Jesse Watters claims Donald Trump told him he is constructing the new White House ballroom as a “monument” to himself — and that he’s doing it “because no one else will.”

The Fox News host recounted the alleged conversation while speaking at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest, a multiday conservative conference and festival in Phoenix, on Saturday, Dec. 20. A video of the moment has since been posted on X.

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[–] 158 points 7 months ago (7 children)

LOL. No matter what happens in American politics, one thing is assured: when Trump is gone, and there's no longer any benefit to covering up his many crimes, he will be remembered as one of the worst people in history.

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  • [–] 53 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    Didn't work for Ronnie Raygun. I'm still seeing stuff named after that asshole. Up until at least W, he was easily the worst president in living memory anyway.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I don't believe in the "great man" theory of history, but an awful lot of bullshit does seem to line up with that one guy

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    The conservative wrecking ball that led to where we are now really starting swinging under Ronnie Raygun. Of course, it wasn't just due to him, but those around him.

    He also had the most criminal administration, going by the number of criminal indictments in his admin. We'll see where Taco lands, I guess.

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    [–] 40 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

    Well, I'll be damned. He actually got something right.

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  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    He's also right about the fact that smart people don't like him and about the fact that he shouldn't be president if he's not as talented as Jimmy Kimmel

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I highly doubt it's finished at the end of his term.

    It might not be a pile of rubble, but if there's anything there it's going to be flimsy cardboard not up to code and needs to be torn down anyways.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I hope he's alive to see it torn down.

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  • [–] 33 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Instead of being President he is busy building monuments to himself. Garbage administration.

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  • [–] 30 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I hope everything gets reversed when he’s gone. The illegal renaming of the Kennedy center, the ballroom, the gold refinishing of everything, the departments, “supreme court”, etc, etc. I just wish they had enough balls to stop them from doing illegal sh before they did it.

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  • [–] 29 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    What a peek behind the curtain. He feels alone and unloved. He has the most rabid fans and people flattering him constantly and he feels none of it. I'd pity him if I didn't loathe him so much.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Oh people like him live the saddest lives imaginable. I personally know a narcissist nwith psychopathic tendencies and he actually acts a lot like trump, the midnight rants on how the world has wronged him, the weird "I cannot name a single person without immediately adding some judgement to it" like "Tom who is the greatest architect ever" and "Susan, that bitch"

    He loves spending time and money on making others miserable, family included. Everything is a transaction, the guy knows no love, and gets none.

    He controls his kids with money, sort of, but since the kids loathe him and can't wait to be independent and away from him, he'll lose them soon anyways. He always claims he is loved by hundreds even though nobody can stand being around him. His friends are bought as in these are people that are around whom because he pays them.

    He has a clothes guy that sells him overpriced clothes, and he calls the guy a friend. The guy's literally around him only because he continuesly buys new clothes, multiple times per week

    Nobody really knows how much money he has, he always claims everything is too expensive, and he constantly reminds everyone including his children on how much money he's spending on everyone and it's literally also the only one thing he has to give, the only thing he's good for: money. That is also what he'll be reminded for: money.

    The life is legit sad and I'd feel bad for him if he wasnt such a giant asshole all the time to everyone. Fuck this asshole

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    [–] 28 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    He's not being self aware at all, he's just whining. It's a justification for a decision he's already made.

    "We have to do it because nobody else will". That's probably the same logic he used to put his name on the Kennedy Center, or his picture on all of his buildings. Doesn't he want to put his face on a quarter? And Mt Rushmore? Seems to me we're being forced to memorialize him everywhere.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Can't wait for the inevitable trump face on Mt Rushmore, which will be immediately stopped the moment he croaked or step down (whichever comes first) so that all that's memorialized is a horribly disfigured face.

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    [–] 19 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I'm pretty sure there are plenty of us who will build a monument to him. A monumental shit on his grave.

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    [–] 16 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I like the idea of a Trump statue as the Saddam Hussein statue news was very compelling when seeing it being toppled by it's citizens.

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    How about a monumental guillotine?

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I did a massive monument to him in my toilet this morning. And I'll do another one tomoz.

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    [–] 11 points 7 months ago

    Frankly, I’m incredulous. I simply don’t believe that Donald Trump is capable of being that self-aware.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Destroyed with next admin.

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    [–] 8 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I can’t believe any company would take the contract, given his reputation for not paying bills.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago*

    Companies can take out loans against projects on their books in order to finance delivery. And because banks are often run by people more greedy than careful, this opens an easy second hand swindle by which you claim yourself as a government contractor with a $300M project, borrow the balance at some percentage you don't care about, and then never pay it back.

    Yeah, sure. Your name is burned. But for a healthy cut of a nine figure job, who cares? This ballroom is twice what the Ocean's Eleven team heisted, and it's all legal.

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    [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    Maybe Trump heard Lewis Black's bit about building "a big fucking thing". He's gonna build a ballroom restaurant, a ballroom hotel and casino, a ballroom SPA!

    although, in Black's bit, he suggested using the construction of the big fucking thing to create jobs. Trump is trying to build a big fucking thing without paying people for it.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    I'll build him a monument... well, it'd be more of an effigy, but close enough.

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