The insanity from the Democrat left over the White House ballroom President Trump ordered built has been off the charts. Literally no other president who has sought to change, update, or improve the White House has faced any pushback from anyone whatsoever, but because it’s Trump, and because Trump triggers Democrats like no other GOP leader, it’s been one legal fight after another to get a ballroom that presidents for decades will be able to utilize and enjoy actually built.
Chief Justice John Roberts threw another wrench in the left’s plan to ‘stop Trump’s ballroom’ on Friday. He signed an order aallowing construction on the White House Ballroom to continue while the administration’s appeal plays out. The order pauses the lower court injunctions that had called for a halt to above-ground construction. It is not a final ruling on the merits — but it is the Supreme Court telling the left-wing ninnies at the National Trust for Historic Preservation and their two Obama-Biden appointed appeals court judges that their stop-work order isn’t going to stand while the legal fight continues.
The project is already 65 percent complete. It was built with indestructible concrete used in nuclear power plants — the kind of material that, as the administration bluntly told the D.C. Circuit, cannot be removed even if ordered. The administration’s strategy was always to build fast enough that the legal question becomes academic, and Roberts just handed them more time to do exactly that.
The National Trust’s CEO Brent Leggs complained that the administration made “two audacious claims” to the Supreme Court: first, that no court has the authority to stop them, and second, that the concrete is so permanent that removal would be impossible even if ordered. He accused them of “working around the clock in an attempt to outrace judicial review.”
Yes. Correct on both counts. That’s the plan. And it’s working. The underlying legal dispute — whether the president needs congressional authorization to renovate, expand, or improve the White House using privately donated funds — is a question that previous administrations answered through practice rather than litigation. Theodore Roosevelt built the West Wing without asking Congress. Harry Truman added the Truman Balcony without asking Congress. The FDR East Wing that was demolished to start this project was itself built without specific congressional authorization.
The D.C. Circuit’s two Obama-Biden appointed judges decided to treat a presidential renovation decision as an unconstitutional unilateral action. Roberts’ order suggests the full Supreme Court may have different views — or at minimum that the question is significant enough to warrant keeping the project alive while it gets resolved.
Trump called it “the greatest military complex slash ballroom anywhere in the world” during a tour this week. That framing matters because the underground components — the military facilities, the security bunker — were never blocked by the lower courts. The National Trust’s lawsuit is specifically aimed at the above-ground ballroom. Roberts’ order protects that too, for now.
This is the administration that moved the fastest and built the most before courts could stop it. It’s a valid strategy — not because the rule of law doesn’t matter, but because two partisan judges in the D.C. Circuit trying to veto presidential housekeeping decisions were never exercising legitimate judicial authority. The building continues. Roberts said so. Sixty-five percent done and counting.