Yes! Disregard the code! Don’t even think about the building code!

And don’t worry, the ballroom certainly won’t fall down with you inside it, piggy!

I'd be surprised if he didn't

Look on the bright side; hopefully it'll catch on fire due to an electric short, or Canada, or something, during one of Trump's shindigs and him and nine hundred of his “friends” will get trapped inside due to overcrowding and insufficient emergency exits and will burn to death in abject agony.

I am confused, what ballroom is this talking about? Do you mean the Epstein ball room? That makes sense...

White trash doing white trash shit

All he’s doing is giving a future president an excuse to tear it down. Plus, visiting politicians and influential businesspeople usually don’t like to hang out in unsafe buildings.

Code requirements? Dude those are not just useless regulations. Those are for your safety and the soundness of the building. Only a complete moron signs off on a build that ignores building codes. But here we are.

Ignoring the law just because you were told to is no excuse in court.

Everything he's doing is probably going to have to be torn down and rebuilt.

Wouldn’t it be a shame if the Epstein Ballroom collapsed in on Donald?

I think we Canadians would be happy to help with any extensive remodeling your White House requires.

Maybe you can paint it orange this time.

They'll have to tear it down inside of ten years, I guarantee it.

It's the same playbook as his father in NYC.

If that ballroom is finished by the end of his term, I'll eat my shoes.

Please let this end the way I hope it will…..

It’s probably filled with foreign listening devices anyway and will need to be completely destroyed

This feels like a Nero burning Rome moment.

"No one knows more about construction than me."

so, same standards as his NY condos.

What a surprise? Trump is cheating again! Who woulda thunk it, other than EVERYBODY?

And in this case, cheating is even stupider. He's not a normal developer in this case, he's not paying for this, he doesn't have to wait for anything, he can expedite anything he wants. There is no reason to not do this by the book, but Trump is one of those guys (I've known several) who when offered a choice between the honest way, and the dishonest way, they will take the dishonest way every time, because they think that somehow it will get them something extra, even if it doesn't. It's just their nature to cheat at everything.

But the Dems assure us that the 2024 election was totally "fair & square," and Donald Trump didn't cheat in the only election that would literally keep him from a life sentence in prison. Sure, he's cheated on literally EVERYTHING ELSE IN HIS LIFE, just for fun, but he didn't cheat to keep himself out of prison. Makes sense.

No wonder Democrats lose every election.

Headline says he told them to disregard but the first sentence says he encouraged them to disregard.

Pick one and make it accurate...

Burned down, fell over, sank into the swamp

White House ballroom project has become costlier and larger than originally anticipated

You don't say! And nobody except everybody expected this?

The only other unsurprising thing here is that they managed to balloon it like that while ignoring building permits and code, as many times those cause the ballooning in some way. Incompetence and corruption go far too with ballooning though