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4:09Now PlayingDonald Trump promised his White House ballroom would be paid for entirely by private donors, but new reporting shows his administration has awarded a $500 million no-bid taxpayer-funded contract instead, with Trump reportedly playing a direct role in the negotiations. Farron Cousins breaks this down.
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after the mess that is the reflecting pool and of course the no bid contract that Donald Trump gave to his cartoon villain pool guy from Virginia to do the job. I give everybody a word of warning here. Do not ever step foot in the ballroom that Donald Trump is building. I personally would not feel safe. We have seen over the years the caliber of contractors that Donald Trump picks out. We have seen the health code violations at his uh you know golf resorts. We know that Donald Trump does not hire good people to do things. We have seen the wall right that border wall that was already rusting out, corroding and crumbling less than a year after he began construction of it during his first term.
He doesn't hire good, competent people. And the reason I even bring this up about the ballroom is, of course, because we learned this week that Trump awarded a no bid $500 million contract to the construction company of his choice to build the ballroom. He picked these people just like he picked the people to build the border wall, just like he picked the guy to do the reflecting pool. Do you see where I'm going with this? I would never in my life step foot in that ballroom out of fear that the entire ceiling would collapse or the walls would come crumbling down and we would be all stuck under the rubble.
This is not a safe building. And if I were a future president, you know, because they're building that bunker underneath it, I would never get in that bunker because you're probably never going to come out. The entire project, the second Donald Trump leaves office has to be torn down for safety reasons. It will need to be torn down. Every single inch of it. because there is no way in hell Donald Trump picked a good competent contractor to do this job. He just doesn't do that. But in order to make this a no bid contract, by the way, because federal contracts have to go through the bidding process that is actually required, the White House used a special rule for this $500 million no bid contract. uh they went through what is called executive residence because it's technically connected to his house.
So it's it's a residential thing and we're allowed to spend they said whatever amount of money we want out of a tax dollars uh you know for anything that happens on the grounds of the White House and we don't have to bid out the contract. So, they used this special little loophole, gave the contract to somebody that it's pretty much a guarantee at this point. They're going to do a crappy job. And of course, they're still trying to use taxpayer dollars to pay for the now $500 million ballroom, right? Went from 100 to 200 to 350 to 450. Now it's up to $500 million. And it's the biggest waste of money we have seen throughout this entire administration because the whole thing will have to be torn down as soon as Trump leaves office or possibly just as likely it may tear itself down before Trump even leaves office.
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