust, ordering a pause on the aboveground components of the ballroom until Congress formally authorizes the project. Leon also criticized the administration\u2019s plan to use private donations to pay for the project, calling it a \u201cRube Goldberg\u201d contraption that was structured in an attempt to evade congressional oversight. A federal appeals panel stayed Leon\u2019s order and is set to hear arguments in the case June 5.<\/p>\n<p>And Congress has so far not voted to authorize the projects. Last week, Senate Republicans revolted against a proposal to add money to a budget bill to cover security costs related to the ballroom.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1643\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/de158ca2dd1f7c5848d5c015f6cdcdc4-1024x683.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/de158ca2dd1f7c5848d5c015f6cdcdc4-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/de158ca2dd1f7c5848d5c015f6cdcdc4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/de158ca2dd1f7c5848d5c015f6cdcdc4-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/de158ca2dd1f7c5848d5c015f6cdcdc4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/de158ca2dd1f7c5848d5c015f6cdcdc4-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figcaption>Work continues on the construction of the ballroom as well as a UFC cage on the South Lawn. (Jose Luis Magana\/AP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Experts in constitutional law and government oversight see a pattern in Trump\u2019s behavior.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSimply put, as President Trump\u2019s Chief of Staff Susie Wiles said, he believes he can do literally anything,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.berkeley.edu\/our-faculty\/faculty-profiles\/erwin-chemerinsky\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.law.berkeley.edu\/our-faculty\/faculty-profiles\/erwin-chemerinsky\">Erwin Chemerinsky<\/a>, dean of the University of California at Berkeley School of Law, wrote in an email. \u201cAnd he attacks anyone who tries to stop him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ballroom case has given Trump several new targets.<\/p>\n<p>Leon\u2019s ruling ordering a halt to construction of the ballroom has prompted the president to repeatedly rage online about the \u201cout of control Trump Hating, Washington, D.C. District Court Judge\u201d \u2014 an unusual label for a jurist with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2026\/05\/20\/nation\/white-house-ballroom-judge-leon\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2026\/05\/20\/nation\/white-house-ballroom-judge-leon\/\">decades of conservative bona fides<\/a>, including working to confirm Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a lot of unfriendly judges,\u201d Trump said in remarks at an Easter lunch, after riffing on Leon\u2019s ruling. \u201cSomehow we seem to get by, but they\u2019re not good people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether Trump has dictated Blanche\u2019s filings in the legal case, which so closely resemble his own rhetoric, the White House and the Justice Department have not denied it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump is intimately involved in the ongoing disgraceful lawsuit brought by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and is working diligently with his team of lawyers to bring this charade to an end,\u201d Davis Ingle, a White House spokesman, said in a statement last month.<\/p>\n<p>Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough this month also ruled that hundreds of millions of dollars in ballroom-related security funding could not be included in an immigration enforcement funding package. MacDonough, the Senate\u2019s nonpartisan adviser on procedural questions, determined that Republicans\u2019 plan for including $1 billion in Secret Service priorities in the immigration bill did not comply with the chamber\u2019s rules as written.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who had previously praised the parliamentarian, responded by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/05\/20\/trump-demands-senate-fire-parliamentarian-who-ruled-against-ballroom-funding\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/05\/20\/trump-demands-senate-fire-parliamentarian-who-ruled-against-ballroom-funding\/\">calling for her firing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the years, she has been brutal to Republicans, but not so to the Dumocrats \u2014 So why has she not been replaced?\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social last week, referring to the Democratic Party. \u201cGet smart and tough Republicans, or you\u2019ll all be looking for a job much sooner than you thought possible!\u201d<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=1631\">A new Raiders offensive line and the same heavy workload: Ashton Jeanty\u2019s Year 2 test<\/a><\/p>\n<p>GOP leaders have avoided outright criticism of Trump\u2019s ballroom project. But some Republican senators said there were not sufficient votes to support Trump\u2019s ballroom plans, regardless of MacDonough\u2019s ruling.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Trump has repeatedly deprecated Alison Hoagland, the <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/b22ec97fc328a6b34e6b14b382a60039.pdf\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/cdn.savingplaces.org\/2025\/12\/17\/08\/22\/16\/f2b9145e-404e-40d0-9f45-d3838b24be95\/2025.12.12%20DE%202-3%20-%20Declaration%20of%20Alison%20K.%20Hoagland.pdf\">historic preservationist<\/a> who helped the National Trust bring its lawsuit against the ballroom, as \u201ca woman walking her dog,\u201d saying that she had no standing in the case. The Justice Department\u2019s Sunday night filing also criticized her as a \u201cknown serial plaintiff throughout Washington, D.C.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hoagland \u2014 who is not the plaintiff in the ballroom case \u2014 said in an interview that she was mystified to be described as a \u201cserial plaintiff,\u201d saying that she had not personally sued over any matters in Washington. She said she had become involved in the National Trust\u2019s cases only to help the organization bring its lawsuits around the ballroom and Kennedy Center projects.<\/p>\n<p>She acknowledged that she has appeared at recent public hearings on whether to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/05\/21\/commission-fine-arts-approves-trump-250-foot-triumphal-arch\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/05\/21\/commission-fine-arts-approves-trump-250-foot-triumphal-arch\/\">build Trump\u2019s planned 250-foot triumphal arch<\/a> and to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/style\/2026\/05\/07\/trump-paint-eisenhower-building-ncpc-review\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/style\/2026\/05\/07\/trump-paint-eisenhower-building-ncpc-review\/\">repaint the Eisenhower Executive Office Building<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI show up at these hearings and testify, because I think someone should say no,\u201d said Hoagland, adding that she had been heartened by the outpouring of emails, messages and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/03\/05\/white-house-ballroom-public-comments\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/03\/05\/white-house-ballroom-public-comments\/\">other comments<\/a> from people across the nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis abstract idea that they\u2019re really affected by what goes on in Washington physically, I mean, in the built environment \u2026 I find that incredibly moving,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Few projects have been as close to the president as the ballroom. Trump and his aides amped up their calls after last month\u2019s shooting at the White House correspondents\u2019 dinner and last weekend\u2019s shooting outside of the White House, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/04\/26\/correspondents-dinner-shooting-ballroom\/\" rel=\"\">citing the incidents as evidence<\/a> that his ballroom is needed for a president to hold secure events.<\/p>\n<p>But the public is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/04\/30\/washington-post-poll-trump-ballroom\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/04\/30\/washington-post-poll-trump-ballroom\/\">largely against the project<\/a>: Fifty-six percent of Americans opposed Trump\u2019s decision to tear down the White House\u2019s East Wing to make way for his planned ballroom, funded by about $400 million in private donations, while 28 percent supported the project, according to a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll last month.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has also been keenly focused on other Washington construction projects, including building the arch, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/style\/2026\/04\/29\/kennedy-center-closure-matt-floca-lawsuits\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/style\/2026\/04\/29\/kennedy-center-closure-matt-floca-lawsuits\/\">renovating the Kennedy Center<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/04\/25\/trump-reflection-pool-blue\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/04\/25\/trump-reflection-pool-blue\/\">resurfacing the Lincoln Memorial\u2019s Reflecting Pool<\/a>, trumpeting his experience as a builder and insistence that he can do the work quickly and at low cost. Those initiatives have prompted lawsuits and complaints from Democrats in Congress that Trump is skirting federal laws in his bid to quickly remake Washington. Like the ballroom, several of the other projects have grown significantly in price since Trump first announced them.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1198\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d3be7d17830f71a07b1e51f614fc5326-1024x683.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d3be7d17830f71a07b1e51f614fc5326-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d3be7d17830f71a07b1e51f614fc5326-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d3be7d17830f71a07b1e51f614fc5326-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d3be7d17830f71a07b1e51f614fc5326-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d3be7d17830f71a07b1e51f614fc5326-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figcaption>U.S. Commission of Fine Arts Chairman Rodney Mims Cook Jr., right, and Vice Chairman James C. McCrery during a meeting this month. (Jonathan Edwards\/The Washington Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ourpublicservice.org\/about\/board\/max-stier\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/ourpublicservice.org\/about\/board\/max-stier\">Max Stier<\/a>, CEO of the Partnership for Public Service, a nonpartisan organization focused on strengthening government, said in an interview Monday that Trump acts as if he sees no distinction between his role as a private citizen and as the nation\u2019s chief executive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s such a misunderstanding of his responsibility to the public and the nature of our constitutional system,\u201d Stier said, adding that Trump feels empowered to pursue his personal priorities. \u201cHe\u2019s surrounded himself with people who are willing to enable that, and those that aren\u2019t, he fires.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republican leaders in both congressional chambers have hesitated to publicly oppose Trump\u2019s construction projects, despite Democrats\u2019 growing frustration with the initiatives and insistence that Congress must sign off. Even limited efforts to rein in Trump\u2019s projects have sputtered so far.<\/p>\n<p>As lawmakers debated a military and veterans\u2019 funding package last month, Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) attempted to include an amendment that would have commissioned a study on the arch\u2019s potential impact on veterans, family members and other visitors at nearby Arlington National Cemetery. She noted that some veterans have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/02\/19\/trump-arch-250-lawsuit\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/02\/19\/trump-arch-250-lawsuit\/\">sued over the planned construction<\/a>, warning that the towering arch would obstruct key views from the cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has been no congressional authorization of this. I know that\u2019s become kind of pass\u00e9 with all the building changes that are going on, but I think it\u2019s a really important thing to consider\u201a\u201d Pingree said at the legislative markup. \u201cWe are the Appropriations Committee, and usually we like to know how our money is going to be spent and what items like this will cost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pingree\u2019s amendment was defeated along party lines; no Republicans supported the measure.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=1628\">Cavaliers overwhelmed in Game 4 by Knicks, who sweep series and send Cleveland into uncertain summer<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president bulldozed the East Wing and remade federal panels that quickly approved his ballroom project. 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